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Newspaper
Attica Ledger Press
Location
Attica, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
6
A historical verse fragment laments a divided household with inborn rivalry and ruling figures at home. It contrasts beauty and eloquence with coercive power from a shared bloodline, suggesting tension between kin. The piece reads as a critical, archaic meditation on family dynamics.
Anecdotes recount John Sharp Williams dueling as a Heidelberg student and firing into the air to avoid conflict. Ben Tillman longs for fried chicken and a rural table, while Vice President Marshall adapts to sequestered office space. Senator Bristow of Kansas hauls down golf bragging rights as a sharp taunter. Congress trims comforts, even switching to Potomac water in common bottles.
In a New York club cafe a wager on a world trip triggers a comic romance. Plotting through a cross country journey, Cutler Hartsough falls for Miss Ethelwyn Wheawill, who later traps him with a ruse involving a locked door, a jail cell, and an opera-box payoff, ending with a swift hustle to reclaim pride.
Instructions for Wine Custard Palermo Seeded Raspberries and Whipped Red Currant Cream describe steps to prepare a wine custard with milk eggs and sugar then chill and serve with jelly cake or sweetened creams. Also details sugar-coated raspberries dried on paper and a gelatin currant cream whipped into stiff snow served in molds.
The piece lists simple home remedies for skin and scalp care such as oil rubs for dandruff, horseradish butter milk for freckles, tweezers and peroxide for stray eyebrow hair, and a chloride of soda mouth rinse for foul breath. It also notes milk and sulfur additions to facial mixtures, a daily preparation ritual, and mentions popular pigment shades like sulfur yellow and raisin.
A first floor bright playroom designed for children emphasizes form and color. It features cork linoleum flooring dark wall paper above reach, simple sturdy furniture, and a toy cabinet with a curtained lower compartment shaped as a doll’s house for children.
Casserole cooking uses earthenware vessels to preserve juices and flavor while using less heat. It can be cooked on stove or in oven with little basting, keeping food hot as it is served, but must be heated slowly to avoid breaking.
Comic vignettes and jokes featuring a traveling salesman and a grouchy merchant. A stutterer retorts about peculiarities while trading barbs. Included are lines about everyday quirks and two brief quips about dogs and hearts.
A stormy coast night scene shows the night watch hearing the minute gun at sea. A lifeboat crew braves dangerous waves to rescue a distressed ship's crew, returning ashore to recount their harrowing peril and the watch's relieved refrain.
Cake icing will not crack when cut if a little thick cream is added. Allow one teaspoonful to each white of egg. Breaks or tears in linen shades are quickly mended with linen pass partout binding in shade color. It is also useful for mending old books and fastening packages.
New York shops showcase velvet crowns with lace or tulle brims and smaller silhouettes than recent summers. Notable designs include a black velvet crown with white lace brim and bow, and a pink straw brim hat veiled with pink tulle and rosebuds. Charmeuse and taffetas appear on crowns. a white crochet over pique sailor shape adorns an outing hat. A diamante beaded theater cap wraps the head like a motor bonnet. A marigold buttonhole accents a black and white dress, highlighting color notes of the season.
A compilation of children’s rhymes and clapping games with asks and answers about supposition and puns. Includes Charley Over the Water game, and verses describing rain and requests for sunshine, set in a playful, Victorian tone.
A diet article presents chocolate based beverages and desserts. Recipes include Chocolate Ice Cream with eggs milk sugar vanilla and whipped cream. Cup Custard with Chocolate Sauce uses a chocolate sauce over custard. Chocolate Junket mixes milk vanilla junket and melted chocolate. Fruit Jelly combines gelatine milk sugar grated chocolate and assorted dried fruits with vanilla and cream.
A doctor claims disease preys on the weak, but a wife retorts that her husband’s liver trouble contradicts the idea that brain fever would be the common outcome. The exchange highlights skepticism toward simplistic medical theories.
Ida M. Tarbell examines the bloomers movement noting Mlle Dieulafoy’s unique reception and Miss Anthony’s two year adoption ending in tears. She argues prejudice defeated Anthony and that the female struggle surpassed fashion.
Mothers Magazine advises restoring rain spotted felt hats with fine sandpaper guided along the nap and refreshing dusty straw hats with diluted shoe polish. A veiled face should be dried by spreading over a radiator after shaking ends. Massachusetts reports about 100 farms sold for around $3,000 each as part of farmland disposals.
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