Part Time Help Cuts Housework Costs in Small Homes
A household feature favors hiring a part day servant to avoid a full-time maid and extra rooms. A family used an eight to twelve daily helper for four dollars weekly, noting major tasks from dishwashing to ironing. The piece also covers repairing china, glass, and bric a brac, plus a chicken and rice pie recipe and notes on starch brands and an education board decision banning teacher created textbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Breakfast Roll Instructions From a Historic Recipe
A historic recipe describes mixing one pound flour with half teaspoon salt and two teaspoons baking powder, rubbing in butter, and binding with one egg and a splash of milk to form a dough. Roll to one inch, cut rounds, glaze with egg wash, bake in a hot oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
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Sborwick
Hetty and Mamma Share Medicine String Tale
Hetty explains to Mamma that both are taking medicine but the bottles differ. Mamma has tied a string around her bottle to tell it apart, and Hetty says she too must tie a string to hers to distinguish Vi from hers.
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Hetty
Mamma
American Pumps in India
The United States now ships about sixty thousand dollars worth of pumps and pumping machinery to India each year by direct shipment. Most of the imports enter India through Bombay.
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India
United States
Bombay
Important to Mothers Castorta Adverts and Naval Ages
A vintage advertisement urges care with Castorta for infants and children and cites its 30 years of use. The piece then lists senior naval figures and ages, noting Lord Charles Beresford at 61, Admiral Bosanquet at 63, Sir Charles Drury at 87, Vice Admiral Curzon-Howe at 66, Rear Admiral Bridgman at 68, Prince Louis of Battenberg at 62, and parallels with Farragut’s ages at flag rank and during his greatest battle.
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Lord Charles Beresford
Bosanquet
Mediterranean
Charles Drury
Curzon-Howe
Bridgman
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Farragut
Disfiguring Skin Hurts Employment Cured by Cuticura
Thomas M. Rossiter of East Orange New Jersey says a long battle with eczema ending five weeks after using Cuticura Ointment and Soap, covering his head face and body and making work impossible. He praises a speedy permanent cure and urges others to try Cuticura remedies.
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Thomas M. Rossiter
Prospect Street
East Orange
N. J
Real Home of the Peanut Debate Across Regions
Botanists place the peanut’s origin in Africa while some authorities claim Brazil as native. Louisiana notes the Spanish peanut adapts well to its climate. Georgia and South Carolina farm the small white and red Tennessee variety, with yearly yields rising in estates.
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Africa
Brazil
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Faceless Pubic Notices and Quack Ad Snippets
A fragmented vintage ad and misfit lines talk of patent medicines and moral quips. It mentions doctors dealers tax avoidance and a promise of cures with laxatives and tonics while mixing in aphorisms and brand names from a bygone era.
Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer Cure Claim
Advertises FITS St Vitus Dance and Nervous diseases cured by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Offers free trial bottle for $2.00. Gives address 931 Arch St Philadelphia Pa and adds a Marcus Aurelius quote on patience and justice.
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St. Vitus
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Marcus Aurelius
Lumbago
Sciatica
ST. Jacobs Oil
Vv. WN. U
Kansas City
Ottawa
Canada
J. 5
Crawford
Ninth Street
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Thompson's
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Chesebrough Meg. CO
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Heal Eatry
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