Seasonable Foods for the Home Cook
A concise guide from 1929 listing cranberry and combination salads, cinnamon apples, and a cheese roll. Cranberry Salad uses gelatin, cranberries, celery and lemon juice. Combination Salad combines cabbage with apple and pineapple, almonds and marshmallows. Cinnamon Apples simmer in sugar water with red hot candies. Cheese Roll blends Roquefort and cottage cheeses with olives and spices, served on a cheese plate.
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Western Newspaper Union
Earth as Star Reflecting Sunlight Across Heavens
Poem fragment addresses readers on other planets noting Earth resembles a star as it reflects sunlight into space. The verse emphasizes celestial lighting and distant view of Earth’s glow.
Railroad to be given away sparks wide interest
A western railroad offered a 158 mile branch free to anyone who would operate it drawing applicants from housewives to hoboes. Many wanted it for free but few considered the responsibilities and costs. The speaker notes people crave possessions without weighing obligations and rejects the giveaway.
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Western Railroad
Pennsylvania
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Chicago
By the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Old Coffee Houses Shape London Opinion and News
In early London, first coffee houses served as clubhouses open to all who could buy coffee. Each drew a distinct circle of visitors from literary, scientific, religious or political circles. They spread news and fostered public debate in a newspaperless era and influenced politics through daily attendance by the middle and upper classes.
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London
To Keep a Rose by Douglas Malloch
A poem about love as a rose that blooms forever in the home. It describes care through morning smiles and good night kisses, shared burdens, and gentle living as the vase that keeps love from fading. The rose of love endures when nourished by kindness.
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Douglas Malloch
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Trouble Comes In Bunches A Psychological View
A discussion on how trouble tends to cluster after a first mistake or setback. It explains how anticipation and fear affect nerves and muscles, magnifying minor issues into larger woes. The piece compares boxing resilience to general mental and physical endurance after a hard blow.
Marcus Aurelius on life and the void of time
A fragment from Marcus Aurelius Meditations contends life is not the measure of importance. It invites reflection on the yawning future and the vast, silent past as limits to human existence.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The Children Cormernr 4% poOTHY EDMONDS No 2
A playful art description guides drawing an elephant for the zoo. It lists steps: form a letter C, add a ring and sticks, draw straight lines, an eye, a snout, tail, feet, and dashes to shape an elephant.
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Zoo
Boston Wharf to Storefront: A Sailor's Morning Passage
The narrator recalls joining a crew at sea aboard a seine boat to catch mackerel. He notes ship bells telling time, meals with sailors, and the rough camaraderie. After sleeping below deck, morning finds them docked in Boston with fish barrels unloaded and crowds on the pier. Eric guides him to Commercial Wharf before parting.
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Eric
Hric
Italy
Bowman Suffers Double Leg Fractures in Bed
Frank B. Bowman of Norfolk Road Winsted Conn broke a leg turning over in bed at home. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and days later fractured the other leg while shifting position. Both legs are in plaster casts and Bowman has been an invalid for over three years.
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Conn
Norfolk Road
Frank B. Bowman
Bowman
Hypnotic Thiefs Hunted Across Europe
Police hunt a possible pair of hypnotic robbers feared on trains and in gardens. Victims recall a hypnotist’s line during sleep, with losses including a Polish noblewoman and other travelers. Experts urge publicity to warn potential targets and prevent attacks.
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Montreal
Paris
Warsaw
80 Year Old Indian Shows Race s Nerve
Esteban Falari eighty, last of the Santa Colas and Santa Ynez mission Indians, lies in Santa Barbara Hospital with a fractured thigh. He lives in a hermit cabin, emerges for supplies four times a year, and endured three days on rocks with no food or water before a traveler found him and he was cast in plaster.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Esteban Falari
Santa Barbara Hospital
Esteban
Santa Colas
Santa Ynez Mission
Santa Ynez River
Hsteban
Falls Three Stories and Gets Only Minor Bruises
Syracuse resident George Dowling, 37, plunged 85 feet from the third story of the Rescue mission. Believed to have struck a ledge, he landed on his feet and suffered only bruises to his left arm shoulder and legs. He recalls going to bed and waking on the sidewalk.
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Syracuse
N. Y
George Dowling
Squirrel-hunting accident injures Norris Bowers in Hedgeville
Norris Bowers, Hedgeville, West Virginia, was shot and slightly wounded by his own handgun while using it to shoot a squirrel from a local age club.
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Hedgeville
W. Va
Norris Bowers
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Lemuel Schofield
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Aurelian
Lighthouse Adventures
Boston
Jorne
Denver
William Klug
Blake
Rosa Klug
Klug
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