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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
3
A rounded recounts a quirky chafing dish bluff from a past cafe supper. The waiter sets a crabmeat dish beside a lit alcool lamp, which flickers as the dish arrives. The episode is tied to a broader sense of stagey dining theatrics and local showiness.
Special report from Middlesex New York details Betsey A Clawson who suffered inflammatory rheumatism for five years plus gout. After using two boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills she regained ability to perform daily tasks and even garden work within two weeks, attributing her cure to the medicine and its cleansing effect on uric acid in the blood.
In a Berkeley letter dated Sept 2, 1901 Mrs. Morgan laments poverty yet jokes about a poet husband who can finally afford beefsteak and onions. A matron counsels pride in finding a poet able to provide such meals and mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption as a health measure tried for almost two years.
A fragment from a humor piece satirizing American wit across continents. ACT I shows a drunken man at a railway station and remarks that he is recovering from the grip. ACT II features a London club reflection that the man was not drunk, prompting punchline notes. ACT III echoes a similar misread, with influenza cited as the real cause, ending with praise for American humor.
An enthusiastic letter extols Postum Coffee as a healthful alternative to coffee. The writer, once plagued by indigestion and severe nervous trouble, credits Postum with improved sleep, reduced drug effects from coffee, and overall well being. The testimonial endorses flavor, ease of preparation, and notes cream enhances taste.
The narrator and a Roumanian hero named Kinko halt a runaway Grand Transasiatic train as Faraskiar’s gang sabotages the engine. Kinko sacrifices himself to save passengers, the boiler and tender are wrecked, and the survivors regroup at Suen-Choo awaiting a relief engine. Faruskine, Ghangir, and four Mongols vanish as the investigation begins.
Popof signals a change at Pekin as the narrator seeks a suitable hotel for a prolonged stay scandalously aware of Kinko’s death. After a Chinese dinner at the Hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams, fatigue and duty clash over delivering an unhappy case to Mademoiselle Zince Klerk, envisioning a dramatic, bloodless “empty” box arrival.
Liskum, a waifish veteran reporter in the Brooklyn Eagle newsroom, is dismissed over a third word story amid confrontations with concerned locals. Editor Rockman then rehires him as assistant city editor, while Tompkins protests and retreats to the city room stove.
A witty exchange notes little public taste for skyscraper humor. The humorist replies that higher themes could be pursued, while a well-meaning friend presses for more ambitious topics.
A traditional rich plain pudding combines suet, bread crumbs, dried fruits including cherries raisins currants and sultanas, almonds and apples with lemon rind juice baking powder and eggs. Mix dry ingredients, whisk in eggs with milk and brandy, blend thoroughly, and steam in molds or cloths for ten to twelve hours.
Cream of fish soup made from rich cold cooked fish, bones, fat and skin minced. Two cups boiling water with onion, milk heated with butter and flour, soaked bread dust in milk, beaten eggs folded in, combine with fish and water, serve hot.
A thrift recipe for a wholesome brown suet pudding. It guides warming molasses, mincing suet, mixing with flour, salt, cream of tartar, soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg, then adding treacle suet and raisins. Stir, add milk, wrap in a floured cloth, and boil three hours.
A historic recipe details batter from flour milk eggs and butter with ripe strawberries folded in sugar. Fry large spoonfuls in hot lard and serve with a sauce made from flour butter sugar and boiling water until thickened.
A vintage recipe lists six ounces of ground rice and flour each, quarter pound butter or lard and sugar, one teaspoon baking powder, one egg plus a splash of milk. Mix, form balls with a jam center, coat in egg white and sugar, flatten slightly, and bake on a tin in a hot stove.
A method to color lemonade pink using cochineal is described. Boil one ounce of cochineal, one ounce of cream of tartar, and a quarter ounce of alum with half a pint of water for twenty minutes. A small amount colors the drink without materially changing its taste.
A column of quick fixes covers tenderizing meat with vinegar, smoothing creaky furniture with soap on a pencil lead, preventing chopped meat from sticking with ground rice, removing medicine stains from silver with sulphuric acid and soapsuds, erasing stubborn knife stains with raw potato and brick dust, soaking bacon to reduce fat, and treating sea water stains on delicate materials with soft water and ammonia. A test on a parasol is advised before full use.
A Mrs Davin recounts years of misery from irregular functions and sick headaches. After exhausting doctors and remedies, she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring health, strength, and vitality, claiming she now feels like a sixteen year old. The ad notes the pills help anemia and irregular periods and are sold by druggists.
A young man hides a lit cigarette on his left hand while a companion protests. He teases by snatching her shopping bag and dropping something inside. She closes the bag unaware of the smoke. Some riders miss their stop as the intrigue ends without further incident.
J W Walls Lebanon Kentucky superintendent of streets reports severe kidney pain and backache. After doctors failed he used Doan's Kidney Pills, experiencing quick lasting relief. The Vester Milburn Co Buffalo New York markets them at 50 cents per box.
A Baltimore American noted gag line humorously naming Yellow Art and a chain of relatives to allude to a half tone portrait of a man linked by rumor to a kidnap plot. The item plays on muddled genealogy and the murky identity of a suspect in Sloppy Sadie the Sad-Hyed Shop Girl case.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder sold in druggists and shoe stores. Claims cure for tired aching hot swollen feet and corns and bunions. Mentions addresses in Olmsted Le Roy and Allen's Foot-Ease sample price 26 cents.
The readable portions show quoted dialogue and stray names such as Drape and Beanee Barprie Hamed mixed with phrases about torment and a scene. The content lacks coherent story, dates, places, or verifiable entities to summarize into a full news item.
A fragment from a literary piece presents a dialogue where a mother and father discuss Solomon and the limits of wisdom in answering a child’s question. The exchange hints at parental doubt and the old tale’s moral about wisdom.
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