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Choice Recipes and Menus Using Canned Foods
by AnonymousThe Home Economics Section of the American Can Company has prepared this new recipe book to help you use canned foods in a greater variety of ways.These recipes have been created in the Canco Testing Kitchen to give you new food dishes that are colorful, easy to prepare and high in nutritive value. Simple enough for successful preparation by beginn..
Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter
by Paul J. PrescottToward noon of a pleasant June day, 18—, a man, mounted on a powerful animal of the mustang breed, was riding slowly over the plain, some distance south-east of the great South Pass. His appearance was striking. In hight he was rather more than six feet, his legs and arms being long and lank in the extreme. His eyes were small, gray and piercing, a..
The Seven Ages of Woman
by Compton MacKenzieOn a June morning in the year 1859 Sir Richard Flower of Barton Flowers in the county of Southampton decided that the weather was propitious for his annual progress on horseback round the confines of his demesne. The order was given to saddle his gray gelding; Lady Flower was informed that her husband would dine two hours later than usual, and upon..
The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. I, January 1860
by Various AuthorsWhen young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which ha..
Good Health and How We Won It
by Upton SinclairTen years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called “la grippe.” I recollect the date very well, because it was the first time I had been sick in fourteen years—the last difficulty having been the whooping-cough.I have many times had occasion to recall the interview with the last physician I went ..
The Little Review, May 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 3)
by Various Authorshave been much criticised for an article on Gabrilowitsch in the last issue. I have been told rather violently that I didn’t know what I was talking about; that to say Gabrilowitsch had stood still artistically or that the music critics were deaf because they didn’t like Scriabin’s Prometheus was simply to brand The Little Review again as the kind ..
The Mysterious Box - Nuclear Science and Art
by Bryce WaltonNuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is essential that all Americans gain an understanding of this vital force if they are to discharge thoughtfully their responsibilities as citizens and if they a..
Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada
by Isaac WeldAt a period when war was spreading desolation over the fairest parts of Europe, when anarchy seemed to be extending its frightful progress from nation to nation, and when the storms that were gathering over his native country[1] in particular, rendered it impossible to say how soon any one of its inhabitants might be forced to seek for refuge in a ..