Brother Charles P Taft as Printer Boss and Art Lover
Portrait of Charles P Taft editor and Cincinnati magnate. He owns the paper, a baseball stake, gas works, streetcar lines, hotels, and opera house with his wife’s fortune. a German educated Republican who blends art collecting, business deals, and politics in a quiet corner office.
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Cincinnati
New York
William H. Taft
Philippines
Charles P. Taft
Middwest
Gainsboroughs
Sir Joshua
Cincinnati Baseball Club
Capital
Charles P
Herr Doktor
Hiedelberg
Germany
Longworths
Taft Home Hosts Vast Art Treasures
The Taft residence reportedly contains over a million dollars worth of art treasures, while most middle class households could not afford such furnishings.
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Taft
Moscow’s Only Female Cabby Earns Town’s Admiration
In Moscow a 60 year old woman named Anna Petrovna drives a sledge for fares after overcoming scorn and threats from male cabbies. She faced jeers, beatings, and harassment before police intervened and the public subscribed for new harness and a second horse.
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Moscow
Russia
Anna Petrovna
Snowclad
Slide
Kremlin
Anna Petrovnanly
Russa
Anna
Tremlin
Care of Soft-Wood Floors
A practical guide from suburban life describing how to prepare soft wood floors for varnish. It covers cleaning, planing, cracking repair using sawdust paste, wood filler, multiple varnish coats, and maintenance with daily broom brushing and occasional linseed oil rubbed with the grain.
Whitewash Formula Turns Water Resistant on Lime Walls
A German Munich paper describes a whitewash recipe using quartz, broken marble and sandstone, burned porcelain clay, and freshly slaked lime. The thick wash dries to a silicate that becomes stone like when wetted and grows harder with cleaning, suitable for both practical and fine painting.
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Resenwiek
Munich
Maple Sugar Cake Recipe Instructions
One pound shaved maple sugar and half a pound of butter with four tablespoons of milk cook slowly until butter melts. Remove from heat, cool slightly, add half an ounce of ground ginger and three quarters of a pound of sifted flour. Beat well, add a heaping tablespoon of baking powder and bake in thin sheets. Add flour gradually as needed for the right consistency. This rich batter should be used warm, with possible extra flour and rolled cakes if baking powder is omitted.
Baked Eggplant
Scoop eggplant halves after parboiling and mix roasted pulp with bread crumbs chopped nuts and seasonings. Stuff shells, bake twenty minutes in a hot oven while basting with melted butter and hot water.
London Fog Shapes Third Chapter Atmosphere
A discussion notes how the manuscript’s third chapter relies on London atmosphere and fog. The authors emphasize mood over plot clarity as the writer explains using weather to deepen setting.
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London
Itching Humor On Boy From Kokomo Ind
A Kokomo Indiana mother reports her boy broke out with itching sores on hands then all over the body. After applying Cuticura Soap and Ointment nightly for four days the child was cured.
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Frank Donthue
Fremont St
Kokomo
Ind
Not the Chair
A collector from a finance firm is reluctant to perform a grim duty as a van waits outside. The polite client finally declares he has come to take the piano, in a tense exchange that underscores his discomfort with the task.
Readjusted Conditions Prompt Debate Among Capitalists
A Washington Star quotation shows Dustin Stax arguing that trusts and mergers bring the fight closer rather than create friendship among great capitalists. The exchange frames the strategic shift in power dynamics accompanying consolidation.
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Dustin Stax
Washington Star
Agesilaus referenced as namesake of city landmark
A historical note explains the city honors the figure Agesilaus by dedicating a landmark to his memory while the person of Agesilaus is revered rather than the place itself.
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Agesilaus
Dodds
Jf Guar
Rev. J. Respun
Broadway
Denver
Colorado
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