Mountain Adventure Sparks Unlikely Romance On Rainy Trail
Lee Bradstreet meets Martin Day on Mount Kenyon while both endure a dreary June trek and a camp cook crisis. They bond while organizing supplies and cooking, then joke about marriage to legalize Lee’s stay, as they plan a future together amid camp life and a wager over Buster.
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Mount Kenyon
Lee Bradstreet
Martin Day
Bingham College
Tun
Bingham
Buster
Lee
Buser
Simmons
Mount Kenon
Martin
Waste in English munition plants prompts anti waste drive
Estimated daily waste at war munitions plants in England reaches at least 5 million dollars. Salvage efforts recover much, but large portions rot. A proposal suggests organizing 14 500 parishes in England and Wales to prevent waste.
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England
Salvage Corps of Commerce
Wales
FUR FROM DOMESTIC RABBITS SEEN AS ANSWER TO SUPPLY
War disruptions limit imports of rabbit fur from Europe and Australia raising prices. American breeders can match foreign pelts with better management and selective breeding. A domestic supply with standards and cooperative exhibitions could help revive the fur trade.
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Europe
Australia
America
Delectable Pumpkin Pie Creamed with Spices and Brandy
A recipe explains using dry potato pumpkins for pie pulp, boiled and pressed to a quart per pie. The remaining pulp can be canned in jars with boiled water, kept in a cold box for days, then mixed with butter eggs sugar flour cream spices brandy and sherry for a rich pumpkin pie filling.
Invention Helps Blind Soldiers Write Clearly
Miss Edith Fergusson Black, a Canadian inventor living in Pasadena, gifts an automatic writing device patented in 1897 to the military hospitals commission. The tool helps a blinded writer form straight lines, with sample article and 15 dies and tools for mass production. The device has been endorsed by leading U S blind institutions.
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Military Hospitals Commission
Pasadena
Cal
United States
Edith Fergusson Black
Saucer Fruit Pies
Instructions describe fireproof saucers filled with uncooked rice to hold crusts, baked in a hot oven. After cooling, cops turn out rice and fill with drained fruit, arranging it just before serving to prevent crusts from soaking with juice.
Wise and Otherwise and Other Musings
A collection of aphorisms on love wisdom and human folly. The piece previews wit and irony through short quips about lending kindness pride and conflict. It closes with a playful note on jealousy and spelling.
Messenger Boy and Suffragist Encounter in Capitol Tale
A Capitol messenger boy, paid three cents per message, earns twenty one dollars in a day as a suffragist appeals to Congress during wartime. The scene blends charity and pressure on lawmakers amid a flood of telegrams opposing drafts taxes and tariffs.
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Washington Star
Bread and meat dominate diets in aid group study
The Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor found 75 families from varied nationalities often exceeded bread and meat rations. Irregular incomes meant money was spent on meat and bread when available, with breakfasts of buns and tea, mid day deli fare, and nightly meat with potatoes.
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The
Association For Improving
Boys Raise a Sheep to Save Food and Wool
The article urges every boy and girl to raise one or two sheep, using lawns for pasture to produce wool and food, and to increase poultry and reduce waste. It notes 50 million sheep cannot meet demand and foreign wool is diverted to war, urging thrift during famine.
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H. H. Windsor
Flashlight Notes On Work Goods And Thought
The column jokes about how the world withholds luxuries yet expects effort and cleverness. It muses on mind reading mysteries and the inevitability of long winded callers. It praises inventors of kitchen gadgets and warns against clinging to old ideas in daily tasks.
Manicurist Engagement Recalled in Courtroom Exchange
In a courtroom exchange a witness states she was engaged to a manicurist and adds that she herself was trimmed. The dialogue underscores personal details amid testimony.
Dejected Actress Blames Evil Star After Failed Melodrama Try
A friend consoles a despairing woman who laments a life of bad luck and admits eighteen months of practice to shed tears at will. She grieves that despite talent she cannot find a job in melodrama or film.
A Father and Son Share a Clever Wish Moment
In a playful exchange Tommie asks what single wish he would choose if granted. The father replies with a humorous twist saying he would wish for a dozen more wishes. The lighthearted dialogue echoes the tale’s whimsical tone.
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Little Tommie
Tommie
Bed in the Ceiling Concealed Above Small Homes
A novel ceiling bed design fits cottages and bungalows lacking guest rooms. Two false panels conceal the mechanism. lowering the bed reveals one panel that seals the opening while another panel moves into place with the bed. The system uses a boxed bed between floors, four corner cables, pulleys in the box, joist channels, and a winding drum in the side wall.
Women Farm Workers Demand Distinctive Apparel
A London cable to the New York Sun recounts a young society woman who, after two weeks in a dairy, wore a neat outfit that resembled men's clothing. At a railway station dressing room she was mistaken for a man and expelled, sparking debate on suitable women's work attire.
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London
New York Sun
Kindness in the City Promenade Mystery
A private returns from the front to find his girlfriend out with another man. She explains with a wry line that the gentleman took her daily to the library to see if he was killed. The exchange ends with a bitter, darkly humorous note about concern and kindness.
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Capitol
Congress
Simpkins
Pearson’s Weekly
Comfortably Convinced on Reincarnation Debate
In a lively exchange Miss Cayenne confirms belief in reincarnation. She admits no formal study of the subject yet expresses fondness for the idea, warning she might not fully grasp it if she pursued it further.
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Miss Cayenne
Cap'n Quinn touts swordfish squads to fight submarines
Cap'n Quinn proposes training swordfish from the Popogo islands to attack U boats. He recalls the method learned with natives and asserts the fish could be trained with steel bay nets to target submarines, praising the idea amid laughter from Grindle and Skipper Olsen.
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Cap'n
Nahum’ Quinn
Board of Naval Strategy
Grindle
Popogo Islands
Cap’n
South Sea
Meir Bagn
Skipper Olsen
Washington
Quinn
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