War news and political shifts from across the world
A collage of World War I dispatches and political notes recounts naval losses including the trawler Integrity of Lowestoft and the sinking of the sailing trawler Young Frank, while claims of German reverses at Riga and the Moltke strike mix with peace talks led by Wilson and Duma reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weuters
Lowestoft
Wilson
Young Frank
Petrograd
Saya
Duma
Moltke
Riga
Marquis di Garroni
Turkey
Porte
Italy
Constantinople
Grand Duke
Kovel
Czar
Hug River
Hrestitovni
Chelm
Mialystok
von Moltke
Reichstag
Fringed pest rise plot and a recipe supplement
A fragmentary page combines a cryptic note about a pardon rise plot with extended recipe text. It includes detailed heraldry of vine leaf dolmas, Russian salad with garden vegetables, and multiple cake fillings such as caramel nut, chocolate, brown sugar and fig fillings, plus rolled frosting ideas and fruit embellishments. The piece reads like a merged public notice and kitchen column from an old newspaper.
Seasonal Dishes From Mushrooms to Norwegian Salad
A vintage recipe roundup discusses careful mushroom selection to avoid wormy specimens, then guides mushroom baked cups on toast, Persian Rice with fruit and nuts, mock crabs with mustard and paprika sauce, cracker omelet with eggs and crumbs, and pea based salads. It includes tomato and cheese pea salads, hearty pea soup, Gypsy stew with pork, Norwegian salad with carrots and spaghetti, fowls stuffing, and baked potatoes with seasoned peas for a surprising finish.
Prickly pear fodder aids cattle feed in Bombay dairy
A Bombay Agriculture Department bulletin details Kirdee government dairy trials where six bulls consumed a prickly pear cottonseed mix at 72 pounds per 1000 pounds of live weight daily for six months. Spines were burned off before cutting. The results show the mix sustains life and restores half-starved cattle. India’s wealth rising through cow, camel, box, and copper production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture of
Bombay
Kirdee
Aeroplanes and War Change of Tactics in Europe
A discussion on how airplanes erode military surprise by providing full battlefield knowledge, leading to prolonged trench warfare and costly attrition. The piece suggests aviation equalizes information, delaying quick victories and raising war costs beyond mere duration. Also notes women breaking barriers in British transit and labor roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Orville Wright Waites
Collier's
Napoleon
Family Days and Values in Simple Celebrations
A concise piece praising family gatherings as gentle festivals that strengthen affection through birthdays weddings and welcome home moments. It notes family occasions foster memory and unity even as lives evolve and families endure. It also mentions the US leading in talc and soapstone production and ends with a moral about kind acts not leading to misfortune.
Lure of Gold and Human Nature Through History
A compact colonial era style column surveys the Klondike rush of 1858 and later gold fever across eras, noting its persistent lure and the sameness of human impulses. Cadell reports from the Klondike, with Smithsonian printing, as stories mirror California and Australia first yields and losses. The piece ties in social behavior to enduring quest for riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klondike
Euceesn HM
Cadell
Northwest Territory
Smithsonian Institution
California
Australia
Gal
North Pole
Chicago Post
Baby’s Eyes Warn Mothers About Tiny Table Hazards
A fragment advises mothers to avoid small tables resting over a baby’s face in a carriage. It urges keeping the top clear from the infant’s eyes and notes that the safest throw for dice is to discard them.
Safest Marriages and a Piscatorial Excursion
A statistician declares the safest marriages prefer partners under twenty four or over thirty four. The piece juxtaposes the idea with playful lines about a piscatorial excursion and a spirited fist ing party in a light, whimsical voice.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Este
Douglas
Arko
John Peters
Harry K. Thaw
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Marietta
Leon Frank
Harry Crisp
Perry
Mia
Emma Steiner
Newport
Ark
Little Rock
Charles McLean
Galveston
Tex
Brownsville
Texicas
Mortimer Haverly
Denver
Washington
Department of State
Turbulest
Haiti
United States
Russia
Canada
India
Agricultral Department
Naby Bey
Maly
Rome
Switzerland
Sam Hughes
Linter
London
George
Buckingham Palace
Athens
Germany
Mexico City
Charles J Coonor
American Red Cross Mra
Raith Spreckels
San Franvico
John D Spreckels, Jr
Monoluta
W Wakefield
Akre
London Daily Telegraph
Oyter Hear
Tolut Herron
Alaska
Nome
Vithjalmur Stefansson
Yoshihito
Japan
Colorado
Lawrence Henderson
Charleston
W. Va
Lronton
Henderson
Pancho Villa
el Pas
Rakrott
Juarez
Juarez Jockey Club
Carrie Sire
America
Real Tife
New Rleans
Bernice
Oklo
Sparthaw Hills
Thomas A. Edison
New York Navy Yard
Deborah Smith Drury
Lucy Stone Blackwell
Haverhill
Mass
Chicago
Basil M. Manty
United States Commission On “Industrial Relations
Boston
Josephus Daniels
Wyoming
Atlantic
United States Navy
New York
Philadelpha
Sporting News
Westercue Cube
Thomas Edeard
Temon
Scientifie Ameren
Bonnie Conducto la
Edinburgh
Scotland
Patriotiss
Elizabeth Lister
South
Wales
England
Boeing
Generel
Ned Wekermerks
General Roofing
Ms Worts Las Pat Masmaladre
New York City
Philadelphia
Detroit
Cin ‘Sear
Adana
Houston
Boston Prabeershesth
Minneapolie
Kamas Cy
Hamburg
Soden
Mabel
Michigan Gargoye
Dudge
New Post Toasties
Ciater
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