Artificial Gem Stocks and Lax Verbal Quips
The passage discusses artificial gems made from alum crystals and metallic salts shaping gem type. It includes various quotes and snippets on fatigue, social phrases, light’s effect on bacteria, and checks on knowledge, with several humorous exchanges about money, control, and promises.
Rhubarb Recipes and Breadless Meals from an Expert
An Agriculture Department expert shares rhubarb as a spring garden staple and describes methods to preserve, jam, make rhubarb sauce, tapioca, and a rhubarb scallop. She also discusses breadless meals, favoring starch substitutes and abundant vegetables to save wheat.
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Heat and color effects on sun exposure
An experiment placed four equal cloth strips white yellow red and black on ice to compare solar absorption. White cloth barely melted the ice, yellow caused slight cooling, red produced a deep groove, and black fabric melted ice about twice as deep, showing white reflecting rays and black absorbing them.
Black Wheet Trimmed Tam with Jet Sequin Pin
A small black tam made of gelatin braid is trimmed heavily with Mack wheat-like shaping. A large pin of jet sequins is attached through the side, creating a bold decorative accent.
Gilded Chicken Fest Inspires Unusual Headgear Trends
Reading like a quirky 19th century column, the piece notes war economy spurring odd millinery in New York. It highlights gilded chicken feet ornaments and whimsical hats, including a bonnet trimmed with English walnuts and a merry widow made of alligator skin with a gray squirrel garnish.
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New York
Eatonic Stomach Remedy Promises Fast Relief
H L Kramer who created Cascarets introduces EATONIC tablets to relieve indigestion sour stomach heartburn and bloating. The ad claims the tablets neutralize acid aid digestion and promote appetite, with a warning to watch for counterfeit products.
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Eatonic Remedy Co
Chicago
Soldier tells tale of wartime cigarette light in France
A returned soldier recounts how after ten minutes of signaling to a Frenchman he finally received a match in perfect English. The anecdote, relayed in the Washington Herald, illustrates wartime miscommunications and small human moments amid conflict.
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France
Washington Herald
Staggering Remarks in Garden Party Exchange
Mrs. Grimm declares a son-in-law intention while he jokes about the idea. A remark about a mustache once down not staying down. A sponge is described as swelling when soaked, contrasting with a man.
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