New Year Buffet Platter Ideas for Elegant Entertaining
A vintage menu concept for New Year gatherings featuring tongue and corned beef platters with red cabbage cole slaw, fruit molds, and a Fortune Cake. Includes detailed prep steps for beef tongue, corned beef, crunchy sides, and a decorative table setup to minimize last minute effort.
Resolutions for tastier meals and smarter menus
Lynn offers tips for a flavorful New Year including seasoning and roasting basics. Plan two to three days of meals to stretch dollars and avoid food waste. Use eye appeal with garnishes and balance heavy and light courses for satisfying menus.
Babies Proclaim They Deserve Christmas Gifts
A unsigned letter from "Youth" signed Disgusted argues babies under one year can enjoy Christmas. It cites a poll of 1000 babies, 987 favoring gifts, and lists practical and durable presents like colored disks, cribs, car seats, and even life insurance or college funds to consider for infant recipients.
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Daddikens
Baby
Puritans Ban Christmas Celebration in Colonial Massachusetts
The early Massachusetts Puritans criminalized Christmas observance with fines. On May 11 1659 the Boston General Court ordered that anyone keeping Christmas by labor abstention feasting or any other means would pay five shillings per offense to the county.
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Massachusetts
General Court
Boston
Uncle Eben Warns Against Wishing Too Hard for a Doctor
In a folksy remark the speaker counsels patience over desperation, cautioning listeners not to strain themselves in pursuit of medical help. The utterance blends humor with a practical health message about managing expectations.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Patterns Adorn Dirndl Style Dress for Young Women
Vintage sewing pattern advert describes Barbara Bell Pattern No 1479-B a long torso molding dirndl frock with high front top low waist and a full gathered skirt offered in sizes 12 through 20 with busts 30 to 38 inches. Provides yardage for 35 and 54 inch fabrics and a dickey collar. orders to be sent.
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Rawvo
Barbara Bell
Questions and Answers From Ask Me Another Riddled Section
The piece lists 10 trivia prompts and answers on general knowledge. It covers Bryan’s presidential defeats, Caterpillar club members, baseball weight, biblical word origins, White House rooms, riposte meaning, bells in orchestras, Hirohito's family name, Canada's oldest province, Magellan’s ship, with concise answers and brief explanations.
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William Jennings Bryan
United States
Caterpillar Club
White House
Hirohito
Canada
Answers to five trivia prompts compiled
The compiled set lists five items: three times, aviators who saved lives by parachute leaps, a standard baseball weighing five ounces, Biblia as a Phoenician export name for papyrus, and about 50 rooms including kitchens valet spaces and corridors used as sitting rooms.
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Shakespeare Garden at Lightwoods Park Showcases 214 Plants
The Shakespeare garden in Birmingham's Lightwoods Park features more than 200 of the 214 plants mentioned by Shakespeare. Visitors can buy a guide book listing plant names locations in the plays, the speakers, and the lines.
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Lightwoods Park
Birmingham
England
Collier's
Foresight as Groom Jokes and Golf on Saturdays
The father questions his daughter's suitor about prospects and honesty. The groom explains delaying wedding two days to dodge a Saturday silver anniversary golf habit. The piece ends noting that others who give till it hurts are those who give good advice.
Clack and Boss Clash Over Witty Grin at Work
An exchange shows Clack smiling despite warnings from the boss who insists on immediate work. The supervisor repeats orders to stop smiling and focus on duties, signaling tension over attitude at the workplace.
Raleigh Cigarettes Announces January Jingle Contest
Beginning in mid January Raleigh Cigarettes will run a large jingle contest in this paper. One hundred thirty three prizes will be awarded each week as part of the promotion.
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Raleigh Cigarettes
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