Voyage of the Constantina Seethes With Hidden Vendetta Plots
On the steamer Constantina a plot unfolds as Burton and Marina evade a vendetta. An American detective suspects a Corsican cook and a French crewman of complicity while two masked men shadow the voyage. The voyage ripens into tension as suspicions mount aboard.
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Burton
Harnes
Corsiva
Ena Mab Weuten
Geran Anscruthar
Jean Bride
Marin
Panis
Ion
Turner Plas
Corrinhe Ae
Focal Landing
Tw Raaman
Sippa
Dinner, danger, and a Corsican cook aboard a yacht
On a Mediterranean voyage the crew spends a lively morning after a good breakfast. Barnes befriends the French cook Leboeuf and demonstrates pistol skill in the galley. Ice runs short, forcing a stop at St Tropez for fresh supplies as tension builds for a planned landfall and a looming confrontation.
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Issiies
Monsieur
Mediterranean
Corsica
Indies
Barnes
Anstruther
Paris
Edwin
Enid
Ilpa
Marina
Cipriano Danella
Leboeuf
Preichman
Diablo
Diahpan
Gallio
Monsieur Leboeuf
Sena M Barnes
St. Tropez
Lion Fight On White Nile Ends In Engineer Death
From Sudan comes word of a fierce encounter between a wounded Iron and a government engineer named H. Salmon. While ashore on the steamer Metemmiah near Fastioda and Melut, Salmon shot a lion twice, but the beast then mauled him fatally and disabled his hand. He died after arrival at Khartoum hospital.
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Sudan
H. Salmon
Salmon
Fastioda
Melut
White Nile
Fushoda
Kieartum
Gigantic West Indies Potatoes And Yams Describe Giant Tubers
A small West Indies shipment included six oversized potatoes called Yani giant sweet potatoes. Each tuber can reach three feet in length and about 80 pounds, with yams weighing 100 to 150 pounds common in tropical regions. The yams resemble potatoes on the outside, are dark brown to black, pale inside, and rich in starch. Boiled, they are pleasantly flavored.
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West Indies
Tropics
Thrifty Potage and Baked Oysters From Frugal Kitchen
Potatoes’ cooking water is a nutritious base for gravy or soup, saved for meals and reheated later. Baked oysters are prepared with cream, egg yolk, butter, flour, parsley, and spices, then finished with browned crumbs in a hot oven.
Potato Chocolate Cake Recipe Card
A quirky yet delicious cake recipe with butter sugar eggs mashed potatoes and unsweetened chocolate. It blends hot potatoes with dissolved chocolate and spices, then folds in flour baking powder and walnuts and bakes in a moderate oven.
Bran Muffins and Economical Doughnuts from Time Savers
A period kitchen note outlines bran muffins using bran flour sour milk butter molasses and soda baked in small rings in a slow oven and served hot with butter. Also notes simple knife and spoon tips for peeling eyes from produce and cleaning a food chopper plus a recipe for economical doughnuts fried in salted hot fat with a flour guided dough.
Salted Peanuts and Kitchen Tips Rife With Old Methods
A flood of odd kitchen guidance on roasting salted peanuts with butter and salt, making beef tallow butter melts, and frying hints. It touts long roasting, dusting, and drying to crispness while arguing toothpicks replace broom straws for testing bread and cake, ending with a hit against unsanitary broom straw practice.
Iron Holder Longevity Hint From Delineator
To keep the iron handle cool slip a late piece of asbestos between the outside and the filling. This will absolutely prevent burning through the holder and the holder will last twice as long. Wise tip to clean aluminum ware with sour milk makes it bright as new.
Cupid the Surgeon by Herman Lee Meader review
A witty critique praising Cupid the Surgeon for sharp humor and keen Wit. The text notes Meader’s practical humor and shrewd sense beneath varnish and gravity, with colorful color plates by Pal and an eye catching design. Published by Henry Artemus Company Philadelphia.
