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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
7
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as the remedy to dandruff and hair loss, claiming a 25 cent bottle saves hair and restores lustre. The ad urges readers to buy and try the product tonight.
Beat two eggs until light. Stir in half cup sugar and half cup molasses. Add three fourths cup sour cream rind of lemon salt cinnamon ginger. Fold in two cups sifted flour with one and a half teaspoons soda. Bake in gem pans and frost when cold.
Instructions describe preserving sausage indefinitely by packing in lard, forming cakes, frying lightly, placing two cakes upright in a heated jar, pouring hot lard to cover, and storing. To use, warm the crock until lard melts and remove needed portions, reusing remaining cakes with minimal extra lard.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy for liver and bowel relief. It claims quick cleansing of the stomach, removal of bile, and relief from constipation and indigestion while you sleep. Also included is a pickled relish recipe with green tomatoes peppers onions and spices.
Free to Our Readers offers a 48 page illustrated Eye Book from Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago. It claims Marine remedies aid sore eyes and weak eyes, soothe eye pain and do not smart, with a price of 50 cents. It suggests using the remedy for scaly eyelids and granulation in adults and babies.
A historic home remedy blends two quarts of water with three ounces of salt one ounce of alum and one ounce of chloride of zinc. After overnight settling pour off clear liquid and dilute again with two quarts water to spray carpet edges and wall distance. Safe for carpet and claimed effective against pests.
Step by step ginger candy recipe with leaf sugar water ginger and honey. Instructions to boil and cool onto a plate, then break into irregular pieces. Then an advertisement claims Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pelletts thoroughly cure constipation as a favorite family laxative.
A compact wire frame keeps potatoes upright while baking. Place a dozen potatoes on the frame and slide it into the oven like a regular pan, avoiding burned fingers during turning and retrieval.
A Chicago Juvenile Protective Association report summarized by Louise De Kowen Bowen in the Survey shows 1,328 Cook County jail inmates in 1911, most lacking trades. Only three had a trade, six pursued their wished occupation, and 721 worked in unskilled jobs, with many starting work by age fourteen.
Advertisement from Le Roy New York offering a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease by writing Allen S Olmsted. Claims cure for sweating feet and bunions and helps with tight shoes. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents. warns against substitutes.
A simple dessert mix of two cups white sugar juice of one lemon one quart boiling water four tablespoons cornstarch and one tablespoon butter. Cook until thick then cool pour over four or five oranges and the sugar set on ice and serve cold.
A witty exchange opens with a barb about discouragement followed by an advertisement for Ideal Antiseptic tablets. The ad promises a mouth wash and germicide for cleaning skin and pores, with a large package available on receipt of 50 cents from A. B. Trapp in Garland, Mont.
Billy Manning and Dan Bryant, each promoting a traveling show, planned to announce Bryant’s upcoming appearance in the same town Manning had just performed. Manning claimed he was about to announce Bryant when the audience member left, making the joke a classic example of Manning’s ready wit as recounted by the Chicago Journal.
Mothers can rest easy as California Syrup of Figs moves clogged waste from bowels in hours. The harmless fruit laxative is pitched as prompt for sick children and adults, with a 50 cent bottle and directions for all ages, from babies to grown ups.
A Delineator note explains sewing navy blue cambric bag to protect a white dress. Two widths joined, drawstring top, bag hung over the dress to filter light with blue rays, helping maintain whiteness during laundry delays.
Multiple business lines listed including boilers pipes and machinery by R. Kelly Machinery Co at 524 Mission Road and factory shoe repair at West Sixth Street. Also pipes and pipe repairing services advertised with mail orders, Goldar wallpaper bargains from New York Wall Paper Co at 10018 Main Los Angeles.
An old advertisement touts Diapepsin as a miracle five minute relief for indigestion. It promises rapid cure of sour stomach, gas, belching, nausea and heartburn with a fifty cent case from any drug store. It claims dramatic, painless results.
In Bohemia the artist tells a brunette model he may have to hire a brunette due to paint shortages. The model notes she is satisfying him, but the artist reveals she is a blonde and he has run out of yellow paint.
M. Quinton, president of the French National Aerial league, described an automatic stabilization device at a banquet for President Poincare. He explained a pendulum based system on a compact monoplane where a pilot and passenger sit in a suspended seat beneath the engine, gasoline tank, and wings, using only rising and descending levers.
An advertisement extols S S S as the supreme blood purifier that cleanses blood and heals eruptive skin conditions. It claims to stimulate local cells, eliminate toxins, and restore health without drugs, urging readers to write The Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta for advice.
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