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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
2
A Food column discusses meat dishes and varied recipes. It includes mutton options like stews mutton pasties and a plan for preparing raised pastry pies. The article references cooking methods and kitchen tips for serving and flavoring meat dishes.
A rambling reminiscence discusses truth as a mental condition and a practical virtue. It frames honesty as a habit and a tool, recounting episodes of debt, foreclosure, and a tollgate tale to illustrate ethical behavior and the dangers of professionalizing truth.
A Reading railroad train struck a wagon driven by an 11 year old boy. The brake man on the locomotive caught the boy by the arm as he fell, saving his life. The incident is cited as evidence of the value of athletic sports.
Japan reforms patent and trade mark policy to attract foreign inventions for its 1912 Tokyo exposition. Western interest had lagged due to lack of protections and treaties. French president visit to England ends with balloon race signaling closer Anglo French ties.
A weathered Chicago Tribune clipping retells a curious homemade doll recipe using eggs sugar flour and butter with a playful note on a child’s doll named Lizzie. It also describes the creation of a doll from stockings and its long endurance amid children’s rough play. The piece reads as a quaint domestic anecdote from a bygone era.
The guide advises placing a kettleful of lighted charcoal with juniper berries in a room and sealing all openings for 24 hours to remove smells. No person or animal should remain in the room during burning.
Use one pound quicklime and one pound washing soda in one gallon boiling water to wash a floor. While wet with the solution, spread clean sand and scrub with soap and water. This bleaches the floor and prepares it for waxing.
A recipe describes cutting bread rounds to toast lightly, spreading with potted tongue, and centering a stuffed olive. It suggests arranging chopped beef and chopped hard boiled egg around the olive, or wrapping the tongue around the olive with egg white and topping with strained yolk.
A recipe for beef hash cakes. Chop cold corned beef with slightly coarser chopped cold boiled potatoes, season with onion juice, form small cakes, brown in butter or beef drippings, and serve on buttered toast moistened slightly.
An essay guides writers to craft a heartfelt Christmas story using a moving train metaphor. It then urges women to fulfill daily duties at home, praising American virtues and calling for moral behavior, discretion abroad, and steady family care.
Marie Corelli continues to oppose suffrage and refuses to debate Beatrice Harraden who tours to raise funds for the cause. Harraden travels from place to place giving readings from Ships that Pass in the Night and other works to support suffrage efforts.
A dinner tale from Senator Heveridge describes an absent minded farmer who cannot speak without making an ass of himself. The anecdote moves through a failed courtship with Wissnit, a skeptical Jabez, and a fiery probe of whether passion was enough to win a woman's heart.
A damaged fragment notes Mrs C Ro Shelton of Covington Tennessee reports recovery from kidney disease rheumatic pain and disordered secretions after using Deans Kidney Pills. The testimonial claims rapid relief and renewed strength with a Buffalo based sponsor Foster Milburn Co selling at 60 cents a box.
Letter from Mrs. E Hanson of Columbus Ohio praises Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nervousness headaches and other symptoms during the Change of Life. The advertisement claims the remedy has helped thousands of women with irregularities fibroid tumors backache bearing down and digestive issues and invites letters for advice from Lynn Mass.
Mrs Frank Stroebe of Appleton Wisconsin reports her health and strength returning after using Peruna for several months. She describes overcoming extreme nervous weakness insomnia poor appetite and despair and calls Peruna a rival tonic and strength builder.
A church missionary received a letter from a long term convict asking him to reform the writer's wife in prison. The inmate feared it would harm his credit to receive letters from prison. In a separate note a pauper brother reflects that he has never sunk so low as the workhouse.
A collage of old advertisements and quips, promoting Marine Eye Remedy for tired eyes and teething syrup for children, with dubious claims and pricing notes. Includes lines about graft in a city, sample dialogue, and general admonitions about learning from others' mistakes.
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