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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1908
Page
5
An 1880s advertisement extolls Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments and infertility. It claims the product restores health, urges women to write for advice, and cites testimonials and endorsements from sufferers and supporters.
Readable passages sketch woodworking for a timber stacker and sticker system, plus notes on pulleys, teeth, and fastenings. The text shifts to honey testing with silver nitrate and ammonium chloride, then to chicken health and summer poultry care including shading, roosting, feeding, and sanitation practices.
The article discusses demolishing large windmills and notes risk from wreckers needing experience. It then offers practical farm hints on tools, silo maintenance, conditioning feed, paint value, discipline, and using kerosene for cracks, emphasizing safety and thrift.
A vintage recipe describes soaking white beans overnight and simmering them with bacon, trimmings, and water until tender. Half a pint of breakfast bacon is cut into thin strips and layered over the mixture, then New Orleans molasses added before baking in a buttered dish.
A garbled instructional note describes preparing pears by halving and stoning without breaking, using cold water, and ensuring firm texture. It details washing, drying, heating, and testing heat through, plus steps for packing with sugar and a capful of liquor, and lining with buttered paper for storage.
Readers are guided through making four loaves of bread with butter salt yeast and air circulation tips. The text also covers a strawberry and rice pudding with whipped cream, gelatin, and egg whites, plus egg preparations and a beets canning method with vinegar sugar and water.
Advice on cooking and cleaning includes covering pans to keep fish tender frying fritters and doughnuts in very hot oil polishing stoves with black lead and vinegar heating new tinware with lard to prevent rust and using leftover lemon half in a plate covered by a glass tumbler to preserve flavor and prevent drying or molding.
Workmen remodeling the Corby building in Bloomfield Centre found a cat skeleton wedged in a wall. Residents recall "Bouncer," a famed feline terror of dogs and rats, who vanished about twenty years ago after a chase with the dog "Gyp." The incident sparked whispers of a haunting as cries of the cat echoed from the wall.
A compendium of brief notices and advertisements including kidney cure claims by G W Witney of Medina New York a humorous anecdote from Harpers Weekly about Indian labor and a teething syrup from Mrs Winslow myers and a reform spelling placard in Tunbridge Wells England plus a short ad for Red Cross Ball Blue detergent.
A Louisville reader recounts two eczema cures from Cuticura products. A baby suffered severe attacks with swelling and sores before rapid improvement in weeks, now a healthy child free of disease. The adult case also improved after trying doctors, leading to lasting relief. Address cited: M. W. Lalu es 45 Seventh St Louisville Ky April 28 and May 14 1907.
The speaker contemplates a change in life’s pacing as a character named Kapine muses over regulating the universe. He hints at delaying the perception of time during enjoyable moments and mentions an upcoming vacation. The dialogue contrasts cosmic control with personal leisure.
An advertisement for a Nickel Plate Road excursion from Fort Wayne Indiana to Niagara Falls Toronto Thousand Islands Montreal and other points. Includes return trip details and a note on cheap side trips with request for an illustrated booklet by J C Meienbacker T P A.
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