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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
2
Harper’s prints Bret Harte’s posthumous poem written during Queen Victoria’s era. The verse notes mourning across nations yet holds that “the glory born of goodness” endures, with sun and stars unchanged as a global funeral roll rolls by.
A brief, inspirational remark stressing that collective effort and faith enable joyful performance. It emphasizes not working alone and trusting in what God provides to accomplish tasks together.
A columnist recalls how households often become a mutual condolence club hearings woes and aches. The essay urges restraint and more focus on comforting others, sharing joys, and practicing quiet strength to nurture health and happiness. George Horton.
A physician said many child deformities and weaknesses come from adults dragging youngsters along at a fast pace during walks. He cited it as a dreadful habit contributing to physical harm in children.
A New York Ledger letter recounts witnessing a man drag a four year old along a rough street. The child grew exhausted and feverish, while the writer warns that pulling children by the arms harms spines and muscles, potentially causing rickets and deformities. The author urges strict care on caregivers and servants to stop the injurious practice.
A slender girl in a simple two color outfit of red silk and gray, with a red sash turned to a hat, draws wide attention in a cloudy day shopping excursion. Her dare to mix inexpensive pieces and bold color contrast proves style without fashion, garnering admiring looks from passersby and shoppers alike.
An expert in the New York Sun notes rag carpet durability hinges on warp quality with cotton warp offering strength over wool or linen. Single-material carpets fare better, silk prized for decorative rugs. Loom width limits and apparatus needs, while hand looms constrain design flexibility, allow skilled weavers to blend colors. two pounds of tags per yard cited.
A selection of kitchen guidance on candying figs with spices and preserving them in syrup, followed by advice on illness care emphasizing diet and rest. The text notes steps for boiling syrup, layering figs with cloves and cinnamon, venting, and adding vinegar. It ends with suggestions that rest and diet aid recovery more than frequent medicines.
Directions for horseradish dressing and vinegar. Grated horseradish is mixed with sugar salt and vinegar, then whipped cream added for a white dressing. A stronger white dressing uses more cream and olive oil. Horseradish vinegar is made by soaking horseradish onion garlic and red pepper in cider vinegar, then straining and bottling after a week.
A recipe for chocolate fudge describes dissolving sugar in cream, boiling, then stirring in melted chocolate with vanilla, cooking briefly, beating until grainy, and setting in a buttered tin. Optional nut addition includes crushed almonds or pecans and a separate vanilla fudge variation with milk, sugar, butter, batter, and chopped nuts.
A narrator notes a girl, boy, and woman running their life machine without thread, imagining grand plans while neglecting daily duties. The boastful, pleasant abroad, disobliging at home, and idle ambition are warned as easy yet wasteful. Labor, time, and effort will prove costly in the end.
A summer brides luncheon called haustran luncheon featured playful tablescapes. Wooden tub centerpieces with water lilies, autograph cookbook place cards, market basket favors, and tiny feather dusters replaced flowers, all echoing future housekeeping via Good Housekeeping style.
A home pickle guide from Ladies' World explains mixing one third green tomatoes with two thirds peppers for pickling. Pack sliced peppers in gallon jars, cover with strong cold cider vinegar leaving at least one inch headspace, weigh down with a plate, and wait about four weeks to eat. Seeds should be removed before serving to avoid excessive heat.
Good to Know. When steam or water has turned the varnish of any piece of furniture white rub the spots with spirits of camphor. To clean varnish cold tea is very good. Varnished paint may be successfully washed with the tea slightly warmed. In washing painted woodwork, do not use much soap. Use warm water and a flannel cloth and just as little soap as will remove the specks and rust, more likely to streak or remove the paint. Olive oil applied with a flannel cloth is a sure and safe remedy for finger marks on polished furniture.
Pape Deluiuency stops at a Virginia mountain cabin for a drink and is surprised to see a cook stove mounted on a kitchen table. The hostess explains the stove was brought up from town and mounted high because the stove pipe is not yet reached, causing her to urge Pap to hurry to town for proper piping.
Use full sized grapes not yet ripe. Stem wash drain and brine strong. Drain rinse and pack into jars. Cover with vinegar and spice mix including cloves mace allspice cassia buds cinnamon. Boil then cool and pour over grapes before storage.
Instructions describe peeling and preparing fruit, boiling sugar with water, adding peaches, mashing to jam like jelly, boiling to a thick mass, then filling jars and cooling to seal.
A practical tip advises greasing the outside and edges of the cream pitcher mouth with butter to prevent cream stains on tablecloths. This method helps hostesses serving refreshments on small tables with bright lunch cloths and avoids damaging embroidered cloth colors.
Fall is best for spring savings on wash goods underwear and shoes. Buy white goods in fall. A domestic vignette and home economy tips on clothing care jelly flavors and using summer shirtwaists year round. Includes household advice and moral beat.
A short verse extols a little girl named Mothers Comfort as a bright, kind treasure. It describes blue loving eyes, dimples, and a heart that eases a mother's cares. The poem dwells on how sunshine and happiness surround the child and her cherished name.
October 8 1902 report tells of President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary Root returning from a ride when they hear cries. The president investigates and discovers the sounds come from an open sewer catch basin where distressed kittens are found.
The president beckons two boys to enter an opening as an umpire like scene unfolds. He praises the sport and the moment, asking one to crawl in while the other holds his legs. The boys seize the chance amid admiring distance and presidential attention.
A dramatic incident unfolds as a boy and others rescue doomed kittens from a sewer. The president and secretary of war witness the ordeal then offer care, milk, and a home, praising the humane act and imagining the kittens thriving under such kindness.
In a domestic animal anecdote Sona Dore tells how two dogs Rose and Fannie shared a home. Fannie guarded a favorite shawl and slept on the mistress’s bed, yet after Rose’s illness and return, Fannie briefly relinquished the shawl. Jealousy returned and Fannie reclaimed the shawl and place by the mistress.
A three year old girl Ruby compares a peeled Bald Baldwin apple to skin and asks for very new milk saying she does not want tomorrow night’s milk. Her mother calls her from the yard as a hen and brood fuss nearby and Ruby answers she is only going a piece with her nearby.
A collection of humorous vignettes from children in a country school and travel setting. A boy learns to spell pig and quips that his grandmother teaches, a timid girl asks for shoe strings, a child in a sleeping car mistakes his location, and a four year old asks his mother to promise not to punish him, fearing mischief.
A letter from J O Atkinson of Independence Missouri praises Peruna and Manalin curing chronic catarrh and other ailments in his wife and himself. He credits the remedies with life saving results and urges others to seek Dr Hartman’s advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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