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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
3
A city resident extols back yard gardening to beat dull markets and bring spring flavor. She urges using sunlit walls for tomatoes peas and cucumbers, planting herbs, and building a compact tool set to grow lettuce radishes and beans, offering practical steps for a 35-foot square plot.
A reader requests a genuine Italian method for smothered chicken disjointed before cooking and a greenish brown dish with mushrooms and stoned olives. The letter seeks a beautiful marmalade recipe and reflects on sharing culinary knowledge and the moral burden of hospitality.
A letter to readers explains soap making with accurate alkali use and graded lye strengths. Detailed steps describe boiling beef tallow with caustic soda, testing with a drop on a stick, and adding salt to harden the soap. The writer cites ROSICRUCIAN Chicago praising the practical chemist Hosicerucian.
A dated breakfast lunch and dinner plan lists varied dishes including oranges cereal and cream ham omelet beef loaf veal tongues soups fish and stews with potatoes rice and bread. Leftovers recur in multiple meals, with beverages tea coffee and cocoa noted throughout.
In letters from Cresson and a housemother, readers lampoon a $4 to $5.50 weekly menu proposed by an Exchange member. They question costs for milk meat eggs tea potatoes bread and other provisions, asking how such meals could feed two people all week. Concerns about frugality and fairness surface as they critique the plan and broader food prices amid hard times.
A letter writer asks for guidance to find paid work as a housekeeper and companion for an elderly lady. She describes tending ailing mother, becoming exhausted, and seeking a good ladies home Roma day, with references and job-search advice. She laments family burden and expresses preference for a home over caregiving duties for her children.
A Versaills Ohio note advises removing spots from silk via sponging with equal parts alcohol and ether, then pure chloroform if needed. If color has faded, apply alcohol and, as a last resort, dye the dress to restore appearance.
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