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Cupid
Herman Lee Meader
Mr. Meader
Pal
Meader
Henry Artemus Company
Philadelphia
The Ivory Nut and The Sunday Lady of Possum Trot
The Ivory Nut describes the palm fruit used by button makers and grown in Central and South America with Panama Colombia Ecuador and Peru named. The December Everybody's issue features The Sunday Lady of Possum Trot by John L Mathews about a southern woman aiding mountain education. President Roosevelt also contributes to this issue.
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Central
South America
Panama
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
John L. Mathews
Roosevelt
The Boy and His Dad Bonding Through Shared Interest
A boy with a close interest in his father is lucky though some lads clash with fathers. Mothers can help by finding activities they can share such as dominoes chess or reading the same book to build a common connection.
Lincoln Life and Characters in Century’s 1909 Plan
The Century plans a series on Abraham Lincoln including published documents from his era and his secretary’s papers. Frederick Trevor Hill reviews “The Lincoln Douglas Debates” for the fiftieth anniversary and later papers will cover Lincoln as a boy, as a peace negotiator, and his theater connections.
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Lincoln
Hibherts
Will Hu Ote
Frederick ‘Trevor Hill
Lincoln Douglas
Teach Zoology to Blind Pupils With Tactile Oddities
A Paris blind school educates children in natural history using a large collection of stuffed animals learned by touch. In Lynn Massachusetts a wedding ends with coins tossed at the departing couple as a playful tradition. Rider Haggard's new serial The Ghost Kings in Gunter's Magazine draws early praise for brisk action and surprising developments.
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Paris
Lynn
Mass
H. Rider Haggard
Magasine
Tamons
She
The Chinaman's Long Butt Says Peaceful Path Preferred
A Los Angeles Times piece notes that the Chinaman should avoid becoming a fighting man. His Tong sult favors peace, the truck garden, and the noncombative hoe.
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Los Aneles Times
Curious politics and party government in the North American Review
The November issue reviews Goldwin Smith on party government tracing English political shifts toward a nonpartisan future. It suggests voters may align at elections by issues rather than by distinct party lines across Britain, Canada, and the United States.
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The
North American Review
Goldwin Smith
Great Britain
Canada
United States
The Wifely Letter Fire Alarm Spooks Chicago
A woman triggered a fire alarm yesterday by posting a letter she believed to be for her husband. The incident occurred in Chicago as the letter was delivered from her home. No injuries reported.
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Chicago Evening Post
Get a Patent Your Invention May Be Patented
Advertisement urges sending for free information and advice from H. J. Robinson, Patent Attorney, P.O. Box 544 Salt Lake City, offering patent guidance and potential value in seeking protection for inventions.
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H. J. Robinson
P.O
Salt Lake City
Man Travels, Sleeps, and Tariffs in a Curious Tale
In a Christmas Century piece Mc Carnegie reviews his views on tariffs formed in the early seventies influenced by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. He argues he held firm beliefs and would not change them despite other temptations or pressures.
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Mc Carnegie
Adam Smith
John Stuart Mill
Don't Reach For All The World Say Old Philosopher
A maxim attributed to the Old Philosopher warns against overreaching while noting the risk of losing one’s own land if one does not act. The quotation appears in the Atlante Constitution as a moral urging to balance effort with prudence.
A Fascinating Story of Love and Adventure Novel
A reviewer lauds a novel by HG titled Colonel Greatheart for its modern style that still nods to Cromwell and Charles I. Spanning four hundred pages, it is compared to classic works like Lorna Doone and Henry Esmond, praised for strength and readability. Published by Bobbs Merrill in Indianapolis.
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Olonel Greatheart
Cromwell
Charles
Lorna Doone
Henry Esmond
David Balfour
Richard Yea
Nay
Ta Vince
Bobbs. Merrill Company
Tidianapolis
The Venom of the Poppy in Smiths Magazine December
The opening feature The Venom of the Poppy appears in Smiths Magazine for December. The issue is praised for its clever story and many excellent short stories. California is noted as the scene for the feature with strong reader appeal.
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West Erners
Smiths Magazine
California
Smith's
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