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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
7
The article by Guy Wetmore Carryl discusses advances in trolley systems and urban transit development. It explores design, efficiency, and societal impact while noting historical context and engineering innovations shaping city transportation.
A satirical look at transit by foot and public conveyances as cars and rapid transit replace walking. The piece mocks leg use, praises patience with crowded trolleys, and highlights the social quirks of riders especially women and seating hierarchies on city transit. It ends noting the lone steadfast companion on the strap.
The piece recalls thrift in old New England kitchens with pin cushions made from glass bases, dresses, and scraps. It contrasts brick and heart shaped cushions, Mary Wilkins style keepsakes, and the practical charm of early 20th century homemaking, noting modern pin trays cannot replace them.
Embroidered linens should not be washed with regular laundry or entrusted to a laundress. Use a china or earthen bowl, wash in warm water, rub soiled areas with pure white soap, rinse, and dry in a Turkish towel. Press lightly with a hot iron, avoid heavy pressure on embroidery to protect silk luster.
The Delineator suggests boiling new potatoes with fresh mint for flavor. After cooking, drain and pour melted butter over them. To avoid peeling, rub potatoes with a stiff brush to remove skins, yielding white smooth skins.
A guide warns on dusting with a damp cloth dabbed with linseed oil to avoid smears on damp days. It also details a plain baked custard recipe with eggs, milk, sugar, and flavors, plus a frugal clothing tip for a child’s warm underskirt using a cut from a shirt and simple crochet finishing.
Peel core and slice one large apple and one seedless orange. Combine in a deep dish with half a cup sugar and chill in the ice box. Prepare one hour before serving.
William A Radford offers free home building advice to readers and explains bungalow origins and popularity. The eight room plan blends bungalow style with added kitchen and three bedrooms upstairs. Bungalows spread from the Pacific coast to other cities as a low cost, healthy housing solution.
The speaker argues for bungalow design to cut costs and spread home ownership. He notes the trend to higher roofs for more rooms, critiques open stairs, and promotes economy, starting with a basic two or three bedroom layout that can add a cellar later.
An instructional piece urging rural households to maintain a well organized locked medicine closet with labeled drugs, safe storage to prevent poisoning, and a stocked list of staple remedies. It advises regular clearing of old prescriptions, childproofing, and improvised wall cabinet storage in homes without built in bathrooms.
An expert cited by Madrid Epoca notes bullfighting pays about 417 dollars per hour and avoids union interference. He adds it is an unusually healthy occupation, with seasoned matadors potentially enjoying a long, green old age if they retire uninjured.
A recipe steps through frying seasoned chicken in drippings, assembling a dish with onions, flour, tomatoes, green peppers, bay leaf, parsley, and salt. The browned chicken is baked two hours in a heated casserole with a tomato sauce base poured over it. Good Housekeeping.
A recipe describes creaming two eggs with one and a half cups sugar and three quarters cup butter or lard, adding finely chopped English walnuts. Add flour with baking powder, roll thin, bake in a moderate oven to yield about 80 cookies. Salt enhances flavor.
Use one third dry salt cod and two thirds potatoes. Wash fish and place over the potatoes in a pot with boiling water just covering them. Cook half an hour, drain, shake dry, mash with the potatoes, stir in a beaten egg, form into balls, roll in flour, and fry in hot fat until brown.
Home remedy suggests placing a kettle with lit charcoal and juniper berries in a sealed room. Keep the room closed for 24 hours with no people or animals inside. The odor should be eliminated by the end of the period.
In housecleaning time the easy method to stretch a carpet is to wear rubber shoes and shove the carpet with your feet from a side still attached to tacking while moving toward the opposite side.
Eddie Hahn rises after a fateful misplay with Kid Elberfeld that cost New York a game and led to his sale to Chicago. The piece follows Hahn’s conflicting early 1906 showing, Griffith’s reaction, and Hahn becoming a major league star. It also notes player name changes and injuries ending Homer Hillebrand’s career and plans for off-season training in North Dakota.
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