Michael Popek's Blog, page 217

Consider This

Drawing on graph paper, captioned "MUST CONSIDER."

Found in "Catch-22: A Critical Edition" by Joseph Heller. Published by Delta, 1978.




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Conversation

Looks like a conversation between a student and a textbook's former owner:

(Lottie Ellis)

Hello Lottie -

Guess who wrote this - you don't even know me - because I don't know you. Wouldn't you like to meet me - you would if you knew who I am. Well ta! ta!

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I'll bet you are a Soph. Your books look like it. So neat and clean. Ha! Ha! I am writing lightly so you can erase this, am I know kind? I think so.

Found in "New Composition and Rhetoric for Schools" by Robert Herrick. Published by Scott, Foresman and Co., 1911.


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Applesauce Cake

Applesauce Cake (1 egg)

1 3/4 c cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinn.
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg, well beaten
2 c chopped nuts
2 c chopped raisins
3/4 c strained hot applesauce, unsweetened

Sift flour, add b. powder, soda, salt and spices and sift three times, Cream butter, add sugar.

Mix thoroughly. Add egg, raisins, nuts, beat well.

Add flour mixture, alternately with apple...(sauce)... a small amount at a time.

Bake into a greased (pan loaf) 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 in a med. oven 350 degrees 1 hour or until done.

Found in "Pillsbury Kitchens Family Cookbook" published by Pillsbury, 1979.



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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Jenny , who entered right here on the site.

I see you're kind enough to have your email on your profile page, so I will be sending you a message shortly.

Friday Giveaway: 19 Vintage Classics (contest closed)

The last few vintage classic giveaways have gone so well, I decided to keep it up:






Contest now closed, winner announced shortly.


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Friday Giveaway: 19 Vintage Classics

The last few vintage classic giveaways have gone so well, I decided to keep it up:






To enter, just leave a comment below. You can also enter via Twitter , Facebook or by email .

I'll sort through the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM EST.

Good luck!


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All's Well

Two pages of song lyrics. I did a bit of looking around online and couldn't find a strict match, may have been an amateur composition.

All's Well That Ends Well

All's well that ends well
And I for one believe it's true
All my life I've been waiting
Just to find you
Each Prince Charming asks her his bride to be
She blushingly said, "Could you marry me."
Wondrous love to us has come
Our happiness is complete

It's been worth while
Searching all my life
To find you
Just across the street


(Remember) Broken Doll
When you and I were a boy & girl
I broke your doll one day
Then with a quick regret
Begged that you'd forget
And wipe your tears away
Your just a little butterfly - I understand it after all

You made me care
Do you think it's fair
A heart for a broken doll -

Found in "Elson's Music Dictionary" by Louis C. Elson. Published by Oliver Ditson Co., 1905



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David Swan's Sleep

I believe this is a page from a student's "creative writing" notebook, date unknown:

David Swan's Sleep

People were hurrying to and fro, while David lay fast asleep by the side of the road in a shady grove. Had is slumber been easily broken, it would have been interrupted rather often; first by a widow who thought him charming looking, then by a temperance lecturer who happened to espy David, and bought him into his text in the evening's discourse as an example of drunkenness. Shortly, however, a carriage drove along, and having met with an accident to their carriage, the elderly couple sat down beneath the trees while the coachman repairted the carriage. Leaning over David, and seeing such a picture of their own son who had died, they were about to bestow a fortune upon him, when the coachmen remarked that all was ready. Then, had not a young girl chanced to appear, David might have received the deadly sting of a bee. He was afterward visited by robbers, but it a  (?) dog came near and thinking that his master might be close at hand, the robbers passed on. At last David awoke and healing the stage driver, he mounted and rode on towards Boston.

"Finis"

Cotter's Saturday Night

The common people of Scotland were a strong, healthful, happy and dignified race, and it is believed their excellent character was due to their religious spirit. The better classes were constantly under the influence of the Sabbath and of the Bible. It seems to be through religion that these simple people have become tender and...

I'll keep looking for the exciting conclusion of "Cotter's."

Found in "Beulah" by Augusta J. Evans. Published by the New York Book Company, 1910.




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Not Forgotten - Part VI

Here are parts one , two, three,  four  and five of this ongoing series where I feature some of the items I find that aren't quite good enough for their own post.







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Giveaway winner

What a terrific turnout, I believe this was an all-time record for entries (you can thank Facebook for that).

This week's winner was Nicole McMahon, who entered on Facebook.

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