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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1908
Page
8
A plea highlights how women balance home duties and family needs, often suffering in silence from chronic pains and weaknesses. The piece urges seeking relief and support to ease daily burdens and improve life quality for these faithful homemakers.
Mrs Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy as a long standing standard cure for menstrual pain inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache nervous prostration and more and invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
A testimonial claims Cuticura Ointment cured a brother's eczema after three summers and extended to two babies. It notes a Michigan woman and Mrs. Miller’s son also improved. The piece then describes a New York barber shop using a vacuum cleaner for clothing dusting, with a clerk brushing patrons.
A humorous tale from a Sabbath meeting shows deacon Cuche Thounis, deaf but loud, announcing in sermon time that parents may obtain children’s clothes for 50 cents at his house, amid jokes about old clothes and generals in Manila.
A Virginia mother's experience with Grape-Nuts shows both her health and her baby's condition improving after starting the cereal. She reports she could nurse again and manage all her duties, crediting Grape-Nuts with rebuilding strength and nourishment for the child. The ad notes testimonies from readers and promotes Postum Co. as the source.
A London Chronicle account notes that ancient Greece used hissing and even fruit as audience expressions of approval or disapproval. It cites Athens ejecting an unsuccessful comic poet and Arsines being stoned, with a tale of a musician who borrowed stones to build a house repayable after a performance.
A London Tit-Bits account describes a desperate wife in a suburban telegraph office asking her estranged husband for five pounds. After a failed short message, she returns with a longer request pleading food and fuel money, even offering to pawn the parlor carpet if needed.
An Indiana inventor designed a simple telephone attachment with brackets extending from the phone to support the receiver. The brackets pivot to adjust the receiver near the ear, freeing both hands and avoiding the need to hold the handset during long conversations.
In Houston Post style prose a rural and urban scene contrasts city noise with country life. The piece juxtaposes trolleys, roosters, cattle, and racecar imagery to evoke daily life’s friction. It paints a restless, restless cadence between urban bustle and rural routine.
Mrs Stryver recalls a pleasant gathering at Mrs Ufouter’s tea where Count Tedout performed card tricks that amused the group for an hour. Mr Stryver notes their earlier three months of practice at the lab but says they are now on to him.
A brief comic exchange shows Kollidge asking for the Latin for wing and the elder Kol lidge responding with spiritus frumenti, a playful miscue noted by the Philadelphia Press as a light moment.
A Louisiana inventor debuts a curved prong pickle fork that grasps pickles from bottles, avoiding puncture or loss. The text also shares several old kitchen recipes and techniques including milk cornmeal pudding, celery preparations, spiced cider syrup, isinglass jelly, and a fruit custard with meringue, all described in a vintage cooking style.
Sage is commonly used in fowl dressings though the exact benefits vary. A practical tip is to steep a tablespoon of sage in half a cup of boiling water, then strain and pour into the dressing to enhance aroma and cohesion.
A historical recipe describes pressing raspberries through a sieve to yield three pints of juice. It adds powdered sugar lemon juice and raspberry extract then freezes. A separate mixture combines sugar molasses sour cream butter ginger cinnamon soda and hot water then is beaten and baked slowly.
Recipe lists ingredients including butter sugar maple sirup flour milk salt and nutmeg. Instructions not provided but proportions suggest a dense loaf cake.
Verdigris on metal can be removed by rubbing with a cag dip ped in liquid ammonia. Vinegar boiled on the range counters cabbage odors. Clean enameled tubs and marble bowls with kerosene and strong soapsuds to remove kerosene odor. Organdies and fine fabrics can be washed in clear water with a cupful of salt to prevent fading. Mildew spots fade with soap and powdered chalk, then sun dry. Lamp chimneys stained by neglect improve with methylated spirit and polish after cleaning.
A jumble of humorous quips and aphorisms quoted from the Philadelphia Record. The collection mocks marriage, money, virtue, and faith with satirical lines about buying soap and clergy. The fragmentary text mixes puns and social observation from an era voice.
A diary recounts harsh enforcement of juvenile smoking during the London plague period. It notes a school boy at Eton being whipped for not “sineak n” and describes youths forced to attend school mornings, reflecting strict, punitive norms of the era.
The chairman of the notification committee expresses chagrin as the nominee confirms awareness of political intrigue. The exchange hints at newspaper clues and printer’s inkling of a Tribune association, with the nominee smiling and acknowledging prior awareness.
Pettus Eye Salve advertised as a tonic for weak tired eyes and eye strain. Sold by Toward Bros. druggists in Buffalo New York.
Narrative describes Moors near the Alhambra preparing to depart as Americans arrive seeking souvenirs. They grouse about leaving behind the landscape while packing trinkets and noting the era’s travel culture.
The note mentions baseball pitcher Bosley taking up airship construction as a curious fact in a broader discourse on Slocum. It suggests he aims for a shorter curve than rivals while the idea is treated as a natural pursuit. The piece also references Mrs Winston’s Soothing Syrup and Canadian shipbuilding on the Great Lakes with British built vessels transporting goods between lake ports during the season.
Mrs Outsome scolds Mr Outsome for dragging them to a hot place and complains of sunburn. He retorts that her complexion is fair and beautiful, claiming the tan as proof it calmed wrath and proved their trip worthwhile.
A passenger declares she always alights at Goethe street, while the street car conductor politely notes that many people make that same mistake, prompting a witty exchange in Chicago.
A brief Chicago Tribune exchange features a stranger and a native trading jokes about smell leading to the stock yards. The humor hinges on the stranger’s inability to gauge distance by scent.
A brief exchange reveals two people noting a month at the seaside left one even in balance. One party paid $60 while gaining twelve pounds, equating the economic cost to physical weight gained.
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