This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1914
Page
3
Narrator Pitman recounts a Pittsburgh flood era mystery linked to Jennie Brice. The piece blends past riots with present flood chaos as neighborhoods flood, a dog and a corpse surface, and questions about Jennie Brice's fate loom amid marital strife and a staged theater world.
The narrator recalls a tense morning in a flood district boarding house where Mr Ladley’s mood hardens and a dog guards a clue. A damp slipper and a broken bread knife surface from the water as suspicions of a concealment or worse grow while a missing Mrs Ladley remains a rumor.
The article advises treating stains before exposing hands to soap. Use lemon, vinegar, sour milk or acids to lift stains, then rinse with clear water and dry thoroughly. Avoid frequent soap changes to protect skin beauty.
A housewife should care for hardwood floors daily. In rooms in heavy use, sweep with a soft haired brush then wipe with cloths. Use a long handled dust mop or a broom with a flannel bag for wiping.
Advice on maintaining wood floors through regular cleaning and polishing. Rub spots with a flannel cloth and use turpentine to remove stubborn stains. Clean and polish twice yearly and wipe up spills immediately to prevent staining.
Guidance on stain removal suggests hot water fixes tea and coffee stains, while cold water with glycerine for two hours then washing with water and soap can make stains vanish.
If a room in your home has an unpleasant odor, burn a small piece of dried orange peel on a red hot iron. The orange scent will replace the smell and leave a fragrant result. This method can also help with a mated garbage can by killing the bad odor. Cold water and ammonia are often effective for other cleaning needs.
The article explains removing fresh ink from carpet with milk and dry ink with a buttermilk salt paste, ammonia wash, and multiple dries. It also notes easing hem stitching by making a soapy lather and brushing linen to draw threads, letting it dry for easier work.
A daily menu features Shirred Chicken with Oysters and Green Peas a la Germain. Also listed are Heart of Lettuce Salad, Pineapple Tapioca, Cocoa Cake, and Coffee with sugar butter.
Recipe directions combine butter flour salt pepper with cream to make a sauce. Stir in diced cooked chicken and oysters, cook until plump then serve birds with chopped celery sprinkled on top.
A recipe instruction to simmer shelled peas in chicken or veal broth and sweet cream for twenty minutes until tender. Tie mint sprigs in a bouquet and add with the herbs, then simmer. Remove the herbs, puree the peas, and season with salt and pepper.
Sook one cupful of pearl over night. In the morning put it in a double boiler and a half cupfuls of hot watery third tablespoonful of salt, one ful of sugar, half can of pineapple and the juice of one and one large orange. Gooks' clear, fold in the stiffly beaten of two eggs, cock two minutes and serve cold, with or without ere as preferred.
The excerpt provides a butter sugar and egg batter with vanilla, cocoa, baking powder, and flour, mixed with milk until stiff. It yields a loaf baked thirty minutes in a hot oven, with a separate chocolate icing made from sweet chocolate, confectioners sugar, and hot water.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.