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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
6
The article outlines methods for administering medicine to dogs. It describes opening the mouth, placing the dose, and keeping the animal calm. For pills, it advises inserting the pill behind the front teeth or in the mouth and shows how to use hand placement to encourage swallowing.
A short note details a confusing incident involving piney of sal and gegar. The writer mentions a beat up guess and adding to the ed, then sets ip 3 us ed g nce for about av hour. Further clarity is unavailable in the fragment.
The procedure details peeling and infusing orange peel overnight, pressing out juice, rinsing pulp, and straining. The next day boil the peel with water, strain, cool, and mix with juice and sugar in a covered dish. Add tartaric acid, stir until smooth, adjust sweetness with acid, and tint with a few drops fechineal to produce orange color.
Fried oyster slices are pan fried until brown and cooked through. Remove bacon and line the pan with seasoned oysters. Add fat drained from earlier fried bacon to flavor the pan. Fry the oysters further until evenly browned and crisp.
A dated mock recipe describes butter, stock, stale bread crumbs and chicken to form small molds, then baked in hot water. It instructs a light cream sauce with rich milk, sugar, cornstarch, butter and vanilla, suggestive of period kitchen practices.
A recipe-style instruction describes simmering tongue in salted water with spices, removing fat, thickening liquor, adding herbs and a sharp sauce, then browning sauce with picked sultanas. Slice tongue, reheat in sauce, bring to boil, simmer, and serve.
A compact home recipe montage describes making a cabbage salad with fresh leaves, cream, salt, and paprika served on ice with shredded cabbage. The second item outlines a potted meat spread using lean beef, butter, nutmeg, peppers, and white pepper then finished with butter and mealier salt.
A method for stripping old finishes describes shaking one part ammonia with two parts water in a bottle and applying an emulsion solution to wood. The note emphasizes careful handling and testing on a hidden area before full use.
The Rev A Johnson of Richmond now visiting Wichita relays life on the western border. He came to Shawnee Mission in 1845 as a Quaker missionary and recalls Thanksgiving beginnings in Kansas. He describes Buffalo along Kansas City outskirts and an 181 lot trade in McGee’s addition for a horse, leading to a quitclaim sale for 500 dollars and a vast downtown property value long before Grand Avenue.
It Girdies the Globe. Bucklen's Arnica Salve famed as the first healing for cuts corns bruises sores and skin eruptions. Infallible pile care and relief promises from dealers including E. Bildebrand Indiana and M.G. Millers Blairsville Homer City.
A mixed case style item features Colonel Welcb claiming Japanese soldiers study western methods from Germany England and America as they march. He cites discipline schooling and religion as evolving traits reflecting an ideal nation. Also includes notices of medical tonics and letters praising Indian herbs for rheumatism and household relief.
The article extols Benson's Plaster as the best external remedy for coughs, lumbago, rheumatism, and related ailments. It claims 5,090 physicians and druggists endorse it and that it outperforms Belladonna and Capsicum plasters. Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, New York, offer 25 cents with prepaid postage on orders in the U.S.
A German inventor patents a device to replace the warning bell in small shops. The musical doorkeeper plays two tunes when a door opens and another when it closes, indicating whether the door opened or shut slowly or rapidly. It can be adjusted to swap tunes as desired.
In Lexington Virginia the basement room of the late Robert E Lee at Washington and Lee University remains exactly as he left it. No book letter or paper has been moved. The room is dusted yearly with windows closed and shutters drawn. Letters from his first morning back lie under a paperweight on his writing table. Faculty morning reports remain untouched.
An aging sailor, now appointed sexton at the Naval Academy chapel in Annapolis, sought a personal Bible from the Davy department in Washington. He requested a “good, religious Bible” though pews already held many.
A court order from December 10, 1900, directs a vote by Indiana County electors on purchasing a farm to house the care of the poor. The measure, urged by overseers, sets voting locations and ballots marked Poor House or Against Poor House, with 60 days’ notice, and outlines election procedures and transportation schedules.
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