Quartz Creek canyon stake in Utah rail fight grows
On a Kansas City platform in December 1905 two engineers discuss a rising rail war. Utah’s Quartz Creek canyon dispute with the Colorado & Grand River threatens shipments, with injunctions, delays, and a high-stakes race to beat winter. John Winton and Mortimer Adams volley theories, while Miss Virginia Carteret observes from a private car.
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Denver
Seat of War
Boston
Morton P. Adams
Winton
Tech
van Dyck
Quartz Creek Canyon
Altop
Transcontinental “Limited
Adams
Rosemary
France
John Winton
Conservatory
Bostonian
Carteret
Morty
California
Somerville Darrah
Colorado & Grand River Road
Carterets
Pacific Coast
Miss Carteret
Bessie Carteret
Virginia
Kansas
Utah
Jack
South America
Andes
Callowell
Evarts
Virginia Cartaret
Sid Winton
Tea Craft and Old Frontier Tales From a Distant Day
A verbose sketch on perfect tea making notes precise steps for brewing Ceylon tea on a Brown Betty tray setup and hot mufins. It also features Nero Perry a Chickasaw bowyer living on Caddo creek who hunted to support himself and helped pioneer the Chickasaw nation. It ends with assorted advertisements and quips.
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Nero Perry
Caddo Creek
Perry
Mississippi
Jim McLish
McLish
Cream Scones Method From A Home Baking Card
Beat two eggs light then mix with cream and whisk. Combine with self raising flour salt and form a stiff dough. Roll to three quarters inch, cut rounds, prick, brush with milk, bake hot for 15 minutes, split and butter. Milk may replace cream if costly.
Sketch of the life of Lydia E. Pinkham and her remedy
The sketch traces Lydia Estes born in 1819 in Lynne Massachusetts through her marriage to Isaac Pinkham and work with her family to create Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It details her herb based cures for female ailments, the 1873 financial crisis, kitchen lab experiments, early pamphlets, and later newspaper advertising that built a worldwide enterprise aided by her daughter in law and other women.
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Isaac Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkxham
Lynn
Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Pinkhams
Lydia E. Pinkham
Methods for testing flour quality at home
The text describes simple flour tests for consumers. It notes color cues such as yellowish straw tint indicating good flour and bluish coats or black specks indicating poor quality. It also suggests touch tests for adhesiveness, moisture, and powder consistency, plus a hand-squeezing test to see if the flour holds shape when released.
Dyeing Straw With Tannin Glue And Varnish
A historical method describes steeping straw in a hot water tannin solution with half an ounce per gallon for several hours. It then passes straw through a hot water glue mix using an ounce per gallon, drying slowly in open air, followed by washing through a weak ani line dye and optional pale spirit varnish to achieve color.
Invisible nets for perfect hair grooming
The article extols invisible nets as a fashionable aid to hair care. These nets are pinned with invisible pins to secure a coiffure firmly without stiffness and keep waves in place in damp or foggy conditions, preserving a soft effect long after straight hair would fall.
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Francis Lynde
Orl
J. P. Lippincott Co
Missouri
Chicago & Alton
Union Station
Kansas City
Plaform
Chaptier LU
Adan
Winton Turned
Away
St. Jacobs Oil
Putnam
WHO
Estes
Lynne
Mass
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
State Street
New York City
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