Free Eggs Offer Sparks National Interest in Kansas College Plan
The Kansas State Agricultural College Poultry Department offered free settings of eggs to farmers to boost pure bred stock. While thousands requested details, the program limited recipients to those starting new stock and required record keeping and returning a chick from each four raised. Many inquiries reflected curiosity and a desire for something for nothing.
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Agricultural College
Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State Agricultural College
Kansas
Poultry Department
The
Kansas Sate Agricultural College
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Colorado
Aix
Swift and Hurry Secure Marriage License In Minutes
New York reports Lawrence Swift and Elizabeth Hurry obtained their marriage license in two minutes, using Mr. Swift’s chronometer. Elizabeth’s father is a member of the Hurry & Galloup law firm.
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New York
Lawrence Swift
Elizabeth Hurry
Girls Matrimony School in Boston Offers Home Maker Training
A Boston institution introduces a matrimony school where select young women from prominent families study five days a week to become ideal wives and mothers. The curriculum covers literature ethics child study household arts house construction textiles sewing home crafts music and home economics among other subjects.
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Boston
Horseless Funeral At Grand Central Attracts Attention
A New York report describes a horseless funeral at Grand Central Station. The black automobile hearse carried a coffin and twelve mourners, replacing traditional carriages for long distance funerals. The driver and undertaker spoke of quicker, quieter journeys to Kensico Greenwood and beyond, with mixed feelings from some about the change.
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New York
Grand Central Station
Fifth Avenue
Elizabeth
Greenwood
Kensico
Westchester
Woodlawn
Hanson
Paradoxical Signs in a Go Va Cant Remark
A witty exchange notes that a man typically appears more solemn when he is full. The brief quip frames a humorous paradox about cadence and mood in social discourse.
Prunes and May Themes in Dora Goodale Verse
Prunes appear in cooking notes with methods for washing soaking simmering and testing doneness. Suggestions include cream desserts stuffed prunes prunes with cream cheese and spiced meat fillings. A prune whip and prune cake filling are described with egg whites sugar lemon and whipped cream.
Maple Sugar Nut Biscuits From Simple Dough
When one wants an especially nice hot biscuit, this recipe suggests ordinary baking powder dough rolled to half inch thick. Spread with butter, sprinkle with maple sugar and chopped nuts, roll, cut into half inch slices, place in baking pan, and bake in a hot oven.
Something New In Fritters For Desserts Or Vegetables
Prune and banana fritters are a new, easily prepared dessert or side dish. Stew prunes until tender, cool, remove stones, dip banana pieces in lemon juice, batter with milk flour eggs and sugar, fry to a delicate brown, and serve with lemon sauce.
Preparing a Vanilla Gelatin Icing Mix
Dissolve half a teaspoon of gelatine in two and a half tablespoons of boiling water. Stir in three quarters of a cup of confectioners sugar and half a teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture reaches a spreadable consistency.
Crystal Jelly and Chocolate Almonds Recipe Steps
A historical recipe describes making Crystal Jelly using isinglass lemon rind sugar white wine and lemons plus a jelly mold. It then details Chocolate Almonds by blanching almonds melting sweet chocolate and dipping the nuts before drying on waxed paper.
Militant Suffragette Case Ends In Dismissal At Court
A London suburb court dismissed a desertion and alimony case after a suffragette Mrs. Tunnicliffe allegedly ordered her husband to leave, claiming she would be master and lock him up if he caused trouble. The exchange included the magistrate asking if he took it feebly and the husband replying she pursued strict authority. The long dispute concluded with dismissal. Also quoted: humorous exchange about hobos noting rising costs and daily meals becoming harder to obtain as prices climb.
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London
Ing
Jam closet saint tale spurs talk on religion
Ellia and Stella discuss a luncheon remark by Rev. Charles F Aked in New York about people treating religion like a jam stash. A boy prays to be a saint after death, then bites jam with a masklike grin. The quip concludes self love drives vanity toward the undertaker.
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Charles F. Aked
New York
Jacky
And Close at Home in a Witty Exchange
A short, witty dialogue contrasts perceptions of folly on earth with a quip that there may always be one more fool than you imagine.
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Sourire
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People’s Common Sense
W. L. Douglas
W. J. Dougina
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Stella
Ellia
Creetian Corn
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
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