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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
7
A reader confesses a protest against the term Bachelor Girl as the chase enters general use. The essay notes how college life makes it an essential label for young women pursuing studies and aims to define the term beyond elocution and vocation boundaries.
A reflective essay critiques the modern bachelor girl on summer voyages and in hotels. It contrasts refined ideals with carefree conduct, recounts deck promenades and late-night temptations, and warns of loss of self-respect while defending harmless youthful frolics within propriety.
A fragment from a home life page features letters about the Housemothers Exchange, humorous rhymes, and tips on economical kitchen hacks, plus practical notes on ironing, children’s crafts, and thrifty cooking. Readers share recipes, remedies, and dye formulas for textiles, with several letters praising thrift and domestic ingenuity.
An article extols tea table dainties to elevate afternoon tea, listing crystallized fruits, stem ginger, stuffed dates and figs, prunes with nuts, nut filled cherries, Japanese flagroot, crystallized citrus, orange and lemon, rice candy, olives and cheese straws. It advises keeping these treats modest in quantity to preserve conversation and ease for the hostess.
A reader offers household plant advice noting frail potted plants need proper fertilizer and watering. The column mentions using sheep manure diluted in water, soaking roots, and reviving aging specimens to foster healthier blooms and avoid overwatering.
A suggestion to serve fruit jelly in four tiny glasses for an invalid friend, using portions a quarter the size of ordinary servings. The idea highlights variety and novelty, offering multiple flavors to suit delicate appetites.
A fragmentary account details a hurried meal at a railroad station. The scene includes half-raw bread with butter and partially cooked ham, described as grabbed and bolted as time ticks away. The wording suggests an unsettled, indigestion prompting a cautionary note.
A country farmer’s wife handles green peppers for pickling and suffers severe skin burns from pepper oils. Doctors advise wearing rubber gloves or using tools to cut peppers. She soaks hands in cold water overnight and notes peppers can be stored on a cellar floor for winter use.
Brief kitchen hints for housekeepers include stain removal with milk and salt, prunes improved by ice, and keeping milk from scorching by rinsing the pan. Other tips cover whitening ivory handles, preserving celery, flavoring sugar with vanilla bean, frying mush, lamp chimney cleaning, and pewter care.
Meal plan outlines daily menus with items for breakfast lunch and dinner. Includes Melons cereal cream clam fritters cornmeal muffins toast tea coffee kippered herring tomato sauce tomato salad whipped cream dressing graham bread custards cake lemonade. Dinner features corn chowder roast ducks peas beans peach ice cream sponge cake black coffee.
The text shows a historic menu with items for luncheon and breakfast including melons, cereal, cream, bacon, bread, tea and coffee. Luncheon features stuffed green peppers, roast duck filling, lambs liver, soup, salads, crackers, cheese, and desserts. Breakfast includes fried fish, eggs, tomatoes, toast, biscuits, cake, coffee, and leftovers like Brunswick stew.
A damaged OCR fragment lists meals for yesterday and dinner hours. Items include breakfast fare such as melons cereal cream bacon peppers muffins toast tea and coffee. Dinner features vegetable soup mutton lima beans corn and berry roly poly with brandy sauce along with creamed cod toast grandma's shortcake and beverages. The text includes several misspellings and leftovers like fried potatoes corn chowder baked bluefish and scotch broth.
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