Fourth of July Oration and Festivities at Whalen's Grove
A July Fourth pageant at Whalen's Grove features patriotic remarks, a greased-p pig contest, and a sun viewing incident with Col. Forsyth Hooley as marshal. Speakers rail against taxation and schools while praising freedom, ending with a promised grease pig contest and fireworks, as reported by Bul Nye of the New York World.
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Hickory
Whalun's Grove
Stateolan
Col. L. Forsyth Hooley
Mambrino King
Col. Heasley
Lairy
Lowerotiny
Col. L. Porssth
Col Howley
Mies Abe
Mr. Meeks
Certan
Larraby
Fawnslip
Records Statesman
Anerica
Button Guernnett
Lonua Dewiand
Thistle
Road District No
Whalen's Grove
Bul Nye
New York World
Flights of Genius and Antiquated Wit Across the Decks
An illustrated collage of arcane quotes and satirical asides from a shipboard setting, mocking language, rhetoric, and legal wit. It features an Irishman, a schoolmaster, a French author, a clergy man, and a learned examiner, each delivering biting lines on fate, freedom, and hypocrisy amid maritime voyage.
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Pranes
Yones
Emineyllor
Europe
Greece
Uhantorn
Duncan
Editor's Strange Experience Ended In Odd Hotel Bed
An editor recalls a strange night at a Montana hotel after checking in with a conk on the St Maul. A dutiful porter, half awake, leads him to the bathroom adjoining his suite. Morning reveals a bed like a coffin and a faucet left running, nearly drowning him in cold water. The Chicago Herald notes the humorous misadventure at a top country hotel.
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Ayleni
M.D
Montana
vYes
Chicago Herald
Farm and Garden. Ban In bunk in pork batiela
Farm and Garden column offers practical notes on pork preservation, cutting and burning brush, dairy butter quality, thinning beets, timothy timing, canning milk, strawberry bed selection, cherry and Hungarian grass, barley, evaporators for fruit, and new California potatoes. Emphasizes practical seasonal tasks and cost-saving farming methods.
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Timothy
Orn
Domestic Hints And Recipes In A Wartime Style
A faded domestic recipe fragment describes baked fish with a pepper salt dressing, a lemon parsley garnish, a water pound cake using butter sugar eggs and lemon, a prune pudding crust, ware cake, potato salad, broiled potatoes, and homemade pastas. It lists multiple desserts and treats including wingtred ding, tomato fritters, Sally Lunn, ginom snats, with measurements and oven guidance amid casual kitchen notes.
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Sally Lunn
Drying Flies On Ship For Winter Birds
Purser Frank Scoville of the steamer Drew stops wearing his neck-scarf buckle and begins harvesting cylindrical fly traps filled with flies. He says he dries the flies to feed mockingbirds in winter, soaking them first to freshen. He gathers about a bushel in summer to last through the cold months.
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Virgil
Childe Harold
Congress
Tnto
Te Amin
Nich
Galileo
Demosthenes
Diogenes
Jay Gould
Frank Scoville
Albany Journal
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Bill Nye
United States
California
San Francisco
Chicago
Atlantic
Bermuda Islands
Leon
Meg
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