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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1927
Page
8
The fragment presents household tips and recipes from a 1927 Wamtara Newspaper Union page. It features kitchen branding by Tre Kitchen Cabinet and includes life tips, a chicken soup recipe with tapioca, orange salad, suet puddings with foamy sauce, creamed turkey sandwiches, cream peas and lobster on toast, and several cake and dessert recipes with detailed ingredients and steps.
In Bavaria the old fashioned rural customs persist. A Catholic priest is ordained in Ross haupten. Festivities follow the ceremony including the maypole climb. Villagers saw the highest tree in the wood felled for the pole. The tree is tall and dangerous to raise, and married men were forbidden to attempt the task.
A harmless vegetable butter color named Dandelion has been used by millions for sixty years. Drug stores and general stores offer a bottle of Dandelion for 85 cents in an advertisement.
A London daily ad offered access to high society with introductions by titled ladies. It promised remuneration and references for Americans and others seeking entry to London society, attributed to B. M. BR.
A London Tit-Bita style joke features Mr Nagg saying there is no fool in his family and Mrs Nagg replying that was before they were married saying the line as a playful domestic quip from a period paper.
In a clipped dialogue a speaker teases about love and music. The exchange notes weather as a backdrop while a character named Jones is described as musical, prompting a quip that his music “plays” on the neighbors’ nerves.
Rev. W H Warner of Myeravilla Maryland says his illness started as neuralgia and lumbago with muscle cramps and dizzy spells. He attributes kidney issues to his pain and credits Dodd's Pills with restoring his health and saving his life. He recommends buying a box at the drug store for 60 cents from Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
New device uses an electrically heated bath to sterilize eggs and promises almost indefinite preservation, aiming to cut living costs. Also wartime style ad notes Cuticura Talcum as a skincare and fragrance product offered at 25 cents.
In a curious exchange Mrs SmytheJoyet admires a plane and explains the sandpaper tacked to it to deter her husband from striking matches on it. Mrs Neverlche notes the line as a humorously practical protest, musing that the real night watches are the ones we forget to wind.
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