19 Mar 1903
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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1903
Page
1
A short quatrain by W. Gillilan urges laughing through tears to banish heartache and fear. It champions happiness as a path to goodness, claiming a double acting rule few grasp. The speaker suggests joy defeats future troubles and prompts others to grin.
The Easy Chair notes a harsh Manitoba cold sweeping southward and clogging minds with discomfort. It recalls a prior column offering mental remedies and imagines a string of vivid, sunless scenes from hot heat to parched deserts and hot decks, suggesting the control of thoughts as a remedy.
An opinion piece from the Los Angeles Herald urges against passive waiting and promotes active living. It argues that relying on warm thoughts to save fuel is misguided, noting the danger of a fatalistic “day coming” mindset. It emphasizes using each day wisely in mortal life and divine accounting.
The article outlines a low cost do it yourself wardrobe using planed lumber, with sides and top created from four and six foot pieces, a shelf, a back board for wall mounting, and extra hooks. It also presents an alternative built into a bedstead corner for renters, plus tips on dust control and housekeeping philosophy.
A writer describes the exhausting effect of fussy housekeepers who constantly rearrange items, chase dust, and demand perfection. The article portrays how guests feel uneasy as the host interrupts conversations to fix trivial details, revealing a lifestyle of perpetual drive to be always busy.
A century old guide extols kerosene for cleaning galvanized iron and porcelain, degreasing sinks, aiding laundry, and clearing stains. It notes antiseptic effects, hair growth claims, and uses for sprains, clothing, leather, furniture, and even child ailments, with various practical tips.
A Good Housekeeping note shows how to rejuvenate worn garments. A silk waist with folds and hides uses velvet ribbon to conceal joins. Embroidered dots and a line of braid transform moth holed sleeves and a stained skirt without full remaking.
A historical recipe describes making corn chowder with corn, potatoes sliced a quarter inch thick, an onion, scalded milk, salt pork, butter, crackers, and seasonings. Pork is fried with onion, potatoes boiled briefly, then combined with water and milk, corn added, seasoned, and finished with soaked crackers on top.
A vintage baking instruction details making caraway cookies with butter sugar eggs and milk. The method instructs creaming butter then blending in eggs baking powder and flour, folding in caraway seeds and rolling thin before cutting rounds and baking until lightly browned.
A recipe hints at a delicious Graham flour pudding for housekeepers. Mix one and a half cupfuls of graham flour with bran, add milk and molasses, dissolve a teaspoon of soda in hot water, stir in a cupful of raisins, steam in a battered mold for four hours, and serve with a sauce.
A historic soup method uses one cup dried split peas with three pints water and onion fried in butter. Add pork and simmer, strain, then thicken with butter and flour, season with white pepper and sugar, and finish by boiling ten minutes. Serve hot with toasted bread.
A poem urging perseverance in school and play, noting that sunny days and easy tasks tempt rest, but steady effort in study and duty yields rewarding results. It stresses keeping a brave spirit, avoiding shirking, and believing that work leads to bright outcomes for children.
A crop of youth letters from Mayfield to Provemont and Cedar Mich describe joining the Sunshine Club. Children named include Miah, Alta, Arlo, Agnes, Fay, Martin, and Osoi. they request cards and buttons, share school grades, teachers, and hobbies, and recount Christmas gifts and farm news.
A vintage guide explains washing taffeta ribbons with luke warm water and good soap. Avoid rubbing up and down to prevent whisking. Hang to dry without ringing and iron while still damp to prevent thready or sunken appearance.
A tersely described method uses a tin, kerosene, and three corncobs to start a fire swiftly. The author suggests placing the setup in a hidden spot, then removing cobs to ignite on the grate and repeating the process with three more cobs for future use.
In parts of Siberia a groom returns home and orders his wife to remove his boots. One boot hides a whip and the other a purse. The first boot she removes signals future generosity or meanness. A generous husband places a purse in both boots and omits the whip to mislead her into a favorable choice.
The method describes breaking glue into pieces and sealing them in a bottle with alcohol. Let the mixture sit for several days to mature. In very cold weather a brief hot water bath may be used to warm the bottle before use.
If walls are dirty from flies and dust and wallpaper looks dingy, consider painting rather than repapering. Wipe dust with a dry cloth, pick a bright cheerful color, coat the walls thoroughly, and paint the border in a contrasting shade for a refreshed look.
Instructions describe making a linen or canton flannel sack that fits over the broom end, with a nap ped side out and a tied top for secure use. The bag serves to sweep walls and ceilings, while dusted wheels and smudged surfaces are wiped and washed to ready the broom for use.
A housewife who stays on her feet all day tires more at night. Wearing two pairs alternately shifts pressure and relieves fatigue because each pair has its own distinct comfort.
If vegetables are frosted, peel or prepare them for cooking and cover with cold salty water. Serve in a fairly warm room overnight.
A cleaning tip states equal parts turpentine and ammonia remove pains from clothing in every case. Saturate fabric two or three times with the mixture and wash out in soap suds.
A pancake turner proves handy for lifting cookies from the board before baking and removing from the pan after cooling, aiding efficient kitchen work.
A series of letters from Mrs Celesta Covell and others praise Peruna as a remedy for grippe and influenza. Included are endorsements from Al Cooper of London and Washington, D C sculptor, D Wallace and Clarice Hunt, with claims of relief after one bottle and improved health, voice, and appetite.
A fragment discusses a generic epidemic cata r r h described as the grip as a universal affliction. It notes the term Crip shortened from French and remarks how the word captures the widespread reach across social classes.
A collage of letters from Ada Brown Mabel Palmar and a Sunshine Club poem recount school life in Genesee County with notes on studies classrooms and a note of joining Sunshine Club. The verse contrasts Wait-a-little and Work-Then-Play and ends with Work-Then-Play leaving earth for heaven.
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