Pink Pills Promise Strength to Nervous Exhaustion Sufferers
Canada wide plea from the Dr Williams Medicine Co proclaims Pink Pills cure for nervous exhaustion with improved blood nourishment. Letters describe severe headaches and dizziness easing after use. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or $2.50 for 813 boxes.
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Cat and incendiary device found in warehouse fire
Salvage firemen uncovered a cat tied to a string with charred flammable material in a cotton warehouse fire. Police believe a deliberately lit cab was used to start the blaze, aligning with a spate of recent cotton fires. A £500 reward is offered for information leading to the incendiary.
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London Standard
Baby's Own Tablets Endorsed as Safe Teething Aid
Mothers avoid harsh medicines and use Baby's Own Tablets for teething and stomach troubles. A government analyst calls them absolutely safe and effective. Mrs. Craft of Binscarth, Manitoba, praises their constip tion and teething relief. Sold by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario for 25 cents a box.
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Seasonable Recipes Cranberries and Plums
Seasonal cooking notes sketch cranberry jelly like preserves and plum marmalade with oranges and raisins. Includes a fruit compote with multiple berries and a nut sugared mix plated to accompany cold meats.
Cake Making And Variants From Old Recipes
Easy to follow notes on Lemon Sponge Layer and Feather Cakes with steps for sugar butter eggs flour and leavening. Includes boiling frosting lemon juice and oven timing. Mentions sponge cake layers and quick oven bake in multiple stages.
Preserving Grape Jelly and Prepared Sauces Guide
This notice outlines methods for making two tone grape jelly using purple and green grapes, and gives recipes for uncooked tomato relish and canned peppers. It details chopping ripe tomatoes and celery, adding sugar salt peppers and spices, mixing with horseradish and vinegar, and instructions for slicing peppers into ribbons before canning.
Salted Pepper Garnish Preserved For Sandwiches And Salads
Pepper pieces are salted at one tablespoon per quart of water and left overnight. After draining they are rinsed and placed in a glass jar. For each quart, heat one and a half cups vinegar one cup sugar and a small cinnamon stick until boiling pour over peppers and seal hot. Useful as garnish for salads meats and sandwiches.
Cleaning Tips From A Historic Laundry Note
Instructions describe using a tin lard can with gasoline in a tub and hot water to heat it, soaking garments for twenty to thirty minutes, shaking, and airing. It covers lace curtains silk fabrics with starch-like gasoline mixtures and suggests soapwort washing to restore brightness and smoothness.
Gingerbread Mixes with Ginger and Molasses
A historic recipe excerpt describes Ginger Cake and Poor Man's Gingerbread using New Orleans molasses, ground ginger, and spices. It lists ingredients like eggs, buttermilk or sour milk, flour, soda, cinnamon, and butter with baking in a moderate oven.
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Useful Hints From a Period Kitchen Notebook
Practical tips on cooking and kitchen management include using rice to aid creamed meats, camphor with unused silver to prevent tarnish, and hard boiled eggs with fish or spinach. If food burns, submerge the pan in cold water. clarify fat with raw potato slices. garnish fish with potatoes parsley and lemon.
Cooking guide with stray phrases and garbled text
Fragmented cooking instructions mix steps for preparing a green vegetable salad and a hot liquid method. The readable bits mention scalded chopped parsley and adding water milk or stock, then bringing to a boil. Several garbled phrases obscure actions and measurements.
Terrible Itch Prescription Promises Skin Cure
Fragment describes a cure claiming to treat dermatitis and eczema with an offer for free samples from a Toronto laboratory. It lists a druggist sale and a dubious medical claim format.
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