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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
3
A sentimental feature recalls Mrs Mabel Bates Williams and a boy’s valentine, a local shore of Boardman Lake setting, plus a vivid Good Housekeeping inspired Valentine party description. It covers a home celebration with heart crafts, recipes, prizes, and decorations centering on Cupid motifs and red color schemes.
Poem celebrates friendship as a source of strength during hard times. A cheerful greeting, a firm handshake, and shared life make burdens lighter and courage grow. The speaker praises a friend who arrives in life’s dreary moments, forming a steadfast bond.
A reflective quote from Sir Humphrey Davy on how daily smiles kindness and small obligations build character and sustain the heart, rather than grand sacrifices.
A Traverse City mother explains her approach to Valentine gifts as daily expressions of care. She believes involving children in small, thoughtful tokens strengthens family bonds, favoring practical homemade items over ostentatious celebrations. She plans simple, meaningful keepsakes aligned with each child’s interests.
At a small Valentine dinner on St Valentine’s Night a hostess and guests received humorous valentine envelopes delivered at the door. The cheerful surprise arrived for the host and a lady guest, with the whole group enjoying a gale of merriment during the dinner hour.
A short guide suggests hosting varied Valentine celebrations with homemade invitations using card valentines, red heart shapes, and simple phrases. Readers are advised to ask guests to submit original verses, place verses in baskets for matches, and decorate rooms with evergreen strands and fluttering red and white hearts.
A Valentine party plan suggests red papal heart decorations four inches wide on white ribbon for portieres and chandeliers. Hearts carry names and keys amid a guessing game where ladies wear hearts and gentlemen carry patterned keys, with partners chosen by shots at heart targets.
The menu outlines pink heart decorations on a pink filled layer cake and scarlet paper lined almond favors. A deviled ham and chili sauce sandwich filling is suggested for festive lunches. Creamed fish in heart molds uses buttered rice cakes filled with seasoned fish and parsley.
A Victorian style recipe feature details heart shaped desserts and sandwiches. It describes pink tinted ice and jelly hearts, heart cakes and croquettes, lemon and gelatin fillings, nutmeg cake batter, and decorative touches with red coloring, candied petals, and pink icing. It also covers heart shaped ice cream disks with ribboned decorations and a lace like embroidery exhibit.
A novel place-card folds from heavy watercolor paper with triplet hearts forming a decorative card. The first heart bears the guest name, the middle heart holds a Kodak photo of the guest of honor or hostess, and the third heart carries a Joy motto. Flowing ribbons, flowers, and a scarlet ribbon hang from a chandelier to align with the heart cards on the table.
Describes white china doll Cupid favors, silk heart sachets, large crepe paper hearts, evergreen garlands, and fragile thread swags for a St. Valentine event. Includes a heart shaped note folded invitation, crimson satin cushions, and a three heart embroidered linen catch‑all as decorative ideas.
A collection of traditional corn meal dishes including Johnnycake, Corn Meal Gems, Corn Muffins, Date and Indian Pudding, Corn Meal Custard, and Newton Tapioca. Instructions cover soaking, mixing, baking times, temperatures, and ingredients like sour milk, molasses, eggs, soda, baking powder, corn meal, flour, salt, butter, and sugar.
The Hartman led Peruna campaign declares a shift from doctor only promotion to public advertising and distribution. It pledges full ingredient disclosure, welcomes unsolicited testimonials, and asserts Peruna as a great household remedy with international expansion plans.
A simple tea cake recipe using a mixed mixture baked in gem pans about twenty minutes. Serve warm. Make apple sauce as usual and sour apples give the best flavor. if using sweet apples add a squeeze of lemon juice for balance.
A vintage recipe blends two cupfuls flour with baking powder and confectioners sugar, beating egg whites then folding in. Bake in a pan lined with oiled paper and rose geranium leaves for fragrance, then frost with sugar water and cream. Almond topping optional and serving ideas implied.
A recipe from Table Talk notes a dareful spice cake to suit a new wed. Ingredients include cream butter and sugar, ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, apple sauce, sifted flour, raisins, baking soda. Mix, then bake quickly for about thirty to forty minutes.
A Buffalo Express excerpt describes a quirky December alphabet menu at a delicatessen. A new customer asks for appetizing items starting with k while the clerk jokes about pickled kidneys. The tale tracks daily dishes from apples to eggs and ends with kidney suggesting salvation for a cat and a playful note on trying new foods.
A historic recipe describes mixing flour salt baking powder and butter with sweet milk to form dough six, rolling into two rounds, layering with butter, sealing, brushing with milk and baking. After baking, lift the top and pour over the prepared oysters. Forty oysters are washed and ready for preparation.
Drain them, place in a saucepan with butter and pepper, shake over heat until plump. Drain the liquor, add rich milk to make one cup and a quarter, melt butter and flour, add salt and oyster liquor, thicken. Pour into beaten eggs, return to heat, then stir in oysters and remove from fire.
A reader suggests placing a fist sized stale bread near onions during cooking to absorb odors. This simple trick prevents the pervasive smell from filling six or seven rooms and embarrassing hosts when inviting guests to dinner.
A simple Valentine game called Love's Archery uses two toy bows and arrows and a wall hung heart sheet. Guests shoot at large and small hearts three times each, scoring with gold and silver heart stickers and tying the bows with blue ribbon as a keepsake.
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