Forgotten Bookmarks

Friday Giveaway: Nine Vintage Volumes of Poetry - contest closed

I'm giving away these nine vintage volumes of poetry this week:

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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April 18, 1813

I found this old newspaper in a box of books I was sorting. It's the Monday, April 18, 1813 issue of the "Independent Chronicle" of Boston, Massachusetts:

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The Great Pumpkin

Recipe for pumpkin pie:

1 1/2 C pumpkin
3/4 C sugar
1/2 t salt
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t ginger
1/4 t nutmeg + cloves
3 slightly beaten eggs
1 1/4 C milk
1 6 oz can - 2/3 cup ev. milk
1 9" pastry shell

400" 50 min

Found in "Treatise on Cake Making" published by The Fleischmann Division, Standard Brands Inc., 1935

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A Bird In Hand

Illustrated trade card for the "New 'G' Howe."

Found in "Latin Prose Composition" by Henry Carr Pearson. Published by the American Book Company, 1903.

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Bookmark Bonanza

Five bookmarks.

Found in "The Wild Flowers of California" by Mary Elizabeth Parsons. Published by Cunningham, Curtis and Welch, 1912.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Julianna Rose Dow, who entered on Facebook.

Thanks to all who entered, see you here next week.

Friday Giveaway: Eight Antiquarian Books - contest closed

Contest closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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Expired

Six coupons, expiration date of December 31, 1974. I miss that Rice Krispies box.

Found in "Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook" published by McGraw-Hill, 1950.

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Red cloth ribbon, 36 inches long. Unsure of actual fabric, one side is velvet-like and soft, the other is smoother.

Found in "Rosamond or The Youthful Error: A Tale of Riverside and Other Stories" by Mary J. Holmes. Published by Hurst and Company, no date, circa 1880s