Corsican Vendetta Captures a Corsican Bride in Jeopardy
Burton Barnes and a quartet flee Ajaccio to Marseilles aboard the Seagull as danger closes. Marina Anstruther grapples with a mysterious letter that could endanger her husband Edwin and deepen the vendetta. Barnes plots safety measures while a Corsican foe watches.
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Burton WT. Barnes
Corsica
Edward Gerard Anstruther
Marina
Mughter
Paolis
Hnia Anstruther
Ajacto
Marseilles
Constantine
London
Merina
Warnes
Nice
Coralcans
Amah
Corregio Danella
Ja Noon
Marina B Hought
Edwin Anstruther
Corragio Danella
Barnes
Mrs. Anstruther
Edwin
Burton
Sia
Anstruther
Maud
Currants in British cuisine through the ages
The item recalls how grandmothers valued currants for pies and florentines, notes scarce dried fruits in historic markets, and highlights the royal plum porridge and the modern abundance with two thousand tons used yearly for bread cakes and desserts, per a Ladies’ Pictorial feature.
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London
Canterbury
Ladies’ Pictorial
If He Had a Million Joke Reveals Panicked Wakeup Plan
A humorous exchange imagines a millionaire plan at a hotel. Mollie says she would book a Palace hotel room and have the clerk wake her at five in the morning. Mike replies with a cheeky retort about resisting orders to get up.
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Mollie
Palace
Mike
Erin
Judge's Library
Royalty attends Servante Ball at Sandringham
The princess of Wales shows keen interest as guests attend the annual New Year’s Eve servants’ fancy dress ball at Sandringham. Guests may bring some of their trends to the event.
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Sandringham
Practical Fashions Pattern Ads and Pinkham Testimonial
A mixed page item describes Paris Pattern No. 1892 for a cashmere blouse dressing sack with seven sizes and yardage, plus child dress pattern details and order instructions. It also includes a Lydia E Pinkham testimonial and a general health column urging sick women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Mass.
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Paris
Lydia E. Pinkham
A Rude Young Man. Fair Maid In His Write Up
A society note from the Chicago Daily News describes a rude young man and a fair maid in a reception. The reporter praises the maid’s complexion while mocking the young man as a powder puff.
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Fair Maid
Society Reporter
Chicago Daily News
Enigmatic warning quoted in Baltimore American
A cryptic 25 year forecast warns of a wood famine, with a remark that it is bad for the people who saw it. The Baltimore American records the enigmatic exchange reflecting concern over forest resources and future scarcity.
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Baltimore American
On the Glad Highway
A terse dialogue unfolds with a streetwise exchange about money and apparel. The caller questions a man’s lack of coin while the responder confirms no money and deflects the inquiry with a witty reply.
Baby's Itching Humor Solved By Cuticura Cure
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana describes a months long skin itch illness in her child. After trying other remedies the sores healed after three uses of Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She reports complete recovery with no recurring sores and no lasting blood issues. July 22 1907 Attica Indiana.
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Cutiura
William Geeding
Washington St
Attica
Ind
New Paris Dinner Card Rack For Table Decor
From Paris comes a decorated card rack with artificial flowers that can be changed to suit dinner colors. It holds a plain card with the guest's name written, serving many dinners and reducing the cost of decorated dinner cards for entertaining.
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Paris
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised as cure for painful feet
A vintage ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure painful smarting nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It claims comfort for new shoes and sweating feet, sells at 26c with a free trial package, and urges no substitutes. Includes a brief humorous exchange about weight and money.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Those Delicious Lemon Pies Are Easy to Make
An advertising snippet promotes lemon pies, claiming they are simple and inexpensive with no fuss. It mentions three varieties Lemon Chocolate and Custard offered for 10 cents and hints at distribution through a Rochester kitchen or company. The text also includes a grain of social commentary about men afraid to act.
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Seagull
Wiliam Jameson
Glasgow
Jameson
Scotland
Lwaia
Naples
England
Barnes
Vieux Port
Corniche Road
Roucas Blanc
Burton
Emory
Bastia
Ajacelo
Hernardo Salsceti
Danells
Perrier
Nice
Lady Chartris
Mr. Barnes
Maud
Marina
Emita
Maudie
Miss Chartris
Marseilles
Enid
Miss Chartria
Food Co
Rochester
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Communite Americah
MR Barnes
New York
Eren
France
Musso Danella
Rue Noailles
Ha Bays
My Darling
Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg, Va
Mrs. Pinkham
Sete
Padtueaten Tiesntiteispetsey
Glad Highway
Cuthura
Freddy
Bohamian
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