A Mexican Sweetheart’s Bitter End in Mexico Canyon
In the Nierras near Guadalupe y Calvo, Alta Mining manager Jack Rawlston seeks shelter with Juan Montano’s rancho. He courts Chonita, a young local girl, and plans to return after a temporary departure. Chonita believes he will come back, but Rawlston leaves with a lie, and Chonita shoots him dead as he rides away, crying his sweetheart’s name.
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Nierras
Guadalupe Y Calvo
Morales
Canyon de Muerto
Rio Chico
Jack Rawlston
Alta Mining Company
Mexico
Pancho
Rawlston
Cyed
Juan Montano
Hombre
Ima Serape
Senor
Juan
Entrar
Rawilston
Ava
Sen
Carambal
India
Jacal
Chonita
Little Rancho
Rancho
Mines
Chonus
Guadalupe
Rawlstons
Rawlaton
Jack
Mio
Sweetheart
San Francisco Argonaut
Berkshire People and the Faithful Spirit of Its Land
Arthur Lawrence in Century surveys the Berkshire region tracing spiritual and intellectual forces shaping its history. He cites Eliot, Sargeant, Edwards, Williams, Hopkins, Arnold, Dewey, and Lenox figures, Stockbridge and Lenox circles, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Melville, and others as enduring influences amid modern wealth and change.
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Connecticut
Housatonic
Cape Cod
New York
Berkshire
Eliot
Sargeant
Stockbridge
Jonathan Edwards
Ephraim Williams
Mark Hopkins
Arnold
Rugby
Lenox
Channing
Orville Dewey
Sheffield
Barnards
Columbia College
Olver Wendell Holmes
Pittsfield
Katharine-Maria Sedgwick
Stockbridge and
Fanny Kemble
Longfellow
Lowell
Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Beecher
G. P. R. James
George William Curtis
Matthew Arnold
Arthur Lawrence
Home Hints and Helps Food Recipes Clip
A collage of kitchen tips and recipes from era home pages. Featured items include butter and egg mixtures, chocolate milk with cocoa and vanilla, rice ala Trauttmansdorf with gelatine, baked gooseberry pudding, St Georges Cake with dried fruit and spices, and veal terrapin with cream sauce.
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Boston
Trauttmansdorf
Chicago
Naples
Leeds Mercury
Leeds
Mercury
Ladies’ Home Journal
Native dialect cartoon lines note failing dogs and kin
A brief comic exchange features Uncle Hiram praising dog training while critiquing a dog and his son Ike. The rustic dialect highlights stubbornness and humor in a rural setting. Ike is dismissed as no good alongside the dog.
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Uncle Hiram
Ike
Georgy Praised For Clean Record This Term At School
A loving mother expresses pride that Georgy has not had any disciplinary issues this term, while Georgy responds with a wary, humorous remark about not being punished. The exchange reflects school life and parental pride in a simple domestic scene.
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Georgy
Batya
Agin
Comfort in Summer Diet for Health and Comfort
Advice from the Chicago Berord on heat resilience through diet. Key points urge reducing heavy rich foods and alcohol, favoring vegetables fruits milk and farinaceous items. Recommend replacing beef with fish, discarding pork, and including light meats like lamb or chicken daily to ease summer stress.
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Chicago
Pineapple Cream Mold From Cream and Pineapple
A recipe from the Ladice Bome Journal describes whipping one pint of cream with sugar and gelatine, folding in shredded pineapple, and adding a pinch of salt. If fresh pineapple is unavailable, canned pineapple can be used, with one can folded into the mixture and the mold set to stiffen.
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Atiffen
Ladice Bome Journal
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