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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
4
A detailed feature describes a seven room brick home with an 80 by 68 foot footprint offering ample storage, an attic space for future rooms, and a sun parlor breakfast porch. It highlights brick construction, wide interior layout, and economical build costs for large families, noting the open porch and straight-wall design with a hip roof.
The article describes building a brick or frame home with a central hall plan. It details room layouts including a 12 by 28 feet living room, a 12 by 17 feet dining and kitchen sequence, and four bedrooms on the second floor with a sleeping porch. It also emphasizes consulting a local architect and contractor to optimize material choices and pacing for 1920s demand. It notes ongoing optimism for record homebuilding activity and mentions the Magellan voyage, highlighting the Victoria as the first ship to sail around the globe.
A bustling city library on Thirty fourth Street stirs daily with misread book titles and curious student requests. A boy mistakes Marjory Daw for Jessie McBride while a high school enquirer seeks a high school reading list.
Fragmented text reports an observer noting a public discourse on privacy in apartments. An unidentified woman laments lack of privacy and crowded living, urging more private space to ease nerves and strain among families and relatives.
A collection of kitchen notes presents seasonable dishes and simple dressings. Recipes include a Cream Cheese Dressing for lettuce, Jelled Apples with gelatin, Lemon Jumbles cookies, Fried Bananas as garnish, a squash cake with coconut and vanilla, and Olive and Celery Sandwich filling with mayonnaise dressing.
A mixed set of household guidance on entertaining and kitchen prep. It covers carving at table, hostess behavior, making home vinegar from scraps, extending rubber glove life, baby bottle care, and practical cooking methods. Recipes include Spanish Meat Dish with potatoes and roast beef, Scalloped Vegetables, and Macaroni with Eggs with detailed steps and seasoning.
Several hundred ways to prepare potatoes are outlined. Techniques include potato border spreads around a buttered pan, potato puff baked until browned, potato soup with milk and aromatics, curried potatoes with a cheese sauce, and stuffing for fowl using mashed potatoes, bread crumbs, butter, sage, onion, and egg. Recipes emphasize uniform potatoes for baking and varied dish preparations.
A fragmented excerpt showing pronunciation guides for Bolsheviki and soviet with playful diction. It includes stray quotes about language adapting to times, a Louisville Courier-Herald line, and odd misreadings such as mis-spelled phrases and a reference to a Leycue of Nations.
Lesson text and reflections on the two disciples journeying toward Emmaus, Jesus joining them, and the revelation in breaking bread. Emphasizes Scripture proof of the Resurrection, living faith, and the promise of Christ meeting believers when they gather in his name. Includes closing devotional thoughts on eternity and the Resurrection.
An ad promotes Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a leading remedy for kidneys liver and bladder disorders. It urges prompt start of treatment and offers a sample bottle for ten cents. The piece includes a Cracker Barrel Senate note and a satirical comment on a local discussion about a less gifted member.
A garbled ad page promotes Cascarets as a gentle laxative that won’t gripe and helps with liver and bowel purification while you sleep. It also mentions India silk production and Roman Eye Balsam for sore eyes and a novelty combination footstool and phonograph.
A testimonial extols Milks Emulsion for pneumonia recovery and renewed strength appetite and sleep. The ad claims it rebuilds blood and tissues, improves digestion and bowel action, reduces stomach trouble and constipation, and offers a money back guarantee with six bottles. Sold by druggists, Terre Haute Indiana. A child’s joke about hell in skating follows.
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