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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
14
A detailed 19th century style guide explains washing dressing and roasting a Christmas turkey. It covers cleaning entrails avoiding odor, trussing methods, paper wrapping, initial high heat, long steady roasting, and timing about twenty five minutes per pound for a ten pound bird with basting every thirty minutes. It also provides chestnut and oyster dressings and gravy preparation steps.
A playful guide explains how to tell waxing versus waning by the moon’s shape. It notes that a D shape signals deception, so a D indicates waxing while a C signals waning, with Latin phrases to aid memory.
A ring-neck pheasant hen with a head scar is missing. Neighbor Andrew Runge at 468 Western Avenue requests help locating the bird. If seen, contact Runge to reunite.
Gray haired businessmen recall a daily fatherly talk at dinner that steadied them, contrasting it with their mother’s care. They describe a nightly ritual where the father’s “man to man” talk after grace kept them focused and disciplined in early adulthood.
Le Cri de Paris recalls how medieval royal proclamations used to start with Oyez and the king’s assent sounded in French. Modern heralds now cry O yes three times, echoing a bygone ceremonial phrase from the throne room.
New Bronte letters prompt reevaluation ofCharlotte Bronte’s early feelings for Belgian tutor M Heger. Early impressions quoted by Mrs Gaskell describe Heger as a powerful yet irritable rhetoric professor with a variable, sometimes animalistic, but rarely severe.
The article traces early knowledge of distillation to ancient times, noting Arabs likely learned the secret from Italian doctors. It cites Paul Richter’s Berline Klinische Wochenschrift, tracing "aqua ardens" back to Hippolytus in the second century AD with a recipe similar to later medieval formulas.
An advertisement invites inquiries to Mrs. Fred Schultz at corner 139th Street and Seeley Avenue Blue Island for sanitary shields used by teachers and refined women.
Cincinnati readers learn about Dr King’s New Discovery praised by Lewis Chamberlain of Manchester Ohio for his children. The ad claims the remedy treats croup coughs and colds and markets bottles at 50 cents and 1.00 offered by G R Richter and Emil Schmitt.
Dr E T Hagerman has lectured over 200 times in Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia and has held six major pastorates. He is known as a man's preacher and a popular after dinner speaker. He was booked by Lyceum committees in his first year and led the leading pastorate in Milwaukee for three years.
The speaker is an Ohio born Baldwin University graduate who worked his way through college. He is a popular after dinner speaker in Pennsylvania and at teachers institutes, having spoken in many towns three to five times, praised for his word painting, natural wit, and refreshing outlook.
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