Washington Letter on pensions and Sundown doctors
Carl Schofield reviews pension office quirks from a widow who killed her husband to converts from Christian Science. He notes deserter pardons, teeth myths, and the rise of "sundown doctors" in Washington. The piece also surveys clerks who study law medicine or theology while holding government posts and the daily ritual of brown paper lunch bags among federal workers.
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Christian Science
Uncle Sam
H Re
San Juan Hill
Bam
Meri Ted
Sundown
Sundown Physicians
Washington
Twoscore
Harvard
Roosevelt
Tiluman
Treasury
Post Office
State
War and Navy
Rae
Carl Schofield
Umbrella Cabinet Offers Hidden Storage and Style
A novel umbrella cabinet provides brass hooks for umbrellas and sticks, silk bags for parasols, a lower drawer for overshoes, and a hinged top shelf for veils or gloves. Compact inlaid wood design enhances hall decor while keeping items dust free and concealed.
New Sandwich Recipe From Somerset For Teas and Picnics
A noted method for Somerset style sandwich bread and fillings appears in Woman's Home. The bread uses scalded milk, boiling water, lard, butter, molasses, salt, yeast, white and entire wheat flour, plus English walnut or pecan meats. After aging twenty four hours, slice thin and spread with creamed butter and orange marmalade between slices.
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Somerset
New Superintendent Learns Patience in School Hall
A zealous but hot tempered new school superintendent arrives and confronts a noisy classroom. He yanks a tall disruptive student across the partition and orders silence while he resumes work. After about a quarter hour a timid boy asks for their teacher.
Things Worth Knowing Beauty Tips From An Old Column
A column offers home remedies and beauty advice. Limewater mouth rinse is prepared with lime and boiled water, then bottled after settling. Hair care favors combing with coarse teeth and a nux vomica tincture tonic applied to roots. It links healthful habits and diet to a better complexion.
Cult of the Cat and Its Qualities for Buyers
The piece discusses growing cat fancierism and how breed affects desirable traits. For long haired cats emphasis lies on the ruff tuft toe tufts ear tufts and tail flexibility while for short haired cats color eyes ear shape and head shape are key. It lists favorable features including broad forehead round eyes and a short tapered nose.
Francis Murphy Praised as Great Temperance Reformer
A Pittsburg man recalls Francis Murphy as perhaps the country’s greatest temperance reformer. He notes Murphy’s impact with over 10,000,000 pledging sobriety and recounts a dinner anecdote challenging snobbishness among the rich.
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Francis Murphy
Pittsburg
Murphy
The Length of Eternity and Obedience in Marriage
Mrs. C. W. McCulloch of Chicago, newly sworn as justice of the peace, says marriage ceremonies should drop the word obey. She argues that obedience is for dogs and urges rejecting the term as meaningless in modern contracts. A boorish husband is cited in a humorous anecdote about eternal love.
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C. W. McCulloch
Chicago
Justice of the Peace
Kindness Over Judgment In Everyday Speech
A columnist argues for charity in criticism, urging silence when lacking full context and proposing to guess kindly about others motives. Edith Caruth's essay emphasizes empathy, humility, and avoiding harm through thoughtful words. An anecdote from an Indianapolis News item adds a cautionary note on conduct in transit.
Freckle Remedies and Cautions from a Historical Guide
The article lists several home treatments for freckles. A mix of boracic acid and rosewater, used twice daily, is said to prevent worsening and fade lighter freckles. Stronger formulas use copper sulfate with zinc or oxide ointments, applied morning and night after washing. Additional options include lactic acid with glycerin and rosewater, or zinc sulfate with elder flower ointment, applied twice daily.
Household helps on washing delicate fabrics
Instructions on washing white silk with lukewarm water and pure white soap, and ironing with a warm iron. Remedies for dampened marines to revive by steam, and how to dry tulle chiffon and mousseline de soie. Tips include using a whisk broom to dampen clothes evenly for easier weekly ironing.
