Pennsylvania inventor's floor and ceiling mop cleaner
A detailed description of a mop cleaning device with a crank operated beveled gear converts motion to wind a cloth around a holder. The system uses a long handle, a metal base, and wires to attach cloth, enabling flat drying and easier cleaning on floors ceilings walls and windows. A thumbscrew locks the crank to prevent unintended movement. The device promises simple effective use compared to traditional poking.
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Pennsylvania
Household Helps and Pumpkin Pie Recipe Fragments
Fragmentary kitchen tips describe creaming butter and sugar before other ingredients and beating eggs separately. It mentions sifting flour, baking powder, oven temperature, and cracking issues. A pumpkin pie method follows with stewed pumpkin, butter, flour, spices, milk, vanilla, and folding in egg whites before baking briefly.
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New Orleans
Glazed Onions Recipe Notes
Fragments describe preparing glazed onions with butter stock sugar salt and pepper. Peel onions, boil briefly, brown butter, fry onions, add stock and glaze, simmer until tender, then serve with gravy.
Apple Custard Pie From Apple Sauce Method
A simple pie method stews apples or uses leftover apple sauce. Prepare a deep plate, fill with sweetened flavored apple sauce, whisk one egg whites with sugar to stiff peaks, then frost the top and brown lightly. Bake an crust first.
To Make Firm Flesh Facial Formula Aide
A recipe titled To Make Firm Flesh describes a clear smooth skin preparation used by maidens with Marie Antoinette. It combines equal parts white vinegar and benzoin, steeped eight days then strained and bottled. The directions claim any quantity can be used in the last step.
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Marie Antoinette
Guide to Frying Sweetbreads with Cream Sauce and Herbs
Soak sweetbreads for twenty minutes in cold salted water, then boil with lemon juice. Drain, fry in hot fat until brown, cover with cream sauce, and serve with a border of green herbs.
Care of Fine Woods And Polishing Techniques
Advice on maintaining fine woods suggests wiping with a chamois skin wrung from lukewarm water and immediately polishing while dry. The text references using a dry piece of chamois for proper care and upkeep.
Plague Stones and Burning Mud in Historical Notes
A collection of curiosities describing plague stones used during epidemics for trade and payment, and a discussion on burning mud or peat and historic misconceptions about fire making. Includes trivia on how plague stones functioned and explains peat's use in Europe for fuel.
Snails and Ice Cream Myths and a Parlor Trick
An eminent naturalist extols the snail as a remarkable life form able to survive fifteen years believed dead and withstand freezing with eggs resilient to heat. The piece also notes the first ice cream maker in 1774 and Lord Bacon’s limited interest in congelation, followed by a parlor trick about judging hat height by sight.
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Animal Kingdom
British Museum
Duc de Chartres
Lord Bacon
Missed the Carriage Recall Sparks Huggy Tot Phrase
A four and a half year old, shown a hen baby, looked around the room and asked curiously where’s the huggy tot, capturing a playful moment reported in a light feature.
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement for Backache Relief
A Carey Ohio citizen attests that Dean's Kidney Pills cured backache and kidney troubles after sudden pains and frequent kidney secretions. The ad notes Foster Milburn Co as U S agents and urges remembering the Dean's name. A related exchange mentions a $20 000 tiara and skin itching remedies with Dean's Ointment. An Atchison Globe anecdote shows personal gratitude toward a supportive partner.
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Carey
Agron ‘Suber
Vance
Sti
Ohio
Dean
Doors
RIX
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Persistent cough following influenza cured by Chamberlain remedy
Many persons suffer a persistent cough after influenza. The cough can be promptly cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Sold by J. D. Ewing and C. W. Brayton.
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J. D. Ewing
C. W. Brayton
Burdock Blood Bitters Promoted as Ailment Cure
A collage of quips and ads praising tonics and remedies fills the page. Burdock Blood Bitters is advertised as strengthening stomach membranes and purifying blood while Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is touted as influenza proof against pneumonia when taken early. Also includes jokes about vagrancy and a safety folding bed invention.
Adam and Eve in a Garden Quarrel and Odd Jobs
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer quip, a man jokes about earning ten shillings a week with chores like cleaning, boots, knives, and garden work. Adam confronts Eve after receiving an ejectment notice, and a tense exchange ends with Adam asking who's looney now as they gather gourds and tent poles.
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Elay
Ea S
Adam
Eve
Father of Mankind
Looney
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fletcher's Castoria Tale At A Horse Show
Reginald Vanderbilt heard a strawberry tale told at a horse show. A fruit dealer laments ruin despite good crops and high prices because box bottoms were built wrong and a nurseryman fell ill forcing a replacement. The punchline centers on the boxes being filled wrong end up.
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Reginald Vanderbilt
Old Town Pump Located in Salem by Washington Street
Workmen have struck capstones of the old well on Washington street in front of the First church, locating the famed Salem pump previously thought to be elsewhere by Hawthorne. A Moliere season in Germany features three Berlin theaters staging plays by the French master. French influence returns to the German stage, supplanting Ibsen and Strindberg for now. Dust baths for fowls should use dry road dust, kept in coops under perches, especially in winter, as an inexpensive absorbent addition.
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Salem
Hawthorne
Washington Street
Germany
Berlin
Ibsen
Protection For Orchard Trees With Lime Wash
A lime wash protects orchard trees from rabbits by wetting lime to a thick consistency, adding a dash of carbolic acid, and painting the trunks.
Carlyle Snub Echoes Darwinism Conflict in Street Encounter
Leonard Huxley recalls a moment before Carlyle's death when the philosopher, famed for hating Darwinism, crossed the street and was greeted by his son who remarked on the idea that humans descend from monkeys. The old thinker acknowledged the comment and moved on.
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Carlyle
Leonard Huxley
Huxley
Wwe
Mail close and arrival times for Hocking Valley and rivals
The notice lists daily mail closing and arrival times for Hocking Valley, Big Four, Northern Ohio, Findlay, and Vale, with specific morning and afternoon cutoffs. It notes Sunday mail operations and arrivals, including an express pouch deadline for Bellcenter and Sunday hours.
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Hocking Valley
North
South
Big Four
Ohio
West
Findlay
Vainue
Bellcenter
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Walnut Ave
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Times Office
Chamberlain Medicine. Co
Des Moines
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Rest
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Phe Cantaur Company
Vans
Railway Directory
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Hocking Valley Railway
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Agt, Care
Astoria
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Chesebrough’s Grocery
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F. L. Moyer
Ate
Keefer & Hunter’s Livery Barn
Main St
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Old Foundry
Scienfific Americas
Scientife
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