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Newspaper
Farmers Champion
Location
Elgin, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
7
May Irwin offers home cookery notes on repurposing leftovers into hash, ragout, or stews. She praises well cooked spaghetti and roast chicken, shares a fricassée style use of cold chicken, and provides tomato and egg stuffed tomatoes baked briefly for a breakfast dish.
A historical note describes preparing spiced plums by washing five pounds of plums, pricking them, and simmering sugar with vinegar and spices including cloves cinnamon almonds mace in muslin. The plums are soaked overnight, then repeated with a hot syrup three times for preservation.
A simple stovetop soup recipe using beef hamburger and cold water. Add carrots and rice with the hamburger at once so both cook together, season to taste, and serve as a hearty supper option.
Directions describe cooking rice and tomatoes together then combining in a dish. Tomatoes are stewed with salt sugar pepper and onion dulce, then rice is drained and mixed. The dish is poured over and heated in the oven for five minutes before serving steaming.
A recipe describes creaming one cup sugar with one half cup center then adding two and two thirds cups milk two teaspoons baking powder and sifted four cups. It includes one cup raisins and one cup chopped walnuts and suggests chocolate frosting with walnut meats.
Fragmentary kitchen note describes using cold balled rice and gem pans with battered walls. No clear events or names. reads as a stray recipe snippet with unclear measurements and ingredients.
A testimonial from Mia of Fleetwood Pennsylvania credits Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with alleviating premenopausal symptoms and restoring health. The letter notes prior illness and credits the remedy with preventing doctor visits for years while supporting digestion and nervous strength.
An advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a safe laxative from Hot Springs Chemical Co. It promises to tone the liver and bowels, relieve constipation and sickness, and cites a postcard offer for a quarter via druggists. The copy targets both adults and children with claims of harmless, gentle action and broad health benefits.
A branch of the British Meteorological Office will operate from the Royal Aircraft Factory at South Farnborough to supply aeronauts and conduct meteorological investigations. It will keep in close touch with the meteorological office at South Kensington and issue advisories from both locations.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Gladstone and Mr and Mrs Frederick Parish received a second baptism at St Margaret’s West Lothian after Queen Alexandra signified her wish to be the godmother to the fist great grandchild. The child was first christened in India and the royal gesture prompted the second ceremony upon the parents return.
Fragmentary lines show Dust Ali debating misanthropy and a joking exchange about catching something. The text includes phrases about crowing and pilied milk, indicating a casual, exploratory dialogue without a clear event or outcome.
For fifty years Norwegian women in the postal service have received the same salaries as men for the same work. A new bill to reduce women’s wages after five years of service was defeated, and liberals helped sustain equal pay as of the final vote 89 against to 30 for.
A letter describes Chinese football as primitive compared with Western games. Each side fielded about 60 players with no goals or halves and games could last days. The object is to carry a basket ball into the opponent territory fought in streets with whistles and stealth allowed.
Eyewitness calls the Grand Trask Pacific terminal blast at Prince Rupert one of Canada's greatest, an 50,000 cubic feet rock removal, costing about $5,000, after blasting a ridge sixty feet wide and 46 feet high.
A railroad wreck raises questions about how telescoped cars affect passenger safety. Investigators focus on mechanical failure and crew actions as officials examine the scene for causes and potential improvements.
Mrs. D. W. McClellan of Muskogee Oklahoma says after over a year of itching flaking and hair loss she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for about four weeks. Her scalp cleared and hair thickened and grew impressively. The testimonial appears with 1911 date and Cuticura world distribution.
A street vendor at the door persuades a relieved woman to invite him in. He claims success and family responsibility while dismissing religious resignation, and the neighbor eagerly offers to buy horn combs or clothes wringers with coffee or elder.
The advertisement claims Tyree's Antiseptic Powder cures prickly heat and skin affections rapidly. It offers samples by mail from Tyree Chemin Washington D C and directs readers to druggists for purchase.
A pair of girls described as very thin are the subject of a street remark attributed to a speaker named Seon and the two Tibbles girls. The note highlights the comment’s blunt nature and the observers' reaction.
A garbled 19th century style snippet references a stock broker, a dogged look, a possible Borton bull, and a market age of sixteen years. It mentions charity, farmers, an aeroplane chauffeur, and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, with scattered ad-like phrases and outdated sayings.
A railroad surgeon promotes Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil as a universal cure for wounds burns sores and skin conditions. The claim targets farmers and stockmen with promises to heal wounds, boils corns burns and various skin ailments, asserting wide effectiveness.
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