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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1904
Page
3
President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay accepts the Republican nomination and defends seven years of record. He argues for continued protective tariffs, trusts enforcement, reciprocal trade, and a progressive foreign policy including the canal, Cuba, Panama, and the Philippines, urging unity and continued national strength.
A fragmented report notes someone warned of a premonition and a person working on an elevator lost balance and fell. The readable text provides no clear identities or location.
William Colee of Pittagrove New Jersey, age 91, reports partial hearing restoration after being stunned by lightning during a thunderstorm. The lightning struck O R Alderman’s house, stunning several family members. Colee’s unusual ear sensations occurred at the moment of the strike, followed by noted improvement in hearing.
The London Telegraph reports a unanimous resolution by the Association of Academies calling for global collaboration to measure levels in earthquake prone mountain chains and to assess stability. It promotes gravity measurements to illuminate Earth's interior, noting New York land subsidence since 1875 and the future value of photography in research.
A comic exchange describes a wealthy man lamenting indigestion and a beggar pressing for aid. The beggar jokes about indigestion and asks for a chance, while the man confesses his riches bring him misery and martyrdom to indigestion. The exchange appears in Tit-Bits.
A preparation of refined pine tar one teaspoon in a pint of olive oil heated gently, then perfumed, is suggested as a healing remedy. Applied to a linen or kid mask it may soil the pillow and is described as a heroic treatment not to be tried without refined tar. The notice warns that impolite readers will have much to say, per the New York Herald.
An article on foot health advises frequent hot baths with sea salt and borax, nightly olive oil or cold cream for calluses, and regular foot rubbing. It stresses proper shoe fit, moderate heel height, and changes of shoes, plus semiweekly pedicuring and careful nail care to prevent bunions and ingrown nails.
Brooklyn Eagle describes tan black and white taffeta coats with a modified kimono design. The garments feature narrow stitched strap pings, swirls of cloth, wide sleeves, Persian embroidery, and pastel color combinations suitable for calling, receptions, and grayer days.
A recipe describes a rich tea biscuit crust baked in jelly cake tins then split and buttered in hot layers. Layer ripe bananas between crust, with salt and sugar, finishing with a thick fruit layer to form icing. Serve with vanilla custard.
Heat currants to boiling point after washing and stemming. Use one cup sugar per pie and a half cup boiled rice. Prepare with an under crust in a deep pie tin, fill three quarters full, cover with rich paste, bake forty minutes in a moderate oven, then dust with powdered sugar before serving.
Take one pint of fresh white beans and cook in three pints of white consomme. When tender press through a sieve and return to heat. Add a pint of rich cream, salt, white pepper, chopped parsley, and optional chives. Serve with small read fried squares in butter.
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