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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
2
An elder recounts stopping a planned duel between two young masters Marse Charlie and Marse William on a Southern plantation. Pomp describes how he intervened by dousing Charlie’s hand with water and spanking William, preserving lives and quelling the danger.
A Jackson Michigan nurse Mrs Judson Ellis recalls backache and weakness improved by Dean's Kidney Pills. She urges others with kidney trouble signs to try the remedy, noting it helped her regain ability to work. Advert suggests 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
A Memphis wife recounts how her husband recovered from stomach and heart trouble after quitting coffee for Postum. She credits a yearlong switch, a 35 pound gain, and improved health, noting boiling Postum longer improved flavor. She promotes The Road to Wellville and urges others to try Postum.
The piece urges practical training for women in cooking sewing and basic domestic skills, notes value of grammar and high school education, endorses stenography, and shares a widowed mother’s experience. It cites Danish Judge Deborah and cites figures Mrs Morris McCulloch and Mary Cooper as contrasts to subjection.
A catalog of child fashion features three outfits. The right displays a King's blue wide ware cheviot street costume with a long coat, narrow skirt, large buttoned braid details, a panne velvet blue turban, and lynx furs. The left shows an amethyst satin gown with cross-stitch embroidery, net yoke and sleeves, and a black moire hat with a white lace bow, plus a black Ottoman silk top turban with panne velvet trim and gold quill. The bottom outfit is a silk satin cashmere house gown in apricot yellow with an overskirt and embroidered bodice.
The article describes a striking fashion with hair wound into a mass and secured by jade-headed pins, jade earrings, creating a picturesque look. It notes a new trend of tying a three cornered silk kerchief around the head, bows at the side above the ear, worn with evening gowns in London.
The jet button craze wanes as rough homespun fabrics appear on motor coats and everyday wear. Bullet buttons gain favor over lozenge shapes, hats stay Paris stylish with wide toque variations, kimono silks mix blotched dyes, and furs dominate afternoon wear. Dangling fur muff heads trend as poised hats sit lower. Meteor crepes and liberty satins persist but may yield to rough materials, with fashionable dancing slippers and casino gowns featuring subtle decolletage.
When carpets wear out switch to a bare floor with a few rugs. Clean thoroughly and fill cracks with putty colored filler. For knotty boards paint. transparent finish if not. Ammonia removes paint or varnish stains but darkens wood. Oil with crude oil linseed or kerosene sparingly for a good finish.
Cleopatra and Catherine de Medici are linked with corsets as royal champions. European monarchs including Joseph II Napoleon Louis XVIII and Charles X opposed tight lacing. The text notes Napoleon viewed corsets as frivolous and decadence while rulers historically banned them. The French Revolution briefly ended the garment’s dominance.
The Princess Stephanie, daughter of King Leopold, has obtained a patent for a novel gas stove. Minna Weisheim, a 10-year-old girl, astonishes U S immigration officials with fluency and literacy in seven languages. In South Norwalk, Connecticut, 200 women at a hat firm strike after employers demand ages to promote the three oldest to inspector roles.
A lighthearted note recalls how table cloths, in every household, attract spills and misfortunes during meals. The observation wryly captures the universal messiness of daily dining.
A guide discusses blouse choices to match a tailored suit with morning shirtwaists in white and afternoon variations in chiffon satin or silk. It highlights a satin model paired with a raisin cloth suit, detailing a plaited satin waist, chiffon yoke, velvet embroidery, and embroidered collar and cuffs. The piece ends with a quotation about words left unsaid from Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The German Housewives Association awarded prizes in New York to long-serving domestic workers. Twenty five young women with two years at one job received golden bees. Eight with four-year records were awarded not rings, and two with six years earned $10 gold pieces. The prizes are awarded every two years.
White ribbons washed with purse soap and soft water rolled about a wide card or pasteboard draped in muslin and placed under a heavy weight look fresher than when ironed.
The Kansas Farmer argues farm land values rise with productivity and steady demand. It notes high wages support buying power, firms markets, and that land able to yield 60 to 100 bushels of 50-cent corn per acre is worth about 150 dollars or more. Demand will outpace supply as surpluses fade.
A Breeders Gazette correspondent submits plans for six by six hog houses using six foot boards and pine flooring. The article argues for strong home markets for dairy poultry and produce and cites French farming as a model for selling locally. It also covers storing pumpkins to prevent frost damage and maintain quality into spring.
