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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
6
A standalone story by Crittenden Marriott features a poetic exploration of longing and color in a quiet emotional landscape. The piece blends reflective narration with vivid imagery to convey the theme of unattainable beauty.
A young woman endures ten years of anonymous roses until she uncovers they funded by her died father's push for a perfect debut. The bouquet gifts mask a planned social ascent, masking a father's manipulation to secure a profitable marriage. She resolves to shield him from the truth.
In a vivid scene Hobart Hampies recalls a tiger pouncing near a setter and a companion named Teddy who fires and kills the beast. The narrator, terrified, watches as Teddy steadies, aims, and the tiger collapses. The moment captures peril and relief in a rural English wood setting.
A reflection on strength and resilience, praising the mind’s power to turn adversity into advantage. It highlights courage to dare and the will to press onward and upward, guiding the mind to steady leadership and control.
A historic guide outlines preparing dried herring in a French relish style with onion layers and oil, plus a plain leek and potato soup menu. It then details scallop preparation including cleaning, steaming with herbs, and using broth for chowder with onion, salt pork, potatoes, milk, and a butter flour roux, finished with toasted crackers.
Build a long lasting broom by shaping a ten inch cloth pad on a wooden stick with cotton batting. Attach fringed flannel strips to the pad, saturate with kerosene oil, and let dry for a dust collecting broom that reaches corners and furniture legs with extra polish.
When ollcloth loses its shiny surface after months of use it can be renewed to last twice as long. Melt glue in a pint of water, dissolve on the eve, wash and dry the cloth, then at night brush the surface with glue water using a flannel. On a dry day, by morning a fine gloss appears.
An old instruction advises mending torn garments by threading warp threads from the fabric itself and sewing in stockings style. If no fabric scraps are available, use a straight seam edge to extract a few threads, ensuring repairs match the cloth shade.
Ple plant marmalade recipe instructs to chop the plant finely and mix with juice and pulp of one orange. Boil orange rind in weak salt water until tender, then combine with other ingredients and lemon juice and sugar. Boil rapidly until translucent and pour into jelly glasses.
To clean matting and linoleum use bran water made by two handfuls of bran in a gallon of water. Boil 20 minutes, strain, then wipe with a flannel cloth damp with bran water, and dry immediately with a dry cloth. For mackerel, wash, drain, and cook in cold water for 20 minutes, drain, place on platter, rub with butter, border with mashed potatoes, and garnish.
William A Radford offers free building advice to readers, citing his editor and manufacturer background. A house plan features a 26 by 28 main section with a 16 by 28 rear extension, a large kitchen, pantry, porch, bath, storeroom, and a built in sideboard to link dining and pantry areas. The design emphasizes square rooms and a convenient, symmetrical layout tailored for large families and household workshops.
The Radford editor notes changing building costs and methods improving comfort with substitutes for lumber. Country homes emphasize easy work flow for the mistress, with five bedrooms and careful layouts. The piece links domestic architecture to sentiment and broader commercial growth fueling literary ages.
An advertisement claims rapid health improvement from using Dow's Kidney Pids by Foster-Milburn Co. The product, sold at 50 cents a box, is marketed through dealers in Buffalo New York. The copy emphasizes restored work ability after three months of use.
A dialect filled reminiscence from Joel Chandler Harris praising romance in Georgia. A farmer narrator explains affection with playful imagery of candy and doorstep visits, noting that love motivates movement and civilization while acknowledging personal restraint and blessing.
In a humorous note, a man tells a passerby he fears Mamie will propose to him because she believes it is leap year. The quip reflects dating customs and social chatter of the period, capturing a lighthearted moment in community life.
A Norwegian society has agreed to work Dr. de Baval's patents for maxion alloys. The deal covers processing nine out of low-grade ores and a quantity of metallic nine, lead, copper, and other metals. The plan includes several tons of material to be treated under license.
Senator Beveridge says simplicity saves trouble after a Washington encounter. Two men argued in front of a hotel where one spoke with heavy polysyllabic rhetoric, and the other replied with a dry punchline about joining him at the bar.
An old satirical note from the Smart Set recalls Captain Feebles who was shot in the back and walked with a bend. He later suffered a stabbing back pension, straightened his spine, dyed his whiskers black, and hunted a buoyant widow who played coy while feigning a guise of capture.
A speaker recalls morning coffee causing languor and nervous heart trouble with headaches and dyspepsia. A former W C T U state president credits quitting coffee for asthma relief after switching to Postum Food Coffee. Another woman with chronic dyspepsia found relief, calling Food Coffee a Godsend and praising its taste.
A fragment cites borax as a preventive for cow udder issues during milking, claiming it keeps udders healthy and smooth and prevents cracking. It mentions a mother sending a carton of borax to Pacific Coast Boras in Chicago Illinois, priced at 4 cents.
The text describes a woman unsettled by sermon service disruptions and a doctor cited to manage duties in a wife's room. An elder explains actions taken for transmitting sermons while a bizarre exchange about a cure and a one dollar fee appears, all dated December.
Fragmentary OCR mentions revenge, temper, reason against fury, and self-control. It oddly references chemists, sugar, bees, and Gaston Bonnier, with unclear connections and broken phrases. The readable bits suggest an aphorism about managing anger and restraint amid provocation.
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