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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1885
Page
6
The article urges economical kitchen planning highlighting soup as a daily staple. It advises saving scraps, bones, and trimmings, stock from meat and bones, and using onions carrots and turnips with herbs and spices. It explains stock creation, proper simmering, and gelatin from bones for nourishing, budget-conscious meals.
The text claims the item is entirely destitute of flavor and thus must be eaten with meat that contains osmazome to add taste and value. It presents a culinary critique emphasizing pairing for better nourishment and savor.
Household hints list home remedies for cuts burns and cleaning game birds. It suggests bruised geranium leaves to aid cuts and a cream and saleratus poultice to relieve burns, plus a breakfast or lunch option with minced cold meat in shells. It also gives a method to ease duck cleaning using rosin and a camphor salve recipe.
Instructions for assembling a baby’s toilet basket with pink satin ribbon and cotton materials. Includes fabric cutting, ruffling, pocket and cushion construction, and ribbon trim. Contents listed include soap, puff powder, brush, sponge, tallow, linen, pins, and safety pins.
A reader recounts using burning coals and brown sugar to generate smoke to ease wounds. He describes a rusty nail wound on his foot and a torn finger-nail from fire-tongs. Holding the wounded area in the smoke for fifteen minutes reportedly relieves pain and aids recovery.
The silk must be brushed and wiped, laid flat, then sponged with hot coffee to remove sediment. After straining through muslin, it is sponged on the visible side, partially dried, and ironed on the reverse. The coffee removes grease and restores brilliancy without shiny or crackly stiffness, with a permanent thickened feel.
Pare, halve, and quarter apples. For seven pounds use three quarts of sugar, one quart vinegar, one ounce cinnamon, one ounce cloves. If ground spices used, tie in cloth and boil with vinegar. if whole spices, add two cloves per apple piece and break cinnamon, boil with apples.
The article describes a vast city park exposition expanding from a cotton showcase to a world class exhibit. It details major buildings, the main hall with two miles of shafting and the Corliss engine, the government and art galleries, horticultural hall as the largest conservatory, and the extensive live stock and machinery displays. It notes railroads enabling access, critiques the art gallery by Philadelphia standard, and highlights educational exhibits including black and white schooling displays, with a veteran drummer boy and local figures. The piece underscores the expo's scale, variety, and the challenge of detailing all exhibits while praising the effort and potential value to visitors.
A historical piece extols Nebraska by praising its public school fund of about 50 million dollars, livestock value near 78 million, and rich soil. It argues the state offers ready homes for all income levels, with opportunities in schools, churches, railroads, and other resources, matching older states for new settlers.
An advertisement extols Parker's Hair Balsam as stopping hair loss and promoting new growth while restoring original color. It claims a rapid, glossy result, is not a dye or oil, and is delicately perfumed, offered at 50 cents.
Twelve thousand acres of Texas land offered to actual settlers on long terms. For particulars address Ticks and Bro Center Shelby County Texas. Also seeking a intelligent lady to take permanent sole agency for their goods with stock furnished and references required. J B Huurne Co Chicago NL. Rhode's Cotton Planter advertised by J G Smith with money-saving notes.
The timetable lists up and down trains and freights for the Central Railroad of Georgia from Macon to Barnesville, Atlanta, and nearby towns. Schedules show arrival and departure times, including No 3 Up Macon to Barnesville to Atlanta, No 2 Down, day and night passenger runs, freight and accommodation services, with several stops such as Thomaston and The Rock.
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