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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1907
Page
2
The article advises letting boys bathe to develop with a child friendly tub and warm water. It then gives pie baking tips including pie crust methods to prevent leaks and decorative edge sealing. It also covers cleaning marble statues with weak acid and flavor tweaks for apple pie including lemon juice butter sugar nutmeg cinnamon and caraway seeds.
A polish keeps brass bright only if the surface remains on the bedstead. When worn off, the metal must be sent away to be relacquered, a process not done at home. A full sized bedstead costs about six dollars for relacquering.
The piece ponders age and finality of bachelor status noting that no man is truly confirmed until death. It argues statistics would vary with each case and that life holds ongoing marriageable possibilities.
An investigation tested the ear's absolute sensitivity using a telephone and alternating currents at 250 and 500 Hz. The study found the normal ear can respond to pressure changes as small as about four ten-millionths of a millimeter of mercury.
The piece urges strict routine for infants emphasizing set meal bath and bed times. It argues infants thrive on predictable schedules to avoid indigestion insomnia and illness and warns against deviations even within five minutes.
The piece discusses dieting as a path to physical suppleness, claiming vegetarianism and fruit subsistence cultivate flexibility. It argues the belief could turn ordinary people into serpent-like performers from the stage, blurring lines between natural gifts and cultivated traits.
A short treatise extols fruit as medicine noting apples combat dryness and Switzer iana grapes heal nerves. It claims grapes daily restore blood, all fruit has curative value, with remedies including black currant jelly for sore throat and pineapple for diphtheria. It also mentions strawberry rheumatism mulberry juice fevers elderberry chills and lemon for colds.
Old chicken salad makes a practical picnic dish. Use chopped chicken and celery in equal parts, place portions on lettuce leaves to avoid dish washing, and top with your preferred dressing. Mayonnaise can be purchased if making it from scratch is too troublesome.
Mildew removal on white cotton advised with lemon juice and sunshine. Rice pudding recipe uses milk rice and raisins with slow cooking. Caramel burnt sugar fried flour liason aids sauces. Butter with flour forms a mahogany colored roux. Butter sugar caramel improves flavor. Ironing board pad from newspaper. Orange juice polish for boots drying then polish.
A local drug firm, Henderson-Crider Drug Co, promotes selling brushes as its signature line. The ad urges customers to test the brush next and join the company’s growing catalog.
The article notes the modern Turkish woman receives superior education with seven languages and access to foreign governesses and books. It contrasts this with Western women who are occupied with leisure activities while the oriental woman studies and follows these activities in spirit. London Strand.
A child named Gertrude watches a thunderstorm and reports to her mother that she sees a piece of the sun falling from the sky as a lightning flash travels along a telegraph wire. The brief delight captures a child's vivid interpretation of natural phenomena.
A Pennsylvania miner was buried by a coal fall and liberated after five days of rescue work. The trapped worker greeted the manager, asking the date, and learned it was Thursday as the team freed him just in time for the chrysanthemum show.
An experiment uses a wide mouth fruit jar and a small bottle half submerged in water. A stretched rubber top on the bottle creates pressure changes when pressed. Pressing releases water and sinks the bottle. releasing air inflates and the bottle rises.
The article traces pins from ancient ornamental uses in Egypt, Etruria, and Scandinavia to their rise as practical fasteners. It notes medieval and Tudor introductions in England, pin money origins, Birmingham as a center, and American attempts before 1832 with the Howe machine transforming pin manufacture into a fully mechanized process.
Riddles discuss bells on a royal birthday rope pulling a comb that never eats. A walnut grows tall with bitter shell and white kernel. A rope maker earns his living walking backward. Colors of wind and waves in the last sea storm were blue and rose.
A company of soldiers crossing a bridge was ordered to fall out ranks to save the bridge from vibration. Near the end of the bridge the order was given and Mike who was walking the rail promptly obeyed and fell into the water.
A child recalls giving a simple birthday gift to his mother last week. He admits the gift wasn't grand or expensive, but his smile and thoughtfulness brought happiness to her.
