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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1908
Page
7
An advertising item extols Borax as a simple harmless preventive against epidemics caused by unsanitary sinks and drains. It claims two tablespoons per gallon hot water flush cleans pipes, promotes hygiene, and lists uses from whitening linen to cleansing baby bottles, offering a free Jingle Book for mothers sending tops from two one-pound cartons.
A fair guest asks Mr Simmons about the fright of being aloft in a balloon. The aeronaut explains that the earth seems to rise while the horizon appears to recede, like the rim of a soup bowl, with danger imagined as falling into soup if the balloon fails.
An old advertisement promotes a mailed seed catalog and assorted packets including Quick Quick Carrot Earliest Ripe Cabbage and Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. The offer claims 12 cents postpaid or 16 cents with an extra cauliflower, with seeds enough to grow 35 beds and thousands of flowers. John A Salter Seed Co La Crosse Wis signs the notice.
Thomas W. Lawson discusses a well known New York capitalist while recounting a Russian anecdote about Piotr unsure how to state his son's age to the military commissioner. The tale ends with a punchline about telling the exact age. Mrs. Austin's pancake flour advertised as a wholesome breakfast.
Uncle Allen Sparks humorously observes that many people never seem to get their share of the milk of human kindness. He remarks on short measure in social favors and community generosity.
An Ethica remedy Syrup of Fig and Elixir of Senna is praised as a wholesome family laxative approved by physicians and the Well Informed of the World. It is sold by all leading druggists and manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The article details ice cutting and storage using a wooden derrick, two poles, and a cross-cut saw, with a focus on efficient lifting and packing in an ice house. It also covers dressing and shipping poultry and pork, including slaughter timing, scalding temperatures, plucking, cooling, packing in boxes, and conservative hog price estimates for summer resale.
A design description from the Montreal Star details a dairy and ice house with a partition wall half the thickness and unfilled to create closed air spaces between studs. The side is filled with spent tan bark or other dry non-conducting material to improve insulation.
An expert outlines that one acre can yield about 200 bushels of berries worth 300 dollars under rich cultivation. Causes of poor crops include infertile land, improper soil prep, unsuitable varieties, poor planting, and bad fertilizers. Also discusses dairy cattle types and features of the dairy animal.
The article urges farmers to review winter practices to cut losses from leaks and waste. It cites barnyard fodder feeding, manure leaching, cold stables, disorganized storage, and time wasted searching for items as costly, unnecessary inefficiencies to fix.
The article breaks down per ton manure content by feed and bedding: wheat straw yields about 10 lb nitrogen 2 lb phosphorus and 17 lb potassium. timothy hay 24 3 24. clover hay 40 5 30. alfalfa hay unspecified but total values show $2.76 for wheat straw $5.40 timothy $8.40 clover and $9.42 for alfalfa per ton at given prices per element.
Secretary Wilson notes beets yielded 483000 tons and cane sugar 272000 tons in 1906, enough for all west of the Mississippi. Rice output reached 800 million pounds, meeting domestic demand. he says farmers should grow all soils allow.
Breeders and dairymen are urged to recognize that a bull is half the herd as his blood and traits dominate over years. A good sire yields lasting positive influence, while a poor one requires years to eliminate faulty features from the herd.
The speaker argues farmers are backward about advertising and should use the county paper. Using the medium improves the paper and community, and selling stock or seeds through ads will pay.
The article explains that some crops cannot follow specific predecessors and others cannot precede certain crops. It contrasts these with crops that can be grown year after year on the same soil and can follow any other crop, outlining rotation considerations for sustaining land.
A recipe fragment outlines mixing raisins currants suet sugar flour bread crumbs almonds grated nutmeg citron lemon peel and eggs then soaking overnight. Shape into a cloth tied and boiled two and a half hours, with musk added before serving.
A historic kitchen primer mixes caramel making with bacon oysters and cider baked apples. It describes dissolving chocolate and sugar with milk and molasses then testing for hardness before adding vanilla. It also covers broiled oysters with bacon on toast and a cider simmered apple dessert with staged additions.
A recipe collection lists a pineapple cake with eggs sugar butter milk and baking powder plus corn meal and a stiff batter baked in a square tin. Also included are layered pineapple filling instructions and a fried oyster dish with parsley. Additional entries cover apple pudding acidulated water and a rich fruit cake. Milk bottle care and storage tip conclude the page.
The excerpt offers various domestic aids including using sweet milk in water to wash linoleum, boiling buttermilk to brighten lamp burners, and feeding scraps to poultry. It suggests lettuce greens on toast, bronze cleaning with whiting and plumbago paste, and polishing brass with bath brick. adds bacon water with vinegar and cloves, steam in oven to prevent overbrowning, and diverting greasy water to the garden as fertilizer for roses.
A light column presents humorous vignettes on quirks of people today. A cartoonish exchange questions Hy ker's past shady dealings, revealing he once made awnings. A mock scene shows a stern parent scolding Johnny with a slipper, humorously noting the tailor fit caused six corns and a twinion.
A collection of short humorous dialogues and a sports snippet. Banter about thinning and thickening, stepchildren, steak questions, and a father’s cautionary tale about a drum and a rooster. Also a college girls’ football remark about rivalry and scrimmage tensions.
A comic column features Mrs Stubb opposing clipping dogs tails and declares a law needed. Blecker jokes about a necktie purchase as Meeker explains the neck wound. In the Lumber Yard, two Tramps swap sleep excuses over a comic supplement. A Confession reveals marital regrets arranged as a joke.
A playful dialogue sketch features Mr De Wells and others noting humor with his son-in-law, a dentist, and social ease. Gallery chatter by Reggy DuBarry references European galleries while 10-20-20 cent galleries proliferate. Domestic quips contrast courage and social status across regions including Africa and Russia.
A collage of short humorous exchanges and cartoons features characters like Mrs Benham Uncle Slank and Lucy in domestic and social skits. Lines poke at ambition romance manners and common misers with quick punchy punchlines and a New York bank tale about the Clearing House.
A playful dialogue features Maria and John debating dinner plans as a market crisis sparks reactions. Mrs Nora Mann jokes about suffrage and women’s rights while Kutting Hintz jokes about two dollar votes selling for under two dollars. A timid suitor asks about parental forgiveness for elopement and a maid’s reply implies conditional acceptance. Hyker and Pyker tease indigestion and hot water coffee remedies at a boarding house.
A humorous essay compares legendary giants to modern real giants noting that historical tall tales far exceed today’s seven and a half footers. Real giants are shown as slow, dull, unhealthy, inept at self care, and lacking endurance despite brief bursts of strength.
In Harper’s Weekly a grim scene shows two gaunt hoboes peering in at a railway station telegrapher. They request “a couple o’ empties goin’ east” in husky tones. The quip closes with a moral about flattery.
For two years Dr. Hartman and assistants pursued Peruna in tablet form. The Peruna Tablets aim to deliver the same medicinal ingredients as the liquid, with each tablet equal to one average dose.
Miss Wentworth notices a man on a park bench in plain work clothes who claims he is doing nothing. She misreads him as a gardener's helper and questions him about his occupation. He remains calm and unattached, saying he has no job at present.
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