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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1912
Page
5
The reporter, guest of Watt Marashi, describes Scutari and its brigand tribes. He notes cheap life, frequent murders, and a guarded Madonna festival with brigands marching beside Christian processions. Mentions Scutari as insecure in Europe and the Skreli threat.
French folklorist Paul Geniaux notes Brittany peasants repeatedly seek supernatural aid. In Muzillac and surrounding Morbihan, families carry ill children to St Maners chapel altar to recite a hidden prayer, then claim the colic cures instantly. The belief highlights widespread reliance on miraculous remedies.
A brief health note praises Dr King's New Life Pills for stomach tone and liver and kidney regulation after indigestion. The ad touts safety and ease of use and lists a price of 25 cents at druggists.
An Auckland News interview examines how sharks, though nuisances, yield valuable products. Shark fins go to China for soup, liver oil supports leather, painting, machinery, and calf and dairy feed, while the carcass is digested and dried into a high nitrogen fertilizer mixed with Milburn phosphate rock.
Six million girls, aged fourteen to twenty four, work in U S factories shops and stores. Miss Alice Henry of Chicago editor of Life and Labor cites an average weekly wage of 186. The figures highlight working conditions and pay in early 20th century industry.
The Ohio State Journal recalls two beloved party desserts float and tarts from earlier days. Float is praised as sublime and heavenly while tarts are described as crisp, white shells filled with jelly. The piece laments their replacement by ices, meringues, crackers and rotten cheese.
Trim fat from one pound round steak and simmer in a quart of water with onion celery parsley and salt for one hour. Soak bread, mix with minced meat, egg, melted butter, salt and pepper. Form egg sized balls and boil ten minutes. Brown flour in butter, add strained broth and thicken. Serve gravy over meat balls.
Pure ripe apples stuffed with sugar, wrapped in rich pastry. Bake in a greased dish with butter, sugar, and nutmeg, covered for the first hour, then two hours total, with no sauce needed.
Peel and layer six apples in a buttered pudding dish. Sprinkle with sugar and water, bake until tender. Pour over a batter of flour baking powder salt melted butter eggs milk. Bake quickly and serve with a liquid sauce.
The text lists Oyster Dressing ingredients with stale bread, oysters, butter and seasonings, plus a note on preparation steps. It then veers into ad copy claiming Chamberlain's Tablets cure stomach trouble and mentions Engbretson's Pharmacy as the seller. The fragmentary passage includes stray old ad language and nonsensical lines surrounding the recipe.
Recipe uses cold boiled rice flour sugar salt baking powder egg and milk to make light griddle cakes served with maple syrup. It notes the boy’s appetites and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a way to boost appetite and strengthen the stomach, sold by Engbretson's Pharmacy, Adv.
How to clean gas mantles by sprinkling salt on burning mantles to burn off carbon and improve efficiency. Mentions lab furnace carbon removal. Also promotes Chamberlain's Ointment for pain relief applied with flannel. Sold by Engbretson's Pharmacy.
A collection of old fashioned tips on quilts stuffing with flannel substitutes cotton batting, saving wash effort, using paper bags for indicating rent, quick dishwashing, hair whitening with soap suds, baby care in heat, clothing bindings, home economics training for girls, easy doughnuts, biscuit crust tips with molasses, sugar, milk or eggs, storage advice for perishable foods, keeping cereals and flour dry, butter milk coffee eggs storage, soap drying, fruit decay prevention, reusable food wrapping papers, using old wire stands as pudding stands, porridge kettle cleaning, steam over soaking, digestible cereals, restoring black gloves and leather with egg white, whitening canvas shoes with turpentine and white oil paint, organizing back door storage, on porch drying lines, magnesia for lace, waist alterations, and general garment repair tips.
The article offers practical homemaking advice from dyeing woolen skirts to renew faded items, coloring gloves and straw hats, handling egg yolk separation, loosening stiff windows with melted lard, lengthening washed dresses by inserting a belt, and renewing basket scents. It includes patching carpet wear, making adhesives with glue and hot iron, using boracic acid lotion for minor wounds, and a testimonial for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from Lavonia Georgia.
An old notice promotes Dean's Ointment as a remedy for skin itching and piles. It claims the product is available at all drug stores for 50e and urges readers to do their best while noting it as a generic health ad from an era of simple medical cures.
Mix one pint flour with salt sugar and baking powder. Beat egg with milk, stir into dry ingredients to form soft dough. Knead briefly, cut into circles, space on greased pans, brush with beaten egg, and bake in a hot oven.
The Decorah Republican offers bundles with Chicago Record-Herald and Chicago Tribune at 4.15 and with Chicago Journal at 4.15. The Sunday Record-Herald or Trib une costs 2.10 extra. Outside Winneshiek county prices rise to 4.85 for Record-Herald or Tribune and 3.45 for the Journal.
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