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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
3
A piece from a 19th century column advises readers to seek daily rest for clothing and appearance. It suggests changing to fresh attire, airing garments, and refreshing with hot baths and clean footwear to renew energy for evening duties. It also includes musings on toy playthings and prudent home tips from Babyhood.
A collection of vignette-like musings on death, courtesy, and virtue drawn from early Christian and moral extracts. It contrasts sleeping as peaceful transition with practical wisdom on kindness, decorum, and resiliency, urging trust, rest, and gentle guidance in everyday life. References include Anna Pierpont Smviter and guidance from the Washington Star.
A group of friends discuss why two sisters with the same income show different clothes. One looks fresh while the other’s garments seem limp and discouraged. The tale suggests that clothes wear out the wearer and that letting them have proper, real needs met is economical for the wearer and society.
The ongoing White House renovation includes the president and Mrs Roosevelt's room with satin striped green walls, a salt green Wilton carpet with pink rose petals, brass eagle holdbacks, and sage green cushioned window recesses. Alice Roosevelt's room stays blue while the north nursery on the south front features red walls and carpet with floral upholstery. Master Quentin's brass bed remains adorned with dotted muslin curtains.
A column extols silk as a universal remedy dating back a century. It claims sore throats vanish when wrapped in silk and asserts silk absorbs electricity like a Leyden jar. The piece links silk to curing various diseases and to powering electrical devices through rubbing with quicksilver.
A household tip notes that when milk spills or smoke from the stove rises, sprinkling salt over the area makes the spot disappear immediately. The advice emphasizes quick action to neutralize odor and residue.
Practical domestic notes emphasize securing loose carpet corners to avoid door jams, and using large door mats for feet. A dog eared book marks the sloven. Canton flannel cleans a piano, keeping the nap toward the instrument. Dusting aids include old print dusters for books and statues and large covers for beds. sweeping with stabs and harsh scrubbing are discouraged.
An unnamed girl boasts of a handmade acorn portiere she crafted from summer finds. She describes its hues, waxed brown cord, and a soft rattling tinkle as it hangs between her study and dressing room. She riffs on potential modifications, noting the saying about big particles from little acorns.
A young woman at a fraternity dinner grows nervous then social, but a playful dessert moment leads to embarrassment when she reaches for a chocolate éclair only to discover it is the waiter’s thumb instead. The scene ends with light humor as the waiter corrects her.
A historic batter recipe uses yeast and a mixture of flour sugar egg milk and salt to form a stiff batter. After four hours the batter is fried on a griddle in muffin rings until browned, then flipped and served hot for lunch or toasted for breakfast.
Cream butter and sugar then fold in sour cream with soda dissolved in hot water. Beat in one egg and mix well. Add seeded raisins, whole wheat flour mace and cloves. Bake in gem or leaf pan until done. Dust with powdered sugar after baking.
A fragment notes that if soot is accidentally dropped on a carpet, cover it thickly with salt. The salt may then be swept up without boiling the carpet. The text presents a quick cleanup tip with no additional steps.
A midwestern cooking column shares several old time recipes. Prominent items include Bolile Good Nakéa and Yake-Beat the Whites with sugar vanilla and flour, Little Cakes and gem pan cake with coconut frosting, Jumbles cookies and Aunt Vina's Fried Cakes with buttermilk and lard.
A boy narrates a mother's daily labor at home while noting there is no money earned. He describes her rising the family, making breakfast, and sending each member off to the day. The exchange reveals dreary unappreciation as the mother does unpaid work for all, including a baby who is nearly two and can talk and walk.
Soak mackerel overnight with skin side up. In morning wrap in cloth, simmer in boiling water twenty minutes, unwrap, butter and lemon for serving. Another method uses hot water, drain, then bake with sweet cream until browned. Lemon juice on fish helps with objections to oily fish.
A printer's note explains a stubborn lamp wick that sticks on one side. To resolve it, replace the wick, pull a single thread near the selvage, and reinsert. The wick will then be drawn evenly, the burner will take it properly, and a steady flame will result.
When velvet becomes soiled it may be reused as panne velvet by washing. Use naphtha soap to create suds without rubbing soap on the fabric. Nearly dry press with an old handkerchief or linen, resulting in panne velvet. Light velvets take the treatment well but may fade slightly.
Chop onion and green pepper. Slice six ripe tomatoes and place in a baking dish. Season with salt and scatter onion and pepper. Top with rolled cracker crumbs and bits of butter. Bake one hour. Serves well with cold meat at luncheon.
Parsnips are boiled after washing and scraping then mashed. Mix with flour and beaten egg and pepper, form into small cakes, fry in hot fat until brown.
An exhortative excerpt for a boy on life’s voyage compares ships to human effort. It asserts that every vessel has a rudder and a steadfast helmsman whose will shapes the course, urging the boy to forge a strong rudder and steady hand to endure life’s storms with faith.
October 17 1902 readers send in letters detailing poultry experiments and family news. Marion Crawford of Fife Lake writes of turkey and egg profits, Grover Fuller of Wife Lake shares school and family notes, while Orange Fuller of Orange describes school progress and a new range.
A Chicago Woman’s Benevolent Association president lauds Peruna for curing la grippe, reporting rapid recovery after seven weeks of illness. Messages from Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Collins praise the tonic for digestive relief and lasting vigor, with Dr. Hartman offering free medical advice.
A collection of jokes and dialogue fragments features puns about feet and stockings, bees, waves, soap, and cannibal broth. It includes childlike dialogue between Willie and his mother, a puzzled question on preserves, and a tip on removing peach stains with boiling water.
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