Cooking a Turkey and a Pipe Maker’s Tale
The article describes roasting a turkey with salt rubbed surfaces, butter and flour coatings, and a two and a half to three hour bake with regular basting. It also notes giblet gravy preparation and a German custom of adding caraway seeds for flavor. A second piece explains briar pipe making, the wait for nine to ten years of seasoning, and the value of high quality cross grain birdseye briar that can last a lifetime.
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France
Dolls as Ornaments Fashion Figures In New York Shops
Dolls dressed as miniature fashion plates become elegant statuettes sold in large New York shops. Bodies of gauze and flexible stuffing, faces hand painted, with lifelike poses from strolling with a bulldog to garden chair reading. Dresden style dolls mimic antique costumes using fine materials and emulating empire era art.
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New York
Dresden
Health and Beauty Advice From An Early 20th Century Guide
Practical tips cover skin tone through water temperature and lemon juice for warts, a mouth rinse from cinnamon bark and alcohol, eye irritation guidance, and a definition of rest that emphasizes relaxing the nerves. It also cautions against tight garments during rest and advises gradual rest enhancement.
Armadillo Fern Baskets Catch Florists Fancy
New bouquet displays feature armadillo shell gold baskets shaped from polished shells. The shell forms a fern basket with the armadillo tail fixed to resemble a hand holding ferns. Florists showcase these in shop windows, noting cultural interest and appeal to children.
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Ihe Sre
Temperance of Virtue and Amelia Opie’s Quaker Shift
A quoted note from Wilfred Whitten on Amelia Opie shows her extreme temperance after joining the Quakers. She refuses to write fiction since her conversion, offering to provide facts history or truth instead. She states she cannot describe events as if they occurred when they did not.
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Amelia Opie
Wilfred Whitten
Rich banker’s inflation tale from Oregon history
In Oregon a famous story recalls a wealthy banker who began by government work. His initial bill of 5 000 dollars rose through successive approvals to 80 000 dollars as each party increased the amount, and Congress ultimately paid the full 80 000, making the contractor a millionaire.
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Oregon
Congress
Atchison Globe
Lost Lady theater tale from Pepys diary misdirected spit incident
The London Chronicle recalls Samuel Pepys on January 28 1661 watching The Lost Lady for a second time. He notes earlier displeasure and a forward spit from a lady seated behind him in a dark box but says he was not troubled after seeing she was pretty.
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London Chronicle
Pepys
Oyster shop joke linked by Thackeray and Yates
Edmund Yates recalls a humorous moment with Thackeray as they pass a New Street fish shop. Two oyster tubs show price differences one shilling per dozen and one shilling threepence per dozen. Thackeray quips that the fish hate each other.
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Edmund Yates
Thackeray
Yates
New Street
Bridges Across London Reach Seventy-Five Connections
Pall Mall Gazette notes London features at least seventy five bridges linking places and services. Nineteen railway spans, three road bridges including Holborn viaduct, and fifty three private premises connections illustrate the city's extensive crossing network.
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London
Holborn
Pall Mall Gazette
Placing Him Cheeropodist Puts Blues to Rest
A humorous dialogue reveals a character claiming to cure people of the blues by hypnotic power. The exchange labels him a cheeropodist, a playful coinage for a professional of mood and morale.
Mean Maud Forces Laughless Hurry in Hyena Hat Tease
In a playful exchange, Maud mocks the waiting crowd as the hyena’s expected laugh remains unseen. Ella notes the creature’s gaze rests on a new hat, hinting at amused distraction amid the scene.
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Maud
Ella
His Great Love in London Tit-Bits
A fragmentary note from London Tit-Bits hints at a romance scene with a man expressing deep affection and kissing a beloved woman. The piece appears as a playful vignette about love and longing.
