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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
2
A collage of breezy, satirical notices and foreign chatter notes Europe Berlin London and Japan with quips about Zeppelin rumors child care and fashion. It ponders kidnaping a police quip and jokes about naval prowess and baseball origins in a light editorial tone.
The weather bureau should be notified of the date leaders of Central American republics meet to discuss their troubles. A Topeka Capitol philosopher quips that if the wind blows your hat off let spectators chase it, while noting the broader habit of chasing others hats.
Unclear draft remarks discuss potential loans and public willingness to purchase automobiles. Mentions include Old England topics and Sister Pamline with uneven phrasing, implying cautious optimism about securing credit and fostering vehicle adoption amid uncertain conditions.
The article outlines affordable curtain options using cretonne dimity and crash fabrics, DIY screen construction from soft wood and hinges, and practical storage solutions like shirtwaist boxes, dressed with white satin interiors. It emphasizes light control, privacy, and insect protection with mothproof sacks, plus stylish yet economical furnishings to create a comfortable bedroom setting.
A fashion note praises a novel street suit that blends ecru pique with wool. Pique fabrics accent collars bands and panels while the Paris fashion fever influences a recent gown worn by a girl, inspiring designs seen in the latest outfits.
The shawl returns to prominence with Edward VII said to have popularized gifts of Indian shawls. The article notes highland styling with the right end over the left shoulder, Chinese crepe as a preferred material, heavy embroidery, and thick silk fringe. Spanish shawls decline in visibility while vintage shawls pair with driving, theater boxes, and daytime outfits to complement all costumes.
The description highlights a long coat with pinked pique collar and cuffs, panel effects along the back and fronts, a waist of soft silk, pique insets, and a gold braid collar as noted by the New York Press.
A Home Repair tip from Good Housekeeping advises patching damaged walls with new wallpaper of the same pattern and hanging until colors fade to blend with the surrounding. The method helps restore appearance when original paper is too bright or dulled over time.
An unclear OCR fragment shows garbled terms like Teward Fullees and references to a rode and horse. Names, dates, and locations are unreadable, leaving only stray letters and partial phrases. The article appears incomplete and nonrepresentative of a coherent event.
A prize recipe for a rich plum pudding uses sugar butter milk flour eggs and vanilla with currants raisins citron and pecans. The batter steams three hours in a buttered mold and is served with honey cream whipped with almond and honey, cooled before using.
The text offers simple home crafts and cleaning tips including making cement for china with plaster and gum arabic, using eggs in potato cakes, removing tinware stains with soda, preventing rust on steel knives with soda, cleaning marble with soda pumice and salt paste, creating a warm coverlet from blankets and cretonnes, boiling fat with water to keep it, making a cinnamon flavored syrup for waffles, and cleaning nails with pumice stone.
A homemaker suggests dessert ideas: banana croquettes rolled in egg and bread crumbs then fried, served with lemon sauce. Also a coconut custard pie with optional chocolate custard and meringue, baked in a pie crust. Suitable for family treats.
Recipe instructs mixing one pound butter with half pound powdered sugar and 1% pounds flour. Knead sugar and butter, then gradually add flour for best texture. Shape into round or square cakes and decorate edges with fingers and fork. Bake on buttered paper in a moderate oven about 20 minutes.
A double boiler recipe describes combining a large cup of boiling water with two tablespoons cornstarch a cup of sugar lemon juice and rind plus two beaten egg yolks. Cook until thickened then add a walnut sized butter and salt. Pour into a crust bake if ready and frost with beaten egg whites.
A lemon pie recipe uses juice and rind from one large lemon, sugar, eggs, flour, and milk. Beat yolks with sugar, mix in flour and milk, then fold in stiff whites to create a merengue topping as the pie bakes.
A simple cleaning mix uses half a pound each of soda chalk and pumice stone. Add half a pound of soft soap and water to form a paste for cleaning with a scrubbing brush.
A cook’s note describes mixing one cup cooked rolled oats with an egg and a tablespoon of molasses. Dissolve a teaspoon of moda into milk, add, then stir in one cup flour and bake in a hot oven. The batter should not be too thick for even rising.
A Vermont article explains oxen training as a precise craft beginning at six months, stressing consistent commands, gentle handling, and fast walking. It argues well-trained ox teams match horses in work pace, require care, feeding, grooming, and can be valuable on hill farms and rough terrain.
A classic gardener’s ally, the toad eats large numbers of garden pests including cutworms, sowbugs, ants, weevils, and beetles. Over a 90 day period May to July a grown toad may destroy thousands of injurious insects, with beneficial species spared, and is valued at about $19.44 in that span.
The column warns against sowing oats on newly plowed, dry ground as oats form a solid subsurface. Fall plowing is advised for weedy fields, while clean corn ground needs spring disking and harrowing. If spring plowing is required, pack soon after, and heavy weeding is essential for large yields.
A compact reflection on humor as a philosophy of life. The author notes that wit reveals universal truths and enhances enjoyment, presenting humor as a practical guide to living well.
Four years after creation Alberta and Saskatchewan have grown from a vast former Northwest area with about 70 000 and 90 000 residents to entities with a population now in the hundreds of thousands. The territories are sharply diversifying from crop to cattle country with harvest value estimated at 15 million dollars.
A partial note discusses selecting one seed in a grain bin process. It references practical steps and challenges in handling ker heb fet and similar terms during production.
Mrs S A Wire of Gardiner claims Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound cured her organic trouble and near surgical risk. She urges other women to try the tonic before hospital operation and says Pinkham’s medicine has aided many women nationwide. She invites letters for free medical advice from Lydia E Pinkham.
The New York Herald recalls Mrs Julia Ward Howe’s sense of the ridiculous as a saving grace avoiding grand phrases. A Newport anecdote has a lady asking for a lovely remark about a veranda piazza. Howe’s poised reply: I think it is a bully pia.
A Paris journal reports the fattest recruit in the French army is M Lavertit, son of a local merchant at Corbeil. He weighs 268 pounds avoirdupois, about 19 stone, earning the distinction of the fat test recruit for the era.
Certainty Convenience Economy Never has there been known a case where Mitchell's Eye Salve has not given notable relief. A pure harmless Salve for application to the surface of the eye lids, the simplest of methods with wonderful results. The price 25 cents places it within reach of all. All druggists sell it.
A speaker recalls two hair breadth escapes from death. One involved serving as judge in a baby show, the other a tense moment intervening when a man was beating his wife. The anecdotes highlight peril and decisive action.
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