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Newspaper

Columbia County Republican

Location

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 12, 1914

Page

5

The Strawberry Verse and Remedies Across Eras

A collage of prose and poetry on strawberries, citrus, and home life. Curated snippets note berry origins, language roots, digestion ideas, and rustic recipes, interwoven with lines from May Austin Low and James Russell Lowell. The piece blends quotes, culinary tips, and reflective verse in compact fragments.

James Russell Lowell

Potatoes en Casserole and Sweetbreads Dish Guide

A home cooking feature promotes casseroles for slow heat cooking to preserve nutrients and flavor. It describes Potatoes en Casserole with butter, onion, soup stock, and parsley baked forty minutes, plus Sweetbreads on Casserole prepared by soaking, boiling, chilling, and trimming fibers.

Economic Epigram Values Truthful Labor and Fair Deeds

The aphorism extols speaking truthfully and working faithfully with steady conscience. It urges fair dealing and compassionate view of others' failings, claiming these virtues yield lasting rewards beyond politics, social rank, or financial gain from deceit.

Loss Prefers Honest Loss Over Unjust Gain

A reflective child’s proverb favors choosing honest loss to avoid lasting grief from unjust gain, describing moral balance and the idea that right choices spare enduring sorrow.

Wheel or Whea Question in Marriage Jest

A humorous exchange where a fair maiden asks if marriage means a motor car or a horse. Henderson responds with surprise as she clarifies she wants to marry for wheel or wheat, highlighting playful wordplay.

Henderson Fair Maiden

Must Be Linguist Exams For Turkish Medical Entry

The entry standard for physicians in Turkey requires passing the oral examination in either French or Turkish. Prospective doctors must demonstrate language proficiency to practice.

Turkey

Rhubarb Delights and Quick Cake From A Seasonal Menu

Readers learn to prepare rhubarb in a simple bake with citrus, spice and sugar, plus a deviled young onions dish using veal stock and gherkins, and a rapid cake method with eggs sugar flour milk and butter. The text offers practical kitchen steps.

Busy Day Dishes for the Busy Housewife

A guide to quick wholesome meals using browned meat with vegetables served from one dish. It describes mutton with carrot peas and onions with potatoes, Peach and Sago Pudding, and cooking tips for batch preparation in one oven or a fireless cooker to tenderize cheaper cuts.

Nobody But the Few See Projects Through From Start to End

A reflective passage on perseverance noting that many begin tasks but few maintain steady progress to completion, emphasizing reliability and steadfast forward motion as rare traits. The text highlights the value of consistency and determination in seeing endeavors through.

Frequent Oscillation in a Bavarian Piano Duel

The Munich based Fliegende Blaetter quips about Gustav and his singing kiss in a running joke. The gag centers on a pianist who misses the right note while below residents complain about the wrong key.

Gustav Munich Fliegende Blaetter

Encouraging Theory on Soil Minerals Gains Support

A theory arguing soil mineral elements are inexhaustible gains traction as evidence shows Chinese soils rank among the richest globally after 4000 years of intensive cultivation.

Telling Her Dairy Lunch Joke Sparks Campus Gag

A humorous exchange cited from Harvard Lampoon features a man defining a dairy lunch as a restaurant where you may sit across from a lady without paying for her meal. The quip highlights campus humor and dating norms.

Harvard Lampoon

Capes and Coats Create Practical Tourist Garments

The article reviews cape and coat combinations by Paquin as versatile outfits for travel and sailing, with removable outer capes, matching hats, and taupe cloth ensembles. It praises practical, chic design, noting diverse wear in mountains, car travel, and warm climates.

Batiste

Ephemeral midsummer hats capture youthful gaiety

Julia Bottomley describes three distinctive summer millinery pieces for June weddings. A lace edged wide brim design on net, a white orchid like hat with maline and chrysanthemum petals, and a small round maline hat with delicate wire halo. Each piece blends airy materials into unique artful silhouettes for hot weather outings.

Maline Julia Bottomley

Cape for Summer Wraps Warm Weather Wardrobe

The cape described as a durable satin or silk evening wrap proves itself useful in warm weather. Dark exterior with a light lining creates an all enveloping garment suited for motor trips and walks.

Paradox Note on Hats and Heads

A curious observation notes that a man with a large head often wears the smallest hat. The playful remark invites reflection on fits and appearances in everyday life.

Blind Man Seeks Quarter for a Drink Joke Scene

A humorous exchange features a poor blind man asking for a quarter. The reply jokes that the coin won’t cure blindness but will help him locate the bartender around the corner.

Farmers adopt Egbert system nationwide growth noted

The paper reports over two million farmers in the United States now using the Egbert system but does not specify whose telephones are being used.

Bacon United States

Lesson From Sinners and the Lost in Luke and Zaccheus

A reflection on Luke 18 9 14 and 19 1 10 contrasts the self righteous Pharisee with the penitent publican and follows Zaccheus the chief publican. Jesus seeks the lost and reveals true justification through humility and restitution.

Zaccheus Jesus Josus

Picture Book Quite Novel

An Indiana designer creates a picture book with a cutaway cover figure and pages that reveal clothing and images beneath. Heads appear atop varied costumes or scenes, including playful or odd poses, with options to insert a friend's photo for humorous astonishment without offense.

Firefighting Gear Aids Sailors At Sea

A new apparatus resembling a diving suit lets a firefighter move through dense smoke aboard ships. The wearer uses a smoke helmet with a bellows pumped air supply and a speaking tube to stay in contact with officers, enabling access to the blaze center.

Another Hour Ringing In Lola's Comic Exclamation

A child Lola hears a clock chiming and, with wide eyes, exclaims to her mother that another hour is ringing in. The line captures a playful moment of a child reacting to time.

Lola

Dog mistake in drug store ends in chaos

Nick the dog chased a hanging basket on wires mistaken for a bird in a drug store. The basket ran along the wire path from the counter to the cashier and back, leaving crates and displays toppled as the store owner and master arrived to stop the damage.

Nick

Origins of the Chauffeur Term Across History

The piece traces how chauffeur, from heat and forge operation, shifted to describe locomotive firemen and then motor vehicle drivers. It notes wartime uses during the French Revolution when brigands were called chauffeurs and were forced to extract ransom from captives.

Condors No Longer Capable Of Lifting 20 Pounds

Historical belief in condors lifting men is debunked by latest reports stating no bird can lift more than 20 pounds. In the same breath, youths who once feared a legendary grasp may now breathe easier.

Substitutes at weddings spark a wedding day debate

Two humorous lines discuss why a best man exists. Little Joe notes the role is to stand in if the groom hesitates or backs out, while the quip frames the tradition as a backup in a lighthearted exchange.

Edna Little Joe

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