Oregon Inventor Seeks Tender Steak Through Machine
A Oregon man designs a device to crush tough steak between paired corrugated ridges. A corrugated base, adjustable roller, and sliding mechanism work the meat until it is tender enough to cook. Blood squeezed out is claimed to become gravy.
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Uses for Old Newspapers by Suburban Life Contributor
A Suburban Life reader enumerates practical uses for old newspapers including wiping pans, shelving linings in pantry and cellar, kindling with kerosene, placing under carpets during relays, lining barrels, and polishing stoves lamp chimneys and window glass. The writer urges saving newspapers for numerous applications and not discarding them.
Thrift Pillowcase Trick Teaches Reuse
A thrifty tip suggests making pillowcases from tubing and resewing worn edges. When the fabric thins in the middle, rip the closed end and sew to place the crease at the center of the flat side, pushing wear to the outer edge where it reduces further damage.
Corn Chowder How-To From Simple Pantry Mixing
Slice three or four medium potatoes and onions in a granite dish. Add water and simmer until tender. Stir in half a can of corn, butter, salt and pepper, and one and a half cups milk or thin cream. Heat gently to almost boiling and serve with crisp croutons.
Diverse 1900s News Briefs From Across the Nation
Obituary notes Miss Sarah M. Scheidley valued Kansas City realty at 2 000 900 and is dead. A Boston hospital for the rich is planned backed by prominent local and Boston men. Fire destroys Paul Revere’s Sharon homestead and a Revolutionary powder mill. Thomas F. Ryan is seriously ill in New York. Carnegie Steel counters pricing by the Republican Iron and Steel Co. Dreamland at Coney Island largely wiped out by fire with four deaths and 2 million dollars in losses. A Missouri bill caps woman work hours to nine daily and fifty weekly, effective June 20. Rev Dr William D Grant of Northumberland found guilty of heresy in Atlantic City. Eva Endurance Hirdler, St Louis, graduates mining diploma as likely the only woman mining engineer in the U S. The steamship Taboga sinks after striking a rock near Panama. 40 of 100 passengers saved. First Missouri River navigation boat from St Louis to Kansas City will start within a month. Chinese sausage ruled not to be Bologna. taxed as meat product. Southern Presbyterian Assembly resigns from federal council of the Church of Christ. Nine women in Greensburg jailed for disturbing the peace. London fashion in Chicago noted as ridiculous. Sixty or more babies die in four days of heat in Chicago, tracing mortuary records.
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Boston
Paul Revere
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New York
Republican Iron & Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Dreamland
Coney Island
N. Y
Missouri
William D. Grant
Northumberland
Presbyterian Church
Atlantic City
N. J
Eva Endurance Hirdler
St. Louis
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
United States
Merolithic National Monument Proclaimed in Mesa County
President Taft issues a proclamation creating the Merolithic National Monument in Mesa County Washington. The park spans 13 883 acres and marks a new protected area in the region.
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New Park
Mesa County
Washington
Taft
Sympathy as Choice in Marriage Dilemma
A reflection questions whether marrying to comfort a man is a proper motive. It argues such sympathy may lead to poor lifelong consequences and suggests deeper criteria for partnership beyond pity.
Garfield Tea Claims to Purify Blood and Cleans Liver
Traditional remedy promises to regulate the liver cleanse the system and purify the blood. Advertised as a treatment for skin blemishes and liver marks without clinical proof.
Sleep Secrecy Quotes Stir Quiet Classroom
A playful exchange quotes a professor who extols sleep as the secret of right living. The student recalls the lecture only to end up home and in bed, turning the point into a humorous anecdote.
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Profesors
A Tame Substitute
Two rowdy lines hint at bored adventurers in Mexico seeking real action. The speaker jokes that with limited options they will return home and harass the umpire instead.
Coffee-free Postum Aids Wisconsin Creamery Manager
A Wisconsin creamery manager reports coffee harmed digestion and business performance. After switching to Postum on his wife’s guidance he notes improved digestion, relief from fullness and heart palpitations, and restored mental sharpness enabling better office work. He endorses Postum as the greatest table drink of the times.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Wiver
Man Next Door Aims Tuning Piano With Axe
A quirky exchange recalls a neighbor offering to tune Lucy's piano using an axe. The joke hinges on the absurdity of a blade-wielding repair attempt and the cautious reaction of John and Lucy.
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John
Lucy
Baltimore Sun
Quirky Note About Missing Bathing Suit Causes Confusion
A playful line from Norman E. Mack's National Monthly jokes that a husband cannot return home because his bathing suit was washed away, with the wife Mrs Jones involved and a misdirected punchline about the suit. The item reflects lighthearted humor in a periodical excerpt.
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Simpkins
Mrs. Jones
Some Maxims Spark a Cheeky Exchange in Court
A speaker sneers and offers this maxim to the saver then the saver jokes that some people are so liberal they are dishonest. He invites counting who is more dishonest in these days of liberal spending, as noted by Judge.
Economy and integrity in exploration condemned by Macon
Representative Macon at a Washington dinner warned against faking in exploration. He argued genuine explorers’ adventures are inherently remarkable and tough to distinguish from fakes, comparing the distinction to economy versus vagabondage and noting the line between economizing and tramp life.
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Macon
Washington
Detroit Free Press
Carrie Catt Retorts on Women's Suffrage Debate
Carrie Chapman Catt speaking in New York mocks a editor’s claim that women cannot be men's equals. She cites war as a test and says she would sit at her desk urging others to fight, underscoring suffrage advocacy with sharp wit.
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Carrie Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt
New York
England
Germany
Japan
Washington Star
Muddy Dig Near Chepstow Probes Shakespearean Authorship
Dr. Owen a Baconian excavator works along the River Wye at Chepstow to prove Bacon wrote Shakespeare. A line from the First Folio inspires him and the correspondent from the London Daily Express notes the heavy mud and hints to seek a true angle at Chepstow.
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Dr. Owen
Wye
Chepstow
Bacon
Shakespeare
London Daily Express
Among the Rockies booklet from Denver and Rio Grande
The Passenger Department of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad issues a two tone booklet titled Among the Rockies describing Colorado Utah and New Mexico sight places along the system. It guides travelers step by step and is urged as an essential handy reference for tourists.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Rockies
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
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