Keith's Theatre Christmas Week Attracts Boston Families
Nearly every child in Boston knows Christmas and New Year weeks at Keith's are special. The management adds a stage novelty in place of trees and offers extra matinée shows from December 28 through Christmas day with a 60 cent top price. Special children only matinees start at 10 on Christmas morning featuring Polly Pickle's Pets and other juvenile acts.
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Keith’s
Boston
Keith's
Polly Pickle
Corinne
Harrigan
Felix
Claire
Little Hip
New York Hippodrome
Urbani and Son
Zanettos
Five Majors
Mabelle Adams
Leo Carillo
Frederick
Don
Margo
Kinetograph
Keith
Gibraltar rock renamed rock candy over time
A confectioner explains how Gibraltar rock once named the pure crystallized sugar candy, later shortened to rock candy. Hawthorne mentions a glass pickle jar of Gibraltar rock fragments in The House of the Seven Gables, noting the shift in usage across England from Gibraltar rock to rock candy.
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Gibraltar Rock
Hawthorne
House of the Seven Gables
Gibraltar
England
A Dismal Failure in a New York Coat Scheme
A young New York firm overbought fall stock, especially coats, and could not sell at fair prices. Advice from an old timer suggested dividing coats into thirteen lots and billing twelve, hoping customers would accept a free coat. The plan collapsed as customers took only one coat each, leaving the rest unsold and ruinously loss-making.
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New York
New York Times
Professor Rowland's Thermometer Worth Ten Thousand
A rare thermometer, valued at 10000 dollars, sits at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The glass graduations are extremely fine at eighty lines, readable only with a microscope.
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Rowland
Barrie’s Page and Winter Wildlife Notes
A humorous vignette recounts Mr. Barrie lecturing a page boy on smoking then discovering his cigars missing replaced by the boy’s clay pipe and a note. The piece also surveys winter coat changes in the ptarmigan the snowy owl and the weasel with notes on fur color shifts and visibility. It ends with a tale of coronets used as candlestick brackets after a London auction.
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Barrie
Mr. Barrie
St. Nicholas
Daffodil Poisoning Affects Pickers Of Spring Bulbs
The Dundee Advertiser notes many common plants carry poisoning risks for those who pick them. Daffodils and narcissus can cause a skin ailment called daffodil poisoning with small clusters forming under fingernails. Lime crystals in the stems are blamed, and pickers rub hands with oil and tallow before work. The white Roman hyacinth bulbs share similar properties.
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Dundee Advertiser
Wedding Vows Go Awry In Humble Wedding Tale
In Harper's Weekly a modest suitor John Budd weds Susan Smiley with proper decorum until the moment of the vows. Asked to take the bride he blushes and replies Yes please in a moment of awkward cheer. The village noting the scene finds humor in the mistaken tenderness.
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John Budd
Susan Smiley
John
Harper's Weekly
Johnnie Writes Home In Playful Message From Country Visit
On his first trip to grandparents in the country Johnnie sends a cheerful note to his anxious family. He signs Dear Ma and urges them to try a simple tip: if you want something good eat a raw red cabbage.
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Johnnie
John
New York Press
Encounter in the Woods a Rattlesnake Tale
Jimmy relates a close brush with a large rattlesnake discovered in the woods. Pa asks how he knew the snake, and Jimmy jokes that his teeth rattled the moment he saw it. Chicago News quotes the exchange.
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Jimmy
Chicago News
Quote from witness box sparks confessional moment in court
A lawyer interrogating a woman in the witness box elicited a sharp retort about age and wages, the witness claiming she has not received her money yet. The remark underscores the clash between contentment and fortune in a terse courtroom exchange.
Tale of Woe From a 1811 Pennsylvania Paper
A Pennsylvanian newspaper tale describes a man with an ax who flatters a boy and makes him fetch water to grind the ax. The boy, praised as a fine fellow, becomes the tool wielder briefly before the owner calls him rascal and orders him to school. The story highlights child coercion.
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Pennsylvania
Rascal
Los Angeles Times
Auction Room Incident on Market Street
An auctioneer offered a watch and chain claimed worth 22 dollars and faced silence as bids stalled. A small boy finally bid five cents, then ten, fifteen, until he won with five cents, receiving change as the crowd’s nerve was questioned. The incident ended with the auctioneer lecturing on courage.
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Market Street
Philadelphia Record
Saw His Own Finish and a Week of Meals
The tale recalls Judge Blank's wife cooking for a week after losing her cook and earning an ermine cloak as thanks. Mrs Jerome later asks what she would receive for a week of cooking, and Mr Jerome replies she would get a long crape veil.
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Judge Blank
How George Washington’s Heaven Question Sparked A Moral
A London Chronicle vignette recalls a boy’s fib and a teacher’s rebuke about truth telling. The child muses that heaven would be dull if no one had ever told a story, prompting a wry response that highlights value placed on honesty.
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George Washington
London Chronicle
England in Virginia Brings Homesickness to a Bishop
The Bishop of London writes in the London Diocesan Magazine that English expatriates feel at home quickly in Virginia. He recalls a Richmond visit to an old Virginia country house where English ancestry is celebrated and one could mistake it for an English countryside park.
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England
Virginia
United States
Richmond
Sussex
Worcestershire
London
London Diocesan Magazine
Tropical Recipes for the Global Kitchen
The article suggests varying daily menus by studying foreign cookbooks, highlighting West Indian dishes like Ricey coco made with rice coconut milk and spices. It describes making coconut cream, its uses with fruits and puddings, and outlines a curried dish with fruit chutney and a mango raisin ginger tamarind sauce with vinegar sugar and salt.
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Indies
Breakfast Sets For One Or Two On Tray In Bed
A growing custom to dine in bed or in one’s room inspires compact silver breakfast sets. A three piece for small quarters includes coffee pot sugar bowl and cream jug stacked for stability. A curved mahogany tray hosts an elaborate set with egg cup toast rack marmalade jar and more.
Household notes on tests and cleaning tips
This column offers practical housekeeping guidance. It explains testing nutmeg with a pin, preserving fabric colors by adding milk to wash water, pre washing new stockings to stiffen yarn, removing stains from brown leather with methylated spirit, making floor polish from candle ends and turpentine, and cleaning white coral by soaking in soft water then bleaching with lime solution and sun.
Classical Tale The Wooden Horse Weight Jab
A tale unfolds with the wooden horse before Troy. Paris asks about its weight and Hector replies with Troy weight. Paris growls in envy at Hector smart wit and mistrust grows.
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Troy
Paris
Hector
Motoring Banter Sparks Mask Wearing Fashion
In a playful exchange from the St. Louis Republic, Miss Heamley voices a growing passion for motoring and questions its harm. Miss cutting responds that it would be becoming to wear a mask while driving, suggesting stylish practicality in a light social note.
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Miss Heamley
Miss Cutting
St. Louis Republic
Crushing Bore Young Borem Returns From Europe
Miss Sharpe laments the travel tale as a witty aside about Naples and life. The brief exchange hints at a humorous scene with dialogue about travel and aging.
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Europe
Naples
Sharpe
Theater Official Bars Students From Chorus in Germany
In Germany a theater official forbids students from joining the chorus and warns them not to worry as they sing a different piece titled Fliegende Blatter.
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Germany
Pretty Wall Paper Panels
The article comments on decorative wallpaper panels offering infinite variety for designers, noting that while skilled designers enjoy vast options, the simple methods also suit amateurs who want to avoid professional decorators.
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