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London
American women create village utopia at Bredons Norton England
Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin and her daughter Miss Zula Maud Woodhull lead a venture transforming Bredons Norton into a women’s agricultural club. The estate offers gardening, dairy, poultry, beekeeping courses, a horticultural school, meals on site, and access to Cheltenham Ladies College, with living and plot rental options for members. The self supporting community features a manor house from 1585, motor launch on the Avon, and a busy cultural program.
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England
Victoria Woodhull Martin
Cheltenham Ladies’ College
Embroidered French Collar Tops Neckwear Trends
An embroidered French collar showcases a fresh touch in this season's neckwear. It suggests versatile styling and a potential home project to replicate the elaborate detail.
Lace Trimmed Stock, Described in Historic Garment
A description of a stock garment notes its time worn design with top lace ruffle and a lace frill along the right side down to the waist. It emphasizes the figure governed fit and the finished top detailing.
Woman Doctor Now' & Politician Dr Margaret Long
Dr Margaret Long of Denver, daughter of Navy Secretary John D. Long, is a noted physician and political organizer. She earned an MD from Johns Hopkins and now leads suffragist activism while delegating her practice to another physician.
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Margaret Long
Navy
John D. Long
Roosevelt
Mar
Helen Long
Denver
Centennial
Colorado
Sisters of the East
Charity Whist Benefit Held at New Winthrop Hotel
Mrs. Clarence H. Pike hosted a charity whist event at the New Winthrop Hotel with 24 tables from 2 to 5 pm on Monday. Guests included Miss May O'Brien and Miss Marguerite O'Brien at the lemonade table, plus Frances McLaughlin May Murray Nora Pike and other ladies from Dorchester Brighton South Boston and Cambridge. A program featured songs by Ella B. Mason and Mrs. John O Meatey. Souvenirs went to a list of local ladies including Mrs John Regan Mrs George Jennett and seven others.
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Clarence H. Pike
Washington Avenue
David J. Mahoney
New Winthrop Hotel
May and
Marguerite O'Brien
Frances McLaughlin
Cross Street
May Murray
Bellevue Avenue
Nora Pike
Ella B. Mason
Sunnyside Avenue
John O'Meatey
Back Bay
John J. Regan
Dorchester
George Jennett
Brighton
S$. Sullivan
James H. White
South Boston
J. W. Lavery
J. J. Coakley
North Cambridge
J. Cass
Boston
George E. Parsons
J. J. Devereux
Cutler Street
James Royall
River Road
George W. Young
L. M. Ellis
Beacon Street
Nominating Committee Report for Winthrop Yacht Club Officers
The nominating committee submits a slate for the coming year. Commodore Henry B. Whittier. Vice Commodore David M. Wiseley. Secretary Charles G. Bird. Treasurer Joseph J. Devereux. Measurer Frank H. Byrne. Directors Edwin D. Cox Lewis B. McKie Harry E. Blanchard Edward S. Snow. House Edwin D. Blanchard. Regatta Fred B. Kingsbury Jr chairman Lewis E. King Francis A. Place William Forster Brown William Daly Jr. Membership C H Foster Ronald Ridgway George W Roberts Horace S Ridley Fred G Curtis A S Richards John M Gleason Edwin M Thayer Frank A Talcott.
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Winthrop Yacht Club
Henry B. Whittier
David M
Charles G. Bird
Joseph J. Devereux
Frank H. Byrne
Edwin D. Cox
Lewis B. McKie
Harry E. Blanchard
Edward S. Snow
House
Fred B. Kingsbury, Jr
Lewis E. King
Francis A. Place
William Forster Brown
William Daly, Jr
C. H. Foster
Ronald Ridgway
George W. Roberts
Horace S. Ridley
Fred G. Curtis
A. S. Richards
John M. Gleason
Edwin M. Thayer
Frank A. Talcott
Conservation the Basis of National Wealth
Gifford Pinchot states in the New England Magazine that earth’s resources form national wealth and readers among nations. He cites forest conservation as a key allied movement strengthening the broader conservation effort nationwide.
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U. S
Gifford Pinchot
New England Magazine
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