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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
3
A simple apparatus is described to measure very thin material when a foot-rule or common tools cannot. The micrometer form is built to be simple, fairly accurate, and easily constructed by experimenters or practical workers.
A detailed construction of a simple micrometer style device using a standard bolt, wooden blocks, a nut, and a graduated pasteboard disk. The instrument measures object thickness by counting bolt rotations and wire movement, offering accurate readings without a micrometer. Useful for school demonstrations in electricity and teaches thread and measurement concepts.
A young lawyer tells an old friend he seems to practice law but is really practicing economy as his father still pays the office rent. The remark reflects frugal early career humor from Youth's Companion.
When rhubarb is plentiful a good preserve can be made by adding one grated pineapple and five pounds of sugar to five pounds of rhubarb. Cook in preserving kettle on range until sugar dissolves, then simmer for an hour. Pour into jars and seal.
Boil sweet potatoes with skins on until tender and mash. For each pint add one teaspoon salt three shakes pepper two tablespoons butter three tablespoons sweet cream one teaspoon sugar one cup pecan nuts chopped finely. Mix and fill turkey but do not stuff too full.
Four years ago severe inflammatory rheumatism caused skin peeling and hair loss with high fever and bed sores. After trying many remedies, Cuticura Resolvent and Ointment aided recovery. hair regrowth followed with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Stamford Connecticut and Shiloh Ohio names appear with dates in 1907.
The New York Tribune notes that plants respire like animals, assimilating oxygen and exhaling carbonic acid. By day both processes occur, making it hard to distinguish. by night respiration reddens the air, and plant breath alters room air quality.
Cut up cold boiled potatoes with onions and celery in a large bowl. Fry one pound of bacon, then mix salt mustard sugar warm water and cider vinegar. Pour the dressing over the potato mixture with the bacon and fat.
The article describes a rice cooking technique to achieve fluffy distinct grains. Wash rice until water runs clear, drain, combine one quart water per cup rice with salt, boil twenty minutes, lift occasionally, shake but do not stir, then rest off heat to swell for plump light grains.
The Missouri piece notes crawdads sold by a colored vendor on Kansas City streets, a local custom unique to the central United States. It mentions many colored families relying on sales for summer support and contrasts with seaboard city practices.
Practical tips on flavoring roasting ducks with orange and onion, baking pie crusts without filling, cleaning enameled ware with salt and vinegar, whitening rice with lemon juice, hard boiling eggs, warming and scouring earthenware, conserving coal and gas by dampers, sewing band lengths, treating dried lavender, and layering potatoes with cheese in a baked dish.
The piece asserts the backache signals feminine health trouble and that immediate attention is needed. It states a single remedy exists to remove the cause and restore the feminine system to health.
Mrs Will Young of Rockland Maine reports relief from long standing backaches after three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Augustus Lyon of East Earl Pennsylvania says it cured severe backaches and sleeplessness restoring appetite and vigor. The ad promotes the folk remedy as a thirty year standard cure for female ills including displacements inflammation and other gynecological complaints.
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