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A meeting of royalty, by Margaret Dodge

In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 05 February 1896

Read by Trish Thompson


Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

A Greeting

In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906

Read by Trish Thompson


Max Baginski, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Sadakichi Hartmann, Peter Kropotkin and Friedrich Nietzsche


"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…

A Truthful Adventure

In Something Childish and Other Stories

Read by Trish Thompson


Katherine Mansfield


This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…

Omnilingual (Version 3)

Read by Trish E. Matson


H. Beam Piper


This short story published in 1957 is unusual for its time in that its protagonist is a female scientist, and there is no romantic subplot. …

The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border

Read by Christopher Thompson


Gerald Breckenridge


When Bob and Frank get in touch with their friend Jack in New Mexico via radio telephony, a desperate cry for help sends the Radio Boys on a…

Wild Animals I Have Known

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

Biography of a Grizzly

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


"The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end," as Ernest Thompson Seton said. This is the story of Metitsi Wahb, born a pl…

MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…

The Tale of the Damsel Tohfat al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun al-Rashid Part 2

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 12

Read by Trish Rutter


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

General Instructions

In Choice Recipes and Menus using Canned Foods

Read by Trish Rutter


American Can Company


American Can Company has compiled here 130 recipes featuring a broad spectrum of commercially canned foods including meats, fish, vegetables…

The Siege of Plataea

In The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls

Read by Trish Rutter


Mary Esther Miller Macgregor


A retelling of Greek myths, history and stories aimed at children.

Part III

In The New York Cake Book

Read by Trish Rutter


Anonymous


Starting with general instructions on making cakes we have "fifty recipes from a famous New York Chef." from Almond Cake to Strawb…

Recipes from the 1970’s - Main Dishes

In Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites

Read by Trish Rutter


Ruth van Deman and Ruth Van Deman


From the book introduction: "Aunt Sammy came to life with the first radio broadcast of 'Housekeeper’s Chat' on October 4, 1926. The ch…

Cultivation of the Coffee Plant, part 1

In All About Coffee

Read by Trish Rutter


William Ukers


Considered the definitive work about coffee of its time, "All About Coffee" was written by William Ukers, founder of the Tea and C…