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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
5
All the Comforts of Home recalls Nat Goodwin the comedian who owned a riverside country house near New London Connecticut. Each summer he hosted house parties with Thespian friends and once delivered a witty remark about a lawn on the river that reflects his playful style.
Mrs May Taber of Hulett testifies that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her severe kidney trouble after seven boxes, noting relief from the first dose and full recovery after completion. The ad boasts the pills as a worldwide remedy for kidney related illnesses including rheumatism dropsy gout lumbago diabetes and bladder disorders.
An unusual clipping promotes phono graphs as self-evident quality and touts a cure for biliousness stomach disorders and constipation via Spanish Cross Year. It also notes free coffee import in Holand and fresh Mrs Austin pancakes at the brokers.
A New York Sun account describes a Columbus Avenue car incident where a woman paid a five dollar fare with a five dollar bill. A bystander offered to help by totaling pennies and dollars, retrieving four dollars and ninety five cents from the blue clad passenger who owed the money for two years and agreed to waive the claim.
An Oregon reader reports heart irregularities and indigestion blamed on coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee, the writer notes rapid improvement in digestion, liver function, skin tone, and heart action. The husband also benefits, with Postum breakfast seen as satisfying and strengthening. Read The Road to Wellville booklet.
A West Virginia reader describes a versatile hand cultivator or harrow with adjustable width, frame and teeth details, plus assembly notes. The piece also suggests a simple barrel feeding rack for sheep or calves and discusses amateur mushroom growing at Cornell, then covers humane horse care and work schedules on farms emphasizing rest, grazing, and balanced diet.
Practical advice for dairy farmers on cow care, stanchions, cement floors, and bedding. Emphasizes proper feed, temperature for rinse water in winter, and selective cow buying to protect udder health and overall dairy efficiency.
A Philadelphia inventor has created a simple feed bag for team drivers. The canvas bag uses a circular two‑section top with sanded joints and dual rods with locks to attach over the horse shaft. The bag stays in position for easy feeding and can fold when not in use.
Describes building a fodder hauling sled with scantlings and a boom pole rig for single-handed use, claiming it yields 30 more load than a wagon. Then notes Arkansas Station estimates peanuts yield 1–3 tons per acre for hay and Virginia ham quality boosts prices, plus advice on hog care stressing clean bedding and proper feeding as key to profitability.
A veteran cook warns that meat cooked with flour in dishes like sausages and pork pies can sour within 24 hours. Sourness signals poison detectable by taste and smell. Eating hot or reheated items before souring is unsafe if simply warmed, as heating hastens poison formation.
Combine one half bushel unpeeled tomatoes with a teaspoon of celery seed and cook until soft. Rub through a colander, then sieve. Add spices in a cheesecloth bag, a pint of vinegar, salt, a quart of granulated sugar, and one teaspoon red pepper. Cook ten minutes or until thick.
A recipe directs mashing warm oil sweet potatoes then stirring in milk butter salt and sugar. Add two beaten yolks, form into flat cakes, dip in froth whisked whites and fine crumbs, chill two hours before frying.
A buildup of chopped vegetables and spices forms a pepper tomato onion chutney. Peel eighteen tomatoes and six onions with three green peppers then simmer with sugar vinegar salt cinnamon allspice and cloves before finishing ten minutes of cooking.
Dry cheese shows careless housekeeping and wastes edibles. To keep cheese moist wrap in buttered or oiled paper and store in an airtight container or one with a tight lid. If cheese is not soon eaten wrap in a damp cloth for freshness.
The article advises removing Vea and coffee stains with salt dampened cloths and a sian brush, washing Ching in soap to brighten it, and provides a quick bread recipe. It gives flour, baking powder, salt, butter, lard, sour milk, and buttermilk instructions for a soft dough baked in a hot oven.
Soak brown bread crumbs in cold milk until covered. Make a custard from boiling milk yolks of two eggs sugar and seyment flavoring. Pour custard over bread crumbs. Beat white of eggs to froth and fold in. Bake in buttered dish for half an hour in a moderate oven.
A vintage collage of fruit salad instructions using pineapple orange banana grapes and walnuts served cold on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise. It also includes a traditional glue recipe using borax shellac flour butter sugar salt vanilla almonds and frying steps.
Instructions describe peeling apples and frying them after dipping in stiffly beaten egg whites with sugar. The batter is browned to a pale brown color, yielding tender fruit.
A Regulae Customer known as Uncle Erastus plans to wed his next wife at a church, after marrying and burying four spouses. The Presbyterian minister humorously notes past weddings by white ministers, while Erastus jokes about paying with his trust fund and the ring, and the bride places her trust in him.
Mr J G Menke of Dubuque describes severe rheumatism affecting ankles knees and elbows. After trying doctors he found relief with Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, noting swelling subsiding and eight years without relapse. His family now uses them as a household remedy.
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