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Mousséline de Sole
How to Clean a White Plume
A white plume can be cleaned by dipping in a paste of flour and gasoline. Rub lightly with fingers after each dip. Hang outdoors until the gasoline evaporates, then shake off the flour and inspect. Repeat the operation if not perfectly clean to restore its curl.
Earthquake in the Desert Hits Gobi Hamlet
Hans Doring recounts waking from sleep to a subterranean roar and a strong quake that shook a mud walled hamlet in the Gobi desert. He notes the house withstood the tremor due to its simple elastic timber frame and low height.
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Hans Doring
Gobi
Medical measuring tools evoke wary quack satire
A man seeks relief as a doctor probes a pain with compasses and fine tapes. The physician meticulously records numerous measurements to prove the ailment falls under his specialty, prompting the patient to cry foul at the excessive precision in a Puck inspired digression.
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Puck
Perplexing Bulletin From Madrid on 1876 Nomination
In 1876 the late John Stay and Alvey A Adee in Madrid followed a Madrid paper item misreading Rutherford B Nayes as president of the republic of the north. They deciphered it as a Republican nomination hint during the national convention.
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John Stay
Alvey A. Adee
Madrid
Rutebart
Noyes
America
Republic of the North
Rutherford B. Nayes
Can Ion
Adee
Faytee
Bridegroom Admits Vows In Quick Quip At Ceremony
Odd exchange at a wedding as a clergyman asks the usual vows and the groom jokes about the question. The bride urges seriousness and the groom reluctantly agrees to proceed with the marriage. Source: Atlanta Constitution.
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Atlanta Constitution
Fortune hunting count boasts of ancestral fortresses
The count boasts that their old family castles sit on high mountains and big bluffs. The wise heiress replies that he takes after them, implying a shared ascent or bold lineage.
The Worst He Had
A good woman questions a boy about his education with sharp wit. The boy answers that he has had “abysipias” and would rather not learn if education is worse than his life.
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Marm
The Head of the Family Debates a Woman Driven Horse
A New York Press snippet notes Mrs Doyle and Mr Boyle seeking a horse a woman can drive. The exchange highlights a husband’s practical stance and a wife’s preference for capable, woman driven means of transport.
Not Applicable Quote From Gilpin
A concise remark attributes the sentiment to Gilpin about taking decisive action. It emphasizes choosing boldness for right tasks and abstaining from half measures when wrong. The quote implies a stance on resolve in endeavors.
Printing quality as business capital and image
The passage argues that good printing at a reasonable price yields profit while poor printing is costly. It urges businessmen to avoid shoddy presentation, unattractive stores, shabby wagons, and untidy clerks as detrimental to success.
Individuality in Thought and Expression
A reflective note on how individuality shapes life through precise expression. It argues that many share thoughts, but the value of those thoughts hinges on how clearly they are conveyed, a power not equally shared by all.
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Sixteenth Street
Indianapolis News
Andrew Jackson’s Early Education and Reading Roots
The article details Andrew Jackson’s schooling from the Waxhaw settlement through a select Presbyterian school taught by Rev. Dr. David Humphreys, notes on later attendance at Queen College in Charlotte, and highlights his exceptional early reading ability including reading the Declaration of Independence aloud for neighbors at age ten. It cites Thomas E. Watson in Watsons Jeffersonian Magazine.
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Jackson
Anrew Jackson
Branch
David Humphreys
Waxhaw
Tarleton
Carolinas
Old Queen College
Charlotte
Andrew Jackson
Waxhaws
Thomas E.watson
Watson
Retired cephalopod shells resemble juveniles in old age
A Washington scientist notes that aging cephalopod shells show retrogressive markings and resemble their young forms. The idea parallels the saying that the mind and body regress to childhood in old age.
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Washington
Unclear exchange cited from Philadelphia Ledger
A quoted dialogue centers on a girl and her father discussing a young man and his farewell time. The father questions when the young man last said good night, the girl recalls 10 o'clock, and humor arises as a late 1 o'clock finish is noted.
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Mary
Philadelphia Ledger
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