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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1909
Page
6
An editorial dime discusses prevention as the key to lasting well being, urging readers to slow down and protect health, money, and happiness via balance. It covers household guidance, child discipline, and social decorum, then shifts to fashion notes on silhouettes, hairstyles, and the era’s evolving dress codes with advice on etiquette and appearances.
The Crusader's helmet style, a medieval inspired millinery craze, uses rough hemp straw with a bright green crown and black brim. The design features a square broad top, a stiff cleft brim, and barbaric looking nail-like beads with metallic heads. A large green aigret rises on one side of the front.
The third class ships are the monsters Oklahoma and Wyoming at 26 500 tons each with twelve 12 inch guns, Japanese 22 000 ton ships building with similar design and possible 14 guns, and French Danton class Voltaire with four 12 inch turrets and twelve 94 inch guns. Officers question why guns crowded together may hinder action and limit firing.
A home dressmaking tip explains reinforcing lace with wash net under insertions on blouses, using quality net and sewing options. Also noted is a trend where art dealers propose hanging pictures in rooms with crazy quilts, with expert suggestions for arranging preferred displays.
The London Graphic compares British Dreadnoughts with later models and U S designs. It notes eight ships in the Neptune group for Britain, German plans with 12 11 inch guns, and American classes Michigan and Delaware offering broadside totals of 6,800 and 8,500 pounds respectively, while crowding hampers fire.
A contemporary notes that cars are deemed ten times more destructive than horses for road accidents. The assumption hinges on driver control for autos and the horse's independent will, yet real practice contradicts this model.
The document lists Turkey's principal exports including tobacco cereals cotton figs olives grapes almonds and fruits along with coffee madder opium and gum. It notes 1900 opium exports of 7 500 chests totaling 105 900 pounds and mentions carpet production on hand looms. It ends with a quip on wolves and a remark that women rule the waves of the matri rootal sea.
A new kitchen furniture piece is displayed that merges a colander with a fruit press. It removes seeds and skins from grapes, tomatoes, and apples, rice potatoes, extracts juice, and can even aid laundry smoothing, promising to streamline many culinary tasks.
Light batter uses sugar butter milk egg whites and flour with baking powder. Dark layer combines brown sugar molasses butter milk eggs and spices baked in alternating layers for marble effect.
The excerpt outlines a corn meal batter for corn bread using twice as much sweet milk as corn meal, two eggs, salt, and a hot oven for half an hour. It then details omelets with two eggs, two cups of milk, corn starch, salt, minced parsley, buttered pan, and rolling the omelet as it cooks, with parsley garnish.
Dr Elbert Landone advocates shocks of electricity as a punishment for naughtiness noting a five year old was cured after three days of treatment. Also describes a recipe layering raw potatoes and onions with pork dripping baked for thirty minutes.
Instructions on making cocoanut candy soap from waste fat and apple padding recipe are presented as practical household guidance. The cocoanut recipe uses grated meat two eggs and coconut milk mixed into small cakes to dry. The soap method advises buying lye and following label directions. Apple padding blends baked apples butter sugar lemon rind and juice with eggs baked into a rich crust.
The article states color blindness affects about five in every hundred children to some degree. It notes a gender disparity with fifty men affected for every four women, indicating higher male prevalence.
Cooking tips for scaling ash through boiling first and avoiding large turnips. A dash of kerosene in wash water is claimed to brighten clothes. Tips on baking apples and a spread featuring marmalade butter and sugar.
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