Miss Elva Bascom Reports From Iowa Library Meet
Miss Elva Bascom editor of the A A Booklist in Iowa for a state library association meeting. She discussed evaluating reading matter makeup printing and binding and shared how thirty novels monthly aid public libraries. Iowa librarians praised her practical guidance and the monthly aid to libraries statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elva Bascom
A . A. Booklist
M. E. Meacham
East Washinp Street
A. L. A. Booklist
American Library Association
Iowa Library Commisson
Iowa State Association
Bascom
Iowa
Taking Care of It
A fragment from The Tatler presents advice on handling a glass eye. The narrator instructs ikey to remove the eye and place it in his pocket, emphasizing careful handling and avoidance of eye contact. The line echoes domestic humor and period voice.
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Ikey
the Tatler
Les Romanesques at the Graham on October 20
The Graham presents Edmond Rostand's Les Romanesques starring Mr. Nicholson and associates for the first time on October 20. The romantic comedy blends poetry and wit with lighthearted charm, likened to Romeo and Juliet for its innocence and allure.
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Shakespeare
Edmond Rostand
Nicholson
Graham
Petroleum Deposits Mapped in Venezuela Regions
Five known petroleum deposits are identified in Venezuela. Oozing petroleum spreads across Mara district by the Limon River asphalt lake. Oil is located at Bella Vista near Maracaibo and owners plan wells in the near future.
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Venezuela
Mara
Bella Vista
Maracaibo
Busy Week Ahead Seen With Many Major Events
A sequence of national sessions and conventions unfolds across the United States. Notable items include conferences in Boston by Congregational bodies, a land and irrigation exposition in Pittsburgh, a Gulf Coast lumber convention in New Orleans, and an international balloon race in St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Home Mission Society
Educational Society
American Missionary Society
Sunday School Publication Society
Congregational Bodies
Boston
Pittsburg
Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters’ Association
Alabama
Texas
New Orleans
Princeton Theological Seminary
Philadelphia
United States
France
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Denmark
St. Louis
Gordon Bennett
Presbyterian Synod of
New York
New England
Porto Rico
Rochester
Bergen
Jersey City
Weatherford
Atlanta
South
Georgia
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Dallas
United Textile Workers of America
New York City
International Association of Car Workers
Detroit
Colorado
Washington
G. W. Streeter
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Lloyd Jeyone
Salt Lake City
de Oro
Reliable Medicine for Cough No Narcotics in Yellow Package
Foley's Honey and Tar promoted as safe effective cough remedy without opiates. Yellow package highlighted by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co. Refuse substitutes.
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Foley
Lemmon's Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
Sand Grains Travel Far Across European Coasts
Scientists trace sand grains traveling from Brittany to Pas de Calais and chalk dust from Normandy cliffs reaching Denmark. These findings show long distance movement of mineral particles via coastal and atmospheric processes observed over time.
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Pas de Calais
Brittany
Denmark
Normandy
New Harness Shop Opens with High Grade Goods
New harness shop offers high grade harness and saddlery, robes, blankets, collars, whips. Specializes in made to order harness, dodging and repairing at reasonable rates at the corner square by N. W. Cor. Square. Be. A Bickford.
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N. W. Cor
Bickford
Watch Your Temper and Quiet Your Rage
A compassionate person’s anger subsides when he sees the terror in a child or a dog reflecting back at him. The moment reveals fear and protest, showing the injustice of anger. Each reader can find a personal recipe to calm anger and should apply it swiftly.
Foley Kidney Pills Promoted By Local Pharmacies
Advertise Foley Kidney Pills as containing ingredients to tone strengthen and regulate the kidneys and bladder and to cure backache. Mentions Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co as purveyors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon's Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
London Hippodrome’s missing orchestra seating revealed
During the dregs rehearsal it emerged that the London Hippodrome, hailed as the most complete structure of its kind, had no provision for a large orchestra. For over a year musicians sat on one side of the dress circle while boxes were altered to host them.
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London Hippodrome
Story Teller as Educator in Massachusetts Hire
Miss Ethel Wood named instructor in the art of storytelling by the state board of education. She gained fame as an original storyteller while teaching in Brookline.