A Württemberg firm supplied forty seven goats to several workmen with easy terms. The arrangement included stables and small pasture plots for each home. The experiment yielded milk for family use and surplus milk for sale, with goats producing three to four quarts daily and calving arranged to maintain supply.
The passage notes bees were new to Indians and introduced from England shortly after the Pilgrims arrived. It states that true beekeeping began more than two centuries after white settlement, with the movable frame hive by Langstroth in 1852 marking the start of modern beekeeping.
A consular report on Trieste notes the hilly district is covered with pointed stones that hinder cultivation and recalls that years ago the Society Agraria addressed local land and game issues in the area.
Each autumn a commission measures the land and sets the prize for converting waste ground into meadow. In spring the commission returns to distribute rewards. This year sixty six peasants improved forty four acres and shared 1040 dollars in prizes.
Beehiving is presented as an ideal occupation for women combining profit and amusement with low space needs and minimal expense. Concrete beehives are highlighted as a recent improvement with a patent issued for their manufacture, and instructions suggest home fabrication with reusable molds while noting the importance of cement quality and understanding bee habits.
The article argues pullets maturing late or poorly fed hinder winter egg production and stresses stock quality over extra care. It notes sunshine aids health and mentions tuberculosis rising in northern dairy herds, plus a barn lighting pulley device to improve winter lighting and safety.
Kansas Farmer warns that continuous wheat farming depleted soils and lowered fertility. He argues manure production from livestock and crop rotation will restore soil wealth, stressing manure value and rotation as key economic factors for Kansas.
The Missouri Dairyman warns that next winter's proposed amendments to the oleomargarine law could erase its dairy product protections. Readers are urged to contact their congressman and press for a square deal, warning of political consequences in the coming campaign.
An Ohio inventor's stove utensil features a stewpan with three separate compartments that cook vegetables simultaneously on one lid or gas frame. Each receptacle has a liftable clip to remove when done, allowing different cooking times and saving gas by about one third.
A historical recipe for Queen Cream Biscuits uses two cups sifted flour half cup cream two teaspoons baking powder one teaspoon sugar and a pinch salt. Mix dry ingredients then add cream and one beaten egg, form small round cakes and bake ten minutes in a hot oven to yield a dozen biscuits.
A recipe instructs shredding a large onion in three pints of milk with celery, boiling in a double boiler. Meanwhile boil six or seven potatoes, mash, beat light, add to the milk, melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, season with pepper and salt, sieve and serve immediately.
Instructions describe making jelly with paraffin wax and fruit juice, cooling to allow sediment, optional mustard and onion juice, baking in cans, lemon rind with sugar, apple bread crumb mixture baked in a mold, and a chocolate nut caramel recipe with sugar chocolate milk flour vanilla walnuts baked in a pan.
A collection of practical cooking hints covers frying mush with egg white for crispness, cider in prune cooking water, preventing whipped egg white from falling, vanilla in sugar for agar flavor, restoring yellowed dishes with whiting, cooling milk by rinsing the pan, keeping celery in a sealed glass jar, soaking wilted celery in ice water, discarding opened canned goods, rinsing canned contents, using fresh butter milk salt and pepper, and removing heat marks from tables with lamp oil and spirits.
A noted physician offers a home remedy labeled as science based. The formula mixes half pint whiskey two ounces glycerine and half ounce Concentrated pine compound. Shake well and dose every four hours with a teaspoon to a tablespoon. Concentrated pine comes in half ounce bottles labeled Concentrated.
A reflection on constant cycles in dress and social trends. The text notes how items from pocket handkerchiefs to shoestrings are judged by current fashions. It argues that while styles shift in clothing and entertainment, beliefs should not be swept by fashionable whims.
The passage mixes a home rat poisoning method for outbuildings with sales details for Rough on Rats. It also contains scattered, unrelated jokes about a parlor scene and a Bible reference, followed by a brief catalog-style note about Dr Pierce’s Pills and a Washington Star quip on stage salaries.
A girl returning from England recalls a Berkshire custom where during an auction a short candle is lit at bidding start. The bid shouting continues until the candle burns out, with the final bid winning. She notes it as slow and less American than modern bidding.
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