Concluding Ch XI Leads to Contact with Morgan and Pickering
The narrator departs after a brief visit to Morgan the resort village caretaker who was injured cleaning a gun. Morgan asks him to wire Mr. Pickering for news of the wound, confirming Pickering owns a house at the colony’s far end. The meeting reveals tension over past conflicts and hints at further discussions.
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Morgan
Pickering
Vic
Alexis Building
Broadway
New York
St. Agatha
Glenarm
Mr. Pickering
The Squire and a chapel visit at St. Agathas
Glenarm digs into a hidden passage under the Glenarm house and finds a crypt beneath St. Agatha's chapel. Olivia Armstrong plays the organ as Glenarm laments losing her company and contemplates looming departure due to anticipated punishment.
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St. Agatha’s Chapel
Holy Land
Olivia Gladys Armstrong
Mr. Glenarm
Glenarm
Squire
St. Agatha’s
Lord of the Manor
Torf
Prune Souffle and Other Simple Seasonal Recipes
A collection of kitchen notes offers prune souffle as a fruit substitute when in season short supply. It includes method for eggs and prunes, optional nuts, and several other dishes such as baked beans with tomatoes, beef tea custard for invalids, onion sauce for meats, cream puffs, and rhubarb tarts with a simple English style crust.
Household Hints for Keeping Fabrics Bright and Surfaces Clean
Practical advice on preserving white fabrics by sprinkling white wine among folds. Tips on preventing macaroni or rice from sticking, rewarming rice in the oven. Clean wallpaper with oatmeal and flannel, oil tiled floors with linseed oil for color boost, and clean kettles using potato parings boiled vigorously.
Succulent Orange Cake Instructions
A vintage recipe describes an orange cake with orange juice and rind, fourfold flour and salt with baking powder, sugar and yolk mixture beaten light, then water and orange components folded in. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven in an eight by ten inch pan. frost with stiff egg white and powdered sugar beatings plus orange juice and rind.
Fish Croquettes From Cod and Potato Mix
Prepare a paste of codfish and mashed potatoes with melted butter and flour then milk until thick. Shape into finger sized portions, roll in cracker crumbs dip in egg and crumbs, and fry in hot fat until golden.
Backache is Kidneyache Dean's Kidney Pills Ad
John C. Coleman of Swainsboro Georgia reports years of kidney trouble and back pain eased quickly by Dean's Kidney Pills with lasting relief. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York manufactures and sells the remedy for 50 cents a box through all dealers.
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Dean
John C. Coleman
Swainsboro
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Whiskers The Word's Shifting Lip Hair History
The article traces the term whiskers from hair on the upper lip to cheek growth and mustache. It notes usage by Scott and Defoe and cites Johnson’s definition as unshaven lip hair. It also links whisker to a small brush and to slang meaning a brazen lie from the seventeenth century.
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Scott
Defoe
Johnson
One Redeeming Feature
A youthful New York artist invites a friend to dinner. The bachelor maid, skilled in color, serves a dish with a tough roast chicken underdone potatoes and pithy pineapple salad. The hostess apologizes while the guest, a tactful woman, praises the gravy.
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New York
Return of the Prodigal and the Umbrella Promise
A penniless girl recalls tough luck and a rain night when she found friendship ends in the loss and retrieval of an earned umbrella. The piece veers into ads praising laundries and Defiance Starch for stiffening fabrics and enhancing wash goods.
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Pheer
Garfield Tea Ad From New York Herald
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea with health claims for purifying blood eradicating rheumatism and chronic ailments. It mentions a talking machine offer and notes the product is guaranteed under Pure Food and Drive Law by Garfield Tea Co Kings New York.
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Garfield
Garfield Tea Co
Kign, N. Y
Whipple Quote on Understanding Grows from Within
A reflective quotation notes that true understanding arises only after a compatible idea has developed inside a person.
Time and Value Advertisement From Lewis Factory
An old newspaper ad notes the value of time and promotes the Single Binder straight 5c cigar from Lewis Factory in Peoria Illinois, highlighting discount charm and dealer prominence in local commerce.
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Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Ill
Prospective Buyer Question Sparks Car Sales Dialogue
A prospective purchaser admires a car but frets about safety in collisions. The salesman reassures with a remark that the springs are so designed a jar is hardly felt, implying a smoother ride and reduced impact.
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Bates
Pink Pills advertised as cure for general debility and anemia
An advertisement touts Williams Pink Pills as an effective tonic for general debility weakness indigestion and lack of appetite. It cites a Chelsea Massachusetts customer Mr J G Havey describing long illness and nerve and blood weakness and asserts the pills restore health and support new stamina. The text notes claims of anemia rheumatism aftereffects of influenza and other conditions improve with proper nourishment and offers pamphlets on blood diseases and a diet book. Pills priced 60 cents per box or six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady New York.
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Williams
J. G. Havey
Willow St
Chelsea
Mass
Yeas
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Borbe-Merrill Co
Mendelssohn
Squire Glenarm
N. Y. Herald
Whipple
J. Macon
Carters
Meckman Buos
Bee Molacs
Chicago
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