24 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
1
A poetic unsigned piece from a periodical urging resilience through sorrow and trouble. It encourages keeping cheerful, accepting adversity with courage, and greeting difficulties with praise, framed as reflections on hope, faith, and daily mercy. The verses invoke steady temperament and support from loved ones and a higher guide.
A collection of sermonette style notes extols cheerfulness as a habit and daily weapon against worry. It urges readers to cultivate sunshine at home and in daily life, arguing cheerful bearing lifts others and brightens the mind, with references to scripture and moral uplift.
A Victorian style domestic guide covers easy bulb gardening in water with hyacinths narcissus and Chinese lily, plus simple storage and cooking tips for pumpkin pies, sour cream cake, and a collection of winter recipes. It includes practical methods, observations on bloom timing, and thrift ideas for home entertaining.
A fragment reflects on inner illumination guiding a person to clarity. It mentions Milton and a belief in light within the breast, advocating turning inward for a clearer, brighter day.
A traditional roast mutton recipe instructs removing the bones to create a pocket for bread dressing. Prepare by trimming pink skin, seasoning with salt and pepper, and mixing bread crumbs with sage melted butter and milk. Bake in a moderately hot oven, basting frequently with pan juices.
Practical instructions for making head cheese and pickled pigs feet from hog parts. Recipes cover brining hogs liver and beef liver, cooking heads until tender, mincing, mixing with seasonings, pressing into firm masses, and slicing for serving. Pigs feet are boiled, then fried or served in spiced vinegar, with early breakfast ideas.
Fragments describe mixing ingredients for cakes or fritters including milk and unclear measurements. The readable text suggests a baking note or recipe snippet with quantities and an instruction to beat ingredients together.
Paraffine wax cuts labor for housewives by sealing jellies and fruit jars, preserving contents and preventing mould. It seals, speeds canning, improves starch with a teaspoon in hot starch, and boosts wash day soap with chipped wax. Standard Oil Co. sells high grade paraffine for household use in 1 pound moulded cakes.
A Rainy Day Closet described for the convalescent ward of a children’s hospital. It lists toys, books, crafts, and science activities kept by a custodian, typically the eldest daughter, with items delivered from a door shelf and interchanges discouraged.
A brief note thanks readers for support and suggests quick bread substitutes. The writer mentions sharing a substitute for bread in a hurry and asks readers to learn the method.
A fragmented kitchen note describes dough preparation for frying in hot lard. It mentions ingredients including flour baking powder salt sugar and sweet milk, and instructions to drop by teaspoonfuls into hot fat or use as French fried bread. It notes dipping in milk and egg before frying to a delicate brown.
Roast a pork piece in a hot oven for about two hours, adding cut round potatoes around the meat after three quarters of an hour. Serve with a rich onion sauce made from onions boiled in water, mashed with sweet milk, butter, flour, and seasonings until smooth and thick.
Dried on food comes off as if by magic when the dish is submerged in hot water briefly. The same idea helps with pudding pins and other vessels by filling them with water after use. If a fruit jar lid sticks, invert the jar and place the top in hot water for a minute rather than forcing it off.
A simple back door scraper is made by sawing an old broom near its end and driving the shortened handle into the ground. If soil is soft, place stones to steady the setup. A second use is to cut the worn brush and polish a stove after blackening, keeping hands away from the hot surface.
A dated home remedy describes soaking small newspaper bits in water to form a paste for plaster repairs. It advises spreading with a wooden paddle and allowing twenty four hours to harden. The note credits a woman with popularizing the method while men might use it for woodwork.
Household tips on cleaning methods cooking substitutes and frugal techniques. Describes ink removal from furniture, sugar icing substitutes, potato skins for less waste, care with plaster and cedar wardrobe upkeep, window cleaning with alcohol and chamois, and using beer scraps for stock and flavorings.
The text urges deep regular breathing starting at the nostrils and advises frequent outdoor exercise to use all body muscles. It recommends a small horic acid water dose for eye relief and suggests dusting before retiring to benefit tired eyes.
The passage gives a historical recipe for paste. It instructs mixing one half teacup of dry white glue with one quart of water until dissolved, add flour in cold water until smooth, combine with the boiling glue water, bring to a boil, then add one teaspoonful of carbolic acid to prevent souring. Store in covered diptiles to prevent drying.
Practical old time advice suggests adding two or three lumps of swear to boiled starch to improve siting and gloss. A teaspoonful of turpentine per quart of starch prevents sticking and yields a smoother finish. In turpentine's absence ker flantis polished sene serves similarly.
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