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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1907
Page
9
A collection of practical household notes describes child play in baths, pie crust techniques to prevent overflowing juices, edge trimming and decorative crimping, and ventilated upper crusts. It also covers cleaning grimy marble with dilute hydrochloric acid, lemon juice on apple pies, and flavor tweaks with butter, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and elderflower seeds for children.
A polish keeps brass bright while it remains on the bedstead but once worn off there is no home remedy. The metal must be sent away for relacquering, which involves a refining process. For a full sized bedstead the cost runs about six dollars.
The piece muses on how old a man must be to be called a confirmed bachelor noting that statistically true bachelors may marry if chances arise. It suggests no man can be deemed a confirmed bachelor until death, given ongoing marriageable possibilities.
An investigation tested ear response using a telephone and alternating currents at 250 and 500 hertz. Experiments produced pressure changes at the ear and concluded the normal ear can respond to about four ten-millionths of a millimeter of mercury.
The text stresses strict daily routines for a child named Raby. It insists on consistent bath times, feeding at fixed hours, bedtimes, and unaltered airing, arguing that deviation causes indigestion, insomnia, and temper issues due to habit and instinct.
The article discusses the notion that a vegetarian diet grants extraordinary flexibility likened to stage heroines. It suggests subsisting on fruit makes one flexible, and increasing that intake could create a distinct difference between ordinary people and the so called serpents of the variety stage.
A source claims fruit has medicinal effects for health disorders. It mentions apples cure drying habits and a grape cure used in Switzerland for anemia and nervous conditions. It lists various fruits and juices for ailments like throat, diphtheria, rheumatism, fevers, colds, and general toning.
Old chickens suit picnics for salad and home use. To ease serving, carry chap lettuce leaves and a small portion of chopped celery and chicken with dressing. If making mayonnaise is a hassle, store bought mayo from the grocer lasts long.
Practical home tips on removing mildew with lemon juice and sun, making creamy rice pudding with milk rice and raisins, using caramel burnt sugar in sauces, a fried flour roux called Liaison aurox, and ironing board padding with newspapers for a smooth sheet. Also a quick boot shine using orange juice.
Local Brushing brushes sale touts brushes as best value urging customers to test the brush line. Henderson Crider Drug Co promotes a long history of brush sales with the tagline Put us to the test next brush you boy.
The article contrasts the modern Turkish woman with Western women noting she gains education, speaks seven languages, and has access to foreign governesses and books while her life remains confined within the harem. It appears in London Strand.
A child named Gertrude witnesses a thunderstorm and a lightning flash along a telegraph line. She exclaims in wonder that she saw a piece of the sun fall from the sky, as quoted by the New York Press.
A Pennsylvania miner buried by a coal fall was rescued after five days of effort. Friends labored to free him while he awaited a passage, and the manager asked at last how he fared. The trapped man replied that he was "all right" and noted the day as Thursday, just in time for a chrysanthemum show.
A simple air elasticity experiment for boys uses a wide mouth jar a small water filled bottle and a stretched rubber cap. Pressing the rubber compresses the air forcing water into the bottle causing it to sink and releasing air lets it rise, illustrating air elasticity and providing playful imps for fun.
The article traces pins from ancient tomb artifacts in gold silver brass iron to modern mass production. It notes how pins began as decorative items, spread in England in the sixteenth century, and Birmingham became a pin center. It covers American attempts in 1820 and 1824 and the Howe machine of 1892, finishing with automated modern pin fabrication.
A collection of rhymed riddles and paradoxes about bells ropes combs walls and bitter walnuts. It playfully asks who earns a living backward a rope maker and muses on the colors of wind and sea in a recent storm.
A company marching to cross a bridge received orders to fall out ranks to spare the bridge from vibrations. Near the bridge’s end the command came Fall In. Mike, walking on the rail, promptly obeyed and fell into the water.
A child recalls his birthday gift for his mother saying he could not buy expensive items like his grandfather and father but his smile made her happy every time she looked at him.
The article counsels avoiding extreme fashion for health and beauty, emphasizing good carriage, upright posture, and daily chest and back exercises. It defends corsets when properly fitted, warns against tight lacing, and suggests massage, gymnastics, and skin care to improve figure, arms, and neck lines.
