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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
10
United States Department of Agriculture emphasizes milk in child nutrition. Undernourishment affects both slum and non-slum families, with poor food choices harming health. Dairy division, home demonstration agents, and state colleges promote milk through charts lectures and exhibits.
Housewives urged to use sugar substitutes and corn sirup to stretch scarce supplies. U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance promotes wartime conservation with recipes for chocolate cake oat drop cakes and gingerbread made with little or no sugar, using corn sirup molasses honey and wheat as substitutes.
The article notes kitchen paper roles for draining fried foods and lining pans, advising brown grocer's paper from factory roll, paraffin paper for wrapping, and using newspapers or catalogues as padding to reduce scrubbing. It also suggests saving light brown or tissue paper for cleaning greasy pans and kettles.
The article advises careful shoe fitting and maintenance to extend wear. Alternate two pairs, insert shoe trees after use, keep shoes clean and oiled, and dry slowly on trees. Use water and soap or cleansers for canvas, protect with rubbers in wet weather, mend small rips promptly to preserve shape and longevity.
Old New England pork pie aside vinegar is praised for cleaning dull steel and restoring shine. A tabespoonful added to a warm bath promises to relieve fatigue in muscles. A nightly poultice of vinegar and stale bread is claimed to cure a corn after a week.
In a winter storm at Bennett Bay a fisherman Harry Hammond risks the ice to bring Christmas to Emeline and Marie at the lighthouse. Ben Clark brings news of Hammond gone but alive after crossing the cracked ice. Marie waits at the tower as Santa light glows and Hammond returns.
An old advertisement warns that kidney trouble signals danger to health and urges immediate action. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a trusted remedy said to remove impurities and toxins, claiming prompt relief or money-back guarantees.
A compact quotation noting that success comes from doing one's best in every task and doing so without seeking fame as the motive. The aphorism emphasizes disciplined effort and integrity in daily work.
Ad promotes Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic fragrant powder for face skin and baby use. It claims economical value and convenience and positions it as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap and Ointment. It suggests the powder renders other perfumes superfluous.
A massive 13 day forest fire in Angeles National Forest, southern California, was brought under control by hundreds of volunteers and improvised back fires. Nearly 7,000 workers around Pomona fought flames day and night, with air guided backfires containing the blaze. Some resorts and summer homes faced threats, but only a few cabins were lost and Pasadena’s waterworks will gain a firebreak built by U S forest service rangers.
A jagged excerpt shows dialogue about asking a waiter and a joke on barnyard terminals as a code for cocktails. It notes marital misdeeds with a line about a husband accusing his wife when something is lost.
The text discusses Sir Walter Raleigh and a newspaper column arguing Shakespeare lacked a fully drawn hypocrite figure due to a happy childhood. It contrasts Raleigh and Dickens on hypocrisy and notes Gloster and Iago as potential counterexamples, while Raleigh preserves his view that hypocrisy is not a central dramatic type in Shakespeare.
A South American report claims yellow fever was defeated after a long struggle with "sanka thon" as a key weapon. US experts fighting the epidemic reportedly brought it under control and no new cases have been reported there for about three months.
A fragment shows a disputed help request and a poet recalling she wrote the editor five times after her poem was returned. The dialogue mentions Proof of Merit and a failed call for aid in a tense exchange.
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