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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1904
Page
2
The Gotham hunt season sparks social focus as Meadowbrook gathers riders, hounds, and spectators. Prominent figures like Foxhall Keene and Peter F. Collier face changes, while old masters and stars such as Mrs Gilbert and Clara Morris command praise. The piece notes racing life, social shifts, and veteran performers finding steady success on stage and field.
The Meadow Brook hunt attracts rich subscribers from top country estates and hosts about 50 automobiles and many carriages at meets. The scene spans Hempstead plains and northern hills near Jericho toll-gate, where locals gather despite tensions with speeding motorists.
A sharp portrait of chorus girls and the stage life in New York, contrasting youth and experience with the pressures of Broadway. It reflects on marriages into wealth among star performers and notes harsher fates of those driven to the bottom by fame and fate.
In Apia Samoa a visiting bargainer uses polite ritual to exchange fish, seeds, marbles, and eggs for goods. The host pretends indifference while the guest delays departure with gifts and compliments, ultimately trading a few fish for items and securing the prized egg. The lengthy exchange highlights local barter customs and staged reciprocity.
The article notes embroidered buttons and button molds covered in plaid silk used to trim fall and winter hats. It describes button quantities for Louis XV coats, backs, cuffs, and hats, and details buttoned sleeves with lace frills and brass buttons.
A New York Times tale recalls a candy store cashier who married a telegraph operator and learned his habit of creasing trousers. She notes his careful nightly routine to maintain a tailorlike crease and the clever tricks men use to look polished on a budget.
A household tip describes making a jellied cranberry sauce as a mold for chicken or celery salad. Fill a smaller bowl inside a larger mold, pour sauce between, cool, unmold, then fill center with chicken salad for serving.
Wash and trim beef tongues then brine in a stone jar under a plate and a stone. Keep in a cold place for a week until ready, with longer keeping possible in cold weather.
A brief cartoonish exchange shows a wife buying a frame for 48 cents and a husband agreeing to give $20 for trimming. The caption from the Chicago Daily News captures a lighthearted domestic moment.
The Boston Budget urges assigning a fixed day for each department of household tasks. Regularly scheduled work on those days is said to reduce many emergencies that burden the housekeeper and hinder helpers.
Directions mix equal parts cranberries and apples cook until soft. Press through a colander then flavor with lemon juice and sweeten to taste. Household recipe tone.
A wry exchange questions widows remarrying. He remarks that dead men tell no tales while Ally Sloper riffs on social norms and comic mischief.
Currier tale recalls Col Henry Huss narrating an Irish soldier Duffy who asks for furlough to help his sick children. The captain refuses, citing a letter from Duffy’s wife begging him not to permit a return home. Duffy admits two liars exist as he reveals he was never married. Nearby, John S Gentry and Martha Gentry, once divorced over the slavery issue, reunite aboard a San Francisco ferry and remarry at age over 70.
Our wheat crop averages six hundred thirty seven million bushels. One fifth of world output could provide bread for every US resident for a year, or loaves a foot long to encircle the globe.
A Saratoga Springs man in the Seventy seventh New York recalls trading tobacco for a home paper with a Confederate private. The two brothers Tommie and John Matthews, separated for a decade, glimpse each other at night, and John pledges loyalty to the South while Tommie remains with the Union. The outcome of their reunion remains unknown.
A New York Sun report recalls Regis de Trobriand’s tale of an Irish soldier who mocks his facial wound and eye loss as a mere nothing. He vows to return in a fortnight, but dies within days, illustrating how belief in lies can kill.
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