Steele City Press Fragment Highlights 1900s Gossip
A chopped sample from Steele City Nebraska items includes misquoted lines about engagement delays and a joke exchange about a Gret dollar. It also echoes quick quips from Brooklyn Life Statesman and Philadelphia Bulletin and a burning building casualty line from the Leader.
Hostess Questioned About African Trip Reactions
Unclear remarks recount a hostess's reaction to an African trip. The text suggests confusion and mentions savages described as extremely kind-hearted who wanted to keep the narrator for dinner.
Humorous Vignettes and Social Snippets From Washington Star
A collection of brief playful exchanges and notices including Mrs. Gossip on a widow’s remarriage, an artist questioning display decisions, souvenir postal cards from summer forts, a quip about a genius definition, and a reprimand about changing work wages, all in light, informal tones.
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Washington ‘Star
Lidies
Jore
Garn
Brussels
London Chronicle
E. V. Lucas
Arthur Cecil
Kew
Toby Shakespeare
Jacques
Halstead
Essex
England
Pennsylvania
Bill
New York
Mary
John
Fragmented OCR Dialogue Fragments Mentioning Howard
The readable text shows a garbled exchange with names like Jack and Howard. It hints at bills and an address but provides no clear event, outcome, or context to establish a news item.
Sour milk as a preservative and kitchen tips
An article explains that sour milk can preserve food and even keep oysters and beef fresh for months. It notes lactic acid from milk germs fights infection, gives methods to pickle beets, bake puddings, mold timbales, and improve bread by beating dough, with various household instructions.
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Ellie Metzhnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Household Hints From Practical Kitchen Tips
Short tips on flavoring iced tea simmering burners for soups and roasts and avoiding sour leftovers. Instructions on jelly making drying potatoes and jelly storage with hot water glasses and glassware. Ginger tip on grape elderberry jelly and pecan nut meat extraction soaking overnight. Bacon storage in summer and soda as a preservative. Bread lightening with a large spoon and salt in vinegar vessels.
Reader Suggests Sleigh Bells for Cars in Thompson Tribune
A citizen writes to the Tribune proposing that automobiles be required to carry sleigh bells to warn pedestrians, noting sleigh bells are used during sleighing time. The Salvation Army operates in thirty one languages. Lake Nyasta natives eat a fly called the Kungu as a delicacy when abundant, gathering them for a confectionery treat. Crinoline and coarse straw weave remain fashionable.
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Gorne
The
Tribune
Salvation Army
Lake Nyasta
Fear of Ghosts and Germs Highlighted in Health Ad
An old health column extols fear of germs versus ghosts, arguing germs spread in air and water and can be fought by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The piece touts increased vital force, blood purification, and non habit forming ingredients, urging readers to ask neighbors about its efficacy and value.
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Dr. Pierce
Piedmont Region Prosperity Amidst Cheat Lands
The fragment hints at prosperity in the Piedmont region with cheap labor and good climate. It mentions cotton grains fruits and vegetables thriving and references New South Trust Co in Greenwood South Carolina. It also notes England and Wales population figures and a curious aside about Latin crepes and hat facings.
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Piedmont Region
New South Trust Co
Greenwood
South Carolina
England
Wales
Interchange plans among universities widening scholarship reach
Nations plan an exchange of students among the United States Canada and Great Britain to broaden scholarship. Plaster portraits become fashionable counterfeit medallions in London at 2 50 each. Asia faces efforts to curb oils and tobacco factory labor conditions while Africa grows legumes for cement mixtures.
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Reunos Ayres
Austria Hungary
Herkomer
Italy
United States
Canada
Great Britain
London
India
WEW VIGOR FOR BAD BACKS How to Make a Weak Back Better
A Rochester Indiana woman describes relief from backache and kidney troubles using Deans Kidney Pills. She cites swelling ankles pain and fatigue and credits three boxes with curing her condition.
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M Working
Fultos Ave
Rochester
Ind
Dean
Lost Arts And Quick Wits In A Curious Collect
A collage of curiosities and notes covers inventions food costs and trade in the early 20th century. It recalls the first pedal bicycle circa 1840, tea exports from Shanghai, and university growth in Bonn. It cites economic figures and quirky linguistic trivia, and notes railroads rushing to contract coal amid a rising market.
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Shanghai
United States
University of Bonn
Germany
Herbert Samuel
Lancaster
England
Colombia
The
Black Diamond
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