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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
3
A cautious essay on how maternal moral and physical care shapes a child’s nervous health and happiness, distinguishing misbehavior from nervous upset and urging mothers to balance discipline with understanding in the home. The piece emphasizes home support as crucial to a child’s future.
A collection of simple kitchen instructions detailing Eye Gruel with barley, Apple Sauce from apples, Stewed Tomatoes with optional thickening, and a Bluefish Salad marinated in a French dressing served on lettuce with olive garnish.
A reflective piece discusses the labor of cooking and serving at dinner, noting the maid’s easier load and social dynamics. It argues cooks require strength, critiques women’s advancement, and ends with guidance on men dressing formally for theater invites.
To clean brass trays empty brass trays are washed in boiling soda soap suds then scrubbed. A fine brick dust powder is rubbed onto half a lemon and used to polish the tray, removing stains. Rinse and dry. This method preserves the golden color unlike metal polish which dulls it.
Remedies for wrinkles advocate facial repose and full body nourishment to keep the face plump and angularity absent. Maintain dental health to prevent cheek sagging from missing teeth. Facial massage, like exercise, tones muscles with upward outward strokes to lift and strengthen drooping muscles.
The text describes a home treatment using croton oil, tartar emetic, and drachylon plaster applied to the mole until it runs, then removed to heal. It also notes salicylic acid moistened with alcohol or glycerin bound on a mole for thirty minutes, with about three applications needed.
A compact collection of old fashioned home tips covers lock lubrication with oil, cleaning brass chandeliers, quelling chimney fires with sulfur fumes, turning out jellies, fixing fabric dyeing with hot brine, wallpaper cleaning with flour dough and washing soda, ironing stockings, and restoring rust on fire irons with sweet oil and iron oxide removal.
The article notes a likely banner year for harvests of wheat, corn, and oats across much of the grain region despite June and July rains and drought in some areas. Prices are high, with the Agriculture Department citing corn at 86.5 on Aug 1, and winter wheat projected at about 380 million bushels. Substantial gains in several states contrast with declines in fourteen Southern states affecting overall national averages.
The Rev Walter B Calley of Boston has been appointed general secretary of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America and may set up headquarters in Chicago He was born in 1858 in Dover Delaware to Quaker parents He planned a publishing career until a New York sermon by Rev Isaac M Haldeman redirected him to the ministry He graduated from Crozer Seminary in 1880 and first served as pastor in Bethlehem Pennsylvania Around three years into that tenure the article notes continuing service in the ministry.
The report notes higher crop yields than prior estimates, with statewise averages for spring wheat and regional condition readings. It lists Pennsylvania to Oklahoma by acreage, cites Minnesota and North Dakota trends, and mentions South Dakota's improved condition. Background on Richard Croker discusses housing in London and later church work in Cambridge and Boston.
Mrs Annie Bartholin was found buried beneath the cellar floor at 4310 Calumet Avenue Chicaro with a jagged left temple wound. Police seek her missing son William Bartholin, suspected in Minnie Mitchells death at a vacant lot near Seventy fourth end State streets amid theories of debt and property equity motive.
Former Alabama governor Thomas G. Jones recalls a Washington trip when a benevolent stranger arranged a private audience with President James Buchanan. The boy was swept to the White House in a carriage and treated like a prince during an hour-long welcome.
A demonstration where one cork stands upright on a table surrounded by six others. All seven are grasped and submerged, then slowly released. Water between the corks bonds them so they rise and float in a perpendicular formation as illustrated.
A burglar slips into a house but leaves when a resident woman warns him to remove muddy boots, saying it reminds him of home. The piece also notes Britannica’s 4700 B C tablet of Mena with an ancient bull in dynamic movement, linking early art to modern photography.
Dialogue shows a resident arranging a meeting by describing an unnumbered street and a landmark. The talk mentions a left turn at a station and walking to the second big puddle with the house opposite, reflecting a growing, unnamed neighborhood and practical guidance.
A compilation of zingers and brief satirical items from various papers. Snippets mock Bragg’s advice to keep a wife at home, Chicago vaults for cash, fake dollars, peach crops, cigarmakers strike, and multiple lighthearted observations on politics crime and fashion across American cities.
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