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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
3
A man named Anderson is mistakenly brought to a hospital room for a stomach wash after a boy calls for him. Doctors mistake him for someone needing the procedure, scold him for eating breakfast, and reveal they confused him with a patient seeking his wife, in a Saturday Evening Post vignette.
A new device mounts a small emery wheel on a metal table atop a sewing machine to sharpen knives scissors and other small cutlery. The wheel contacts the belt through the table top and a guiding shelf angles for scissors sharpening making the task easier for housewives.
A remedy blends olive oil and glycerin with violets for soft hands. If glycerin is objected to a paste of beeswax and almonds can replace the lotion. Melt all ingredients in a jar in boiling water and stir. Once cooled apply to hands or sleeping gloves as needed.
The easiest method uses two pails of water one cold with a tablespoon of ammonia and one hot with a little ammonia and soap powder. Wash the paint with soapy water then rinse with cold using a wash leather, wring dry. The paint dries with a nice polish not achieved by hot water alone.
Stew tomatoes for table use enough to fill one or two jars. Add a little salt. Sterilize jars tops and rings for ordinary canning. Place jars in a water bath with lukewarm water. Fill jars to the top and proceed as in ordinary canning. It can be easier to put up tomatoes gradually using this method.
Peel and chop firm tomatoes and grate lemon rind for each pound. Bruil with sugar until soft, then stir in lemon juice and a pound of sugar per pint. Cook about thirty minutes until it jellies on a chilled plate. Store with other marmalades.
The article describes whitening linen by soaking washed items overnight in clear water with a spoonful of cream of tartar per quart. After soaking they become as white as snow and ready for airing or drying.
On the first of each month readers are advised to mark important dates by drawing a pencil through birthdays anniversaries and other memorables as a practical aid for busy people to remember significant events.
A brief note advises rubbing turpentine on wet fabric to lift paint without marks. Another tip suggests covering worn hemstitching with fine feather stitched braid to keep edges neat. Also included is a raisin pie recipe using seeded raisins, water, and citrus rind.
Detailed steps to sanitize an icebox or early refrigerator. Empty all foods, remove racks and pipes, inspect the trap, and scald parts with hot water and borax or baking soda. Rinse, dry, and keep doors open until completely cold. Do not store strong smelling foods or warm items inside. Use charcoal to absorb odors.
The article praises white tab frocks praised for staying fresh after wash and compares them with floral spring styles. It notes many white materials and ready made frocks this season, highlighting affordable lingerie frocks and the value of well made white garments over cheaper imitations. It urges practical, economical choices and home sewing for quality.
A molded custard dessert recipe with caramel syrup. It uses milk sugar vanilla eggs salt and water. The steps include making a caramel, adding to hot milk, beating eggs with sugar and salt, baking in a lightly buttered mold, chilling, then turning out and serving with whipped cream.
A frugal method to bake a meat loaf using stale bread as a crust. Combine crumbs water thyme onion salt pepper and rare beef then encase in loaf crust with suet bake 30 to 40 minutes. Baste with gravy or water butter for crisp crust and tender interior. Slice into three quarter inch portions. Can substitute leftover sausage for beef.
Washing china silk requires not hanging to dry. Wring thoroughly and wrap in white material for about one hour, then iron. This method yields better results and prevents yellowing.
A brief fragment notes tenderness as the path to brighten and guide people. It suggests keenness helps yet true goodness comes only through tenderness amid a noisy burst of ideas.
In Recollections of the Ould Church, Rev. John Elvy recalls a bishop who spoke to a working men’s meeting in work clothes. The bishop chose the text Wash and be clean, a choice that drew indignation from the audience and highlighted tact issues in addressing laborers.
Mendelssohn, at a public dinner with ladies present, faced a chorus of autograph seekers. A mature woman handed him her card, he wrote the music and words from Haydn's Creation, "And God created great whales," ending the scene and letting him resume his meal.
A bright New York City newspaper man and clever lawyer reveals a habit of drinking. He jokes about promising his brain to a medical college for preservation after death. Elihu Root's office boy tale shows etiquette lessons ending with the boy paying his way to a ball game.
A foreign minister traveling from Resht to Teheran visits a tea house where the host offers two eggs and a chicken. A cat is brought in and the dragoman asks for more food. The host replies the chicken will lay the condiment egg then, with KYmer, they will cook it.
In 1893 Mark Twain, financially strained with his family in Europe, stayed at New York’s Players Club. A member named Scott loaned Twain his uncle’s funeral overcoat, and Twain received a package with items from the coat as a Christmas joke while remarking that Scott should hang.
Two Houses quotes from John Sterling compare a man with knowledge but no energy to a furnished but empty house, while a man with energy but no knowledge is a dwelling without furniture. The aphorism links intellect and vigor to living spaces.
The seventeenth century Puritan preachers preached for hours not by the clock but by the hour glass. One preacher used the glass for humor, noting he was only halfway through when the sands ran out and quipped about another glass as the subject drifted to drunkenness.
An expedition for Mississippi flood victims spots Uncle Eph in a dilapidated skiff. As relief boats approach, he paddles and bails with one hand and replies to the captain, What do you want Nothing but wings boss signaling his wish to flee or take flight.
George M. Cohan, while in Chicago and early in his engagement, encountered an old colored woman scrubbing the marble foyer floor and singing a doleful air. He commented that it was a mournful tune, and she replied that she sings it to keep busy and hopes to reach heaven by minding her business.
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