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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1906
Page
11
A midcentury style instruction lists cabbage rolls with meat and lemon sauce, lemon pudding with butter and eggs, quick cinnamon buns, Southern baked sweet potatoes, potato custard, and Delmonico potatoes. It details prep steps, ingredients, oven times, and temperatures for each dish.
An old advertisement touts a cancer cure praised as a mild home treatment with years of success and testimonials. It promises a free book and urges patients to write to Dr C A Johnson in Kansas City Missouri for further information.
The article notes a return to plain, practical children’s dress designs with plaid trims and simple cuts. It lists several patterns for girls and boys, sizes and prices, emphasizing home sewers and NY models, plus instructions to order Nos 1771 1937 1770 1858 556 1481 1663 1308 with 15 cent pattern fees and mailing address in New York.
The article traces the waterman style of feeding pen technology from split-feed to spoon feed by W S Ferris, describes five main pen parts and the iridium tipped gold pen, details the alloy and manufacturing processes for gold pens, and explains rubber barrel and feed production including vulcanizing and assembly, noting the vast industry outputs and skilled construction.
A sensational dime for a dollar’s worth of MAN MEDICINE promises a full dollar package free to prove its value. Interstate Remedy Co. advertises packing and postage covered, urging exhausted men to send ten cents and receive the medicine by return mail.
The bull has forty rods to travel and moves a quarter faster than the tramp who has thirty two rods. Their relative speeds determine how near the tramp comes to the finish when the bull arrives, yielding the distance from the tramp to the grand hoist at that moment.
A statistician estimates about 9,500,000 men are under arms in Europe at present. If lined up, they would form a line roughly 1,500 miles long.
A Kerry girl calls for her father to help an English gentleman who is stuck in a bag. The father asks what harm it would do, while the girl laments that the man’s head is downward, illustrating how circumstances change outcomes.
A vivid portrait of a deep sea diver in a heavy suit, copper breast plate and 25 pound helmet, four hundred pounds in lead belt and sandals. He descends by air pumped through a life line while helper feeds hose. Darkness, currents, and sensory limits render him near powerless yet the diver relies on the pumps and the helper to survive the descent. He hears distant underwater sounds but trusts only the hose, line and the pump click.
New York City features a notably twisted Pearl Street from State to Broadway and back, nearly two miles long with ends one mile apart. Rail traffic rose with 10,000 more fares and 6,000,000 more transfers than last year. Banks hold ample capital while Fifth Avenue and Broadway see high diamond wear among shoppers.
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