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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
7
A Harper's Bazaar piece recounts a Dresden neurologist dismissing neurasthenia and endorsing silence solitude and sleep as cures. The essay humorously notes golf and Egypt as distractions while urging gratitude for a nervy modern society and the brain worker's role.
For ordinary garments and curtains it is best to gather on a machine rather than by hand. A chain stitch machine can gather with the thread wrapped twice around the tension and a double threaded setup allows slack tension and under thread fullness to produce satisfactory gathering.
A resident of Anniston Alabama urges others to try Dean's Kidney Pills after thirty years of kidney trouble. Col T R Matthews reports relief after using multiple boxes at J L Wikle's drug store, with back pain and frequent kidney secretions improving. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as U S sale agents. Remember the name Doan's.
A vivid guide explains how all ages join a picture puzzle fad using a jig saw. Create from an artistic colored image pasted to white holly wood, then finely cut into pieces. Photographic study of the image helps reassembly, and detailing makes the puzzle more engaging.
Practical tips for household care include using folded newspaper between toes to reduce shoe friction for four or five days, Castile soap as a corn preventive, and an oatmeal bath as a soothing rash remedy for children. A simple sugar syrup on straws dried in a warming oven is also described.
A historical cooking fragment lists one pound of liver one half pound of suet and one onion chopped fine one quart of stale bread crumbs one teaspoonful of poulley dressing salt and pepper to style one egg or a little milk to moisten Mold with flour form cakes or balls and fry in deep fat
Three pounds carrots steam until tender then mix with four pounds sugar plus grated lemon rind and juice. Add ten cents’ worth shelled almonds and cook thirty to forty minutes. Results in a delicious preserve comparable to orange marmalade.
A telegraph clerk recalls a handsome young woman who sought a message to her lover. She repeatedly altered the note and finally tore it up, writing Dearest, come home, All Is forgiven, a tale of heartbreak and forgiveness.
A quick guide suggests sprinkling flour in a pan to reduce sputtering when frying eggs. It also offers a method to clean mud stains from tan leather shoes using raw potato slices, followed by drying polish. For finger marks on paint, rub with a clean white cloth dipped in kerosene, then wipe wood with a dry cloth.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Liniment for muscular rheumatism sprains and bruises. It claims quick relief with no internal treatment and notes prices of 25 cents and 50 cents for larger bottles, sold by Elam Ordway & Houser.
A historical recipe describes boiling a pint of water, melting a third of a cake of pure white soap, then cooling the mixture in a jar. For use, dissolve a couple of tablespoonfuls in warm water, apply to hair and scalp several times, then rinse with clear warm water.
Peel and chop half a pound of mushrooms. Simmer in two cups of brown gravy with lemon zest and salt and pepper. After thirty minutes strain, add lemon juice and spoon over steak. Garnish with butter fried sliced mushrooms.
A careful cook risks scorching when vigilance slips. A new device, a metal inverted pie plate with many perforations, rests at the kettle bottom to keep contents from touching the overheated surface and prevent scorch.
Authorities discuss the emergence of a new Japanese girl, her schooling from ages six to seventeen, and the shift from youthful pleasure to duty. The piece details education in reading, science, English, arts, and tea ceremony, plus the social role of daughters-in-law and doll festivals tied to family heritage.
A simple method to prepare a ham bake in the old style. Spread eight or ten slices of cold boiled ham with mustard, add cayenne, melt butter with currant jelly, layer the ham, brown, and serve at once.
The text describes peeling orange skins removing the white membrane, slicing into narrow strips, soaking in cold water for two hours, then wiping dry and boiling two.
Ethnologist notes the Nicobar islands south of the Andamans show a rare hat mania shaping society. Every resident seeks peculiar old hats, secondhand goods preferred, traders from Calcutta sell old hat cargoes for coconuts, and even fishermen wear tall white hats with black bands.
A pair of quotes contrasts time as a thief in the night with the idea of watches being stolen. The lines frame time as a covert taker and introduce a witty remark about stolen timekeeping devices.
A woman asks about cut glass at home and recalls a remark from her wife stating she scratched a few pieces with a diamond. The exchange highlights a household curiosity and a casual remark about minor damage.
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