Seasonable good things and kitchen tips from The Kitchen Cabinet
A collection of recipes and home cooking hints including Cream Cheese Dressing for lettuce, Jellied Apples with gelatin, Lemon Jumbles cookies, Fried Bananas garnish ideas, squash cake, Olive and Celery Sandwiches, Spanish Meat Dish, Scalloped Vegetables, Macaroni with Eggs, and general health reminder. Highlights household meals with practical steps and measurements.
When Conover Conned
In 1920s Brockton approves Conover’s marriage to Doris after a costly courtship and a tense church moment when Conover nearly fails to contribute to the collection plate. Brockton proposes a celebratory Foster’s dinner, sealing the engagement with a ready wedding gift.
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Mr. Brockton
Conover
Brockton
Doris
Trinity
Foster’s
If we looked for virtues and faults refused to see
A reflective verse on the world’s mood suggesting that focusing only on virtue would yield a pleasant, cheerful place.
Carving Tips and Potatoes Recipes From An Old Table Guide
An advice piece on table manners and cooking notes covers carving, guest etiquette, and hostess ease. It offers practical tips for presenting a well-trussed fowl, keeping carving quiet, and friendly serving. It then provides several potato based dishes and variations from potato border to potato puff and soup. It concludes with a stuffing recipe blending mashed potatoes breadcrumbs and herbs.
Egg weight linked to chick sex in fowl study
French researchers report that heavier eggs may indicate male chicks. In a 1918 trial with leg horns, 60 eggs selected by size produced 48 hatchlings, 37 males and 11 females, suggesting sex can be inferred from egg weight under controlled conditions with purebred parents and eggs gathered at peak laying.
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French Academy of Sciences
M. Leinhart
Juvenile Wit at Libel Trial as Uncle Witnesses
In court Arthur accompanies his uncle who testifies for the defense in a libel case. During cross examination the lawyer questions the witness about marriage. Arthur, perched on a bench, quips a sharp retort about the bump on the head, sparking amusement.
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Arthur
Little Arthur
Right Way remedy promises disease prevention and cure
The advertisement touts a blood and gland acting remedy that expels germs to ward off disease. A few daily drops claimed to protect exposed individuals. priced 60 cents to $1.15, with agents sought for Spohn Medical Company Goshen Indiana. Also contains jokes and short notes about Salvation Army clothing, a Kansas City Star quote, a baby peril anecdote, and curb appeal ideas.
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Wantspohn Medical Company
Goshen, Ind
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promise and Reward
A classic 19th century advertisement claims catarrh is constitutional and promotes internal treatment. It promises a $100 reward if Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure and urges readers to buy from druggists at 75 cents, with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Nature
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Broken china care tips and laundry note
Broken china after mending should be set in saw dust to dry. Place pieces in any position and their weight steadies them until cement sets. Cuticura ads promote ointment soap and result claims for skin and hands. A London Punch item jokes about washing linen by electricity and customers tearing buttonholes themselves.
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Punch
London
Itching and Sting of Fiery Eczema Treatment Claim
An advertisement describes eczema as a blood infection and promotes S. S. S. as a universal cure. It urges readers to obtain a bottle from the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, for advice and treatment results.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
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Sheldon Leavitt
Rousseau
McClure Newsp
Aper Syndicate
L. B. Brockton
John Conover
John
Foster's
Spohn
His
Salvation Army
Hostetter Smith
Kansas City Star
Kathryn
Little Sister
China
Adv
Dean
Colorado
Dasie Brumley
Greeley
Colo
Cera
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N