Olive oil myths and medicines in a century of ads
A marketer turned millionaire promotes fake Lucca olive oil while admitting blends with cottonseed oil. The piece warns buyers to seek genuine olive oil from honest grocers and praises olive oil as both food and medicine with benign uses for digestion, skin, and child health. It ends with a reflection on olive trees in Palestine and a biblical quote about the olive’s value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saidrade
Lucca
Sydney Smiths
Lecca
Dave
Europe
Lidemother
Orient
Palestine
Pimentos and Corn Salad Recipes From Missourian Kitchen
Letters discuss canning sweet pimentos from grocery stock, a corn salad with peppers and vinegar, and Marion Harland Relish. A reader asks California corrspondents about growing pimentos, while others share home canning results, pantry tips, and personal kitchen anecdotes from Eliza R. to Mrs. N. L. M. and beyond.
Family Meals For a Week Breakfast Lunch Dinner
A fragmented menu lists meals for a week with breakfast options including melons cereal and coffee. Luncheon features fish salad baked potatoes cream cheese and crackers with Camembert and peaches. Dinner offers Swiss chard soup boiled fowls with sauce Spanish rice stuffed tomatoes and a surprise cake with black coffee.
Luncheon and Dinner Menu From Sunday Dinner Remnants
A historical menu lists fruit cereal and cream bacon fried peppers toasted cornbread brown bread tea and coffee for luncheon. Cold meat Welsh rarebit chops potatoes junket cookies iced tea. Dinner features barley broth scalloped chicken corn squash huckleberries cake black coffee. Evening notes include breaded eggs with tomato sauce stewed potatoes peanut butter sandwiches and huckleberry cake with iced milk and tea.
Wednesday Breakfast Menu Summary
A historical menu listing dishes for a Wednesday breakfast and dinner including oranges cereal and cream roek herrings potato biscuits toast tea and coffee steak and onion stew yesterday s beans hot biscuits jam pudding tomato soup mock duck rolled veal cutlet stuffed fried eggplant beets ice cream light cakes black coffee.
Breakfast menu with diverse dishes and beverages
Breakfast includes fruit, cereal, cream, bacon and eggs, muffins, toast, tea and coffee. A veal mince on toast features, along with leftovers, fruit, Lima bean soup, spinach succotash, peaches, grapes, and black coffee.
Dinner Menu Summary for Historical Meal Offer
The text lists a dinner menu with items including oranges, cereal and cream, sea quick graham biscuits, toast, tea and ee. It also notes curried exes, broiled tomatoes, hashed potatoes, French pancakes, tea and dinner items like chowder, breaded meal from steaks with lemon sauce, mashed green corn pudding, watermelon.
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Neal
Luncheon menu fragment with assorted dishes
A fragment listing various foods such as melons cereal and cream, toast tea and coms. It mentions Colq River sliced petals oe quettes and thin bread and butter, boiled rice with maple cream, vegetable soup, shoulder of lamb with mint sauce, green pras and plum tact with cream bi cattee.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atlantic
Union
Luecea
California
Jerusalem
Jericho
Israel
Bebe
Gort
Glesson, Ky
Kentucky
Marie
Marion Harland
Releesh
Marion Harland Releesh
Eliza RE
Buffalo, N. Y
Lakeside
Eliga BR
Richmond
Ind
Bermuda
Marnm Horand
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