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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1905
Page
7
The article notes two bills in Congress to ban adulterants in all foods and similar state measures. It highlights the 2,000 adulterants shown at the St. Louis Exposition Agricultural exhibit, including harmful substances in breakfast foods. It argues Congress should curb interstate commerce to prohibit deleterious ingredients.
A poem about a spider and a fly warns against flattery. Consul Atwell urges school gardens to teach gardening, rewarding effort to inspire useful workers, tracing the idea to Mine. Herveiu of Sedan and noting social conservation benefits.
The Good Work is Meling project expands across Europe including Germany Holland Belgium and France to allot plots for workmen. An international Paris congress in 1905 and a forthcoming Idege meeting seek methods to extend garden allotments for cultivation. United States consul Atwell notes French gifts of land and prizes for garden expositions. By 1908 France and Belgium had created thousands of gardens aiding tens of thousands of workers with charity and philanthropy guiding the effort. The 1908 congress debated full charity versus rent plus surplus for laborers.
In Southwark, Alfred Curtis faces trial for attempting to murder his wife Mrs. Curtis of Vine Street Tooley Street. She recounts a dawn attack in which he slashed her throat and arms, she fell unconscious, his sister intervened, and Curtis walked to the station with bloodstained clothes. The surgeon lists twenty seven wounds. Curtis is committed for trial. Nearby, Dr William Osler condemns vague prescriptions and recounts a misread hot water instruction. Also notes on Ebenezer Edward’s Garden City project near London, planning a self contained utopia with gardens and factories governed as a business.
A fragment mentions starting schools nationwide as a remedy and questions barber shops as an alternative. A line about a little girl caring for a baby contrasts with a boy, suggesting childhood roles. The source reads as a jittery, mixed-era clipping with sharp social commentary.
The Port Townsend Call reports Yukon baseball games played from 8 p.m. to midnight in summer. Sheriff Bijl beck from Dawson files the story as thousands attend each game under the midnight sun while officials call balls and strikes and explain calls to the crowd.
A recipe for chocolate creams describes beating egg white with sugar to a light mass, adding vanilla, rolling into balls and dipping in chocolate. An advert promotes Piso's Cure for coughs colds and consumption asking readers to try it at 25 cents, available at druggists.
Simple steamed pudding from early cookbook uses flour suet and a bit of baking powder with salt. Mix to a thin dough, mold, steam for an hour, and serve with sauce of choice. Contains basic measuring terms and practical kitchen method.
A collage of patent medicine offers and religious aphorisms appears with touted cures for colds and piles. The page mixes Heavens and hells quotes with drug ads from Cheney and Co and PAZO OINTMENT pitches, interleaved by sermons from Rev. Dixon and Rev. Hunter.
A letter from Chaplain David L Jaycox of Clarinda and others at 865 Broadway Oakland describes severe bladder and kidney trouble. The writer credits Peruna with curing his pains and claims he would not be without it despite its cost.
Hundreds of veterans report kidney and bladder troubles linked to wartime conditions. Impure water exposure, sleeping on ground, and wet cold weather caused catarrh of kidneys and bladder, affecting many former service members.
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