Home merchants and the duty to patronize local markets
A community essay urges residents to support the home merchant over catalogue houses. It argues that local buyers fund schools, churches, and events, sustain town papers, and keep prosperity local. patronage at home prevents town decline and preserves community life.
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Atock
Mervchant
Origin of Helpmeet and Its Evolving Form
The article traces the biblical origin of the term help meet for him from the creation story. It notes the two words merged over time into helpmeet and the common shift to helpmate. It cites Macaulay on the trope of a waiting woman deemed suitable help mate for a parson.
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Macaulay
Delicacies and sauces for croquettes and fowls
A vintage kitchen note outlines sauces for Cecile croquettes and scallops of fowl, including a butter flour roux stock sauce with lemon capers and a bechamel finish. It also details a plant stock ad pitch: Garden City seed firm offers 1906 seeds postpaid to gain 200000 new customers.
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Cecile
Garden City Pheet
Coc Vgins
Sy Tournet
John A. Baker Seed Co
Box W
la Crowe
Wis
Spinach Soupe Malgrose Recipe Steps
The passage describes washing spinach, pressing excess water, cooking it in a double boiler, pressing to puree with the liquid, simmering with Hungarian sweet pepper onion juice salt and sugar, heating milk with soda, making a roux with butter and flour, mixing roux into the hot milk then into the spinach broth, and serving with fried bread croutons. It calls the dish an excellent soupe malgro.
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Rila
Banana custard dessert from a vintage kitchen note
Beat yolks of six eggs with salt and sugar. Mash six ripe bananas and fold into a warm milk mixture. Combine both blends gradually, cook over boiling water until thick, then flavor with vanilla and lemon. Chill, pour into glass cups, and top with cherries or colored jelly cubes.
Corset Bag A Novel Accessory From Ribbon and Silk
A short length of alk or broad ribbon forms a corset bag with silk or satin outside and lawn or organdy for a delicate lining. The piece is cut and sewn as a long bag with wadding interlining and sachet powder. Ribbons with rings facilitate opening and closing.
Keeping Shoes Dry in Rain
An old-fashioned method of keeping shoes water resistant was to rub the welt stitches with beef tallow. This is objectionable due to grease traces. Castor oil with a small brush is recommended, preferably a brush like the glue-brush with bristles suitable for this use.
Duchess builds miniature zoo at Floorn cantie in era of animal craze
The duchess of Roxburghe Miss May Goelet of New York pursues the craze for collecting animals by constructing a mini zoo at Floorn cantie. A castle tenant seeks the master in person, but an old retainer notes there is no master but the duke, and the duchess should be seen. Senator Simmons and Senator Taliaferro resemble each other closely in looks and hair, height and weight with minor gray differences. A note offers guidance on finding joy and wholesome recreation from O S Marden, and W J Locke is cited as a prolific writer and architect secretary with renewed works.
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Alfred
Clark
Catalogue
United States
Ervant
Simmons
North Carolina
Taliaferro
Florida
Senate
Postum Gold Prize Letters Invite Truthful Experiences
Readers are urged to write about coffee, Postum, and experience with both. Cash prizes reward 25 top letters, from $10 to $1, with judging by three outsiders. Send letters by June 1 1907 to Postum Cereal Co Ltd Battle Creek Michigan.
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Pontum Cereal Co., Ltd
Prises
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Allcock's Plasters Praised for Proven Merits
The proof of merit lies in voluntary testimonials from users over sixty years. Allcock's Plasters claim to be the original genuine porous plasters, unequaled by imitators. Avoid substitutes as you would counterfeit money.
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Allcock
German visitor notes Sailloay's size among Congress
A German journalist in Washington, impressed by Secretary Taft, spots Rep. Sailloay towering above others and declares him larger than any man in the imperial guards. The visitor vows to write a letter about him, while observations on pineapple use and other brief notes appear alongside.
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Washington
Taft
Congressman Sailloway
New Hampshire
Uhlan Guards
Pink Pills Restore Mrs Robbins and Daughter Strength
Mrs Robbins of Decatur reports severe weakness headaches and numbness with swollen feet and speech difficulty. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills bought on a sister's recommendation, she recovered and has returned to duties. Her daughter also gained color and strength. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York.
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Jose Robbins
Clar St. Decatur, TL
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