Corner cupboard saves space in small flats
A detailed guide from the Chicago Daily News describes building a corner cupboard from wall space with uprights, shelves, cornice, and plinth. It explains shaping triangular shelves, securing with blocks, and mounting a curtain rod for a door replacing a panel. The piece ends noting the Calligan family of Piscataquis County Maine with seven children named Matthew Mark Luke John Faith Hope and Charity.
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Chicago Daily News
Mrs. Calligan
Piscataquois County
Maine
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Faith Hope
Charity
Popular in England The new marchioness of Dafferin
A photograph shows the new marchioness of Dafferin, formerly Miss Meager Davis of New York. She married in 1893 to the current marquis, who recently became a peer after his father’s death. He is 36 and long served in diplomacy in Constantinople Paris and Stockholm.
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Dafferin
Meager Davis
New York
Marquis
Viscount Clandeboye
Constantinople
Paris
Stockholm
England
Whitaker Wright
London & Globe
Lord Dufferin
Europe
Earl
Africa
London Foreign Office
Onions Claimed as Preventive for Malaria
A historical note asserts onions prevent malaria and are a preventive and often cure for malarial fever, reflecting traditional remedies and folk medicine.
Neck Beauty Methods For Whitening Stains From High Collars
The Chicago American advises women to address neck stains from stiff collar wearing with a gentle routine. Finish collars with a soft roll, avoid harsh scrubbing, and use warm vaseline to loosen stains. Rinse, cold bath, and dry oatmeal help restore skin, with bread dough paste for stubborn cases.
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Chicago
How to wash a carpet for brighter colors
If carpets are dirty they look brighter after washing with soap. Beat the carpet to remove dust, nail it down, wash with a lather of yellow soap in hot water with a pinch of soda, rinse, and rub dry. Work in small sections, finish each part, and recolor with a weak alum solution if colors remain dull.
Summer Fashion Notes Highlight Lightweight Gloves and Silk Tops
A fashion authority notes white globe kid gloves wash well and remain popular despite higher cost. Silk gloves with woven lace tops pair with thin gowns, while mitts stay in vogue. Burly long gloves meet elbow sleeves and slim skirts feature long trains with box plaits and lace frills. Embroidered handkerchiefs gain uses as garment trim for children and night robes.
Hints for Housekeeping and Home Care
Practical tips for pie crust sealing cleaning chenille portieres cleaning woolen goods with soap bark borax solution reshaping elbows and knees ironing coats and skirts removing shine from worn fabrics and choosing jar sizes for home canning and storage
Layered Cherry Jelly in a Fancy Mold
A method from Ladies' World describes making clear pineapple or lemon jelly in layers with sweet cherries. Pour a two inch jelly base, add washed cherries, repeat jelly and cherries to fill the mold, chill, and present on a platter with leaves and cherry wreaths.
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Ladies’ World
New York
Apricot Preserve Instructions from Ledger Monthly
Peel ripe apricots halve them and weigh the fruit. Use six pounds fruit four pounds sugar and one quart water. Boil sugar with water five minutes skimming black scum. Add fruit and cook ten minutes then fill four quart jars or eight pint jars. Seal and store in a cool dry place.
Peachy Green Corn Pulp Bake
A kitchen note instructs mixing green corn pulp with ripe peaches and water, sweetening to taste, then baking for 20 minutes in a brisk oven. It reads as a simple 19th century housekeeping recipe directive from a household manuscript.
Ping Pong Party Theme Sparks Dress Pun
Conversation notes a playful exchange about party attire with a pun on ping pongee, ending with an abrupt interjection from a judge. No identifiable people or organizations are named beyond generic references.
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Marie
Gladys
Judge
United States Leads World in 1901 Pig Iron Output
The London Commercial Intelligencer data show the United States produced 15 878 000 tons of pig iron in 1901, far ahead of the United Kingdom 7 750 000 and Germany 7 665 000. U S output rose 985 percent since 1866 70, while Britain fell from roughly half the world to about two tenths.
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United States
London Commercial Intelligencer
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
United Kingdom
Germany
Russia
France
Great Britain
Mark Twain Visits Hannibal Reliving Boyhood Ties
The famed writer Mark Twain weeps at Hannibal Missouri as locals recall his boyhood days and the Civil War era. He recalls Ed Stevens Sam Lyons and other youths marching from Hannibal to New London and reflects on Grant and the rebellion’s end. He tours the nearby cave tied to Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn legends.
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Mark Twain
Hannibal
Ed Stevens
Sam Lyons
New London
Grant
Louisiana
Here
Tom Sawyer
Becky
Sam Clemens
Joe
Huckleberry Finn
Huck
Ed Pierce
Tom Blankship
Mark
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