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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1915
Page
3
The article promotes self managed weight loss through daily outdoor exercise and dieting without medical aid. It details a five mile daily walk as ideal and outlines a gradual diet starting with removing sweets, limiting starches, and avoiding alcohol. It warns against rapid weight loss and dangerous remedies.
The article describes balky horses in rural markets and explains why balking occurs from overload or innate stubbornness. It details humane and harsh training aids including gentle incentives, shoe pressure, food rewards, and a cord, plus a controversial electric shock device as a latest method.
Instructions on turning dandelions poke and other greens into tasty early summer greens. Encourages sowing closely for turnips and beets, thinning later, using tops for boiled greens, and serving with salt pork or ham bone, butter, vinegar, and spice. Includes a method to make a creamed egg salad with greens.
Fruit stains lift with dampening and chilling on ice, repeat if needed. Rust spots respond to lemon juice and salt. Steam from a kettle fades spots. Camphor removes fresh peach stains on white fabrics when rinsed with soap and water. Ink washes out in cold water then milk and salt.
J H Lovell conducted color choice tests with honey bees using glass slides colored and sweetened with honey. The Naturalist reports bees distinguish artificial and natural colors and show color preference, yet soon learn not to discriminate if color distinction offers no advantage.
The Buy at Home movement moves Indiana buyers to choose goods made in state. If prices and values are the same, buying at home supports local merchants and taxes, boosts town prosperity, and may increase property values. Investigate whether Indiana made goods offer equal value and price before buying elsewhere.
A reader from Colby Holland writes that Chamberlains Tablets were a splendid remedy for indigestion and constipation after using two bottles a year ago. The note appears in a brief reader submission about health products obtainable everywhere.
Droppington struggles to renew fire insurance as rents lag. An insurance agent accidentally starts a blaze with a cigarette. In the chaos he tries to save his policy and rescue Mrs Mack Swain while Swain hangs from the roof as a living fire escape. It ends with Droppington realizing the policy is in his pocket.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports juices from currants black berries black raspberries sour cherries and peaches can be sterilized stored and used year round similar to grape juice. Some fruits keep color and flavor while others like strawberries and red raspberries lose them. pineapple juice can yield an attractive sterilized flavor with cold storage. Concentrated apple juice by freezing shows better shelf life and slower fermentation with sugar and acid. Details appear in bulletin No 241 Studies on Fruit Juices Scraping the Bark of Fruit Trees.
The article explains scalding meat to improve shelf life when kept unusually long or stored in poor conditions. Dropping meat into boiling water briefly can preserve flavor, provided it is submerged in a large quantity of boiling water. For veal or pork, joints may be partially cooked before storage, as long as cooking is thorough.
The piece laments stray feeding apple trees as pests and land got in the way of fields and pastures. It notes six week old young pigeons ready for removal, explains sex can’t be seen at first sight, and that the driving bird is male while the driven is female. Large hopes from small ideas grow.
An elderly favorite presented a framed motto to a dusky bride in rural Virginia. The piece reads Fight on fight ever in a blue and red design with an orange cord, crafted from cardboard mottoes the woman had prepared for occasions.
In the yards two switchmen recall an eastern railroad GM famed for layoffs. They recount a story at Flannery's wife's funeral when six pallbearers carried the casket. He allegedly raised a hand and said you can get along without two of them, halting the procession.
A fragmented narrative recalls children at home scenes with a mother scolding a boy for mud and water play and a girl dealing with a telling truth about a lie. The piece weaves children named Helen Clarice Gertrude Freddie and Freddie’s denial amid family interactions.
Pat arrives hungry from Emer ald Sste and asks a waiter the cost of meals. The waiter names a quarter for breakfast and thirty five cents for dinner, then twenty cents for supper. Pat asks to take his supper now.
A neighbor jokes with a small boy about a new sister. The boy, Willie, says he likes her but would prefer a brother for games. The neighbor quips to exchange the baby, but Willie explains they already took her home a week ago and she has been laundered several times.
A playful exchange has a girl asking to borrow eggs for a setting hen and a neighbor’s hen loan. The Sab bath school superintendent cites Gideon choosing watchful men. A child asks about cyclones lifting a house, and a father muses on a long life without witnessing such sights.
Remedies include horseradish and buttermilk to lighten freckles, lemon juice washes, and peroxide for tanning. Home preparations are suggested as safe alternatives to risky market products, with milk of almonds to soothe sunburn and a reminder to avoid harsh treatments.
The article argues that boiling clothes is no longer necessary as sun drying and thorough washing produce equal whiteness. A modern washing machine reduces labor, eliminates steaming odors, and removes hard boiler work, making laundry less burdensome for many women. It also notes paper protection measures for cribs using washable wallpaper as a moisture barrier.
Barley water recipe using one pound barley three lemons and sugar with a gallon of water steeped 24 hours. A humorous aside notes many a married man would starve if his wife did not know how to use a can opener.
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