Spooks Favor Widow Smith Over Stevens in Eastonville Tale
In Eastonville a tale unfolds of seven widows and two marriageable women vying for Silas Watkins. A pair of spectral visitors urges him to marry, one favoring widow Smith and the other widow Stevens, but his choice is complicated by his grandmother’s ghostly warning and a late twist.
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Eastonville
Silas’ Watkins
Watkins
Smith
Algo
Stevens
Mr. Watkins
Silas
Spook
Sila
Misty Shades
Earth
The Unheroic Age and Hidden Talents
Frank Keenan told a woman's club that acting requires the right time and opportunity. He recalled during the Spanish American War a Wall Street man sobbing at troops passing, illustrating deep classic emotion can surface instantly in the right moment.
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Frank Keenan
Wall Street
Spooks Meet Spook Then Go Home With Silas Watkins
At midnight two apparitions roam the village and converge on Silas Watkins's back yard. They frighten a grocer, faint, then reveal themselves as two people who later accept Silas's marriage proposal to one of the nearby girls.
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Silas
Silas Watkins
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Decline in English Farmingovershadows village life in Somershire
Records describe a sharp population drop from 70 years earlier to 1901 with 24 residents and 220 households in Somershire. Of 165 cottages housing 624 people now, most land—3051 acres—is fallow or set to grass with only 512 acres arable in 1904.
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Somer
Asershire
The Modern Grandmother Looks Beyond Family Care
The piece notes a shift from nurturing grandmothers to independent, time pressed ones who prioritize grooming clubs and travel over child rearing. It argues grandmothers have evolved into active social participants, making less room for traditional family duties while staying connected to grandchildren through visits and occasional play.
Megaphone Used to Amplify Bugle Calls at Western Army Post
A megaphone was employed at a western army post to amplify the bugle call so it could be heard at greater distances than normal. The horn notes become easily distinguishable at remarkable ranges with this method.
Layer Cake Batter and Fillings Recipe Summary
Instructions for making layer cake batter with or without butter using sponge cake mix. Includes cream butter and sugar, beat eggs, fold in flour and milk, and bake. Describes caramel filling from dark brown sugar and water, cream coconut filling with milk and coconut, maple nut filling with cream and nuts, date or fig fillings, and chocolate filling with grated chocolate.
Fish Patty Preparation From Early Cookbook
A historic recipe lists ingredients for a fish patty: whitefish, breadcrumbs, eggs and yolks, butter, sour cream, water, salt, pepper, mustard, onion, and flour. Mix breadcrumbs with butter and yolks, cook to a paste, add onion, eggs, and flour, then shape, bread, and bake while basting with water and cream.
Nut and Celery Salad Dressing Instructions
Combine equal parts pecan nuts and celery chopped finely. Beat three eggs with a quarter cup water until smooth, cook until thick cream, then remove from heat. Stir in a tablespoon butter, a teaspoon sugar, a pinch mustard and a dash red pepper. Just before serving fold in a tablespoon whipped cream.
Novel approach to fruit supply through grocer partnership
A woman turns a novel idea into profit by teaming with her grocer to take unsold daily fruit and process it into jams preserves and cordials. The fresh supply reduces perishable loss for the grocer while delivering high quality products. The article suggests urban women could replicate this method to secure reliable fruit sources.
Dining room service and supper dish in early dining etiquette
The article describes serving coffee from the kitchen or an urn at the table, cheese on a separate plate, and cheese sticks with salad. It notes a built in sideboard with a white woodwork and lead glass doors, and provides a recipe for croquettes made of potted beef and mashed sweet potatoes fried in butter with a salt and pepper seasoning.
Macaroni Pudding With Mushrooms and Parsley
A vintage recipe for macaroni pudding uses boiled macaroni bread crumbs mushrooms parsley shallot or onion and herbs stirred with milk and butter then baked or steamed for about ninety minutes. It is served with a brown mushroom sauce and is seasoned with paprika salt and pepper.
Candy Making From Readable Recipe Fragments
A recipe fragment describes boiling two cupfuls of sugar with half a cup of maple syrup and cream until a soft ball forms in cold water. Off heat add butter, then stir in chopped nuts and vanilla. Drop into buttered tins and cool outdoors.
Scalloped Nut Loaf Instruction Card
Toast stale bread until golden brown and line the dish bottom. Layer large raw tomato pieces, then ground pecan nuts, then cooked rice. Repeat to fill. Grate stale cheese over top. Bake 20 to 26 minutes in a moderately heated oven, watching closely as browning occurs. Serve with vegetable salad.
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By George A. S.carson
Associated Literary Press
Amea
Megaphone
Bugle
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