Miss Myrtle Reed Aself-Description Of Her Career
The Boston Transcript quotes Miss Myrtle Reed replying to publishers about biographical details. She jokes that she discovered America thirty years ago and never left, began with a pen and ink, and honored a faux gentleman name Myrtie Reed used by English critics. The note frames her career as destined for the fourth estate and mentions the Knickerbocker Press chronicles.
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Myrtie Reed
Knickerbocker Press
Boston Transcript
Remarkable Dropsy Cure by Dodd's Kidney Pills
Sedgwick Arkansas June 19. The case of W S Taylor's little son is hailed as one of the most wonderful medical recoveries. After doctors failed he used Dodd's Kidney Pills three daily for eight days and then eleven more, totaling thirty five pills, and the swelling disappeared. He soon could run dance and sing, no longer an invalid.
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Dodd
Sedgwick
Ark
Taylor
No Bibles in Kentucky Echoes in Milwaukee Satire
A New York dry goods man recalls a road trip to Kentucky where customers were courteous and hospitable. He jokes that he did not see a Bible during the journey implying good-natured critique of vice and virtue in Blue Grass country. The quip underscores prudence in debt and timely talents.
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New York
Kentucky
Blue Grass Country
Milwaukee Sentinel
Marriage Certainty Probed in Witty Exchange
In a playful dialogue a speaker asserts one truth about marriage, while others debate what that certainty could be. The exchange highlights irony and humor about commitment and doubt.
Clergy Endorses Grape-Nuts in Morning Diet
A clergyman testifies that switching from oatmeal and eggs to Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum improved digestion headaches and morning energy. He notes enhanced mental and physical strength and mentions other benefited individuals including a missionary to China. Read The Road to Wellville.
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China
Postum Company
Battle Creek
Wellville
Orchid treasure and hardy farm tips from bygone era
The article details the rare Cypripedium Fabricanum orchid valued at £1,000 to any successful finder, with scraps in England and Paris and a Bhutanese origin. It also offers practical farm notes on old hen coops, Polled Jersey cattle, silage feeding, keeping a shepherd dog, and a stock proof gate design.
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England
Paris
Europe
Botanic Gardens
Calcutta
St. Albans
Bhutan
Himalayas
Poultry Care Tips From a Handy Housekeeper
Practical advice on chicken management including brood behavior feeding habitats and protection. Tips cover brood incubation feeding regimens nest hygiene lice control and predator protection with concrete steps for mulching coops and rotating grazing plots.
Jellied Chicken Recipe from Old Kitchen Notes
A cold chicken dish is prepared by dissolving gelatine in warm water, adding chicken broth, and seasoning. Debone chicken, place meat in a mold, pour strained broth and gelatine, weight it, and chill until fully jelled, then slice to serve.
Apple Marmalade Preserving Guide
Peel core and slice apples into eighths. Soak in water. For each pound of fruit use one pound sugar a quarter pound whole ginger and half a lemon. Boil apples with sugar lemon rind and ginger until clear add lemon juice twenty minutes before finished.
Pineapple Custard with Pineapple and Lemon
Smooth Hour with butter stirred into boiling milk then add beaten egg yolks sugar and milk. When cool fold in pineapple and lemon juice. Top with meringue from egg whites and powdered sugar. Brown lightly in oven.
Stuffed Eggs From Old Cookery Note
Six hard boiled eggs halved with yolks removed. Yolks mixed with bread soaked in milk capers sardines vinegar oil pepper salt and milk then filled into the whites. Garnish with jelly for a simple elegant dish.
Veviled Eggs and Lettuce Sandwiches Teatime Delights
A vintage kitchen note describes Veviled Eggs with halved whites filled with yolk butter chili sauce mustard and spices held by a toothpick. Lettuce Sandwiches use creamed egg yolk butter vinegar tarragon chili vinegar and fresh lettuce on bread.
Tapioca Cream Recipe Steps
Soak two tablespoons of tapioca in cold milk overnight. Heat a quart of milk to boiling, whisk in three egg yolks a half cup sugar and a teaspoon vanilla. Stir into soaked tapioca, boil once, then spread on a dish with beaten egg whites. Serve cold.
Jellied Fruit Cream and Simple Kitchen Fixes
A quick recipe for jellied fruit cream uses bananas and strawberries with gelatine and whipped cream served with corn bread. Also included are short home tips: polish knives with charcoal, remove stains with ashes, refresh white curtains, clean grease with spirits of wine, and soften putty with a heated soldering iron.
Deduction of a Dear Friend
A girl recounts seeing a man stare at her near a trench. She says he fell into the trench while staring, while another girl questions what happened. Judge remarks spark curiosity about the odd incident and its cause.
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Judge
Veteran Heller Endorses Dean’s Kidney Pills As Years Pass
All Done Out reader Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois reports sustained relief from kidney trouble back pain and kidney stone symptoms after using Dean’s Kidney Pills since 1899. He repeats his strong endorsement and notes continued satisfaction with the product sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York and available through druggists for 50 cents a box.
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Joshua Heller
South Walnut Street
Urbana
Ill
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Modiste Questions Sleeve Style For Mrs DeStyle
Style consultant asks Mrs DeStyle whether to favor a sleeve this season. The exchange centers on finding the correct balance between extremes, whether sleeves are too tight or too loose, and what constitutes proper fashion.
Allen's Foot Ease Powder Advertisement
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot and Sweating Feet At all Druggists and Shoe Stores 2oe Sample sent FREE Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY
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Allen
Olmsted
le Loy
N. Y
One Man's Idea on Universal Peace
A witty exchange between a fair maid and an old bachelor frames peace as the abolishment of matrimony. The old man retorts that matrimony is the first step toward universal peace.
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Fair Maid
Women credit Lydia E Pinkham remedy in letters
Mrs Mary Dimmick of Washington praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after a near fatal womb ailment. She says avoiding surgery saved her life and she now walks without pain. The second letter confirms cure and gratitude to Mrs Pinkham and her advice.
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Mary Dimmick
Washington
Lydia EH. Pinkham
Weill
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
59Th
East Capitol Streets
Washington, D. C
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