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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1907
Page
6
A detailed home recipe describes making rose potpourri from varieties of roses including wild, American Beauty, and other fragrant blooms. It outlines layering with salt, aging for days, adding spices like allspice cinnamon and cassia, then combining dried botanicals with cloves, nutmeg, ginger, orris root and musk. A final mix with optional attar of rose or verbena is suggested for room use.
A concise guide for low budget dressers emphasizes essentials over trimmings. It advises choosing an evenly hung skirt with good material and lining, two bodices for a black gown, durable black grosgrain slip, and sticking to black or white for evening wear on small allowances. It notes January February August September as cheap tailoring windows and promotes ironed, well-cut pieces and quality corsets to improve fit and longevity.
John Kemp of East Otisfield Maine recommends Bucklen's Arnica Salve to prevent chilblains and treat frost bites. The note claims cures for fever sores indolent ulcers piles burns and skin diseases with a 25 cent price at Dreier and Bro drug store.
American dessert lore explains easy home ice cream with patented freezers and simple rules. Cold mixtures, fine crushed ice with salt, slow turning, and measured revolutions produce velvety results. Readers learn sherbets, Italian sherbet, Roman punch, and classic creams with steps, temperatures, and flavors like Catskill Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream.
A home cooling guide urges closing doors and windows from sunrise to sunset to keep heat out, then opening at night for fresh air. It recommends cold foods like cold roast beef, salads with mayonnaise, and minimal cooking to avoid adding heat. Emphasizes calm, slow routine and avoiding fuss to stay comfortable in hot weather.
Directions describe heating a quart of milk in a double boiler, dissolving cornstarch in a little milk, cooling, then beating eggs with sugar and folding into the thickened milk. Add vanilla or lemon, cook briefly, cool and freeze. For brick ice cream use dissolved gelatine.
A simple candy method for maple syrup and cream. Cook until the syrup threads a pint of maple syrup with a half cup cream. Cool a bit in cold water to test for a soft ball, then remove from heat and keep warm in hot water until serving with the cream.
Four squares unsweetened chocolate melted in a saucepan over hot water until smooth. Stir to blend, then cool without further stirring.
A brief note records that the day ended earlier than the hottest period, signaling an early conclusion to the peak heat interval. No further details on location or time are provided in the text fragment.
A woman writer argues beauty alone fails to captivate history makers. She cites legendary figures whose influence came from charm of manner, tact, and expression. Beauty, if combined with these traits, can sway nations. without them, beauty alone rarely moves or endures.
Dades Little Liver Pills promise to keep the system clean and the stomach sweet offering prompt relief for headache and biliousness and are marketed for family use through Rhoades Drug Store. Los Angeles reports over thirty five women earning wages as barbers in a developing trade.
Relief described for bites stings sunburn cuts burns and bruises with Pinesalve Carbolized acting as a poultice drawing out inflammation. Sold by Rhoads Drug store at 25 cents.
A simple method to make lemon ice is described. Boil water with sugar, strain, then mix with lemon juice and lemon rind. Dissolve gelatine in cold water and blend with the hot syrup, then chill and freeze. Egg white may substitute for gelatine to add body.
Four quarter pound pieces of candied ginger are cut fine and steeped with lemon rind in boiling water for ten minutes, then added to the regular lemon fan. Author Emma Paddock Telford provides the method in this short culinary note.
Mrs. Mary E. Hood instructs parents on easing medicine for infants and children. Heating castor oil slightly aids swallowing, while a helper can apply a cold compress under the chin and gently block the nose to suppress taste. Administer the oil near the back of the tongue with coordination to avoid choking, and use dry powdered medicine on the tongue for young ones.
Pattern by The Independent Peerless Pattern Co shows a three size princess style dress for girls aged one to five. It details fabric needs including yardage for a three year old, suggests sheer or heavy tub material, and offers home tucking and embroidery alternatives with edging and insertion trimmed in different ways.
A mother notes her child’s prior terror of medicine and explains that after finally taking the pill without resistance, the child would no longer fear or refuse future doses. The account emphasizes the transformation from nervous resistance to calm acceptance.
A Kershaw South Carolina businessman recalls eleven years since a near consumption escape. He weighed 135 pounds with constant coughing before using Dr King’s New Discovery for six months until his cough vanished and weight rose to 170 pounds. Thousands healed yearly. Dreler & Bro. drug store guarantees. 60 cents or 1 dollar. trial bottle free.
It is estimated that 100000000 bushels of wheat will be available for export from the northwestern provinces of Canada at the close of this year’s harvest.
A Nashua Iowa man touts Foley's Honey and Tar as the best cough and lung medicine after trying many medicines and physician treatments with little relief. He credits two-thirds of a bottle and a friend's recommendation for curing his cold on the lungs last winter. Dreier & Bro.
This dainty, economical sideboard cloth uses Russian crash fabric. Use washing cottons to embroider designs in Turkey red, navy blue and yellow. Create a narrow hem, transfer motifs evenly, and blanket stitch the edge in three colors for a bright finish.
Instructions describe making a small table cover from crash cloth by cutting four squares and joining them with blanket and ingetting stitches, transferring a design, and adding tassels. A cushion cover is formed by two lengthwise pieces joined with crochet rows and a simple blanket stitch pattern in colored cottons.
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