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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
2
A brief note describes the Rylie sharpener with a single spring metal arm forming the guide to hold the abrasive bar in position. This compact mechanism aims to stabilize sharpening and enhance precision.
The text describes fingers attached to the cutter bar of a mower or binder that extend about two feet forward to lift fallen grain. Leonard Seth of Stratford Ontario Canada is noted in the US patent 1,202,113 as sharpening via drawing a sharpener on both sides.
The caller quotes two U S patent descriptions by Hiram F Smith of Whitlash Montana and Allyn Boughton of Neodesha Kansas. One describes eating fallen grain using a patented method while the other details a waterproof gummed paper cellar underside protected by thread paper.
A survey of patent summaries shows devices including an oiler can dispersing oil or disinfectant onto passing hogs, a river bank protector using angled spill structures braced with wires, a poultry feeder with a bottom pan catch, a husker that grips ears for easy shelling, a tank heater for antifreeze protection, and a baby hammock employing springs to limit motion.
Home hints describe making pretty window boxes by nailing virgin corks to a plain deal foundation. It notes cork can be bent by steaming or soaking in boiling water for an hour to reduce brittleness.
Moths in carpet or rug are best treated by dampening a linen cloth with clean water, placing it on the affected wool, and passing a hot iron over the cloth until dry. The steam kills the eggs. Wool damage is caused by the worms that hatch from the eggs, not the moths themselves.
A letter advises using a hand brush over a dish-cloth for cleaning dishes and notes bacon rind can baste roasted meat to prevent burning. It suggests melting butter as a salad dressing substitute for olive oil and shares a neighbor’s unmanured field yielding seven bushels per acre less than manured land, illustrating the impact of manuring.
The article details Cape gooseberry Physalis peruviana edulis origins in South America, cultivation from seed, soil and spacing, weed control, and mulching. It covers enemy leaf miner, tobacco wash control, and mentions related Physalis species such as Physalis alkekengi and Physalis pubescens with notes on frost hardiness and fruit use. It also discusses pruning and wind damage impacts on tree-like growth, with guidance on summer pruning and early January work for young trees.
Summer pruning opens crowded young trees by removing surplus growth to balance fruiting limbs. Proper removal of center growth guides training, supports future shape, and improves final production despite wind or damage challenges.
The text discusses deep breathing as a life extender and health aid. It claims taking from twenty to fifty deep breaths daily clears nasal stuffiness and prevents colds, describing a routine of inhaling through the nose for nineteen counts, holding ten, and exhaling ten. It asserts circulation improves with deep breaths and cites personal experience.
Experiments at Town State College show rhubarb can be dried at home without losing color flavor or character. Cut stalks dry on cheesecloth in sun or in a drier at 100 degrees or less with good air circulation. store dry. Soaked before use dried rhubarb rehydrates to sweeten and cook like fresh, with ratios: 20 pounds fresh yields 1 pound dried.
Poem urging citizens to boost farming production during wartime. It frames the nation’s effort as patriotic by linking grain, lordly sun, and sailor protection. Citizens too old to fight should work the fields to feed soldiers.
The piece lists contenders for the longest English word such as disproportionableness disestablishmentarianism and trioxymethylanthraquinonic along with quirky neologisms. It then shifts to a Poultry Notes column discussing exhibition standards and the care required to present prize birds.
The article details lime-based egg preservation in large operations with cement tanks, including proportions of quicklime salt tartar boron and water, and describes sediment settling and surface sealing. It also covers egg pulp production, desiccation, and extensive, mixed feed regimens with green foods, grains, oilcake, meat, and temperature considerations for breeding stock.
In Podunk a nephew takes Uncle Hiram to a downtown hashery for lunch. The pair exchange dialect heavy lines about coffee, sinkers, and a bowlside meal. No violence or crime is described.
A garbled local note discusses theft risk and home safety. It mentions burglars, color matching garments, and a dubious compare between burglary and death. The text includes unrelated phrases about windows, cold weather, and life length.
A discourse on dainty sandwich making notes one day old bread for best texture. It describes olive and anchovy paste with butter, anchovies, olives, and egg, plus garnish ideas and optional sauces to flavor fillings.
Instructions describe blanched almonds mixed with mayonnaise for a sandwich filling, plus a ginger chocolate paste made from preserved ginger butter and chocolate. Includes chopping, creaming, layering on buttered bread, shaping, toasting, and garnishing with parsley, cheese, olives, and cream for an elaborate, old fashioned snack.
A vintage recipe fragment describes savoury butter for sandwiches with fresh butter custard olive oil egg yolk and seasonings. It also outlines Sardine galette style paste on brown bread and two sandwich ideas Watercress and Tomato with herbs and olives, all served on buttered bread with minimal garnish.
Instructions describe sealing rump steak with butter pepper salt anchovy sauce in a jar and simmering in water for five hours. After cooking the mixture is minced and mixed with gravy and then canned airtight for storage.
A recipe describes making a paste from cheese, butter, cream, and salt with cayenne. It instructs spreading the mixture on bread and garnishing with finely chopped celery nasturtium leaves and parsley for serving.
A fragment describes making a salad sandwich puree from hard boiled yolks and butter or mayonnaise, plus chicken, rabbit, anchovy, or cold fish. It instructs layering with buttered bread, cress, then another bread layer, pressing, cutting, and trimming crusts.
A rustic recipe describes frying raw ham steaks in water until browned, then simmering with a milk flour sauce. It instructs boiling a small amount of flour in water, adding butter, and finishing with a spiced sauce to serve with the meat.
Readable fragments describe bacon wrapped anchovy skewers on crostini with a cheese pastry base and a separate apricot compote dish. Instructions mention rolling bacon wrapped oysters on skewers, frying, and serving on croutons with a custard like finish and a rum glaze.
A garbled reminiscence from Edinburgh recalls old tradesmen like a holsterer and a tailor, with patrons asking daring questions about kindness and materials. Dialogue threads drift between families, lawyers, and a playful, archaic tone, ending with a hint of local wit.
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