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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1926
Page
8
A vintage kitchen column offers hot dishes for winter meals and a variety of sweets. Recipes include hot chicken salad with lemon and onion, smoked fish in tomato sauce, pork chops with tomato curry sauce, raisin muffins, and several candies such as creamy fudge peanut brittle and fondant. Includes guidance on preparation and serving.
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Aaron Burr the cracis of Richmond Hill is credited with guile and black magic. He became a banker in New York by founding a water company and getting his Bank of Manhattan to operate despite Hamilton opposition. The water company charter allowed surplus funds to be used for banking, enabling the Bank of Manhattan and widening the Burr Hamilton feud. The episode fed the belief Burr was too slick and helped end Burr’s political rise, contributing to Hamilton’s death and Burr’s downfall.
The Peterboro Transcript recalls George Turner who improvised copper toes for shoes to save money as his children wore out toe tips. He patented the idea naming copper and silver metal tips and reportedly earned more than from his farm. Copper toe shoes became a local fad in small towns and rural areas.
Two San Francisco chemists announce a chlorine gas bomb for home cold treatment. The device is a glass capsule containing pure altered chlorine gas that, when broken in a closed room, fills the space for one hour, mimicking the effects of more elaborate apparatus and avoiding exposure to bad weather or longer journeys to central facilities.
George J Spreckels spoke at a sugar men’s banquet in Los Angeles calling sugar the most maleficent thing and warning about its dangers. He compared its perceived harm to biblical Abel, recounting a local tale of a mammy warning her grandson during the grinding season about consuming cane sugar.
Aiding Research Work A clearing house for research work in secondary education will be established in the Interior department due to a need for education. More than seventy institutions in the United States including teachers' colleges and schools of education will file copies of completed research studies with the bureau. The material will be loaned or made available for examination, enabling publication of periodic abstracts and reports.
An antiseptic product Emerald Oil claims rapid relief for bunions and soft corns. Drops applied to swollen joints allegedly reduce inflammation quickly and shrink corns, with suggested repeated use until normal condition returns.
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