Poems and Recipes in a Turbulent Moment
Fragmented OCR text blends devotional verse with kitchen recipes and a dramatic, first person wartime-like account of a wagon raid. The excerpt juxtaposes prayer, culinary instructions, and a sensational rescue scene featuring Jenkins and a wagon full of corpses guarded by reporters, ending with a theft of keys to Cash College.
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Jenkins
Louis Jones
Central
Jenkin
Cash College
Louis M. Megargee
Deember Lippincott
No Apples No Eggs No Butter For Patience
A Charlestown colored cook complains to her mistress that she has nothing to make with for entertaining guests. The mistress instructs her to make an apology. The cook laments she has no apples eggs or butter and nothing to work with.
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Charlestown
Chris
Interesting Bits From History of Money and Inventions
A survey of historical trivia covers early Virginia brickmaking in 1612, tiny cut diamonds, Dutch wagon scarcity, Markneukirchen violin making, Tyrolean electric railway plans, Paris Berlin pneumatic mail in 35 minutes, and a thermometer glass resistant to 1000 degrees. It notes UK coin totals, ancient and medieval money, and Queen Elizabeth’s coinage reforms.
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Markneukirchen
Saxony
Tyrolese
Riva
Pinzola
Paris
Berlin
Elizabeth
Ireland
All Is Well That Ends Well In Western Rural Tale
Nellie Adams, deemed odd by peers, falls for John Dismon. His patience and her confession heal their strained courtship, leading to a united, contented marriage and a restored home.
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Deborah Joyce
Nellie Adams
Nellie
John Dismon
John
Aroucea
Delu
Joan
Matacr
Turning the Tables on Mr Depew in a Hotel Meeting
A Detroit Free Press writer recalls Chauncey Depew playfully taunting a New York editor who doubted Depew's fame. Depew smilingly confirmed his identity and challenged the editor on newspaper accuracy, concluding with a friendly handshake.
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MR. Depew
Detroit Free Press
New York State
Chauncey Depew
Depew
Chauncey
Chauncey M. Depew
Square
Loneliness of the Pacific and a Sailor’s Tale
A Washington Star correspondent notes the City of Peking’s 1240 mile sailless stretch and compares Pacific loneliness to a 1850 voyage San Francisco to Panama lasting 43 days with no ships sighted. The writer recalls calms, swells, and shipboard sounds, joking about Noahs ark and suggesting true loneliness comes only from long journeys.
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Golden Gate
Peking
Washington Star
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Baltimore
Panama
Tropics
A Little Levity and Local Odds and Ends
A collage of verse sketches and humor notes features playful poems, a mock church scene, a Sunday school aside, a murder indictment tease, and a quip about silver in the streets. It mixes light verse with satirical barbs toward subscribers and local life, ending with a brief poem about longing.
Alleged Fun and Quick Wit Across Society Bits
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips from Chicago and other locales. Dialogues feature a wife loving a thrifty husband, a girl anxious about living arrangements, and playful banter about stage careers and bill collectors.
Fragmented humor and anecdotes from old newspapers
A collage of quips and snippets from Harper's Bazar Life magazine and the New York World. Jokes about loans and names, wedding splices, whalebone and sealing wax, a pie recipe with destruction, and a Chestnut Hill train timetable. Includes humorous misreadings and social observations.
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Canvasser
Worldover
West
Jesus
Jessie
Chestnut Hill
Boston
New York
Walls of Jerusalem Rise Above Ancient Citadel
Charles A. Dana describes the Jerusalem walls from Mount Zion, noting immense ancient blocks and a wall six to twenty feet high enclosing the city. He cites varying theories on construction from Suleiman era to Crusader work, with a Hungarian Jew-guide suggesting Crusaders built them to deter Arab raiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Mount Zion
David
Suleiman
Charles A. Dana
McClure
Executive Committee Meeting Notice for Alliance Members
The Executive Committee will meet in the Secretary-Treasurer's office Raleigh on Thursday December 14. The regular January county meetings will be observed except where the speaker was absent last quarter. Secretaries of counties with absent speakers must arrange for January county visits. County Secretaries, attend to this notice. W. S. Barnes.
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Raleigh
Thoee
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