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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
3
Grape juice may replace wine in cookery and be served as a sauce for puddings fritters and dumplings. Prepare grape juice ice cream sherbet and a cream dessert by combining juice with sugar gelatine eggs and cream, chilled and served.
Instructions describe lemon juice and steaming to lift stains, use boiling water through fabric, cream of tartar for old stains, rinsing, and drying. Mildew removal uses chloride of lime in hot water, followed by cold water rinse and ample rinsing. mildew bleached, then plenty of water. A Southern Ruralist dispatch jokes about matching perfume for mistress and dog amid a skunk encounter.
A Belvidere Kansas incident reports a bison charge on the Santa Fe Englewood branch near Rockefeller’s Million Dollar Ranch. A passenger train paused as a passenger brakeman vaulted a slope to safety, prompting slow orders through the buffalo pasture with buffalo valued at $1,500 each.
Used Steinway uprights fill Lyon and Healy Chicago showroom with styles and solid condition. The Triple Clearing Sale offers pianos from Thompsons, Healy, Theatre Piano Co. at 20 to 40 percent off usual prices with cash or easy monthly payments. Freight is nominal and all instruments are fully guaranteed. Send a letter to 77 cents street for full particulars.
Meta Times reports Nate Brown was offered money for a Kentucky half pint as he rode through Bates County. The tale notes no affidavit and claims the county seat has been dry since local option. Nate refused, saying it was the last half pint he had.
Some people think indoor and outdoor paints differ in quality. Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint covers more surface per gallon and performs better than ordinary paint. Hand-mixed paint cannot match its work. For all painting, insist on Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint.
The Chicago Post condemns profanity as a national habit and condemns youths for adopting it. It urges social ostracism of swearing offenders and proposes an anti-swearing league among boys to cultivate manliness and clean speech.
Silas B. Overman died after months of illness at 56. Maude Cannon, 17, underwent an appendectomy in Kansas City and died before surgery was performed. Funeral services for Overman were held at the Christian Church led by Elder J. W. Rogers with burial in Hume cemetery. J Wesley Badgett nearly lost his foot after a corn cutter accident, narrowly spared by a miracle. he now faces life as a cripple.
Andrew Babo, a Buffington laborer for a United States Steel subsidiary, was taken to South Chicago hospital after a compressed air jet torn his organs during a cruel joke at the B Cement company plant. His English lack fueled repeated hazing as coworkers intensified the prank. He is expected to die from the internal lacerations caused by the air jet.
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