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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1894
Page
11
The article advises sleep position matters for health. Back sleeping can cause dreams and breathing issues in weak vessels or brain conditions and snoring. Side sleeping, especially on the right or weak side during illness, aids digestion and lung expansion. Avoid sleeping with an arm over the head due to cramps headaches and restless dreams. A dark room with ample fresh air yields the best rest.
A scrambled 19th century mix blends an oyster soup recipe with instructions on observing sunspots through smoked glasses. It details quantities for oyster soup, then shifts to guidance on viewing the sun, including using smoked glass, focusing tips, and safety notes for amateur optics enthusiasts.
Instructions describe making an oblong toilet cushion about 4 by 6 inches using pink china silk. Use a half yard, hemstitch all four sides with a one inch hem, trim with apple green silk cord, and attach tassels at each corner. Place the cushion center and tie in a Grecian knot.
Describes methods for cooking apples in a sugared spiced syrup and explains a tattoo removal technique using multiple needles. The apple route covers coring, stewing in a clove scented syrup, thickening the syrup, and serving the filled apples. The tattoo section outlines threading needles through the skin to fade pigment with a digestive claim.
A Utica Insane asylum keeper faced a dangerous inmate on the roof. The man grabbed the keeper but the keeper outmaneuvered him by leaving the roof and returning from the ground, proving presence of mind can save a life. The tale, told by a businessman, underscores nerve amid danger.
A collection of short excerpts contrasts attitudes in China and France with travel anecdotes and funeral humor. It notes Chinese literature and foreigners, French domestic power dynamics, a dangerous travel account with a venomous snake, and an undertaker's remark about funerals being funny, reflecting varied cultural glimpses.
A guide to choosing dinnerware and bathroom items notes shifts in tableware design. It highlights upright toothbrush jars, milk white ware for strength and easy matching, and popular patterns from Doulton, Worcester, and Crown Derby with attainable prices for many households.
A recipe instructs to heat 3 pints of milk with grated chocolate and cocoa mix, sugar, cornstarch, butter, salt, and three egg yolks plus vanilla. Bake half an hour then beat egg whites to stiff froth with powdered sugar, spread on pudding, and color lightly brown.
Care for Sumner finery with rough red wash materials, then fold and pack separately. Mend first, brush chatlies crepon and summer silks, dust with ammonia water, remove bows, and box separately. Dust and store lace, treat washable fabrics, hang dresses wrong side out, use a hot room if needed. Remove feathers, wrap flowers in tissue, dust parasols, and store gauze safely to retain folds.
Instructions describe preparing a layered cauliflower dish. Break the cauliflower into florets, butter a dish, layer cauliflower with cream sauce and grated cheese, repeat, finish with butter and bread crumbs, bake in a moderate oven for about thirty minutes.
A short column advocates keeping the mouth closed to reduce illness, citesCatlin on nasal breathing, and frames it as a simple, effective motto. It also offers household tips to remove mildew with chloride of lime and recipes for mince pie filling and a guide to cleaning bathroom pipes with hot water and strong soda to prevent grime.
A pint of cooked corned beef chopped fine and a pint of cold boiled potatoes chopped fine are mixed with butter onion juice stock and pepper. Cook in a frying pan stirring until it boils then serve on buttered toast.
Practical guidance on keeping canaries clean and healthy. Recommends daily cage sanitation with sand or gravel, fresh water for drinking and bathing, and a shallow bath. Diet centers on summer rape seeds with seasonal greens and fruit, avoiding bread and sugar, plus sparing hempseed or poppy seeds. Ventilation, cage size, and perches are advised for comfort and air quality. continuous care notes for winter and air exposure.
Recipe for flannel cakes uses flour milk eggs and baking powder. Mix dry ingredients then add most milk and eggs to form a stiff batter. Beat smooth then add remaining milk and eggs and bake on a griddle.
A medical tip outlines common household disinfectants like crude carbolic acid and crystalline carbolic acid, noting odor, solubility, and suitability. It also provides step by step instructions for making a dainty linen mask case with decorative edging and careful finishing.
The article outlines three methods to craft cheap rugs from carpet remnants. It details cutting strips widthwise into three quarters of an inch, fraying edges, and sewing into balls. another method uses lengthwise strips fringed to form a nap. the third uses longer strips Ginged and sewn through heavy cloth with close stitching and fringe ends for a finished look.
London World recalls how Gounod faced harsh criticism for Medecin Malade Lui and later rose to fame with Faust while a separate Chicago Herald note explains the origin of the term printer's devil. Aldus Manutius publicly proved a boy in his Venice office was flesh and blood.
A secretary at the Eastern Rubber Company in Trenton reports a missing letter book. After hours, watchman Mike reveals he burned a similar book found in the wastebasket to prevent others from reading sensitive correspondence, provoking sharp rebuke from management.
Instructions describe making a table cover from French pear gray broadcloth with corner floral openwork patterns stitched by white silk. A rose pink satin underlay, finished with lace fringe or pinked edges, and a rose broadcloth band conceals raw edges. Tassels or butterfly bows secure the lining.
The guide notes to pick young geese and ducks with white fat and tender wings. It explains that wind pipes should be brittle and distinguishes wild from tame birds by feet color and overall features. The canvas hack is among the types, identified by a short smooth head feathering and chestnut head and neck, with a greenish black bill.
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