Yellow House Shadowed by a Family’s Struggles in 1923
Emmy Milburn plans a party as her mother and father clash over money and status. Robb, the steady love interest, arrives late as Mr Milburn flees to a smoker, leaving Emmy anxious about whether her father will return. The home and a changing social world tug at the household.
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Yellow House
Emmy
Robb
Flower
Dan J
Center Road
Leo
Bugsy
Mr. Mulburn
Perry
Aly
Mr. Milburn
Jed Wiegand
Detroit
Abrs
Muburn
Mrs. Milburn
Wiegand
Recipes For The Inexperienced Cook
A compact home baking guide lists ingredients for simple gem-pan biscuits. Ingredients include graham flour baking powder lard or butter soda sugar salt and sour milk. Directions combine shortening with flour then mix in sour milk soda sugar and salt and bake in hot oven for fifteen to twenty minutes.
Tip-Top Cake Recipe Card
Simple bakeable note for a cake using brown sugar shortening sour milk egg and flour. It lists baking powder soda salt and flavoring with instructions to cream sugar and fat then alternate flour with milk and soda, bake 20 or 30 minutes in a loaf pan.
Simple Cocoa Layer Cake and Tomato Rabbit Fragments
Mixed readable lines describe a cocoa layer cake recipe using sugar cocoa butter vanilla and flour with water and sour milk. Instructions mention two cake layers baking times and cooling, then a marshmallow layer. Also a fragment lists tomato rabbit and bacon fat with onion and tomatoes, but details are unclear.
From Windsor Moose to Shanghai Fortune Tellers
A Windsor Nova Scotia note describes an orphan moose named King returning daily for milk along the Windsor Chester highway. A brief Shanghai item follows, detailing Pao Chien yang a 60 year old blind fortune teller who misreads his own fortunes.
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Windsor
N. S
Hants County
Windsor-Chester
Shanghai
Pao Chien-yang
Conductors in Duesseldorf Speak Several Languages for Tourists
Duesseldorf street railway hires conductors fluent in English Dutch and French to assist American British Dutch and French visitors. Armbands will indicate spoken languages and some conductors study Esperanto. Also notes that zoo animals outlive those in the wild.
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Linguistis
Duesseldorf
Germany
United States
England
Holland
France
Europe
Suspicious Holdup Report Involving Two Customers
A historical note describes two individuals posing as customers who allegedly stopped a man and robbed him of jewelry and other valuables, implying a staged or surprise attack during a routine interaction. Further details on location or identity are not provided in the fragment.
Canton Fire Chief Faces Move to Oust Him
Canton Ohio August 30. The newly reorganized firemen's pension board weighs ending Chief Robert O Mesnar 56 years in office by setting 65 as maximum active service age. Councilman James Seccombe now on the board has sought the limit claiming Mesnar is too old. Fellow board member Kar Bauer urges caution about depose Mesnar.
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Canton, O
Robert O. Mesnar
Firemen’s Pension Board
Mesnar
James Seccombe
Pension Board
Kar Bauer
Veteran Fire Chief Seeks Advisory Role After Retention Claim
A veteran fire department leader, who joined in 1872 and has led as chief since 1900, argues for retention in an advisory capacity while opposing the move to remove him. Mesnar stated he would fight the plan today.
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Mesnar
Fire Department
Inez Hamm Sues for Divorce Over Husbands Bath Count
Inez Hamm files divorce suit against James M. Hamm claiming he bathed only twice between their marriage on November 3, 1928 and their separation on May 29, 1929. She notes the two baths occurred at her insistence.
France Cyclist Population and Tax Policy Note
About seven million people in France ride bicycles and a tax hike last year reduced the cyclist base by seven percent. The change reflects a limited drop in cycles amid fiscal measures affecting riders.
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France
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