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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1914
Page
4
A garbled injury and medicine advertisement heavy with misprints touts Dr Peerys Vermifage Dead Shot as a remedy for worms and ailments, alongside Papes Diapepin stomach aid claims. It references contests, receipts, and various products with dubious science, interwoven with unrelated notes on digestion and eye remedies.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a hair treatment that doubles beauty after one application and dissolves dandruff, claiming heavy, soft, lustrous hair. It warns dandruff weakens hair roots and causes itching. A separate streetcar incident reports a baby abandoned on a Warren Me to Thomaston trip.
A Berlin court dances scene features a guardian figure who watches dancers and warns awkward guests that they may be excluded until they learn proper steps. The note highlights strict etiquette at formal gatherings and social exclusion for missteps.
The article lists four key wintering requirements for breeding ewes. A dry, sunny, well ventilated warm shelter. constant access to pure water to prevent parasites. regular feeding of a hay and flower mix with daily corn fodder. and a six week pre lambing shift to a bran and oats mix to prepare ewes for lambing.
A smoking tree in Ong, Japan is noted as a natural wonder that smokes only in the evening after sunset, with smoke issuing from the top of the trunk. The piece warns readers to beware and avoid the area if involved in certain local affairs or districts.
A 1912 testimonial from Mrs Alva Baxter of Orange Texas claims severe back pain and kidney trouble were cured after using Kilmer's Swamp Root. The letter states nine years of good health since treatment, with a notary public verification and an offer to send a sample for ten cents plus a booklet. It promotes Dr Kilmer Co samples and bottle sales.
Night damp quarters cause leg weakness in ducks. Dry straw covered pens prevent cramps and rheumatism. Overfeeding with bran is also a cause. reduce cornmeal and meat scraps, increase bran and add powdered charcoal. Avoid whole corn. feed lighter, healthier rations to restore strength.
Prof Moor of Wisconsin College cautions that strawberry losses come from adglent handling of nursery plants. Open packages immediately and heel in plants in a sun and wind sheltered spot. Create a broad V trench eight inches deep, distribute plants along it, refill and firm soil without covering crowns. Label varieties to prevent mix-ups.
A jumble of ad copy and brief anecdotes from historical pages. It mentions Cascarets for liver and bowel relief, a professor’s cautionary umbrella tale, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, and odds and ends about oatmeal stories and the Balkans amid an earthquake. Also notes the English postal wire totals.
Practical 19th or early 20th century cooking notes for fried chicken ox tail beef and ham pies oyster pie creamed salt mackerel and baked salt mackerel. Instructions cover prep methods fat heat times dredging and making gravies or sauces with ingredients like butter milk stock flour pepper salt and parsley.
The text describes making a caramel Bavarian cream with caramelized sugar, cream, lemon rind, egg yolks, gelatin, and whipped cream, then molding and chilling. It also outlines a country pot roast procedure: brown a roast in butter, sear all sides, add to a hot pot with browned juices, cover and slow cook for three hours, keeping moisture with water and a flour-salt mix, turning several times.
A compact set of kitchen directions for Dumas sauce. It lists ingredients: salt white pepper shallot minced, finely chopped onion, parsley, olive oil, tabasco, mustard, and vinegar. Instructions urge mixing well and serving at table.
Break a half pound of soft maple sugar into rural places and put into a saucepan with half a cupful of boiling water. Boil without stirring until the syrup threads when dropped from the spoon tip. Pour gradually on beaten white of two eggs, beating constantly until spreading consistency. B. V. B.
A recipe fragment describes shaping bread rounds from rye sandwiches with a paste of Brazil nuts jam celery paprika salt and cream cheese, thin bread to avoid breakage, and serving with tea. It also outlines a Cream of Chicken Soup using leftover carcass skin and barley, simmered then thickened with milk and butter.
In a regional economic note China reports its first cotton mill from 1891 remains active with 34 mills in operation. Wisconsin meanwhile shows 72 towns engaged in 8 statewide social center programs, indicating growing civic collaboration.
An old newspaper ad promotes California Syrup of Figs as a remedy for constipation in infants and children with panicked medical tone. It claims a teacupful clears foul waste quickly and mentions a 60 cent bottle with full directions for all ages. The piece also notes other items and random quotes from various papers.
Red Bank, N J Special Advices report Dr H C Kirkins claims a universal remedy for epilepsy. Patients are urged to write for a gratis supply from Branch 90 Red Bank N J as cases show improvement and some claim cure. Also noted are light entertainment quips and Texas sulphur deposits discovery.
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