Practical Household Hints and Health Notices
A compilation of domestic tips on preserving vinegar in improper containers, cleaning varnish marks with methylated spirit, removing brown oven stains with borax, using dried potato peels for fuel, polishing metals with brick dust and whiting, improving soup storage, filigree silver cleaning with cream of tartar, treating zinc washtubs with paraffin oil, and paraffin for stain removal. Also a medical notice on deafness claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure and brief remarks on Supreme Court appointments, politics, and Piso's Cure with price.
Coconut Kisses and Free Sample Offer
Instructions for making coconut kisses with egg whites sugar and vanilla, plus a recipe variation with grated coconut. An advertisement offers a free sample of Allen's Foot Ease from Allen 8 Olmstead LeRoy NY, claiming it cures chilblains damp swelling and foot pain and aids fitting shoes with a 25 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
The West as a State of Mind in Butte City
A prose sketch contrasts the imagined Western ideal with the actual cities of the Pacific and the surprisingly Western character of Butte City, six hundred miles inland. It notes gendered views on weather and ends with a quip about King Edward’s claimed lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Portland
Seattle
Butte City
Noted Authors and New Books Highlight 1900s Literary Scene
The article surveys recent and forthcoming works by Anna Katherine Green Bobbs Merrill Company and George Ade. It notes Ben Hur enduring popularity and the growing interest in domestic service memoirs by Lillian Pettingill. It also highlights Rose Hartwick Thorpe's Curfew and Winslow Plain by Sarah P. McLean Greene, praising their moral warmth and literary impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Katherine Green
Bobbs-Merrill Company
McClure, Phillips & Co
Babel
Order of Ben Hur
Marie van Vorst
John D. van Vorst
Doubleday, Page & Co
Lillian Pettingill
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
California
England
Detroit
Blacklist of Clichés Raises Call for Printing Reform
London Academy argues for a three year ban on overused phrases in print and urges editors to purge dull expressions such as well earned rest and scenes of triumph. The piece criticizes tautology and ornamental wording while praising plain language and concise journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Johnson
Boswell
Swan
Avon
North
CheWwea
London Academy
Stage humor and social respect in a wary audience
A boy describes a prank where one man strikes another with a stuffed club on stage. The passage questions whether a woman can be too attractive for other women to deem respectable. It notes limited sympathy for men injured in a so called friendly scuttle.
Pe-Ru-Na Health Claims From 19th Century Ad
An old advertisement extols Pe-ru-Na as life saving for women troubled by catarrh of pelvic organs and barren conditions. It frames motherhood as a noble ideal, cites biblical context, and presents grateful letters from women who credit Pe-ru-Na with restoring strength, health, and happiness.
Peruna praised by mothers and neighbors in letters
Mrs McRoberts writes from Delano Mississippi after a 10 pound baby girl birth praising Peruna and Manalin for catarrh and strength. Mrs Griffith from Arco Idaho reports tarreness cured and a 25 pound 6 month old baby. Other letters claim recovery from la grippe and long illness with Peruna's help. Dr Hartman offers free medical advice and Hartman Sanitarium address in Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. B. Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Manalin
L. M. Griffith
Arco
Idaho
la Grippe
Alupa
E. Thomas
Small Hydrogen Atom and Anomalies in a Crooks Tube
A discussion on the hydrogen atom as the smallest particle, noting incandescent particles in a Crooks tube are far smaller. Mention of Mr. Wyndham seeking a serum for anomalies in Treland and the surprising birth of twins. A wink compared to a wireless message to a soda clerk in a dry town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crooks Tube
Burdick Woman Seeks Stage Role After Tragedy
The passage notes Mrs. Burdick, widow and loverless, turning to theater work while John D. Rockefeller visits the Grand Canyon with hints of plans to buy it. The czar praises the United States as the greatest country and a shift toward American opinion is described as gradual. It claims average women can judge old style dresses by sleeve design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John 1D. Rockefeller
Grand Canyon
Colorado
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Bromo-Seltzer
Hall
J, Cheney & CO
Toledo, Y
Wildlau R. Day
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Holmes
Peckham
McKenna
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
McKinley
Cleveland
Harrison
Hayes
Supreme Bench
Condit
King Edward
Abraham
S.S
Atlanta
Gas
Ind
S&s
H.W. Shes
Hpaussian
Prussian Remedy Co
St. Paul
Minn
Groomer
Algin
Portland Seed CO
Oregon
Coast
Pe-Ru-Na
Mrs. W. McRoberts
Pe-runa
Israel
Delano
Castoria
New
Suk Sgeo
Rae
Bears
New Vora City
Kruhling
Congress St
St. Louis
Candy Seer
de Goud
Verling Kemedy Company
Chicago
Montreal
New York
Aaya
Mitchell & Bee Line Buggies
Mitchell, Lewis & Stayer CO
First St
Portland, OR
Spokane
Boise
S.N.U
Wues
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