The article urges balanced beauty standards and warns against extreme fashion. It stresses good carriage, erect posture, and regular chest and shoulder care. It discusses corsets, lacing, gymnastics, massage, and skin care as ways to improve figure, while critiquing tight lacing and suggesting practical dress choices to add apparent fullness.
Instructions on ripping long seams with a pressure foot and knife, making durable cushion slips with wax and ironing, using muslin slips, creating dresser scarfs with satin faced pique, decorating borders with colored floss, and mending stockings by steaming yarn over kettle spouts to prevent shrinking.
A foreign paper correspondent cites reports from America on lively manners and facial expressions cooling in Europe. The piece notes Americans adopting stern English habits with glowering looks, suggesting tutored aristocratic restraint linked to wealth and prestige.
If long kid gloves show a seam edge with white, turn them inside out and paste a small piece of court plaster over the weak spot. This strengthens them so they rarely tear. By reinforcing and reshaping after each use, gloves last much longer than with ordinary care.
In tests of corn varieties at the Virginia experiment station the average ear weight increased in 1906 over 1905 due to a favorable season vigorous growth and high yield. Some ears weighed ten to eleven ounces heavier than the previous year and farmers should note that planting density affects both fodder and grain yields with eight thousand stalks per acre giving the largest grain yield at about 30.46 bushels.
A rural essay extols steady farm work and humane horse care urging keep teams busy, provide inside room for idle gear, and let horses drink water without leading them. It argues city life tempts farmers yet farm life remains sound, praising humane treatment during rest.
A brief guide explains using egg like care to preserve apple quality. Handle gently avoid bruising and skin exposure, and twist the fruit to detach with minimal stem damage. The advice emphasizes careful motion to reduce decay entry points.
D E Lavtz notes carbon bisulphide fumigation targets rats in burrows and levees and rice field dikes by soaking cotton in the liquid and inserting it into burrows then packing soil to trap gas. He warns fumigation of buildings is less effective due to gas confinement issues.
A fragmented note claims Sait as an appetizer and Ratt as unnongerful rendering food more pibidine. It mentions Aso possessing laxative properties and being valuable with any ration containing beans.
Coin collectors propose that large 1799 and 1804 cents vanished as Ful ton used copper cents to build the Clermonts boiler for the steamboat era. Records show copper boilers were costly and that the 1815 Fulton had a copper boiler, suggesting a plausible supply path for the era’s cents. From 1793 to 1796 millions of cents were minted, indicating ample metal availability.
The noon hour in Wall Street bursts with kitchen scents from many eateries as workers and clerks descend for lunch. The essay notes how thousands of people feed the district’s demand, earning profits for cooks while foreigners criticize Americans for fast eating amid meats, oysters, coffee, and bread.
Reports from Ay gora goat breeders Mohair growers announce a Nov 15 meeting in San Antonio Texas with top goats on exhibition Nov 9–24 and $600 in prizes. At Louisiana station bare lot versus grass lot feeding affects sheep parasites. Dalrymple reports bare lot lambs perform better. Sugar beets gain traction as stock feed. Colorado farmers expand use and Jones Cattle Co contracts 300 tons for Mead beets. No American Coach Horse awarded at Iowa state fair. 64 women from four states compete in butter making with Mrs J A Peters of Story County champion.
Gran sellers roam from house to house selling bread made from bran and unbolted wheat flour mixed. They balance a large bran sack on the head and carry the measure in the hand as they go.
The Los Angeles Times describes Eastern customs for infants. In Cypress families gather at the first tooth with singing as the baby is bathed and wheat is prepared. In Rhodes the eighth day features wine myrtle baths, a honey kiss, and candlelit cradle scene with a blessing.
A vain woman admires a yellow and white hat in front of a mirror. The big man, reading, responds that the colors remind him of fried eggs. The playful exchange appears in the Chicago News column The Brute.
Jack Gale named his new boat the Lobster but it sank after turning turtle, a folly noted in London Scraps with a witty aside on maritime mishaps.
A New York Globe line proclaims that many men today surpass Monte Cristo in riches, noting broad wealth across the era. The remark contrasts fiction with contemporary reality, highlighting rising material abundance.
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