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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
6
Two boys joke about languages with a punchline about English and Baseball. The exchange notes one boy plans to study French this summer while the other boasts he already speaks two languages, English and Baseball.
Miss Gaddie demands a pedigree puppy her father refuses to buy. Boxley vents anger at his father while Miss Ascum quizzes about the pup’s prestige and origins.
A Denver Post item reports a lobby disturbance at the Albany where a bellboy shouted for Mr. Smith around o clock last night. A chaotic crowd surged toward the boy and he was rescued with difficulty. The Smiths are present.
A speaker asks if it is foolish to marry a woman deemed intellectually inferior and concludes the idea is more than foolish and impossible.
W C C Philips of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor cites New York data showing fifteen times as many deaths among artificially fed infants as among naturally fed ones. He argues society must adjust its living habits and cites a Magyar immigrant arrested for stealing whisky who jokes about never having been bathed before.
A light dialogue at the lake features Summer Girl asking about a boat’s type and Boatman explaining it is a catboat and noting curiosity about kitten boats. The exchange captures a quaint, playful coastal setting.
Oscar Hammerstein told a New York dinner he credited his success to placing art first in his opera house. He compared his outlook to Handel, noting that even a nearly empty house could inspire better music.
John and Pat, two friendly workmen, spar over measurement. John asks how many shirts fit in a yard. Pat answers that it depends on whose yard you got into, delivering a classic quip from Human Life.
A five year old declares tomorrow is his birthday and learns the teacher shares the same date. The boy asks how the teacher grew bigger, prompting a brief moment of perplexity. The exchange highlights childlike misunderstanding of age and celebration.
A Philadelphia Press snippet shows an artist addressing Farmer Korntop with a morning greeting and a polite request to paint his cow. The farmer bluntly orders him away, insulting the artist as one of “Perkins Purple Pills” men and insisting he’s tired of them.
Annual imports of agricultural machines and implements into Siberia total about 10 million rubles roughly 5.15 million dollars. German and American manufacturers supply the bulk of these imports, with many items regarded as superior to locally made Russian products.
In a neighborhood smokehouse debate, Limuel Jacklin extols judgment over pure book learning. He cites Kant and the idea that education enhances mind experience, yet true mother wit comes from practical sense learned from elders. The schoolmaster probes how to acquire it, and Lim advances a closing thought.
An Opie Read piece presents a schoolmaster and townsfolk discussing education, memory and thinking for oneself. They debate whether genius equals insanity, the value of universities, and the role of common sense in shaping talent and future century.
A speaker argues that few Americans can become president and parents should temper children's presidential dreams. He notes only about 26 Americans have held the office since independence and suggests most youths face slim odds, urging practical paths and personal contentment over political ambition.
A long instructional passage covers mushroom ketchup preparation with salt curing, port wine flavoring, spicing with peppercorns cloves mace and horseradish, and canning in self sealing jars. It then mentions strain options, serving uses for meats and gravies, and substitutions with cider vinegar. Additional tips describe pastry care, cake greasing with lard, cleaning pearls with whiting, velvet care, and removing old paint with naphtha.
A hot day favorite, lemon ade can be prepared in advance. Extract juice from twelve lemons and grate six rinds, steep twelve hours, then make a thick sugar syrup with about six pounds sugar and minimal water. Stir in juice, strain, and bottle tightly.
In making cream puffs, melt one cup hot water and one-quarter cup butter. Remove from heat, add one cup sifted flour with one teaspoon baking powder, form a dough ball, cool, beat four eggs into it for five minutes. One tablespoon makes a puff, bake 20 minutes. Filling uses one pint milk, four tablespoons sugar, two tablespoons cornstarch, two eggs. Cook until thick, with any flavoring.
A household advice passage recommends dampening a cloth with furniture polish and rubbing it to dust furniture. The same polish on a soft flannel bag fitted to a broom end can dust floors, tied and dampened similarly. It saves effort and yields a fine effect.
Instructions describe shaping dough by hand into a five inch thick roll then cutting into half inch pieces for baking. A corn puree is pressed to remove kernels, then milk butter andSeasoning create a thickened sauce cooked fifteen minutes before serving.
Wooden boxes to stand on for reaching high shelves become useful house aids. Save and stain boxes to match woodwork, fit with castors, and hinge covers to create shoe receptacles.
Describes scraping bread into pans then collecting scrapings, sifting back into flour, and discarding scrapings to avoid wasting flour. Emphasizes efficient use of ingredients and careful handling of dough leftovers.
An ad-style note urges kidney sufferers to mail for cures citing Dean’s Kidney Pills and a man’s claimed 18 month hospital result. Also a vignette shows a rejected writer’s wife urging him to try harder after a gloomily edited page.
A Philadelphia matron who taught Biblical stories to her children finds them acting out Garden of Eden. Nine year old Thomas sits on a table with mouth full as siblings cry out about crying and pretend God ate the apple in a humorous family moment.
A grandfather cites Cuticura as curing a baby's severe eczema and another eczema case after multiple doctors. Also promotional copy touts Marine Eye Remedy for red tired eyes, with a 50 cent price and a 48 page book. The snippet ends with a witty automotive line.
A fragment asks how many American women in lonely homes long for nurturing happiness and the right to speak hopeful words, noting that organic derangement hinders them and urging awareness that preparation for healthy maternity rests on certain remedies.
Mrs. Maggie Gilmer of West Union South Carolina writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health and made her a mother. Mrs Josephine Hall of Bardstown Kentucky says the remedy cured her female troubles and she is now a proud mother. The ad touts thirty years of use and lists displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache as conditions it helps with. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
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