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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
5
Domestic science teachers and food authorities urge readers to examine labels on all food articles under the National Pure Food Law. The label must show ingredients so consumers can distinguish healthful products from deleterious ones, with Royal Baking Powder highlighted as pure and safe. Low grade powders use alum or phosphate. physicians condemn their use.
Frost morning. residents and visitors listed with many names from Castalia Decorah Postville Ossian Ravena Ludlow and nearby towns. Notes include new Ford and Buick cars, farm work, barn raising, surveying, cemetery and church events, W T U meeting, Dr Nash drug stock, and local social visits.
Vacation for schools arrives as farmers plant corn and finish tasks. Numerous social calls dot the week from Ridgeway to Cresco with church meetings, L A S gatherings, and a Y P A rally planned. A car accident injures Mrs Reuter mildly. several visits to Cresco and Golden Ridge mark the period. Wolves roam the county as stray predators.
Farmers busy with corn planting. Oleson reports a new Ford auto. Dignitaries and visitors stop by Decorah, Harmony, Riceville and Cresco. A Mother’s Day program rehearsal postpones a literary meeting. John L Watson to lecture May 20. Rainy crowds attend the church service. A barn dance draws locals at Road farm. Two men from Harmony suffer a ditch mishap with their wagon but escape injury.
Local notes from Clay Hill and Decorah areas include frost lingering after Sunday night, early corn planting by farmers, and multiple visits and gatherings. Residents such as L B Willis, Frank Mall, Lizzie Williams, Julia Anderson, Ruth Dinger, Pat Ronan, Hazel Sheetz, Stella Sorenson, and others are mentioned with autumn and spring social rounds, church events, and family visits amid community life.
Freeport May 7 115 Adolph Riste visited Frankville Sunday Miss Leona Sorenson spent Sunday visiting friends in Sattre Mr and Mrs Id Reynolds of Decorah guests at J H Coughlin home Sunday BLA meeting Y W President Henry Turtlett joined Remember memorial services at the church next Sunday Old soldier invited from Clay Hill area familiar names appear Funeral of Martha Hanson at county home noting long resident status Burial Monday officiated by Rev K E Schndt Local bank ad promotes savings and checking accounts Ambition as a virtue but needs pluck to boost it
Barker’s Antiseptic promises quick odor relief in 15 seconds and feet feeling silkier. For sale by John Schimming and R. A. Engbretson, Adv.
A vintage recipe collection outlines Fruit Salad with grapes apples celery nuts marshmallows and candied cherries plus a lemon cream dressing. Pie recipes include Caramel Pie Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Pie Lemon Cream Filling Rhubarb Pie and Jerry Pie with steps for crusts fillings and merinques. Butter sugar tweaks and baking directions are provided for each dessert.
Clam patties combine canned or fresh clams with egg cream bread crumbs salt and pepper baked in greased molds topped with crumbs until two thirds full then served on buttered toast with hot milk or cream. Perfect omelet uses four eggs whites and yolks beaten separately with boiling water salt folded gently and baked five minutes until slightly firm then slid onto hot batter. Work for yourself by working for the good of all.
F. W. Fitch argues dandruff stems from dirty scalp, not a germ, and promotes the Fitch Dandruff Remover to dissolve flakes with scalp treatment. Instructions urge repeated washing, then root application, claiming clean, soft hair. Large bottles marketed for long hair at 50 cents to $2.00, with orders via druggists or direct mail from Boone Iowa.
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