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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1910
Page
4
A reader recalls a child plagued by eczema after her mother’s death. She scratched to sleep, using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with reported improvement. The letter cites a lawyer quote about vacation time and a misleading song, reflecting a fragmented newspaper fragment.
In a fragmentary quote from Youth's Companion the discussion turns to practical argument within marriage. A married man asserts there is no flaw in the view that if a wife says a thing can be afforded then it can be done, highlighting a stance on negotiation and authority in domestic life.
Nonsense aside, a fragmentary dialogue cites a theory about dangerous creatures carrying germs and a remedy involving overshoes. The text then mentions Dr Pierce’s Toilet Tea and a remark about age and happiness, concluding with a familiar proverb about a wed dog that howls.
Tom Gordon and Caleb confront violent strikes at Gordon Consolidated as a threatened railway fire and police mobilization loom. Tom arranges a dangerous gamble to secure water-pipe contracts while steering workers and officials toward law and order, ending with renewed pay and resumed operations. Meanwhile Tom and Ardea Sparks reckon with their rekindled romance as they journey to the Iron City plant.
Ardem recalls Tom Gordon revealing the exact day and train for their return, but he informs himself while standing on the platform. The scene captures a moment as the train arrives and everyone prepares to welcome them home.
Addison Migner protests reports of an $8,000 weekly contract with a vaudeville legacy for Parlelan dances. He recalls a theatrical criticism praising a dancer's superb figure, noting space constraints led to truncated praise and a typographical error about Kathleen Vavanour in the second act.
Senator Tillman mocked foreign customs at a Washington dinner describing an aristocrat with an American wife. The tale humorously contrasts etiquette and danger as the nobleman jokes about his scarred face and reliance on American wit after a duel.
A historical bulleted list offers lunch ideas for workers and householders. It includes cold baked benna with brown bread and baked apples, mayonnaise on graham bread with lettuce, pecan and celery sandwiches, potato salad with eggs, corned beef on rye with radish and cabbage, cold pork chops, lamb or mutton wrapped in wax paper, apple sauce or stewed prunes with gingerbread or molasses conkies, broken salmon with celery and mayonnaise on white bread, sausage sandwiches with pickled onions, cottage cheese on whole wheat, and sweets like dates with peanuts or walnuts. Lettuce on white bread with peanut butter, and various salade options suitable for lunch baskets.
Six oranges a pint of orange juice and a quart of water and sugar form the base for a cooling ice. Boil water and sugar five minutes then add peeled orange sections to hot syrup and cool. Drain syrup into the ice cream freezer add orange juice and freeze then fold in orange puree before serving.
A vintage recipe instructs making fudge by simmering maple syrup with milk, testing in cold water, then stirring in butter and hoglish walnuts. The mixture is heated until creamy, browned, and set in buttered sheets to harden, with optional brown sugar and maple flavor if maple is unavailable.
A fragmented note offers odd kitchen tips such as adding a few effees of raw potatoes to Galty Soup to absorb excess salt and wiping pans with old newspaper to remove surplus Branso. It also mentions unsweetened pineapple juice in mayonnaise for fruit salad and browning dried beef before gravy.
A damaged OCR recipe outlines making mixed pickles with onions cucumbers cauliflower and peppers. It directs chopping and brining overnight, draining, and using a vinegar dressing with mustard celery seed salt sugar and water, then boiling and sealing. The text preserves a dated home canning style with substantial ingredient details and steps.
A fragment suggests halving grapefruit for breakfast, removing seeds, and sprinkling sugar, then refrigerating overnight to yield a tasty morning fruit. The text shows garbled phrasing and unclear instructions but centers on grapefruit as a breakfast option.
A fragmentary old recipe describes making spiced grape jelly using eight quarts of grapes, one quart of vinegar, two ounces of common bark, one ounce of whale oil, with cooling and a night standing period, then straining. It mentions adding one pint of alcohol with one pint of sugar.
A fragment describes cooked asparagus pieces poured over large baking powder bins, then split hot and served with a hard sauce. The text is garbled with misspellings and lacks clear events or dates.
A reader recounts kidney pain backache and swollen feet, claiming Doan's Kidney Pills cured her after other remedies failed. The note mentions Foster Milburn Co Buffalo and cites a 60 cent price. A separate line references a landlady and a board reduction dispute.
A fragment promotes Coca Cola as a cooling drink and urges readers to obtain a booklet titled The Truth About Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910. It mentions the poem Casey At The Bat, schedules for leagues, and baseball information compiled by authorities in Atlanta GA.
A doctor tells of a patient with a sunroom ruse to induce better mood, painting a large sun on the ceiling to mimic sunlight. The plan seemed successful as the patient improved until the doctor found him dead from an apparent stroke, prompting an observer to question the outcome.
At an Authors Club dinner in London Mr Owen Seaman and Walter Emanuel laughed at Dentler’s Joke about a dentist. A man with the greatest sense of humor, an Englishman, endured toothache without gas. The dentist pulled a tooth and showed it at the window while the man groaned in pain. The dentist asked, What’s the joke, and the reply was Wrong tooth.
A humorous courtroom exchange features Lord Eilenborough guiding a trembling young lawyer as he bungles a speech. The judge interrupts only to urge the speaker to continue, praising the effort and keeping the audience engaged.
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