A Girl's Memory Book Reveals Quiet Moments and Reflections
A girl shows her Memory Book to a skeptical companion, recalling a rose from a Yale ball, a Christmas card romance, two men, and a humorous note on safeguarding personal memories. The exchange reveals what the book stores: private memories, dances, anecdotes, and a guard against public gaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoman
Yale
Propylaeum
Mike
Waukesha
St. Joe
Wabash
Notorious Electric Kitchen Request Stirs Chicago Ladies Aid
In Chicago a woman staffing a domestic service agency notes a rising demand for cooks who are expert electricians as homes install more electric appliances. A wealthy client recently sought such a cook for a new city house featuring an electric apple cover and lift, but the English cook balked at the novel kitchen and departed after days of lesson refusals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ducement
England
Chicago Record-Herald
Cook
Gifts of Money in New Year Folklore and Needy Kin
A humorous look at New Year money gifts contrasts wealth and want with tales of checks as gifts. It recalls a sick husband presenting sugar plums concealing five and ten franc notes, and a tale of Talleyrand using curled hair as conveyance for notes, illustrating graceful money gifts and social foibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Commercial Advertiser
Talleyrand
la Contemporaine
Erzelina Ida de Bolstoy
Erzelina
Prince of Schemers
Prescriptions for Authors Across Time and Tastes
A literary note lists authors for distinct virtues from clarity to sublimity, urging readings of Macaulay Burke Bacon Homer Scott Milton Stevenson Kipling Virgil Arnold Burns Whittier Bunyan Addison Hawthorne Austen Cervantes Twain and others. The piece closes with dialect verse about money dreams and a rabbit by a mill stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macaulay
Burke and Bacon
Homer
Scott
Bacon
Pope
Milton
Stevenson
Kipling
Shakspeare
Virgil
Arnold
Benjamin Franka
Burns, Whittier and Bunyan
Addison and
Hawthorne
Janeustin
Cervantes, Chaucer
Mark Twain
Christmas Greens of Smilax and Holly
A Philadelphia Record piece describes wild smilax varieties in winter, including green briar, glaucous smilax, and laurel leaved smilax, with berries and hardy vines in fences and swamps. It also surveys native hollies from New Jersey to Texas, noting distinctive forms, berries, and medicinal lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Portia
South
Jersey
Russia
Boreas
Central America
Cape of Good Hope
Atlantic Seaboard
Massachusetts
Texas
New Jersey
Shakspeare
Dickens
Jennyson
United States
Virginia
Big Four Fire Sale of Underwear and Wool Garments
Public sale listing offers men's wool fleece lined shirts and drawers in blue, black, and striped prints, heavy fleece lined underwear 2 cents, heavy union suits at 1 dollar, Canton flannel drawers, ladies and misses underwear, and boys undergarments in multiple sizes. Names of fabrics and price points highlighted.
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Indianapolis
Big Four
Cinentiign
Baeee Reece
Iussz
Washington Street
Oxford Grays
Big Four Fire Sale of Underwear
Talepe
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Electrical Cooks
Dream Money
Frank L. Stanton
Tige
Deacon Smith
Dar
Gobbler
Delaware Streets
Washington
Big Four Fire Salvage
Case
Esc
Lonsdale
Hill
Masonville
Bloood
Mee
Ita
T. Long
SiLso
Jose
Star Store
McMane
Boc
Cassae
Wes Soc
Hercules
Oxford
Gulf
Mobile
Carolinas
Penn
Delaware
Denly
Ani
Dir
Washington Post
Flore Ida
Harrison Watters
Jacksonville
Fla
Viorida
Inc
el! Jtrections
Saaz
Big 4
Big Four Salvage
Paesere Usen
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