How Sensitivity Wrecks Romance In Love And Hurt Feelings
A 1927 piece argues extreme sensitiveness ruins romance and leads to breakups. It cites jealous episodes, motherly control, social misreadings, and hurt pride as common causes. It contrasts hopeful, practical characters who endure disappointments with overly sensitive types prone to melodrama and divorce.
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Beatrice Fairfax
Alice
Ibetante
Bob
Motak
Claire
Dickey
Wen Dickey
Abe
Gleire
Tove
Manke Eritioa
Here's to Your Health by Mildred Kitchen
A health column discusses how a normal diet needs variety and proper heat in cooking to preserve flavor. It explains the roles of fats proteins and carbohydrates in energy and tissue building and notes the necessity of water minerals and digestible bulk, while cautioning against excessive flavorings chemicals and sugars.
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Mildred Kitchen
Etiquette and Dinner Advice from a Dear Miss
A reader asks about wedding party roles and procession order for two bridesmaids and two ushers. The response advises that ushers walk together, bridesmaids walk together, and the maid of honor be placed near the bride, with the bridal couple first to enter and the bride’s party following. The second topic offers meal planning guidance emphasizing variety, balance, and avoiding monotony across daily meals with practical examples.
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Miss Dig Peyster
Tle
Mall of Honor
Chin
Calor
Honillon
Incheon
Kiddies' Dot Puzzle Mystery Menu
A fragment from a children's puzzle page shows a line drawing puzzle titled Kiddies' Dot Puzzle. The text mentions a custard pie and roast, with a simple instruction to draw straight lines between numbers, indicating a playful activity page in a historical newspaper.
Meditations of a Married Woman by Helen Rowland
A 1937 essay-like polemic warns against imitation affection and cheap desire. It contrasts lasting romance with fleeting amours and urges choosing genuine, meaningful love over superficial wistful entertainments in a satirical voice attributed to Tag Foes Sym, Inc.
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Helen Rowland
The Rhyming Optimist Opens with Ocean Winds and Wind Song
Out of space and sea the wind speaks in varied tones of beauty and terror. The verses describe strange tales of mermaids monsters and ancient mariners, with wild shifts in mood as the wind calls to the listener.
Heiress Terry Marries Notorious Norris in Cinderella Tale
Terry Gregory, a country girl, accepts Norris Gregory’s marriage proposal amid a whirlwind courtship. He pressures her with lavish outings and emotional drama while she asserts control, insisting she be loved and respected. The couple plans a discreet wedding as tabloids loom and the groom’s public image as a risqué star lurks.
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Norrie Gregory
Terry
Norrik Gregory
Norris
Lisa
David
Gregory
Ince
Alan
Natris Gregory
Acmouth
Loneh
Tife
Norris Gregory
Werry
Chicago
Table Talks and Kitchen Recipes From an Old Cabbage Dish
A jumble of cookery notes details cabbage preparation with steps for boiling draining and layering with tomato sauce crumbs butter and a moderate bake. It also describes a banana pineapple pie and a banana cream dessert and ends with a recipe for an ice cream waffle treat to pair with tea.
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Marienheit
Dotty and the Chickadee Warm Winter Lesson
A 1927 tale unfolds as Dotty, weathered and cold, watches a chickadee refuse southward migration. The cheerful bird, with gray wings and white collar, vows to stay and brighten winter, inspiring Dotty to care for birds and face the season with hope.
Listen World Listen World A Preyer Poem Prayer
Elsie Robinson presents a devotional poem addressing Life Source and God. The speaker asks for daily strength, patience, honesty, and humility amid monotony and frailty, seeking alignment with a higher purpose and a calm, enduring courage.
Typewriters Adapted with Medical Materials for Sanitized Use
A strange notice claims typewriters now use kesbourda and matherma to resist germs. It suggests Reybeams for special time and that Selly should be wrapped in paper or Butter musfin to protect a con aaff, asserting the shell is germ resistant better than the aboosphere's elly-tenee.
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Medical Kesbourda and Matherma'ten! Reybeams
Eac
Mrs Bassett’s Praise for Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A Lansing resident recounts relief from fatigue and illness after using Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She notes rapid improvement after initial doses and recommends it to others, citing personal recovery and a neighbor’s daughter who benefited. The letter ends urging readers not to feel run down.
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Basset
216
Son ‘Hayford Avenue
Lansing
Mich
Lydie Finkbaen
Evarywhira
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David Miller
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Peature Servies, Inc
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Mrs. Bassett
Lydia E. Pinkham
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