Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State, edited by Grace R. Clifton. Published 1913.

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The Boy Scouts’ First Camp Fire; or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol, by Herbert Carter. Published c1913.

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The Call of the Beaver Patrol, or, A Break in the Glacier, by Capt. V. T. Sherman. Published 1913.

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One Woman’s Life, by Robert Herrick. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1913.

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We have not any new kind of olives, but a new way of preparing them for use, that is, slicing them before they are bottled. Instead of paying for a lot of stones and serving the olives whole, now one may buy them all cut in rings, very pretty for garnishing dishes, very handy to help oneself to instead of a cold, slippery oval object sure to roll away unless very securely prodded with an olive fork; and it is very much more easily and gracefully eaten, since a ring may be severed, whereas a whole olive had to be lifted to the lips and nibbled, and then the stone discarded as deftly as possible. It is a wonder we have not had stoned olives before, since comparatively few have a chef at hand to stone them neatly, nor a cooking school teacher to impart the information. To be sure stuffed olives, the heart of pimentoes or celery, have been fads of fashion, but not everyone likes these combinations.

The dark, purple-red, ripe olives are softer in texture and much esteemed for the table as more easy of digestion than the green; in fact, they are given freely to children, who do not always chew their food properly, and to older folk who have not the best of grinders with which to divide the firm green olives into minute particles.

A blessing, indeed, in these rushing days is the sliced olive, a very handy adjunct to the salad garnishing, and eleventh hour entertaining, whether a mid-day luncheon or a mid-night supper.

Animal Ghosts or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter, by Elliott O’Donnell. Published 1913.

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The Day of Days, by Louis Joseph Vance, is a novel with gangsters, masques, a missing heiress, true love, and Kismet!

It was made into a movie in 1914.

Louis Joseph Vance wrote short stories, novels, and screen plays, many of which were made into movies. His most popular works were a series about “The Lone Wolf,” a charming rogue. He died in a fire — some say that it was spontaneous human combustion…

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The courage, the reaching-up, the steadfastness that is in them is in the hearts of the people.

If the President does not know us yet in America, does not know McAdoo as a representative American, we will thunder on the doors of the White House until he does.

My impression is he would be out in the yard by the gate asking us to come in.

We are America. We are expressing our joy in the world, our faith in God, and our love of the sun and the wind in the hearts of our people.

In America the free air breathes about us, and daily the great sun climbs our hillsides, swings daily past our work. There are ninety million men with this sun and this wind woven into their bodies, into their souls. They stand with us.

The skyscrapers stand with us.

All singing stands with us.

Ah, I have waked in the dawn and in the sun and the wind have I seen them!

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