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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
2
A reflective assessment praises Bobie Jones for mastering temper and self control. It argues that controlling temperament is essential to success in golf and life, noting his early rages gave way to disciplined self governance. The piece links patience, intellect, and steady effort to lasting achievement.
A collection of older kitchen notes detailing methods for preparing mackerel with cream, dried beef with flour and cream, a meat mound covered with salt pork, Vermont chicken soup with lettuce and peas, egg bread ball dumplings in soup, roast beef with gravy, and meat and nut balls in tomato sauce. Includes instructions on timing, proportions, and serving suggestions from a 1928 Western Newspaper Mailbag.
To reopen a seated envelope place a thin cloth or paper over the flap and press with a warm iron. The heat softens the adhesive allowing the flap to be lifted and resealed without tearing the paper.
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate piece urges readers to reject selfishness as the root of many harms. It argues that overcoming this vice would end wars, poverty, and misery, enabling a world of compassion, friendship, and shared happiness.
A whimsical tale features a lamb roast and kitchen items arguing their roles in cooking. Water, stove, match, dampers, coal family, kindlings, potatoes, bread, butter, jug, gravy, apple pie, tea, salt, sugar, milk, flour, baking powder, and a talking Fairy Ybab claim their essential parts in the feast and the pie crust.
A whimsical piece contrasts old and new ideas with a morals bent, using a dinner table allegory. It extols cooperation and the idea that success relies on each part, from people to seasoning, to produce a satisfying whole. The writing references dinner, meals, and likenesses to human virtues in a playful, period voice.
The weed called plantain, a pestiferous plant often dug from lawns, appears in myth and folk medicine as a cure for bee stings and to draw out poisons. Native to temperate Asia and Europe, it travels with the white man, its seed spreading with ships and colonists, with legends linking it to a maiden transformed by unrequited love.
Baby specialists advise three ounces per pound daily in six months, then two ounces per pound later. Weigh breastfed babies before and after feeding to gauge intake. supplement with water as needed. If feverish or unsettled, offer Fletcher's Castoria for common infant ailments. one package includes a Motherhood book. Look for Chas. H. Fletcher signature to ensure genuine Castoria. forty cent bottle has thirty five doses.
An advertisement urges readers to use Bayer Aspirin for headaches and pains, asserting it is heart safe and prescribed by physicians. It cautions to request the Bayer box with gepuine printed in red and warns against taking other brands.
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