Daily Reflections on Courtesy and New Beginnings
The excerpt highlights that small courtesies leave deep impact and encourages starting anew each day. It references Henry Clay on politeness and Susan Coolidge urging readers to take heart, overlook sorrow, and begin again despite forecasts of pain.
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Inexpensive Codfish and Hearty Soup Recipes From Old Cookbook
A collection of kitchen instructions for codfish dishes and various soups. Recipes cover baked cod with milk sauce, brown sugar icing, eggless gingerbread, dried apple cake, tomato pilau, multiple egg sauces, and meats with soups like potato, salsify, chicken curry, oxtail, and gumbo. Also includes eggplant fried, corn oysters, and baked eggs with mushrooms with period cooking tips and poetic closing verses.
Homebaked Varieties From Bran Muffins To Graham Putts
A bakery notes listing various recipes including brown sugar muffins, Southern Hoe Cakes, Sally Lunn, Snow Balls, and Graham Putts. Each item provides measurements for ingredients and basic steps to mix, bake, and serve.
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Sally Lunn
Lesson on Pronunciation Ends with Unexpected Answer
The teacher spent twenty minutes impressing proper pronunciation of the word vash. The next morning she tested the pupils and asked a boy, What do you see on the mantlepiece at home, Jackie. He replied, Rather's feet, miss, promptly and without hesitation.
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Jackie
Flu Case Surge Prompts Public Health Watch
Washington reports more than 900 influenza cases last week to the U S Health Service amid rising concern as cold weather nears. Officials urge preparedness and preventive measures including germicides like Turpo and prompt medical attention if illness develops.
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Public Health Service
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How He Came a Poet
A brief dialogue notes a father's claim that his son became a poet because poets are born. A Yale joke follows about poets and birth, ending with the father's terse acknowledgment.
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Yale
Boschee's Syrup Ad Promotes Restful Cough Relief
An old advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup for colds bronchitis and lung troubles. It claims high flu mortality last year and that the product has been used for fifty three years providing good nights sleep and easy morning expectoration. Made in America and sold widely.
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Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Cold Relief
The advertisement promotes Pape's Cold Compound as a fast relief for severe colds and grippe. A dose every two hours up to three times eases nasal congestion headaches feverishness sneezing and sore nose. It claims simple taste no quinine and low cost.
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Pape
Revenue cutter term in nautical slang prompts mock explain
In a brief dialogue a parent explains that a revenue cutter is a coupon clipper to their son, reflecting nautical jargon and a playful misunderstanding about shipboard duties.
Can I Be Cured Advertisement For Haarlem Oil Capsules
A newspaper advertisement urges readers to diagnose kidney and bladder troubles early and promises quick relief with GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. It emphasizes kidney function and offers money back if not helped. The ad ends with an unrelated line about a girl losing a first kiss.
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Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for Deafness
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that reaches mucous surfaces through the blood. Explains deafness from catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tube, with a money back offer of one hundred dollars for uncured cases. Provides order details and circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Toledo, Ohio
It Is Easier to Break a Promise Than a House Crust
The line reflects a cryptic remark on promises versus fragile structures. It presents no clear event, named entities, date, or location. The fragment suggests a metaphor about breaking commitments more easily than physical integrity.
Not Much Credit Coming to Them
Jud Tumkins asserts he knows two or three men who boast they were not profiteers because they never had a fair chance. Portunater is the girl who loses her temper and never finds it again. It takes three to make a pass counting the elevevman.
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Jud Tumkins
Portunater
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