French Women and the Vote Move in France and Abroad
The piece surveys opinions from Paris and American writers on French women gaining suffrage, noting the Countess of Aberdeen’s prediction and contrasting French attitudes with British and American views. It discusses French family law, divorce, and women’s public influence, mentions the “silence cure” for nerves, and hints at memorials for Keats and Shelley in Rome.
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Feminiam
Countess of Aberdeen
International Council of Women
Paris
Tacline
France
New York
Russia
Congress
St. Louis Globe
Toro
President urges graduates to aim high in speech
A presidential address to graduation attendees inspires focus on lofty goals while acknowledging many graduates prefer practical comforts over distant visions. The message emphasizes perseverance and ambition as students step into the future.
Garden Advice on Weeds Insects and Mulching Practices
In the flowery garden guidance, replace pulled weeds with flowers to prevent bare patches. Plant annuals like sweet alyssum and nasturtium for fall display, and perennials such as hollyhock and phlox for strong next-year blooms. Address pests with careful soil treatments and prefer mulching to curb evaporation and weed growth.
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Gaillard
Na- Honal
Culture of Sweet-Pea: tips for growth and care
Advice from Parm and Home on growing sweet peas with a small plot. Choose a climbing support like brush from an orchard, avoid scorched vines on wire netting, plant in two rows to shade ground, and water with soap suds weekly in wash day while keeping blooms uncut until buds fully open. Regular soaking in dry weather extends flowering.
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Parm
Jellies from fruit juice and sugar guide
Tellies. Jellies are usually made of strained fruit juice cooked with sugar in equal proportions. Use just under ripe fruit, assess juiciness, add water if needed, and skip water if very juicy. Strain through cheesecloth, hang overnight, then boil juice five to ten minutes, add hot oven-heated sugar, boil five to ten minutes more, and seal like jam.
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Tellies
Coffee Telly Gelatin Mold From Old Recipe
A vintage coffee jelly recipe describes soaking one half box of gelatine in two thirds cup cold water for at least thirty minutes, then dissolving in hot coffee. Add half cup sugar, a touch of vanilla, and chill in a mold before serving with creams and sugar.
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Coffee
Baked Apples Recipe Across Time
A wholesome dish praised as delicious for breakfast or supper. The piece notes apples in many forms and suggests peeling before baking, filling hollows with spice and sugar, baking until soft, and finishing with a bit of butter on top. Serve cold with whipped cream.
Spanish Oream Gelatine Custard Folded In Milk
A recipe instructs to heat one pint of milk with one half box of gelatine until dissolved. At boiling point, quickly stir in a yolk from three eggs and a cup of sugar, then when thickened fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Remove from heat, pour into a mold and chill.
Thunder, Milk, and Electricity A Curious Claim
An excerpt describes electricity souring milk rapidly during storms, attributing the effect to airborne currents acting on milk microbes. It cites Holmes and a New York merchant anecdotes about reading aboard ships and self-identification as the Overland Monthly. It ends with a note on meat and cold water boiling.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
New York
San Francisco
Overland Monthly
Huht
New Yorker
Question of Means and End and a Golfing Secret
An excerpt contrasts a British statesman John Morley who avoids golf with a scene at North Berwick where a caddie jokes about succession. The text then digresses into culinary notes on albumen in sealing water affecting meat, and hints at methods like roasting or baking for best nutrition.
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John Morley
India
North Berwick
Linia
Ency of Sporting Events and Oddities From Late Papers
A mash of humorous exchanges and cutaways from tabloids, featuring a seller of sport encyclopedias, a busy office boy, and a running gag about an encyclopedia on everything. Cribbed lines from Chicago Daily News and Life illustrate playful banter and cartoonish misunderstandings.
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Chicago Daily News
Bridge of Midnight and Holiday Gossip Mixes Laughs
A reel of light humorous snippets ranges from horse dealers and gamblers to poems about the bridge at midnight. Quick quips about eager buyers, lonely patience, and seaside meals mix with gags about appetizing girls, New Year resolutions, and lazy sport lovers.
Even Up and Dings Ares Twins Trouble Some
A Chicago Daily News item jokes about twin siblings causing trouble and a poker game improvised with postage stamps due to missing chips. The piece then shifts to a wry remark about the government making the reds worth twice as much as the blues and notes a passer remark on paralysis and feeling the next morning.
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Dings
Chicago Daily News
Clave
Government Clerks in Debt Over Unpaid Accounts
In Washington a public clamor for old age pensions highlights 14000 unpaid grocery accounts owed by government clerks, underscoring financial strain in federal offices and the scope of unpaid debt among workers.
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Washington
Preparing for Summer Patience-is Will Engagement Break
Patience-is Will readies for summer as Patrice reports the engagement with his winter partners has ended. The Statesman notes a shift in romance dynamics and plans for warmer months.
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Patience
Will
Patrice
Tankers Statesman
What do you mean by using such language before me
A fragment from a Detroit Free Press item cites a quarrel at a club with sharp exchanges over decorum and a promise of wireless updates from Jack across the Atlantic, noting the lack of messages since he departed New York harbor.
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Jack
Atlantic
New York Harbor
Detroit Free Press
What ails Mrs Smithkins One in a Hundred
A Milwaukee Sentinel joke item notes a worried Mrs Smithkins who ponders her marriage. The punchline compares past praise to present doubt as her husband shifts from praising her to calling her one in a hundred. The snippet captures a light anecdotal quip about marital affection fading after marriage.
What Became of That Contortionist in Curves
A museum manager explains the contortionist known from Curves has moved on to a new job earning 500 a week performing a female impersonation act and modeling for fashion magazines. A reporter recalls the old advertisement and a playful exchange about recognizing him by his sign.
Joke dialogue snippets from Chicago Daily News Yonkers Man
A humorous exchange mocks gendered behavior with lines about a boy acting girlish and a girl boisterous. A punchline about cooking lemons follows in a Yonkers item. The snippets reflect light column humor and social phrasing of the era.
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St. Her
Chicago Daily News
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