Curious Money Facts First Coinage In Ancient Times
A compact survey traces money from Egyptian rings and nuggets to Greek marks and coinage, noting copper as common and lead, tin, platinum, and nickel usage. It covers Roman and English precursors, Swiss dating, and oddities like Siam’s irregular silver lumps and the smallest valuemite coins.
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Pheldon
Argos
New York World
Iran
Burmah
England
Cornwall
Rome
Europe
United States
Regina
Siam
Navy Bean Soup with Cream for Flavor
Use two cups of navy beans in water with a little soda. Rinse, simmer, then rub through a sieve, return to heat, add cream, salt, and pepper. Include celery or leaves, cook until soft, and serve immediately.
Bank vault blown. robbers escape with $14,000
Police across a 50 mile radius hunt five burglars after they blew open the First National Bank in Pepperell Massachusetts at about 2 AM. Two nitroglycerine charges erupted after discovery warnings, leaving about $3,000 in gold unaccounted. Ernest Tarbell awoke to the blast, found his door barred, and rushed to the bank.
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Pepperell
Mass
First National Bank
Ernest Tarbell
Tarbell
Ile
Bank
Cheese Pudding Recipe From Simple Kitchen Guide
A fragment describes a cheese pudding method using a double boiler with a pint of milk. It adds a tiny pie, bread crumbs, five beaten eggs, butter, grated cheese, salt, and red pepper then bakes fifteen minutes covered until brown, served hot.
How to Make Vinegar at Home in Six Steps
Instructions describe combining six pounds of light brown sugar with Jorith five gallons of water, cutting in a piece of cloth over the bung, placing the keg on its side in sunlit stacks, and letting it ferment for three months to yield better vinegar than purchased. Another tip says to place the key behind the furnace to speed the process.
Creamed Ale Toast Buttered Toast
Heat half a pint of ale with shaved soft cheese until melted and smooth. Stir in a saltspoonful dry mustard one of salt a pinch of cayenne and a tablespoonful of cream until hot through. Serve on buttered toast. If no cream substitute butter.
Onion Preparations With Brine and Vinegar Additives
A recipe instructs to salt the onions in boiling salted water for three days, then refresh with new brine. After three days drain, add vinegar and turmeric, heat, and let stand ten days. Transfer to fresh vinegar with red pepper horse radish celery seed mustard and mixed spices.
Potato pulp clarification process instruction
Rub up one tenth part by weight of raw potatoes then boil the pulp with three parts clean water. Remove from fire and gradually stir in fifteen thousandths part pulverized alum, then beat with wooden spoons until perfectly clear.
Golden Rice Balls with Butter and Jelly Glaze
A recipe describes boiling rice, stirring in butter eggs and edlonaimon, forming balls, frying until crisp, draining, and rolling in currant jelly with powdered sugar for a sweet glaze. It reads like home kitchen instructions with steps for shaping and frying the morsels.
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Walt
To S milk in a double boiler method
To S milk in a double boiler place milk in the top vessel with water boiling below. Cover and steam until a beadlike edge forms around the milk.
Easy to Scale Fish With Curry Comb Sealing Tip
A curry comb is suggested to seal a fish, offering easier handling than a knife. It prevents hands from smelling fishy and stops scales from slipping under the nats.
Butter Preparation Guide: Soft Creamy Consistency
The directions describe placing butter in a bowl and stirring with a wooden spoon until it becomes a soft creamy consistency. Once it releases buttermilk, pour off the liquid to finish the process.
Household Tips for Cleaning and Stain Removal
Practical advice on maintaining kitchen and laundry items. Use a vegetable brush to remove silk from corn ears and a nail brush for cleaning. If indelible ink marks clothes, apply heat from a lamp chimney. Use lemon halves to prevent drying, a wooden spoon for stirring, and hot water to whiten. For mildew and stains, mix soap, starch, salt, and lemon juice and air on grass. never boil egg stains on table linen, soak in cold water instead.
Elevator Job Replaces Essay Fame as College Boy Prodigy
Detroit News Tribune quotes a young man saying he now runs an elevator in a department store, contrasting his earlier college essay fame. The exchange notes a shift from literary ambition to practical work. The column frames the man as finding his proper place in life.
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Detroit News Tribune
Declines and Expressions in Old Times
A Baltimore American quip links the term decline to disappearing things and a joke about a cook wasting away. It notes the old phrasing widow woman and cites biblical usage of dead corpses to illustrate language shifts.
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Coek
Baltimore American
Bank Burglary Ends With Escape by Auto
Tarbell fired at fleeing robbers as they left the bank in an automobile heading toward Groton. Cashier Henry Tarbell reported stolen cash scattered in the vault and a missing $10 coin amid minimal vault damage from three explosions. The robbers barred nearby doors before the heist and caused shattered walls and broken counters during their hurried exit.
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Tarbell
Groton
Henry F. Tarbell
Mine Disaster in Pittsburg Mine Yields 126 Bodies
State officials mine owners and rescuers say all but two victims of the Mariana mine explosion have been recovered as 126 bodies are hoisted and turned over to undertakers. Twelve bodies surfaced in varied locations with roof falls and debris. Coroner Sipe sets December 19 for inquest testimony, with possible preinquest mine inspection.
