Home Hints and Helps Recipes Compiled
Onwego Cale offers a corn flour bake with butter sugar eggs and powder, while Leed's Mercury suggests almond water ice and a frozen sirup. Household tips include custard ice cream with gelatin, doughnuts without baking powder, Bavarian chocolate cream, and a spiced chopped salad with vinegar sealant.
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Onwego
Aurora
Harper's Bazar
Boston
Mary
Orange Judd
New Yorker
Etiquette Aids For Social Graces And Wedding Attire
The column outlines after calls etiquette for invitations and large formal events, notes wedding reception roles for the maid of honor and parents, and describes fall hat trends with directoire style, fur lace touches, and satin details for upcoming millinery.
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Philadelphia Times
Last Chance Miracle Pills Promote Health in Mexico
Mrs. Lucinda Johnson of Mexico, Missouri credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a dramatic recovery from grippe and lifelong fatigue. After using multiple boxes the 18 month steady work return followed a near collapse during illness. The pills are sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York at 50 cents per box or six boxes for two dollars and fifty cents.
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the Ledger
Mexico
Lucinda Johnson
Ledger
Mra. Johnson
Jagrippe
Johnson
Faye
Williams
Br. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Parlor Chats and Ballframe Dialogs From Brooklyn Life
A collage of snippets features Delpig and Bailey discussing help and perception, Gertrude’s opinions, and a witty exchange about marrying into wealth at a ball. Ned, Manuel, and others mock a failed baseball attempt while a paradox about debts and understanding unfolds in concise snippets.
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Maud
Ned
Manuel
Brooklyn
A Fine Physician Visit to a Bad Pay Master
A brief humorous exchange notes a physician asked to visit a master deemed poor payer. The physician acknowledges possible delinquent payment but is told heirs will settle promptly, reflecting comic social commentary.
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Lea Monde Comique
Not What He Meant Mob and Is This Really the First Time
Dialogue fragment shows Freddie denying intent while addressing a lover. The exchange hints at confused romance and institutional misinterpretation, with shifting tones between affection and irony. No clear event or人物 beyond two named participants appears in the readable text.
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Freddie
Fred
Plain and Ornamental Drinkers Renewals
The fragment mentions plain drinks and renewal in a likely 19th century style. It names whisky, champagne, and trimming, but the text is garbled. The readable bits imply instructions or notes on drink offerings and possible renewals. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
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Firat
Aaliet
Trimin
Khem
Ea A. Bulletiq
Agricultural hints on building wells with drain tile
Robert L. Dean in Country Gentleman describes an alternative to limestone walls for wells. The method uses well burned drain tile, five inch pieces arranged in a circular wall, with digging to about fifteen feet then augering into the water bearing stratum. The piece notes that when water rises rapidly the auger hole is plugged and the wall completed from the top.
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Robert L. Dean
Fint Stock Needs Good Care And Steady Attention
Calman's Rural World stresses that continued care and proper feeding are essential to maintain stock quality from horses to bantams. Even excellent breeding must be matched by ongoing diligence, especially when breeding for pork. Mississippi operates a convict farm noted for self reliance and productivity.
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Calman
Extempore Pianists And Aging Quips From Papers
A collage of 19th century snippets includes a joke on extempore pianists from the Boston Transcript, a Syrup of Figs ad note from the California Fig Syrup Co, a Yonkers Statesman quip about a race, and a Robertson quote on liberty. The items read as brief extracts showcasing period humor and public notices.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Earth History exchange quotes Eve and Adam
A Chicago Tribune item notes a playful exchange where Adam teases Eve about her past as a new woman. The remark frames a light historical touch on identity and curiosity within a mythic dialogue.
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Eve
Adam
Chicago Tribune
A Silent Appeal for Help and Cautions on Health Ads
An old advertisement warns of silent bodily pleas from kidneys and bladder urging action. It promotes Hos tetter’s Stomach Bitters to stimulate activity and ties to dyspepsia constipation rheumatism and nerve trouble. The piece also includes a miscellany of quotes and literary lines.
Hairy’s Apple Habit Reported In Odd Story Line
A fragmentary note from a Boston transcription hints at a quirky tale about Hairy and a boy’s wit. It mentions Mr. Rigid and a round tenia scene with apple eating, suggesting new habits learned after indulgence. The text is garbled and hard to parse.
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Hairy
Rigid
Boston Transcript
Kate Field In Denver and the Chicago Railroads
Kate Field notes in Denver that her Chicago trip via the Burningram and Quincy line was comfortable with civil staff good roadbed and punctual arrival. She praises the Burlington Route for service to St Paul Minneapolis Omaha and Kansas City and quips the statistician favors figures.
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Kate Field
Denver
Dexvre
Chicago
Burningram & Quincy
Burlington
St Paul
Aneapolis
Omaha
Kansas City
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Patent Remedies Ad
An OCR fragment touts Hall s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and promotes other products like Hale s Honey of Horehound and Tar and P i o s Cure. It claims large annual sales and includes a testimonial clipping and scattered quotations.
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Hale
Pike
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Mire. Johnson
Delpig
Bailey
Gertrude
Puck
Mademoiselle
Mississippi
U.S. Gov't
Grigsby
Baz
Iselin
Haif
Yonkers Statesman
F. W. Robertson
Rabbi Ber Azai
Fuller
New York
Mailer Ae
Tyre
Chaloa
Exura
Dee Gel
Hall
Prica Tic
Beecnam
Hethin
Piso
Mary Thomson
Ohio Ave
Allegheny
Alre
Farrar
Ruth
Naomi
Delong
Ricardaon
Latape
Philadelp
New New York
Pavis & Rank Cor
Readalph
Mils- Davis
LDG. & FA. CO
Asth Mattaet
Ane B
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