Votes for Women at Garden Party Honor Suffragist Paris
Mrs Nelle Mitchell Pick resigns as Seattle Suffrage Club president to join Washington Equal Franchise Society as assistant to Mrs Homer Hill. A garden party at 216th Ave invites suffragists, with notes on global gains for women’s suffrage and updates on English, Swedish, Australian, and New Zealand movements.
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Nelle Mitchell Pick
Seattle Suffrage Club
ENTY
Washington
Soas
Homer Hill
Fick
Missng
New York
Australia
New Zealand
Isle of Man
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Nelle Mitchell Fick
Dear Miss Grey The Girl in Love With a Married Man
A young woman confesses to being drawn to a married man and describes awakening feelings, remorse, and inner conflict. She seeks guidance from Miss Grey and acknowledges the advice that helped her face her situation. The letter ends with gratitude for moral clarity and ongoing struggle.
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Miss Grey
Taste of the Star
Invitation etiquette and recipe snippets from a bygone column
The text explains how to write and answer an afternoon card party invitation, including form and timing. It also includes odd culinary notes and recipe curiosities such as a white custard and orange snow, with mentions of names and a suggestion to use visiting cards.
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Miss Grey
Miss Jane Blank
Fifth Street
Cava- Neri
Taste of Ice Cream Sparks Witty Debate in New York World
A playful quip from John Keele in the New York World laments modern tastes and the decline from era of mastodons to budget deserts. The verse riffs on buttered toast, paprika, door weatherstrips, and the clash of old menus with new scoops.
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Everglades
John C’keele
New York World
Dorothy's Birthday Washing Surprise
A five year old girl named Dorothy gifts herself a laundry set and cleans the family dolls. Her accidental result ruins the satin piece, prompting parental reactions. The tale shifts to medical news on a London hospital trial using carbonic acid gas snow to treat birthmarks, plus sewing and home crafts ideas.
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Dorothy
Buch
Mary Jane
Eameralda
Jack the Sailor Boy
Dolla
Mamon
London
Surprising Misstep Prompted a Gentle Reprimand
A child regrets a misstep and admits attempting to help though it caused trouble. The mother recognizes the remorse and avoids punishment by explaining that surprises can be unpleasant and that Aunt Flo’s advice wasn’t followed.
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Mamma
Aunt Flo
Daily Menu Breakfast and Dinner Specialties
The menu lists a breakfast with French fruit cereal with cream and coffee. Luncheon features cheese fonda, graham biscuits, preserved plums, tea. Dinner includes ox tail soup, beef brisket, stuffed lettuce, potatoes hollandaise, tomato salad, fruit dessert, with coffee to finish.
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Cheese Fonda
Graham Binscuite
French Toast Recipe Prompt
Instructions describe dipping bread slices in a milk and egg mixture then frying until golden brown. Finish with a dusting of powdered sugar.
Cheese Fondue Recipe Card
Melt butter then add milk bread crumbs and cheese until soft. Stir in egg and salt. Serve on warm crackers for dipping.
Graham Biscuits Recipe Note
Simple biscuit instructions list ingredients including flour graham flour baking powder milk and butter. It describes mixing in order with butter tips using fingers rolling out cutting shapes and baking in a hot oven.
Paring Fridge Pantry Plum Preserve Guidance
To every pound of fruit add one pound of sugar. Use granulated leaf or brown sugar and clarify brown if boiling hot. Pour over plums, pick out bad fruit, stew then pierce 3 to 5 times. Simmer gently until tender, drain into jars, boil syrup to thick. Skim. Pour over plums, seal, and invert to test airtightness. Use new rubber seals.
Ox-Tail Soup Preparation Steps
The text describes cleaning parboiling and cutting ox tails into discs, then cooking them in beef stock and thickening with browned flour and sea salt for flavor and texture.
Recipe Additions Mention Epicen Herta Mix
A fragment notes optional flavoring using epicen and herta with small cubes of new carrots tape nips celery and barley. It reads as a pantry style suggestion possibly for a stew or soup. The line hints at casual kitchen measurements and ingredients.
Lettuce Dish with Veal Stock and Yolk Sauce
Trim and wash several heads of lettuce. Line a stewpan with sliced veal, add onions and herbs, then lay in the lettuces. Add stock to half their height and simmer for fifteen minutes. Drain, whisk a yolk into sauce, pour over hot and serve.
Potato Dish Instructions From a Historic Recipe
Wash and pare potatoes, soak in cold water and cut into a half inch slices. Cover with white stock, cook soft and drain. Cream butter, add a tablespoon juice, a pinch salt, dash pepper and chopped parsley, heat until butter melts, then serve atop the potatoes.
Fruit Dessert and Fashion Trends Highlighted
A recipe for a dessert layers raspberries sponge cake currants and cherries with custard and whipped cream. A fashion note claims low necklines boost the popularity of marine neck ruffs as a style trend.
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Geo. A. Smith
Sweden
Georgetown
Youngstown
George A. Smith
Alki Point
Mrs. Nelle Mitchell Fick
A.D
Nee Reys
Florence
Ice-Cream Girl
Wiley
Sullivan
Feder
Myrtilla
Vale, Vale, Vanilla
Aunt Fio
Graham Biscuits
Wincow
Wes
Ney
Bors
India
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