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Joseph Triemens

Best known for compiling a wide-ranging household reference book, this early 20th-century author gathered practical advice, facts, and everyday know-how into one busy volume. Little biographical information appears to have survived, which gives the work an extra air of period curiosity.

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The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference

by Joseph Triemens

About the author

Joseph Triemens is chiefly remembered as the credited author of The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing: A Manual of Ready Reference, a practical compendium that has circulated through Project Gutenberg, Goodreads, and audiobook catalogs. The book brings together advice, facts, etiquette, household guidance, and other snippets of useful information in the style of an all-purpose reference work.

Reliable biographical details about Triemens are scarce in the sources I could confirm. Because of that, it is safer to focus on the book itself than to overstate the person behind it. For listeners and readers today, the appeal is less about a well-documented literary life and more about the window the book offers into everyday interests and popular knowledge of its era.