How a Scandal Was Stopped
Miss Holbrook faces a hostile Crosby Center village as Hiram Crosby helps enforce order in class. Cyrus Sprang confronts gossip and asks the teacher to marry him to stop a scandal, amid community pressure and a resolved union.
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Cyrus Sprang
Maude
Cyrus
Crosbys
Crosby Center
Miss Holbrook
Sprang
Hiram Crosby
Hiram
Hi Crosby
Pye Been on My Feet All Day Long Theme Poem
Nell Brinkley presents a paired portrait of two busy women. The Beauty endures a jam-packed day from morning to late night while the House-Mother tends to family duties from breakfast to bedtime. The contrast highlights domestic labor and its toll.
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Pye
Nell Brinkley
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A fragmentary column notes that family life disrupts peace and comments on habits and marriage as social pressure. It remarks that illness prompts blame within a household, and that a man values trivial matters. Beads and trimming are noted as a popular trend without further context.
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New York Press
How to Achieve Lovely Complexion The Home Guide
A practical primer on clearing blackheads pimples and large pores without costly treatments. Advice covers persistent care skin circulation hot and cold rinses simple diet ample water sleep and a sulfur-rose water formula plus a daily soap wash and light facial massage for clearer skin.
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Castile
Bewitching Modes of Hair Dress for Aid and Matron
Suggests hair fashions for refined women with pompadour reemergence and heavy back styling. Notes massed French coifs, ornamented bands, berrets, ribbons, and velvet hairpieces. Also offers facial care tips, digestion-based dark circles remedies, and parasol trends in black white and blue.
Old Maids Club Faces First Meeting Debates Marriage
The Old Maids' club holds its first session in four weeks as members debate women remaining unmarried. Mollie Brazenly Confesses she plans to marry and urges others to do so, while Marian admits love for Tom and contemplates leaving the club to wed. The group shifts to a single mission to marry off the last member, planning to call for the boys to join.
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Old Maids
Mole B
Mollie
Marian
Old Maids’ Club
Tom
Peggy
Susie
Fan
Jack
Apricot Float and Cocoa Sauce from Mary’s Cook Book
A collection of dessert recipes describing Apricot Float with whipped egg whites and almond garnish, a creamy apricot sauce using milk and vanilla, and a cocoa sauce thickened with flour and butter. Also includes a sponge cake recipe with hot water and no shortening or baking powder.
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Matin’s
Angeline
Beauty
Cynthia Grey
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OLD Maid’s Club
Beatrice Fairfax