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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
9
A girl designs and refreshes her own brown themed room with cream and yellow accents. She tint paints, dyes rugs, crafts slip covers, hangs cretonne with yellow rose pattern, and organizes a yellow rose mirror and cream furniture to create a bright personal space. A column continues with unrelated jokes about a Detroit newspaper man and a quip about Ruth and Love as a game.
An Ils. Woman reports drinking coffee twenty years, suffering coffee heart and nerves, then switching to Postum. Within two weeks kidney and bowel function improved, heart action steadied, nerves calmer, and capacity for hard mental labor increased. Instant Postum advertised with preparation details and a call to request a booklet.
A historic home economy guide shares inventive uses for stale bread. Methods include steaming thick squares with butter and maple syrup, frying egg battered pieces, French toast variants, crustless-Nature croutons fried to brown, and a plum butter pudding layered with bread and fruit.
A thin apple sauce forms the base for small dumplings made from reliable flour and milk. After softening, add sugar, butter, and cinnamon to taste, then cook about 20 minutes with the dumplings covered. Serve with hard sauce or sweet hot sauce and optional berries.
A recipe instructs beating one egg and sugar into flour to make a stiff paste, rolling thin, shaping rose petals, layering, frying, draining, then filling with ice cream and topping a butterfly made from the same dough iced with white frosting and chocolate. From Harper's Bazar.
A dated recipe describes mixing cornmeal salt butter and milk until pourable, dissolving soda in water, adding an egg, beating, and baking in a hot oven until just cooked. It should be about an inch thick and not brown on top. Serve hot with butter or molasses and cut into wedges like a pie.
The reader describes using paraffin melted in an old coffee pot to pour wax over jelly, a simple method to avoid dripping on the table or tray.
Before washing lace collars, baste them tightly on white cloth to prevent stretching or tearing. Do not use starch, and the collars will look like new.
A bulb-like hollow pendant hangs between scale chains not as ornament but houses pellets used to adjust balance. The top unscrews and pellets can be added or removed to correct any misalignment, making precise weighing possible without major disassembly.
Dr Alexis Carrel at Rockefeller Institute shows arteries preserved in cold storage can stay alive for 30 days and be substituted for living arteries. Experiments join arteries and veins between living spouses, revive an infant's blood with a parent's, and even transplant kidneys from one cat to another as researchers envision a future where dead organs repair the living.
A detailed life-saving garment designed by a Canadian is illustrated. The wearer sits in a boat shaped center rubber sal t inflated by tubes connected to the chest. Cushioned sides keep the wearer afloat while arms and legs remain free for movement. It takes time to don but ships rarely sink without warning. A double paddle could be added for easier maneuvering.
Large Dry Dock in Boston appropriates 3,000,000 for constructing a dock capable of handling the largest ocean liners. New York lacks a comparable facility. The Titanic would have had to remain in New York harbor indefinitely if unable to reach a dock able to accommodate her.
Prof Charles Richet of the Academy of Medicine describes an air purifier using a small electric ventilator that moves about 200 cubic meters of air per hour. A glycerin reservoir and fine droplets create a contact surface to trap germs, dust, microbes, and spores, purifying the air and potentially reducing scarlet fever smallpox and consumption contagion.
A late type of motor ambulance features a bed mounted on spiral springs said to eliminate vibration. The bed lifts from the frame and springs can be used as a stretcher to move a patient to and from the ambulance, Popular Mechanics notes.
The modernization wave after the Civil War produced numerous breakthroughs including automobiles elevators barb wire fences artificial ice wire nails grain elevators and many more. The era also saw advances in heating paving glass mining drills safes wireless telegraph and wireless telephone among others.
A Brooklyn doctor uses quinine as anesthetic while a Jerusalem diamond polish factory opens. A patent suit’s skirt doubles as cape, Cleveland opens a motion picture theater showing films concurrently, and a 60‑bullet air rifle is touted. Global notes include France’s safety record in nylation and Carnotite’s new radioactivity findings.
An ad touts United Shoe Machinery Company Boston as aiding small manufacturers to start and grow by leasing machines based on production income. It claims equal treatment for all firms and cites a path to maintain up to date equipment, while small factories would not exist without their methods. A distracted tale of nerve follows about a restaurant incident.
An advertisement-style note from 1911 touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment curing severe body and scalp itching and dandruff. It features Charley Judlin’s testimonial and an offer for free samples, with background promo quotes about William Dean Howells and New Leaf Mills.
A quirky read on a downtown menu note about prices changing during service, an eager crime prevention ad promising a daily fly killer, a Brooklyn advertiser for Somers with a dubious scheme, and a shopper’s quip about a house pie joke. The page mixes mock ads and oddball lines typical of a past midtown paper.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as an overnight remedy for constipation and indigestion. It claims easy morning relief, non-gripeing formula, and suitability for all ages with a free sample offer by mailing address to Monticello Illinois.
Rubber coats benefit from automobile soap a dark jelly like cleaner available at auto stores or garages. Create a strong lather clean thoroughly apply soap to a small area rinse with clear water and proceed to the next area then dry outdoors.
The article advises avoiding water on tiled hearths and recommends using turpentine on a flannel, followed by a dry cloth to restore shine. It also notes a burden being lifted as beata trains in a gymnasium to increase strength.
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