Practical sewing notes describe ripping seams with a needle and knife, waxing and ironing cushion slips to prevent fraying, using muslin for slips, creating decorative scarves with satin faced pique, and trimming washstand covers. A method to shrink stocking yarn via steam from boiling water is also advised.
A foreign correspondent reports European customs have shifted from American women’s lively greetings to a more restrained expression. He notes English influence and a change from nervous, eyebrow lifting joy to a stern, disdainful gaze that unsettles visitors and even hints that hats are misaligned.
Practical tip advises turning gloves inside out to paste a small plaster over weak seams. Reinforcing them and shaping each time after wear extends their life beyond ordinary care.
The Virginia experiment station compares 1905 and 1906 corn yields noting heavier ears in 1906 due to a favorable season. It reports ears weighing ten to eleven ounces, plant heights at 48 days, and analyzes close planting effects showing fodder yield rises with density while grain yield peaks at 8 000 stalks per acre.
A Farm and Fireside column urges constant labor from work teams to stay productive. It advises spacious inside space for idle tools, stress-free noon harnessing, and humane, efficient feeding with water brought to stalled horses. It warns against rushing dinner and advocates easing horse care to prevent laziness and cruelty.
The article advises handling apples like eggs to prevent bruising and skin breaks that invite decay. Picks should use a wrist twist with a slight upward or downward motion to avoid stem loss and reduce fruit spur breakage. J. Lewis.
D E Lautz notes rats in burrows in fields levees and rice field dikes can be destroyed by saturating absorbent material with carbon bisulphide and inserting it into the burrows then sealing the opening with soil to prevent escape asphyxiating all animals in the burrow fumigation abort buildings is less effective as gas cannot be confined.
The text discusses Sait as an appetizer and describes Ratt as another appetizer that can enhance palatability in meals including beans. It notes laxative properties and suggests value when paired with rations containing beans.
Coin collectors long speculated that scarce 1799 and 1804 large copper cents were diverted to make the copper boiler for Fulton’s Clermont steamboat. The theory suggests U S cents supplied the Clermont boiler, aided by copper’s scarcity and imports from England, with a 23 000 copper boiler cost for the 1815 steam frigate Fulton.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes Wall Street noon dining as a rush of odors from kitchens and handouts. It observes thousands of people in the district at midday, with restaurants thriving on nickels and dimes as millionaires, clerks, and bankers partake in meat, seafood, coffee, and bread. The piece cites foreign critics of American fast eating.
A meeting of the An gora goat breeders and mohair growers is announced for November 25 in San Antonio Texas with an exhibition of top goats from November 9 to 24 and $600 in prizes. Also reports on bare lot vs grass lot feeding affecting sheep parasites, sugar beets for stock feed, and cattle hog feeding plans. No American coach horse was deemed worthy for first prize at the Iowa state fair. Mrs J A Peters of Story county wins the Iowa women’s butter making title after a field of sixty four women from four states.
In Malta bread is largely made of bran and unbolted wheat flour mixed. Bran sellers go from house to house like other food tradesmen. They balance the huge bran sack on their heads while the measure is held in the hand.
The Los Angeles Times describes East customs at a baby's first tooth and Rhodes eighth day birth rites. In Cypress the date of the first tooth brings a gathering, singing, and a water bath with boiled wheat beads strung to the cap. Rhodes ends with a wine and myrtle cradle bath and a honey touch to utter sweetness.
A vain woman admires a yellow and white hat while the big man with an embroidered slip is reminded of a fried egg. The exchange, recorded by the Chicago News, captures a quirky moment of style and humor.
Jack Gale named his new boat the Lobster, but it has turned turtle, ending its Lobster run and prompting comment in London Scraps.
A New York Globe reflection notes hundreds of men today richer than the fictional Monte Cristo could imagine, underscoring a surge in wealth and status in contemporary society.
A concise aphorism attributed to Life magazine notes that personal loyalties and perceptions vary within family networks, suggesting that heroic acts may be viewed differently by spouses and their kin.
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