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Pittsburg
Mariana
Sipe
Wealthiest Woman in Paris Managed Estate of $20 Million
Paris resident Mrs. A. Whitcomb, possibly the wealthiest woman there, speaks no English and is regarded as an American citizen. Forty years earlier she married a San Francisco lawyer who visited Paris and never returned, later amassing a fortune in Paris real estate. She now personally oversees her estate valued at about $20 million.
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Paris
A. Whitcomb
San Francisco
America
Denial Tied to Northwestern in North Coast Railroad Claim
Officials in Lincoln dispute a dispatch that claimed the North Coast railroad in Washington is a Northwestern project. The message suggested the line might align with the Northwestern's lander end, fitting a coast to coast plan.
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Lincoln
North Coast Railroad
Washington
Lander
Northwestern
Haitian capital grips as insurgents close in
Port au Prince faces a looming crisis as General Antoine Simon’s advance guard nears the city. The government braces, President Nord Alexis vows to fight, foreign warships stand by, and officials convene the Chamber in extraordinary session to preserve order and seek a settlement.
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Port AU Prince
Antoine Simon
Anz-A-Veau
Nord Alexis
Jimes
Alexis
Port Au Pringe
United States
France
Kaytiens
Simon
Grand Grave
Antenor Firmin
General Firmin
Taft Holds Neutral Stance In Ohio Senate Fight
President elect Taft and Arthur S. Vorys canvassed Ohio politics during a stop in Hot Springs Virginia on the way to Cincinnati. Taft said he would not take part in the senatorial contest though Charles P. Taft’s influence remains strong. Vorys plans active campaign work for Cincinnati capitalist. Foraker and Burton named as candidates. Taft endorsed the US-Japan pact and urged friendly, cordial retirement policy.
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Hot Springs
Ohio
Taft
Arthur S. Vorys
Cinccinnati
Washington
Charles P. Taft
Vorys
Cincinnati
Foraker
Burton
New Route to Pacific Coast City Will Save Fifty Miles
San Francisco reports completion of the Dumarton bridge and bay cutoff will cut fifty miles from travel with regular trains on the new route by March. The line aims to become the main link for central overland trains into San Francisco avoiding ferry transfers at Benecia and Oakland. Freight rates on lumber from Humboldt Bay become effective today with proportional charges from several Bay Area and Sacramento River points.
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San Francisco
Dumbarton Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Southern Pacific
Central Overland
Benecia
Oakland
Himpoldt Bay
Point San Pablo
Schmond
Diamond
Antioch
Santa Fe
New England
Seaboard
Chicago
Missori River
None of Moncey Recovered
Kansas City report on Charles Stevens, accused of stealing a mail pouch with 50 000, sentenced to ten years at Fort Leavenworth East. Jury found him guilty on six counts but court limited sentence to two. No money recovered. suspect believed to hide funds. Trial featured prominent counsel from San Francisco and local lawyers. Attorney General Thompson names George W. Ayres as assistant, planning move to Lincoln. remarks on salary. Lincoln Traction ordered to sell tickets between Havelock and Lincoln for 25 cents and single fare 7 cents. Chicago dairy show opens with 50 top cows including Kerry-Dexters. milking contest noted.
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Moncey
Kansas City
Charles Stevens
Fort Leaveworth East
Pollock
San Francisco
W. ‘T. Thompson
George W. Ayres
Grant Marti
Will B. Rose
Supreme Bench
Ayres
Central City
Thompson
Merrick County
Lincoln
Alvo
Clatonia
Chas
Shaw
Callaway
McDonald Bros
C. W. Wade
Beaver City
W. P. Tall
Kustas
Primrose
Sarah J. Johnston
Adams County
John PF
Johnson Sportmen
Jack Rabbits
Tomadden
Hartington
Richard Kare
Pender
Conker
Sterling
Fred Benson
James Thompson
Ayman
Cedar County
William Harrison
Dunb
Visla
Dalsy
Joseph Ord
Auburg
George McNamara
Cedar Rapids
Cassan
Dunbar
Missouri
Nebraska
Richard C. Davis
Gage County
Tiple &P &H
Parkhurst
Bas
Weber
Coal Bisinness
Absalie
Clark
Coddington
Auburn
Joe
P. Jacobs
First Baptist
Hastings
Ee diEverett
Dreyer
East Sherry
Stanton
Hiram A. Filley
Reynolds
Jersey
I Smith
Te City
Mr. Filley
Sutherland
Platte River
Louisville
Omeaha
Martial law proclaimed in Prague sparks student riots
Martial law was proclaimed in Prague and provoked Czech students to rioting as authorities asserted control, escalating tensions in the city.
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Prague
Austria
May Reorganize the Navy Commission Proposed
President Roosevelt may appoint a commission to investigate the navy department and consider a general staff with an advisory civilian secretary. Secretary Root has been asked to chair the planned inquiry for reorganizing naval administration.
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Navy
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Department
Root
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Lord Alexis
Pacific Coast City
State Railway Commission
Lincoln Traction Company
Traction Company
Havelock
Coliseum
Walter Dufford
Doniphan
Dakota
Iva
J. C. Burdick
Aurora
R. C. Machamer
Medragskas
Uehling
Axel Loftman
Benson & Rinderhagen
Fremont
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