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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
7
A loaf of spongy bread is trimmed at the crust then the crumb is pulled off in long narrow strips. The strips are laid on a baking sheet and toasted in the oven until brown for a simple recipe note.
A simple batter combines mashed sweet potatoes, meat drippings, baking powder, cornmeal, salt, and eggs. Form a soft dough and bake in a moderate oven until done.
Fragmented recipe lists bran graham and white flour sour milk and shortening with notes to bake gingerbread or in gem tins. It shows soda and lace or molasses as ingredients but lacks complete steps.
A recipe for Graham pudding uses angar butter salt soda dissolved in milk raisins breadcrumbs and Graham flour steamed three hours then dried briefly with lemon sauce. Also describes a baked apples dish with stale crumbs butter sugar milk and a final golden brown finish.
A quick method for garments sent to the tailor to be cleaned is to stitch around spots with a line of white thread. This small step draws attention to blemishes and yields good results in a short time.
White footwear becomes more fashion forward for summer with buckskin boots featuring Cuban heels and perforated broguing. A high ton model lists fourteen buttons, white calf piazza pumps with covered heels, and white buckskin oxford variants with black patent trimming.
A quirky old advice piece suggests moist hands require a tonic and frequent salt water baths or lemon rubs. It also describes a simple toilet water made from two ounces each of rose flower water and distilled water. The text notes the throat should be loose enough to allow free head movement for beauty and health.
Soak garments in cold water overnight then add finely cut soap and lye to cold water before heating. Boil clothes for ten minutes, rinse twice, blue, and hang to dry. This method claims a large wash in two hours with little labor and no damage to clothes.
Sour milk is proposed as a facial and hand lotion. It should be allowed to dry on the skin and then washed away with warm water.
The piece discusses aging and health, citing Youth's Companion and Dr. Harvey. It outlines habits to extend life: open air, exercise, deep breathing, simple diet with meat once daily, thorough chewing, early bed and rising, dark quiet sleep with windows open, limited sleep, avoiding worry, and temperance in alcohol tobacco tea and coffee. It notes aging is natural but can be mitigated by hygiene and calm living.
A historic recipe describes a bath soap paste from Paris favorites. It blends honey white soap white wax with tincture of benzoin and storax, melted together then cooled to pack in a jar for use in place of ordinary soap.
A historical account describes bands and cloths placed over infants mouths to prevent mouth breathing. Parents warn that breathing through the mouth signals weakness and dishonor, with methods evolving as children grow to curb the habit and promote lung power.
A Chicago Tribune meditation on kindness noting that good acts and words leave no regret while cruel or unkind actions cause sorrow and remorse.
A poem contrasts daily near friends with those we seldom meet. It honors constancy and courage, praising true companionship found in familiar faces while recognizing deeper value in distant or rare associations.
Capt Josephus, a stubborn bachelor, plans to marry Anne Maria Jones to gain a legacy. He resists, then is fed into a scheme by Anne Maria and Judge Jones as Alonzo and Leola maneuver in the family drama. The plan hinges on Captain Josephus agreeing to a match amid pies, meals, and the prospect of railroads.
A step by step description of a card trick where an assistant selects a card, recalls its position, and the performer counts through the deck to reveal the chosen card. The routine emphasizes counting from the spectator’s indicated position and turning over the card to reveal it as the audience names it.
A quirky snippet explains odd measurements noting that one man to 203 is over six feet, cork can buoy a normal shoe, a railway engine equals about WA horses, and average adult weights differ by gender with odd ounce figures.
Fragmentary notes describe a coin trick involving covering a glass of water with a dime and flipping the glass to spill water onto a table. The writing hints at a crowd reaction and a natural size illusion, though many words are garbled.
Stamp collectors note the absence of sovereign heads on Turkish stamps. The reason is the Islamic ban on representing human faces. Turkish stamps feature a crescent borrowed from the Byzantines after Constantinople's fall and an apparent signature motif claimed to be the sultan's. Egyptian and directau stamps display Nile symbols and reflect early history.
The text states that a boy’s hair grows at half the rapidity of a man’s. It claims boys average about three feet of growth per year, while in the twenties hair growth accelerates, with a rapid increase noted in early adulthood. The passage is garbled but discusses age related hair growth differences.
A Chicago area resident creates a vast artificial spider web spanning 4 by 60 feet between two trees in his yard visible from a main street. The web’s size and strength astonish onlookers as it serves as a striking decorative display.
A fragment from a local page poses riddles about a garden, a worm, and a rocky path. It hints at a bard and a strange, playful scene near the fields, inviting readers to guess the hidden meaning.
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