New Delicacies and Quirks From Daily Life in 1900s
A collage of light anecdotes from Vienna Georgia to New York whispers on the era’s curiosities. Topics include pea eggs from the south, youth sports, warming climates, China loans, telephone ears, a tooth extraction tale, and a cyclist’s bone breaking reversal. Various brief items touch suffrage, shade trees, fashion, a poetical dog death, and evolving city life. The column blends jokes, science claims, and social observations about transport, food, and culture.
Runaway Cab Horse Stuns City Crowd in Wild Chase
James Ford's veteran cab horse Sarsfield Aboo, nineteen, bolts from Liberty Street ferry area drawing crowds headed to Grand Central. Police Celebanty and Herrington pursue, cling to bridle, cops dragged across Fourteenth Street as horse darts through Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street traffic before collapse.
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James Ford
Garsfield Aboo
Ford
Bia
Wil Haynes
Jones
Slatington
Liberty Street
Barsfield
Blntington
Fifth Avenue
Eighth Street
Fourteenth Street
Celebanty
Herrington
Grand Central Station
Millwood
Sarsfield
John Ford
Sarsfield Aboo
Ninth Street
Ballyhoo Bey
Garsfield
David Harum Out Harumed in Chicago Court
In Chicago Samuel Baker sues Harry Goldstein over a horse guaranteed to lie down and rise. Baker claims the animal could not get up after a day, forcing him to dismantle part of his barn to free it. Goldstein says he bought back the horse for twenty dollars. The judge does not view the alleged demonstration.
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Canon Vam
Samuel Baker
South
Wood Street
Harry Goldstein
Robey Street
David Harum
Dolan
Baker
Alps
Goldstein
Sells Flies and Dodges Boxcar for a Bed
Harry Carmine, a Chicago timer, recounted sleeping in a boxcar before learning the city pays 10 cents per hundred for dead files. He visited City Hall's bureau to confirm, then planned to return with a cigar box of files as a bed substitute, illustrating the odd city practice and his desperate search for shelter.
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Harry Carmine
Chicago
Carmine
Municipaliy Bureau
Florence Ducringer
Bureau
Harry
FiveYearOld Arkansas Boy Weighs 110 Pounds
Hill Coulter, five, of Springdale Arkansas, traveling with his father R R Coulter, weighs 110 pounds and struggles with softening of the bones. Born nine pounds in Grand Junction Colorado, he has grown rapidly in the last three years, with legs bowed from weight and braces worn since age three. They head to a hospital near St Joseph Missouri for treatment to straighten his legs.
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Ansas City
Hill Coulter
Union Depot
Springdale
Ark
St. Joseph
Bill
R. R. Coulter
Arkansas
Household hints and proverbs for daily living
A collection of aphorisms and home tips touching patience, gratitude, and diligence. It offers practical advice on needlework, sewing, mending, and domestic routines, plus dietary notes on salt pork with milk gravy, custards, and egg dishes. The piece blends wisdom from Emerson and Beecher with pragmatic tips like storing needles, protecting lace, and easing swollen feet.
Meat Substitutes For Protein Without Meat
A historical guide suggests meatless meals to supply protein using peanuts pea dishes and nut breads. Recipes include Peanut Loaf with milk bread crumbs and ground peanuts, tomato sauce, and a baked loaf. Timbales from mashed peas with eggs and butter. Peas on Toast with white sauce and cream. and asparagus with hard boiled eggs.
Diet Tips for Vegetarians From A Traditional Menu
The guide urges gradual dietary change away from meat and highlights high protein substitutes such as nuts cheese macaroni rice beans peas oatmeal whole wheat and graham. It offers sample menus including baked beans brown bread apple celery salad custard and mock fowl recipes plus cheese scalloped dishes as meat substitutes.
Cheese Dishes and Servings From a Vintage Recipe List
A vintage recipe fragment outlines cheese based dishes including Cheese Squares Cheese Balls Cheese Gouffle and Cheese Salad with gelatine and cream It mentions cheese softened with butter and milk and garnishes with peppers asparagus and cream The text ends with a social exhortation to help the sick and poor attributed to John Howard.
Economy Lesson Told With Theatrical Tale
Arthur W. Marks of Washington uses a joke about a Hebrew man on a New York to Philadelphia train avoiding fare by saying the name of a theater company. The conductor asks for tickets and actors answer with the company name, until a gag line reveals the man’s ruse. The tale credits economy and Jewish wit from Popular Magazine.
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Arthur W. Marks
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Cloding Company
Popular Magazine
Lamb's Tenure of Life Not Long at Private Menagerie View
A party of privileged sightseers viewed a private menagerie between performances. They were shown a so called Happy Family with a toothless lion tiger and a half starved wolf. A tiny lamb slept nearby and was asked how long the animals had lived together. The showman said about twelve months and a lady doubted the lamb’s age. The showman responded that the lamb must be renewed occasionally.
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Lamb
Got a New Wife Shows Wombat Under New Management
A note reports Wombat now under a new management after marriage. The statement claims the latest wife requires many expensive things, suggesting a shift from prior laziness to hardworking effort.
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Wombat
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