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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
3
A long, fragmented collage of recipes and kitchen tips. It lists cornmeal muffins, fruit muffins, batter bread, popovers, Charleston muffins, a half pound cake, peanut butter biscuits, and various breakfast ideas. It also provides baking notes, a breakfast cereal suggestion, and multiple cheese based dishes with stepwise instructions.
An advertisement claims Diamond Dyes can color any fabric from wool to cotton and even draperies. It promises simple DIY instructions for all skill levels and guarantees perfect results, with cross ball blue for laundry and other related products marketed by a druggist.
Fragmented text describes a voyage scene with a fear fuelled mood aboard a ship crossing the channel. A woman pleads about romance while a traveler recalls an odd peanut bleaching machine setup and a quirky exchange about love and law.
An old time advertisement extols Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure all for kidney and bladder ailments. It asserts a marketing chain of success, urges readers to request a sample bottle by mail, and mentions sending ten cents with a note to obtain it from Kilmer & Co. References to Binghamton New York are included.
A historic note recounts the Channel inlay's long neutral status in English wars under Edward IIIs era, granted as a reward for local loyalty. The privilege faced revocation and wartime pressures, with privateers stepping in when the right was enforced and Guernsey vessels occasionally seized.
A collection of eclectic notes references lakes atmospheric effects shaping land features Jukes and land basins along with folklore beliefs. Elephant sneeze superstition links to good luck in Oriental tales. Household hoarding and social exchange recounted with character dialogue from the Boston Transcript fragment.
William A. Radford outlines a compact six room square bungalow 81 feet by 81 feet with three second floor bedrooms a dining room porch and open living space. The design favors multi use rooms concealed beds and practical basement storage while emphasizing exterior beauty and frugal construction costs.
The article discusses exterior design elements such as stucco walls lattice work colonial porches and brick porch floors as well as interior layout and the challenge of estimating costs for homes. It emphasizes that exact prices depend on labor freight and site but that local architects contractors and material dealers can provide reliable estimates. Building a home is presented as the best path to a tailored affordable residence this year as many households move from high rents to ownership.
A comic tale notes a suitor and father conflict over marriage timing. The man discovers the father is his boss, prompting a wry remark on fairness. The piece then shifts to advice urging prompt business letter responses, stressing immediacy in handling service and accounting inquiries.
A Dallas News quotation references Robert Louis Stevenson on aspiration and joy, followed by a dated joke about marital memory and forgotten birthdays. The line notes a wife’s patience waning after years and a husband’s anger when birthdays are advertised.
The article notes butter used as ear ointment and for skin in earlier periods, while olive oil remained common as bread lubricant. It mentions butter in lamps and a decor project dialogue about house redecoration, plus a Financial Circles exchange remark on the soviet ruble and paper stock prices rising.
A collage of assorted ad copy and snippets including beauty soap claims for Cuticura and shaving, jokes about wild cat insignia in war context, prison talk at Sing Sing on drink capacity, and musings on future warfare with electrical developments. The material blends product pitches, light humor, and speculative military tech without a single cohesive news event.
A riverbank artist sketched as two friends fished. Cows crowded him, he hurled objects to scare them, yet they wouldn’t move. One angler urged him to show his sketch, he complied and the cows dispersed. A ready made philosopher quips about timing and eggs at Easter. A banker’s joke about selling mine stock and a dry hole stock exchange ends with a swap proposal.
A brief London exchange features a shop assistant offering a dog trough with a painted out dog. The customer declines, noting the dog cannot read and her husband does not drink water, highlighting a humorous, offbeat moment.
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