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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1889
Page
8
A montage of short notes features an elderly novelist, Mrs Fanny Kemble, praise for a postmistress in Louisville, and a call for practical girl’s education. Other items honor Clara Barton, Mrs Harriet A Ketchum’s herbarium, and a Little Rock police matron appointment.
A reminiscence about a lemon ice recipe and fruit ices suggests hot weather favors fruit ice over ice cream. It notes Kate Upson Clark on Idle Women and discusses the Kindly Thought Club for Brooklyn girls. A piano tuner recalls entertaining children in Delaware Ohio with a playful tea kettle train, ending when asked where to get off.
A domestic miscellany discusses refined perfume habits using sachets and crocheted handkerchief cases, lavender and rose scents, and ways to keep drawers perfumed. It then shifts to July cooking with lettuce dishes, mint, onion dressings, and simple salad ideas including a recipe for two hard boiled eggs with mustard and a tomato substitute using bacon fat or rice drippings.
Subscriptions run one year in advance at 1 81 50 in Marshall County. Notices of date mismatches must be sent in after payment. Transient ads require prepayment. Obituaries resolutions and cards of thanks billed per line. Births marriages and deaths published free. Steam Printing offers design quality and workmanship with estimates and abroad orders at low rates.
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