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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
7
A narrator recalls inviting Miss Matilda Faden for a weekend at a country house, hoping for a long visit. The planned midweek arrival is postponed when a telegram reveals friends will remain detained by a scarlet fever case in the family, forcing an earlier departure.
A 45 year old spinster recounts decades as a boarder in multiple houses. She describes cold rooms, weak tea, skim milk, limited cooking, high egg prices, and substandard meat while landladies and guests enjoy better fare. The piece highlights homesickness and the unbalanced costs of urban boarding.
Readers share practical tips for canning beans and corn with step by step methods. Recipes include tomato paste, fruit cakes, and cookies, plus home remedies for thrush, toothache, and choking. Community letters discuss requests for an article about an old turkey-raising lady and other domestic topics.
A fragment explains a homely remedy for tender feet using bacon fat warmed and applied to corns, then wrapped with old garment. The note suggests daytime use for relief.
A fragmented collection of home remedy notes discusses cures for cramps choking and nosebleed in terse steps. It mentions raising the head, improvised splints with bricks, and safety tips for swallowed hard substances with minimal context.
A maker suggests an oblong octagonal quire bag with a side opening to hold broom straws securely by threading the handle through the bag. A ticking clothespin bag uses a wire-hook hanger and a central circular opening with a facing edge to keep the opening round, offering practical reuse ideas for home storage.
Sunday breakfast features melons cereal and cream salmon steaks waffles toast tea and coffee. Luncheon includes veal loaf fried bread thin bread and butter tomato salad crackers and peaches and cream cake tea. Dinner offers string bean soup smothered chickens succotash vegetable marrow home made ice cream self frozen cake and black coffee.
A dated dietary list shows multiple meals labeled breakfast lunch and dinner with items including cereal veal loaf tomatoes cucumbers toast tea coffee and assorted leftovers noted as left over dishes. The sequence mentions fruit juices fruit pies and various soups and meats with intermittent spelling errors reflecting OCR handwriting.
Menu describes a midday meal featuring cold tongue leftovers, green pea puree, stuffed potatoes, fruit, macaroni and tomato soup with parmesan, veal cutlets, peach ice cream, and ring cakes with coffee. Includes tea and toast, omelet and cereal, plus cheese.
The list describes a mixed leftovers meal with fruit cereal fried pie slices toast tea and coffee. It mentions bardines with toasted cream cheese sandwiches lettuce salad crackers cookies tea coffee and a spinach soup belled codfish with ca sauce mashed potatoes hmna beans red bananas and cream sponge cake and black coffee.
A fragmented menu item lists fruit cereal cream codfish balls four leftovers cucumber salad garlic bread cookies tea and peach cobbler. The text is garbled but indicates a mixed dinner service with multiple dishes and beverages.
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