Infants swap clothes on Ellis Island leads to identity mix up
Two immigrant families from Warsaw encounter a wardrobe mix up when Abraham Blaz is mistaken for Josepha Lasich after wearing the other child’s garments. Nurses and mothers investigate, swap back, and restore the families’ kinship.
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York
Ellis Island
Abraham Blaz
Josepha Lasich
Abraham
Warsaw
Russia
Ellis Island Hospital
Little Josepha Lasich
Josepha
Little
Yosepha
Croatia
Mystery of the Hole in the Wall Ends as Hoboes Are Apprehended
Police at the second precinct stage in Cleveland end a six week mystery of noises from a factory hole. An exploring squad led by Sergeants Holcomb and McMasters finds 14 hoboes jailed for vagrancy after the wall rips McMasters uniform and Snider is rescued from a water tank.
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Leveland
Gragon Avenue
East Twenty-fourth Street
East Thirty-seventh Street
Halcomb
McMasters
Snider
lLoboes
Hoboes
Holcomb
Hypnotist Houston Plunkett Tricked in Court
In Chicago Houston Plunkett a one leg hypnotist bragged of mastery before a West Lake street audience Percys disbelief sparked a street side act that ended with Percys coat and overcoat disappearing Houston admitted pawning the garments Judge Dolan sentenced the performer to 30 days in Bridewell Both men identified as Negroes.
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Hicago
Houston Plunkett
West Lake Streets
Percy Milton
Percy
Houston
South Side
Dolan
Bridewell
Judge cites grand jury secrecy in Indiana gambling case
Indiana report notes Judge Markey of the criminal court said a recent grand jury inquiry into a gambling matter elicited a witness unable to recall details. The witness’s inability to remember led to questions about the identified craps players and the names sought by the jury.
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Ndianapolis
Ind
Grand Jury
Criminal Court
Markey
Grand ‘Jury
Indiana
Poultry Club Program Outlined by Agriculture Department
The United States Department of Agriculture lays out aims for boys and girls poultry clubs to improve poultry and egg production. It calls for year round meetings, county exhibitions, a four year student progression, and strict record keeping to boost prices and markets for high quality stock and eggs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Reenintiana
Poultry Club
Seven year old artist from Portland Crescent creates paper animals
Rupert Fishwick, a shy seven year old from Portland Crescent Regent's Park, copies lifelike animal figures from dogs to zoo animals after visits to London Zoo. He has cut animals since age three using carefully managed scissors, never drawing first and continuing until the paper model is complete.
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London Zoo
Portland Crescent
Regent’s Park
Rupert Fishwick
Rupert
Vicar Questions Boy About Comb Hair at School
A London Sketch cartoon shows a vicar querying a boy about combing his hair at school. The boy replies his father has no comb and the vicar asks how the father combs his hair, noting the father also has no hair.
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London
Fearful omics fragment hints at unknown event
The readable text is incomplete and unclear. No identifiable persons places organizations dates or events are present in the accessible fragment.
Mutton and Fruit for Farm Homes in New Guidance
The bulletin from the United States Department of Agriculture urges mutton as a beef substitute, noting best slaughtering practices, cooling and aging, and care to avoid wooly flavors. It also promotes home fruit cultivation, canning, and using fruit desserts to improve health and economy on farms.
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United States
Department of ‘Agriculture
America
Department of. Agriculture
Department’ ‘of
Agriculture
Cold storage of potatoes tips from A R Kohler
The best temperature is near 35 degrees Fahrenheit with a tested thermometer in the cellar. Potatoes should be run over a screen to remove dirt and stored in large cellars in layered piles to aid cooling and drying. Avoid dumping a whole day’s digging in one place and ensure good ventilation to reduce interior moisture.
How to Shape Croquettes with Breadcrumbs and Tools
The text describes forming croquettes by mixing eggs, flour and crumbs, shaping on a plate and covering with crumbs. It advises avoiding metal forks, using a wire eye-whip for large croquettes, and draining and shaping before final coating. It also explains drying bread into crumbs and sieving for fine and coarse grades stored separately.
Household Hints on Ink Stains Casts and Potatoes
Practical tips cover removing ink stains with lemon and salt, making plaster casts look alabaster by alum water, sugar and egg white for meringues, dampening rug backs to flatten, restoring rubber elasticity with ammonia and water, drying stiff collars to hold shape, selecting young ducks, and rubbing potatoes with soda to prevent soiling while peeling.
Baked Apple Patties From Rich Bread Dough
Use ready bread dough to form small brick shaped patties with an egg and sugar mix. Roll to half an inch, cut circles, add stewed apple sauce with raisins, seal with another circle, bake in a hot oven after brushing tops with beaten egg yolk.
Worth Knowing Kitchen Tips From The New York Sun
Practical advice on removing broth fat using a ice chilled sieve, improving cheese toast with buttered bread, scalding milk for smooth custards, and preserving yolks with cold water for later use.
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New York Sun
Practical Cheese and Soda Biscuit Supper Dish
Slice a quarter pound of cheese into thin pieces and melt in a frying pan with a cup of sweet milk. Stir in one quarter teaspoon dry mustard a pinch of salt and pepper and a piece of butter about the size of an egg. Roll a half dozen soda biscuits and sprinkle in gradually. Turn into a warm dish and serve immediately.
Sweet Potato Puff and French Rice Pudding Recipe
Sweet Potato Puff instructions bake or boil potatoes mash with salt pepper sugar and butter thick cream egg yolks then fold in stiffly beaten whites bake until puffed gold. French Rice Pudding combines rice butter salt sugar lemon rind milk and water simmered then eggs added and baked with a crumb topping for 20 minutes.
Dried Apple Pie Filling From Frugal Prep Tips
A brief note describes dried apples steeped with minimal water to create pie filling. Sweeten, add orange peel and a lemon slice with light spice, push through a coarse sieve, then sweeten and season before filling two crusts and baking with heat beforehand.
Irish Regiments in Porto During Wellington Era
Fragmentary note recalls Irish regiments under Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War, mentioning one unit stationed in Porto and an implied rename or affiliation by the Irish.
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Wellington
Everal Irish
Porto
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