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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
8
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip contrasts a stubborn cleaning obsession with St. Peter. A woman asks how often the saints clean house, and the gatekeeper replies with a broom and dustpan instead of a harp, highlighting enduring habits.
A passenger grumbles about the boat’s pace and raises concern to the steward who smiles and notes the trend of rising speeds and passenger reactions during the voyage.
A ten day trial of Postum reportedly clears up complexion and stomach troubles caused by tea and coffee. A Washa family describes years of sallow skin, pimples, bad breath, and nerves from tea and coffee, then improvement after switching to Postum.
A housekeeper can replace meat with fresh garden pepper based soup and other vegetable soups. It details a pepper onion soup thickened with flour and milk, a French onion soup with browned onions and stock, and a lettuce rice soup with butter stock and cream, all served hot with croutons.
Heat two eggs with sugar for three minutes then add flour with baking powder and boiling water. Stir in vanilla, bake in a moderate oven and cut into two inch squares. Prepare a cream by heating milk with sugar, corn starch, unsweetened chocolate, butter, and powdered cocoa to pour over the squares.
Recipe notes describe a boiled cider sauce with white sugar butter and vanilla served over pudding. The pudding batter mixes buttermilk sugar lard eggs vanilla and baking powder with flour until stiff. Cherries or fruit are placed in teacups with batter and steamed for an hour.
A new tea table design serves as a table or tray with folding automatic legs. The tray measures 27 by 17 inches and stands 24 inches high when opened. Variants include plain mahogany with brass handles, inlaid, satin wood, and includes options with plated or sterling silver trim. A green cloth playing board fits into the tray for card games.
Use a borax rinse to stiffen lace and bows in laundering. Mix two heaping tablespoons to five quarts of water for best results. This method works well for thin white waists and is preferable to starch.
Incomplete reading shows a fragmentary query or note about a gown or other item and a value like 7p. The text is unclear and lacks discernible events, persons, or places.
A practical guide from Iowa State College outlines making a dry mash feed box for poultry. The self feeding hopper design measures about 20 inches high, 8 feet long, and 12 inches wide with a sloped lower half and 2 inches clearance above the bottom trough. The article also lists dry mash mixtures for young chicks and laying hens including corn meal, wheat middlings, bran, alfalfa, beef scrap, cracked corn, and beet pulp.
Carelessness in handling and marketing eggs during summer costs Iowa farmers tens of thousands yearly. Improve by drying eggs, selling weekly, keeping cockerels and breeding cocks confined, storing cool and dry, and using clean cases. Gather eggs daily or twice daily in heat, reject dirty or cracked eggs, and market only fresh, well-handled stock to protect prices.
Dairymen praise alfalfa as a continuous summer feed and a superior winter hay. The Breeders' Journal extols alfalfa as a square deal fertilizer, boosting farm fertility and offering cost fruit nitrogen. It promises alfalfa bread and baked goods as household staples, citing New York show tastings of samples.
Nearly 4,000 additional hospital beds for consumptives across 29 states were provided during the year ending June 1, per the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Total beds exceed 30,000, roughly one per ten indigent patients, with New York leading in numbers and Alabama showing the highest percentage gain.
A collage of vintage ad like lines references Castoria for infants and children, Fletcher's Castoria claims and a sample offer, Cole's Carbonsalve for burns and cuts, a joking exchange about financing a third party, a sea level quip, and a herbal laxative called Ten. The fragment hints at mid century consumer culture and light humor.
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