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Newspaper
Farmers Champion
Location
Elgin, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
3
A vintage health ad warns against calomel a toxic laxative claiming it harms the liver and bowels. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative with a money back guarantee. Ends with consumer reassurance and a nod to pharmacists.
An uneven ad page promotes tonics and cures with curious phrases. It touts Renowine as a hy herve tonic priced 0c and $1.00, claims cures for ivy poisoning using Manford's Haleam antiseptic, and includes stray lines about war, marriages, and a bride borrowing her mother to Indaw'n cook hook.
A revival of hay-box cooking explains a simple, old method to slow cook meals with hot hay and a wooden divider. Food is heated to boiling, packed into a hay-filled box, and left to cook for hours, yielding porridge stews and hot meals with minimal fuss and fuel use.
A reader letter explains a hay-box technique for keeping Meat of soup ready for return home. It promises low cost and simplicity, appealing to housewives and mothers seeking efficiency. It warns to avoid live sparks ticking to the pans bottom when bagged.
Fragments describe a dessert: one pint whipped orem, one half cup white wear, one pint eld boiled rice, one half dozen figs, a quarter package gelatin, vanilla, preserved ginger. Soak gelatin, heat cream with sugar, dissolve gelatin, add rice and flavoring, then mold. Ginger optional.
A dessert recipe describes beating yolks with milk and syrup from preserved ginger and sugar until thick. Strain in gelatin dissolved in cold milk then fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and chopped preserved ginger. Mold and chill, serve with whipped cream.
Mash two cups cold boiled potatoes with milk grated cheese minced onion and a pinch of salt and pepper. Melt butter in a pan, add potatoes stir until browned then brown on the other side. Serve with tomato sauce.
A fragment from Mother's Magazine describes cleaning pewter by mixing a paste of powdered pumice atone and soap with a touch of sweet oil. Wash with warm soapsuds, rub on the paste moistened with water, let stand overnight, then rub off with a soft cloth and polish with a mild polish.
The excerpt appears as a garbled block mixing medical claims and product pitches about creams and baby care. It references a Red Cross story and vague health advice, with stray phrases about clothing whitening and motherhood, lacking coherent events or clear individuals.
An OCR fragment lists various patent medicines and tonics with claims of hair darkening without dye and other health elixirs. It mentions La Creole hair product, Diarrhoea Cordial, Hanford’s Nalsum, and other suspicious elixirs, all offered with pricing and promotional flairs.
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A fragmented poem style note uses archaic phrasing to question public attention. It mentions women and a man in society, with oblique hints at loss, virtue, and public scrutiny. The text reads as a satirical critique of gendered expectations and visibility in media discourse.
A brief, peculiar will dated February 1 1919 bequeaths all after death to Annie C Darling with nineteen words. The testator James I Darling died December 1915 leaving a nominal $1 gifts and directing residual estate to his daughter.
From Popular Science Monthly a curious monetary note on livestock and currency. It claims 191 million waltiuts worth about nine billion diallers in the United States and cites investments totaling two billion three hundred million dollars. It argues the mute inhabitant represents five hundred sixty million dollars of wealth and notes high numerical figures, though the passage is distorted by OCR errors.
The readable fragments mention names like Allin and Cineren and references to Tanford Balsam and a disputed wedding. The tone implies a casual local item with scattered names and merchandise mentions, lacking a clear event or narrative.
A gaunt gray coyote terrorized Portola California attacking two dogs at the residence of Thomas Dorithey Mrs J Hardy narrowly escaped being bitten when the coyote broke loose from dogs and tried to attack her The dogs pulled it down and it fled later the school children frightened it away Hunters scour the hills near town seeking to locate and kill the coyote
A fragment from a historical piece shows characters discussing summer anticipation. The optimistic speaker expects many residents to travel out of town for the season, signaling a hopeful, outward-looking mood for the community.
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