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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1914
Page
4
An advertisement for Danderine promotes stopping dandruff itching and hair loss with a 25 cent bottle. It claims the product restores hair luster and fullness, urging readers to try it tonight and promising beautified hair. The piece cites a Knowlton’s bottle and includes a humorous Pittsburgh Post aside about promoters.
An advertisement touts Papes Diapepsin as fast relief for sour stomach indigestion and dyspepsia, claiming relief in five minutes with a fifty cent case. It urges readers to end stomach trouble and digestive discomfort quickly. The piece also mixes in assorted anecdotal items and reader notes about literature and eye remedies.
A garbled collage shows a mix of social chatter about war with Mexico and personal conversations about fathers, education, and fortune telling, interspersed with stray items about miners wages in 1912 British South Africa and Missouri native-born counts.
A dubious advertisement touts a blood remedy said to improve health by cleansing tissues and boosting vitality. It promises rapid relief from swollen eyes fatigue and other symptoms of poor blood and urges purchase at local drug stores in Atlanta Georgia.
A gritty omnibus of recipes for caramel desserts and related dishes. It covers caramel cake, caramel filling and sauce, caramel custard, caramel mousse, baked apple dumplings, Bancroft pudding, candied sweet potatoes, and a chicken dish from Boston. Each item provides ingredients and brief method notes suitable for home kitchens.
A fragment describes making Aunt Gally's Puddi a crumbly cake mix stirred with egg white and cold water to moisten crumbs. The mixture is poured into a buttered mold, covered, baked about an hour, then turned out hot and served with hard or vanilla.
A mixture of old household remedies and grocery notes. The page promotes California Syrup of Figs as a child laxative and mentions oiling bowels within hours. It moves to general domestic tips on baking powder usage, egg counts, and cooking recipes for kidneys, onions, and tomatoes.
An old Boston Globe advertisement for Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root claims safety and effectiveness for kidney and bladder issues. It includes a home recipe using potatoes, onion, and pepper, plus directions for a milk batter baked apples and offers sample bottles and drugstore availability with a mail order appeal.
A kitchen note shares a yeast raised cake base with milk butter sugar and eggs, kneaded with flour and a yeast cake, left to rise overnight, then baked. Variations include apple cake raisin cake cinnamon cake doughnuts and streusel toppings with a cinnamon almond mixture and jelly-filled forms.
A London Standard excerpt recalls the grand duchess of Tuscany, a venerable maid of honor about 70 with piercing black eyes described as old postchaise in appearance. The anecdote includes a playful age exchange ending with the sovereign stating she is 26.
An advertisement touts 10 cent cascarets for liver and bowels promising relief from constipation indigestion and biliousness. It claims rapid cleansing of the stomach removal of bad gases and bile reduction of waste with a box kept by druggists to keep systems clean and alert during sleep. Also includes stray quotes about a production and sugar cane crop notes.
A witty dialogue shows a husband remarking on a difficult new piece as the wife jokes she feels like an aviator trying to conquer the air. Aunt interjects about a boy next door advancing at school because his father is a promoter, prompting a boyish retort.
The farmers and wage earners of Tennessee have progressed with their cooperative union and may run a store in Memphis. Britain in 1907 produced and sold 3,000,000,000 bricks.
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