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Ethel Wood
Massachusetts State Board of Education
Miss Wood
Brookline
Cardui praised by Mrs Hattie Cain for female troubles
Mrs Hattie Cain of Carrsville Kentucky credits Cardui with curing sixteen years of female troubles after doctors failed. She reports cramping convulsions and near death before taking Cardui, then recovery and regained ability to work and travel. The ad invites women to request a 64 page Home Treatment book from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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Hattie Cain
Carrsville
Cardui
N. B
Ladies’ Advisory Dept
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga, Tenn
Specia
Improved self heating flatiron from Minneapolis inventor
An enhanced self heating flatiron keeps hot for about two and a half hours per fill of alcohol. Wicks sit in the body with a cylindrical alcohol tank feeding them, adjustable via a back key. A safety-filled filler plug minimizes explosion risk and heats ready in minutes.
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Minneapolis
Pot Roast Recipe for Four Pound Cut
Select a four pound pot roast. Place in a kettle with enough boiling water to cover half the meat. Simmer one hour then add bay leaf salt and pepper. Cook until tender then remove meat and chop fine. Reduce the liquor to three cupfuls and pour hot over meat. When cold slice thin and garnish with parsley.
Tomato Catchup Making Process and Flavoring
Wash ripe tomatoes slice them and cook slowly for one hour. Press through a sieve to remove seeds and skins. To a quart of pulp add cinnamon black pepper mustard cayenne salt and two onions. Simmer two and a half hours then add vinegar and cook one hour. Bottle and seal.
Pears in Syrup with Cloves and Spiral Peel
Prepare seckel pears with half the peel removed in a spiral. Insert two cloves in each fruit. Make syrup from three pounds sugar and two coupfuls vinegar per six pounds fruit. Heat syrup, poach pears until tender but not soft. Lift carefully, jar without breaking, cover with syrup, and store in a dark place.
Orange Compote with Rice and Whipped Cream
A recipe note describes serving orange halves as a compote. Core the pulp, simmer briefly in rich syrup, then place over a bed of rice and top with whipped cream for a breakfast dish.
Coffee Bread Pudding Recipe
Soak one cupful breadcrumbs in milk, add two eggs, a cup of milk, and one and a half cups cold coffee. Stir in salt, chopped nuts, and sugar to taste. Bake until a knife comes out clean. Serve with hard sauce or lemon sauce.
Cheese Squares Recipe Teaches Puff Jelly Pocket Treat
A simple pastry mix uses butter flour and cottage cheese to form a dough. Roll thin and cut into three inch squares. Place a teaspoon of hard jelly in the center, fold corners to meet, seal and bake in a hot oven.
Sauteed Cold Meats Breakfast Fry Up
Saute slices of cold corned beef or canned beef in butter with salt pepper vinegar and English mustard. Fry thoroughly on both sides but avoid crisping. Serve with potatoes fried in butter for breakfast, one side only.
Old Time Remedy for Cough Shup Brews A Teaspoon Tonic
A recipe instructs steeping a mix of water boneset licorice flaxseed slippery elm and molasses with leaf sugar then straining. Use tablespoonful doses until relief comes and then a teaspoonful as needed.
Cabbage Soup Recipe Instructions
A simple method uses one small or half a large head of cabbage finely chopped and simmered in a pint of water until tender. Drain and add hot milk to reach desired thinness, then season with pepper and salt and butter. Optional cream enriches the texture.
Irish Mess Blancmange Recipe Note
A recipe fragment describes moss soaked in cold water added to four cups milk with salt one-quarter teaspoon. Simmer in a double boiler thirty minutes, yielding a moss enriched blancmange dessert.
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AU Ark
Steck’s Jewelry Store
Eococco
City Library Notes
Dr. Pierce
National Spiritualist Association
San Francisco
American Meat Packers’ Association
Yorktown
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Princeton University
New York Public Service Commission
Tri-Borough
Belfast
Association of American Directory Publishers
Louisville
Louisiana
Inland Waterways Association
Beaumont
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
New Boston Arena
American Association of Dining
Indianapolis
International Aviation
Belmont Park
Long Island
Montana
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Rosenwald & Weil
Omar
Garntaory and
We Men's . Outfitters
Ohio
Windsor
DO Medicine CO
Davenport
Cettinje
Kingdom of
Montenegro
Nicola
Harmon
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