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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1873
Page
4
A narrator laments not receiving a Christmas gift from Charley as she recalls their year of marriage. She lists small yet meaningful wishes, like lace, a ribbon, or a book, and reveals she has been his wife for a single year and longs for tenderness.
A facsimile of a household column recounts recipes for remedies and desserts including lemon and slickery nut cake. It notes bread pudding from sour milk, a dye recipe, and emphasizes thrift through saving grease and ashes for soap, contrasting two families' finances and urging careful budgeting.
A New York World writer describes down east lumbermen’s method for pork and beans eaten twice daily for months. Soak beans, par boil if needed, drain, layer with salt fat pork, cover with hot water, and bake at least twelve hours.
An exchange notes many uses for waste paper in the home. It describes keeping stoves and tea kettles polished, knives and tinware brightened with paper, and soap used with paper for shine. Paper under carpets reduces noise and acts as insulation, and layers of paper can warm a bed.
The essay lauds William Cullen Bryant at seventy nine for a life marked by extraordinary literary productivity from youth to old age. It notes translations at age ten, The Embargo in 1807, and the mature masterpiece Than atopsis, while praising his steady professional labor and humane civic character.
The Laporte Argus reports two orphan sisters in Chicago learn they own forty acres valued at several hundred thousand dollars due to a will unearthed from a relative long unknown. Miss Sarah Trader refused earlier marriage to Mr. John H Bruner. he travels from Philadelphia after hearing of the inheritance and marries one of the sisters on Thursday evening.
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