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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1895
Page
7
Instructions describe selecting large smooth tomatoes, blanching, peeling, and pre cooking in a hot oven. The tomatoes are stewed with separate tomato juice, strained, then packed into self sealing jars with hot juice. Jars sealed, cooled, and stored in a cool dark place for later use.
A lengthy tout of the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo claims riches in treatments for chronic diseases across a wide range, promising cures via medical and surgical means with patient letters and a 168 page guide. It also narrates meteoric events, political musings, and advertisements for Hood's Sarsaparilla, Simmons Liver Regulator, and Dr. Pierce's Pellets, plus assorted local anecdotes.
A Swedish American Chicago inventor A S Hedberg unveils a galvanized iron two part lifeboat toy that floats right side up with ballast. The model features a turnip shape, water tight clamps, port holes, ventilation, a lantern atop a flagstaff, oar holes and a cork like buoyant bottom. Sizes proposed include eight by six feet seating ten and ten by twelve feet seating twenty five with wholesale cost around 125 dollars. A full scale boat would carry supplies for weeks and avoid sinking. An existing demo boat already operates on Lake Calumet with expectations for Lake Michigan deployment.
Jacob Sverdrup emerges as the central figure in Norway’s Sw ish Danish union question. King Oscar asks him to form a ministry but he declines, yet he remains the de facto leader of Norway with broad respect for honesty independence and fairness. Sverdrup born March 27 1845 is a cleric and writer from Bergen who entered the storting in 1878 and later served as chief of the Norwegian ecclesiastical department before resigning from the cabinet in 1880 and returning to public life.
A detailed guide from Ohio Farmer on making a decorative forget me not doily. It covers linen selection, transferring the pattern with a glass technique, enlarging patterns with a circle method, stitching styles such as buttonhole and satin, color options, and finishing edges for a polished look.
A Ladies' Name Journal note urges invitations to fit a child friendly party. It suggests engraved stationery with appealing images for kids, such as animals or birds delivering the cards. A Brownies motif carrying envelopes could be used for a playful touch.
The darning basket can be constructed to serve a useful purpose by stacking three flat topped baskets in graduated sizes. Line them with silk and allocate one for glove mending one for stocking darning and one for shoes with a small pouch for buttons a spool of heavy linen thread and a flannel leaf of large needles. This nest of baskets will be frequently in demand.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item advises rejuvenating shop worn corsets by scrubbing with a brush dipped in a strong ammonia solution after removing all steels, then tacking the corset to a board to scrub and dry. For delicate cotton shirt waists, use white castile soap and dry away from the sun.
A lemon cut in half or quarters may stop any ordinary hair falling out by applying the pulp to the roots. California diamonds come in colors from white to black with rose pink yellow blue and green.
Special to Our Lady Readers tells how Miss Florence of Beacon Street Boston suffered monthly menses suppression and excruciating pain. Doctors gave morphine. recovery came after Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Florence praises the remedy and urges others to try it.
A historical guide outlines dinner party etiquette with guest introductions, invitation timing, seating order, and roles. It notes that guests precede hosts’ daughters, invitations list the host and hostess, and men escort ladies to dine with specific seating, while brides retain no automatic precedence during early marriage.
From the Good World reports Uennt Rocrefort follows Zola and Jules Clarette in taking up cycling. JonN SuenMAN writes recollections of public service. Tuer Browning society in London marks a poet baptism anniversary. Coxon Dove buys land on a Scottish mountain to build and write. Lady JeuNE’s New Woman articles spark surprising results. her husband Sir Francis Jeune bikes. Paris may see a new Bashkirtseff craze from Motoyosi Savian’s poverty death in a hospital. Alexander Dunas widower briefly remarries Mme Regnier, widow of Sardou’s actor, with Legouve as witness.
A tongue in cheek survey claims the human body comprises thirteen elements with five gases and eight solids. It cites birth death ratios, average statures by country, and global gender ratios. It notes men dominate sudden deaths and that life expectancy is short for half of births.
The article notes Saturn has eight moons with Titan larger than Earth’s moon and Uranus as far from the sun as Neptune, about sixty Earth masses. Astronomer Prof Asap HAL suggests Venus could be inhabited due to atmosphere, Mercury perhaps, with a hot climate and places for imagined salamanders, while Mercury lies 87 million miles from the sun.
A column features verse on politics and vanity highlighting a pimple on the nose as a central motif, followed by brief poems on ambition and human nature. Short scientific notes state argon cannot be extracted from tissue, England once hosted wild elephants and other large animals, and Saturn’s rings show no changes per Prof Barnard's measurements.
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