Woman and Home Promotes Cookery in Schools Reform
A report on Mrs D A Lincoln speaking at the World’s Fair Women’s Congress praises cookery as an essential art taught in schools. It notes early efforts in Boston and other cities, the rise of affordable cooking schools, and the need for trained teachers in public schools, highlighting opportunities for women in teaching cookery.
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Ceefal
D. A. Lincoln
New Haven
Providence
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
New York
Massachusetts
Varlon
Boston
Corson
Lincoln
Ewing
West
Rover
Parlon
Women's Educational Association
Boston Envicting Schol
Marlon
Eines
Lin
Coln
Boston Cooling School
John Ruskin
Orange Coke Cake and Filling Recipe
A recipe page item lists making a cake batter with two cups of flour two eggs beaten separately and three and a half cups of flour plus orange juice water and orange rind. For the filling use egg yolk orange rind and sugar with a light orange tor.
Raised waffles delicious breakfast dish from old cookbook
Recipe details breakfast waffles with mill flour yeast, eggs, and butter. Instructions include batter mixing, overnight timing caution, sugar option for browning, greasing the iron with lard, cooking about two minutes per side, and serving with sugar butter syrup or lemon sauce.
Household Hints From Anon Notices Onanors and Jemons and More
Household hints advise hanging onions and lemons in a wire net in a cool airy place. An odor remover uses oil and a feather to stop door creak. Wrex milk in tumblers washed first in cold water then hot water. Airrie flour keeps icing from spreading on cake. Tea and coffee stored in fruit jars with tight tops beats tin boxes. Strong odors spoil freshness. jacketed tongues improved by boiling. A satin cover for a pin cushion suggests elegant decor. A cone color scheme for decor uses pale gray border with light purple or yellow.
PRETTY PINCUSHION DESIGN AND CARE NOTES
An old column describes a delicate original pincushion with moss green plush, leather appliqué, and silvered leather fringe. It also offers tips to revive stressed cut flowers by trimming stems and plunging into boiling water, and a brief note on Japanese tea making as a refined household art.
Afflicting Twin Barber Sinks Into Insane Asylum
A tale from a weekly shows Jim, a barber who worked beside his twin, slipping into madness over failing business prices. After he tries to threaten a customer with a razor, his brother has him confined. The fragment captures melancholy and contrasts between livelihood and reason.
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Jim
Vietim
Well-Grounded Hellot and the Thirteen Myth
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal and Atlanta Constitution humorously debates superstition about the number thirteen. The dialogue features Well-Grounded Hellot and Yabsley arguing superstition versus evidence, plus a stray report on a railway official and a marriage inquiry scene.
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Yabsley
Madge
Indianapolis Journal
Private theatricals amuse audience despite misplacement
A brief note recalls a private theatricals event last evening with actors receiving praise for their performance. A comic line plays on where the action began, while characters Maude Uncle Noury and Duston Transcript are referenced in a witty exchange about stationery and ancestors.
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Noury
Maude
Duston Transcript
A Cautious Lover in Texas Siftings
A cautious lover advises Gus to woo the titled girl, noting she is a rogue for pearl. Gus complains he cannot win over the mother of pearl in this witty Texas Siftings fragment.
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Gus
Pearl
Texas Siftings
Quips and Quips of Courtroom and Society
A string of light verse and skits appears from various periodicals. Vignettes include a mother child exchange about sharing an apple, a quick magistrate exchange, a jailhouse plea, and flippant social remarks. The snippets showcase humor, wordplay, and moral quips from late 19th or early 20th century newspapers.
Bits and Pieces of Wit from Wide Writings
A collage of jokes, snippets, and brief humorous exchanges from Chicago Record, Harper's, Puck, Truth and other periodicals. The items play with early 20th century manners, language slips, and social foibles, featuring light quips about wedlock, education, and everyday life.
Predaceous Moth Erastria Scitula Lands In Western U S
In Farm and Garden notes a predatory moth Erastria scitula is described as a small night flying lep idopteran feeding on the corcidw of shrubs and olives. It deposits eggs on leaves and bark lice, then its larva enters and devours the prey, later spinning a protective silken web around itself.
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Lepidoptera
United States
Bark louse larva becomes moth after long transform
Described is the life cycle of bark lice from larva in a cocoon to a full grown moth. Openings form in the case as it crawls, the larva builds the case from victims’ fragments, and the mature moth exits to fly and rest among branches. Cocoons survive travel, enabling distribution. Illustrations reference Insect Life from the U S department of agriculture.
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United States Department of Agric Vulture
Killing the Bugs Use of inverted umbrella contrivance for tree pest control
Mr S D Willard of Geneva describes in American Gardening a device called the Ang machine. It is an inverted umbrella shaped sheeted frame nine to eleven feet across mounted on a two wheeled wheelbarrow with a side slit and apex. The operator slides under a tree centers the trunk then strikes limbs with a padded stick causing pests to fall onto the sheet and the wheelbarrow moves to the next tree.
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S. D. Willard
Geneva
LILLARD'S RVG MACHINE Description of inserts and mechanism
The document explains a machine where inserts are brushed and a box is removed at the end of rows. It notes two arms approaching at point X with space to pass a tree body, a dotted line showing the tree duty when jarring, and measurements from E to X. It mentions wooden arts supporting the sheet diverging to a center, a pullout tin drawer at D, and a burn box for discarded bugs, with winter exposure affecting strength.
Three Varieties of European Road Materials
A Dresden Letters piece describes European road building using three core materials: trap or basalt varieties, limestone, and granite. It notes trap as most durable, limestone as finest for riding yet prone to frost damage, and granite as a strong yet heavy option, with repairs handled on site by local crews along routes like the Toblach to Perarolo highway in the Ampezzo valley.
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Europe
Drivi
Whiel
Eample
Ampezzo
Toblach
Perarolo
Juto
Dresden
Germany
Directions for Building an Iron Pipe Water Trough
A guide from American Agriculturist explains how to construct a roadside watering trough using a section of iron sewer pipe set in a rock and sand foundation. It describes laying supply and waste pipes, forming a circulating water stream, and backfilling with sand to prevent surface freezing in cold weather.
Good Roads, Wheel Use Lift Farmer Boy From Gloom
The Toledo Sunday Journal argues that improving roads and widespread wheel use will bring daily mail and papers, spreading knowledge to farmer boys and lifting them above petty gossip and limited surroundings. It links road quality with information access and uplift.
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Daily Mail
Toledo
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