Waiting for marriage and modern friendship contrasts
The article recounts Cora Temple and her husband’s secretary Janet Thayer forming a close friendship as they discuss love, marriage, and independence. It reflects tensions between conventional expectations and women's modern, assertive views on romance, career, and personal freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Temple
Janet Thayer
Cora
David
Janet
Walt
Wall
Moe
Corningly
Strange dessert notes from a housewife’s pantry
A fragmentary guide to simple desserts mentioning tapioca pudding, chocolate blancmange, Charlotte Russe, and a scene from a play. It includes rough recipes and tips for tapioca, milk, eggs, gelatine, and vanilla, with casual remarks on kitchen duties and dessert presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asry
Aredia
Charlotte Russe
Charlotte
Unclear Rustic Memoir and Road Spending Snippet
A fragmentary prose piece mentions austere garments and a heavy silk corded jacket, then shifts to a recipe for Delicious Sauce and fruit baskets. It discusses Mr Mangum and Mrs Kimball amid a bank detraction rumor, followed by notes on road work expenditures, automobile traffic, and per mile costs in New Jersey and Nevada across 1904 to 1915.
Drink Hot Water with Limestone Phosphate Morning Remedy
A promotional notice extols drinking real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate each morning to clean the stomach liver kidneys and bowels, claim invigoration, appetite boost, and improved health. It targets constipated and ill people, urging readers to obtain phosphate powder from druggists at little cost, and ends as an advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beecham
Women! Herets A Money Saver Dry Clean At Home
A vintage ad promotes inexpensive at home dry cleaning using Solvite and gasoline soap. Claiming five dollars’ worth in fifteen minutes, it instructs dissolving two ounces in two gallons of gas, then immersing fabrics to refresh without fading or wrinkling. Warns of flammability and to clean outdoors away from fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo
Oracy Garage
Paying Teller Of Galt Lake Bank Disappears
Salt Lake, Oct 4. Warren C. Mangum a 23 year old paying teller at Continental National Bank disappeared last Saturday with about 480,000 in cash including five 1,000 bills. Mangum, promoted to teller after a decade with the bank, had recently erred in money shipments and was moved to bookkeeping without salary change. Officials say he left after altering clearinghouse receipts, then returned to work, left again with his wife and three children.
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Sal Lake
Warren C. Mans
Continental National, Bank
Iaw
Mangum
Hoe
Inutelde
Tt Waa
Bank Ofttelala
Tenth South
Hin Wit
Ber
Inet
Road and Bridge Expenditures in the United States
Washington Oct 2 Rapid increases in total road and bridge expenditures and the expansion of highway work under state supervision are shown in 1915 statistics from the U S Department of Agriculture. Public road length outside towns was 2 453 000 miles in 1916, with 11 2 percent surfaced. Surfaced road mileage grew about 16 000 miles yearly. state highway departments supervised about half of city growth and nearly 62 000 miles of major trunk lines were maintained. Expenditures rose from about 50 000 000 in 1904 to 252 000 000 in 1945, a 250 percent rise, with state funds increasing from 2 550 000 to over 53 000 000. Local funds under state supervision exceeded 437 000 000 in 1908 and total road and bridge expenditures by states reached 80 614 699, outpacing all other sources. State highway agencies grew rapidly from New Jersey first to widespread adoption, now in every state except Indiana, South Carolina and Texas, with aggregate state funds for road work totaling 195 110 895 by January 1 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Jersey
Nevada
Washington
Siston
Acm
Indiana
South Carolina
Tessa
Watson
British Close Out German Trading in Samoa
The Chang Sha left Apia on September 16 carrying 23 Chinese laborers from Western Samoa as part of British liquidation of former German trading stations. A second transport with a similar load was planned for late December. The British government orders end German commercial holdings in the region, with stocks sold and firms expanding to replace former German interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pago Pago
Samosa
Chang Sha
Apia
Western Samoa
Sheriff Sale and Contractor Notice in Ogden Utah
Legal notices from Weber County Utah announce a sheriff sale of W. W. Fife property on October 19 1916 at noon at the Weber County Court House Ogden City. Also a call for sealed concrete bridge repair bids due October 10 1918 with plans at the City Engineer and City Recorder offices Ogden City Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Cache County
State of Utah
Gilt Edge Roller Mills
Pstn- Uty
Mem
W. W. Fife
Weber County Court House
Ogden City
Weber Ecounty
Utah
Weter County
Weber County
Nebeker, Thatcher & Cowen
Fan Utah
Ogden
Ogden Canyon
City Recorder
Ogden City Atorrsaid
City Engineer
Commissionera Ct
Uiad
Walter Richey
Tivet
Ogden Standard
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution House Joint Resolution Six
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a proposed constitutional amendment titled House Joint Resolution Six. It references widening duties, the author and rearater, and legislative action by members elected. The text is garbled and lacks clear details on the amendment’s exact provisions or dates.
Utah House Joint Resolution teference state revenue plan
The document certifies a proposed amendment to Article 12 of the Utah State Constitution addressing taxation. It outlines tax base for land, improvements, and mining property, sets valuation rules, and specifies rates to fund public schools and state debt. It references legislative process, dates, and approval by electors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Uren
Utah
State of Ut Wna
State of Utah Official Certification Fragment
A damaged certificate fragment from the Utah state office bearing an official seal and secretary name. It references a document or event, with mentions of the State of Utah and dates, but the text is heavily garbled and partial. The readable elements include a secretary designation and a formal witness statement.
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Woman's Page
Walter
Core Temple
Walter Stedman
Bernard Shaw
Coray
Washington Times
New York
Moresco
Nebby
Ars Horlick
Saurion Wuld
Rere Eran A
Fruit
Dolly
L. C. Kimball
Myre Kimball
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Boner
Kis
Bal
Mangom Fa
Ais. Mangum Waa
Shovel
McS
Byrne Detective Agency
Joe
Galt Lake Bank
Becker
Becker Brroing
Groen, Utah
Ublic
Aupersialon Ora
State OF Utail
David Mattison
Buate of
Jones
Tereunt
Mattaon
Esolusios
Doltara
Mab
Wren Teenee
Lavaing & Tex
Audh Corporation
Atlee
State OF Ctail
Bechetamy
David Ontiten
Nike
Uual
Acquat
David Matteon
Besrainry
Retais
Chicago
Wash. Ave
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