Peru Coast Birds and Guano Islands Wealth and Woes
The article describes Peru’s arid Pacific coast, diverse climate shifts past Cape Blanco, and the guano rich Chincha Ballistes and Lobos archipelagoes. It details abundance of seabirds feeding on coastal life, mass nests, and a dramatic premonsoon migration that left eggs and nestlings abandoned.
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Jany
Peru
Lobos
Guanape
Pescadores
Chinchan
Tatter
Famous American Sea Fighter Captain Nicholson’s Service
One hundred years ago Captain Samuel Nicholson, Maryland native, died at Charlestown Massachusetts. He served with John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard and became a captain in 1779. He led in the Serapis fight, later commanded the frigate Deane, and captured several British ships. He oversaw Constitution’s construction after 1794 naval reorganization.
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Samuel Nicholson
Charlestown
Mass
Nicholson
Maryland
John Paul Jones
Constitution
Hints for Household Work and Stain Remedies
Quick removal of ink stains uses ripe tomatoes and cold water. Curl a feather with salt near a hot fire. Preserve gas mantles by vinegar soak before drying. A funnel of greased paper prevents pie overflow. Clean a Mackintosh with cold water scrub and yellow soap. Remove varnish stains with ammonia and turpentine, then soap and sun dry. A starch substitute keeps fabrics from sticking or rotting.
Nut Pudding and Vanilla Cream Sauce Recipe
A recipe for Nut Pudding with precise measurements for flour sugar and nuts. Includes instructions to steam for three hours and to prepare a vanilla cream sauce with butter sugar egg yolks and cream.
Thin Dishcloth Substituted With Mosquito Netting
A Good Housekeeping contributor recalls using ordinary white mosquito netting as a substitute for thin dishcloths at a summer cottage. The netting proved superior in fit, handling, cleaning, drying, and cost, though required doubling to about 12 by 24 inches and avoided reuse after it grew dingy.
German Potato Kloesse Recipe Card
German potato kloesse combines mashed potatoes flour eggs and salt into plum sized balls. Boil about 12 minutes while stirring to prevent sticking. Serve with roast veal or pork and brown gravy with sauerkraut. Eat hot or reheat in gravy or butter.
To Make Smooth Sauce from Dry Sugar and Flour
A Home Department note advises mixing sugar and flour dry to avoid lumps when starting pudding sauce. Pouring hot liquid over the mixture yields perfect results, ensuring smooth, lump free sauce.
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Home Department
National Magazine
Uncooked Salad Dressing Recipe Note
A compact recipe fragment lists ingredients for an uncooked salad dressing: two eggs, one can condensed milk, one cup vinegar, half cup melted butter, two teaspoons mustard, and a pinch of cayenne pepper and salt. The text suggests a methodless mix common to older home recipes.
Cleaning Clothes At Home For Grease Stains
A home guide to removing grease from fabrics via absorption emulsion and soap with hot water. For small washable items use soap and hot water. large or nonwashables treat with absorption using white blotting paper or French chalk. For tough spots apply solvents like benzine naphtha to wood fabrics and delicate fibers with a sateen pad.
Curtains Are Worth Care In Curtain Preparation
Instructions for handling fine curtains to prevent tearing. Use shrinked cheesecloth or old sheets to baste, boil and rinse, then wring and stretch. Pin from center outward to keep even size, with four curtains possible at once for bays or double windows. A little starch may be added in the final rinse.
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Ecru
Butter Scotch Candy Recipe From Early Cookbook
A recipe lists three cupfuls of white sugar with water and vinegar or cream of tartar, butter, and lemon extract boiled to a snapping stage. Off heat add soda, pour into buttered tins to a quarter inch thickness, then mark into squares as it cools.
Cranberry Sauce Prepared Without Seeded Berries
The St. Louis Star recommends running cranberries through a food chopper to break each berry and cut skin into small bits for a smoother looking sauce. This method eliminates seed and skin removal tedium while producing a uniform appearance.
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St. Louis
Leftover Meat Pie With Buttered Mash Topping
A simple method to reuse cooked meat by mincing and seasoning with butter salt pepper and gravy then layering one third in a pudding dish. Top with mashed potatoes seasoned with butter cream salt and pepper and finish with cracker crumb topping baked until golden.
To Tighten Your Machine Band
Do not cut your sewing machine belt when it gets too loose. Instead put a few drops of pure castor oil on the band, run the machine a few minutes and the belt will be tightened.
To Mend Rubbers Rubber overshoes repair with adhesive plaster
The usefulness of rubber overshoes may be prolonged by mending them with adhesive plaster. Buy five cent rolls and apply heat and paste on the inside of the rubber over worn parts.
Red Pepper Salad Instructions
Wash and cut peppers in halves remove seeds. Cover with water and cook until tender but not too soft. Cool and cut into strips. Serve on lettuce with French or Italian dressing.
George Eliot quote on moral progress through sympathy
A fragment quotes George Eliot asserting that moral progress grows with our sympathy for individual suffering and joy, stating that personal empathy measures societal advancement. The line reads Our moral progress can be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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George Mliot
Quince Preserve and Date Pie Recipes Featured
Seasonal kitchen notes present quince preserve instructions with baking steps, date pie filling with merinque topping, simmered carrot and baked squash ideas, and a beef tongue raisin dish. Includes a Confucius quote about keeping childlike spirit and a line about temptation.
Leftover Cooking Ideas From A Practical Kitchen
Food tips describe reusing meats after freezing with wrapping to prevent drying. Suggestions include cold turkey or fowl in dishes, chopped chicken in macaroni, croquettes, a fowl seasoned soufflé, meat salads, meat bits on toast, and a chicken Timbale recipe with bread crumbs milk eggs and a mushroom white sauce. A chicken sandwich with salad dressing and celery salt is praised.
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Jess
Woman Praises Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy
Montpelier Vermont resident Mrs Gauthier reports relief from irregularity chills and pains after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes improved regularity stomach and pain relief and offers to have her name used. The advertisement endorses the product and invites letters for confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
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