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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
6
The article outlines current female sports attire for tennis and golf, detailing heavy white tennis skirts, one-piece suits, crash fabrics with scarlet trimmings, and bloomers, plus golf wear emphasizing short full skirts, elbow sleeves, and practical sweaters. It notes changes like elastic waist skirts and practical lengths above the ankles.
Instructions present several salad dressing alternatives. A mustard egg cream dressing blends dry mustard salt white pepper butter eggs milk and vinegar to thicken over hot water. Additional creamy and fruit dressings use egg yolk butter cayenne salt mustard cream lemon juice and sugar, plus stirred vinegar for balance, served chilled.
German potato cakes are described as a well known dish in local cookery. Grate raw potatoes, mix with butter eggs and flour to bind, add salt sugar and cinnamon, then fry on a griddle or flat pan until brown.
Prepare eggplant halves by scooping the pulp, cooking with ham, crumbs, butter, onion, and seasonings, then refill and bake with buttered tops for 15 minutes. Also, to keep cake light, vent steam by placing on a wire rack after removing from the oven.
A brief note asserts ground ginger used in plasters can substitute mustard to draw and blister less, claiming ginger does not blister.
O C Hayden of O C Hayden & Co dry goods in Albert Lea Minnesota describes severe back weakness and constant night pain. After using Deans Kidney Pills relief came quickly as kidney action returned and back trouble disappeared. Sold by all dealers at 40 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A compilation of curious claims on human biology and society. It notes average teeth counts, blood weight estimates, breath rate, and brain weight contrasts, then shifts to ads about starch and a court case where E. H. Harriman resists a large repair bill and replevin.
The article notes superstition around the number 13 in Austria Hungary affecting theater seating and medical settings. The chamberlain renamed boxes to avoid 13, rich subscribers shunned it, and few patients consent to operations or admissions on the 13th or Fridays. Doctors warn local superstition harms public health in hospitals and famous cure resorts.
An Oregon man recounts a 26 year coffee habit that caused severe illness. After stopping coffee and using Postum, his health improved dramatically, with reduced pain and no headaches or stomach distress. He cites endorsements from local banks and merchants and urges a ten day Postum trial, mentioning "The Road to Wellville."
A famous criminal lawyer volunteered to defend a defendant with no attorney as the case opened. The judge planned a three month workhouse term for the “camera fiend.” The lawyer protested, arguing for leniency while the judge explained the crime was stealing cameras, not taking pictures.
A man recounts losing his foot to injury in 1899 and four years of suffering before Culicura Soap and Ointment cured his leg. He notes medical bills totaled about $600 while Culicura cost $6 and claims healing after seven months of treatment. John M. Lloyd of Alliance Ohio signs the note dated June 27, 1805.
The Topeka Capital reports an iodine based cure for snake bites. A medical officer in British India allegedly used seven drops of tincture of iodine on sugar, repeated after four hours, to treat a harvest worker and several animals with full recovery.
A fragmented ad text touts EGG-O-SEE as a best selling breakfast food praised by wives and mothers and claims its lack of preparation makes it popular. It also mentions a free book, “Back to Nature,” and lists other products claiming odor destruction, starch, and cigars with assorted misprints and garbled names.
A collage of aphorisms on love wealth jealousy and marriage with notes on fashion starch and courts. Mentions Defiance Starch Judge Wilfle Alice de Rothschild and Miss De Rothschild themes of romance and social customs from an early 20th century voice.
Fragmented news notes mixed with advertising copy. Mentions Germany railway tariff changes, Mulhouse to Basel travel costs, Ireland population data for 1904, Osthka Japan growth, Africa Velagen bay oil prospects, and assorted patent-like product pitches for Defiance Starch and Pefcance Starch. Includes miscellaneous motivational lines and old-fashioned market blurbs.
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