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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1910
Page
7
The advertisement contrasts tonic and stimulant ideas noting Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a strong tonic and alcohol free. It warns against unnecessary stimulation and endorses consulting a doctor. It discusses the Mississippi River changing course affecting Aurora Arkansas and Tennessee border shipping.
In the Clark county circuit court a decree for partition triggers a public sale of farms in Marshall Illinois. Master in Chancery Arthur Poorman schedules sale for October 8 1910 at the courthouse to settle the real estate described, with terms of payment and tenant rights noted.
James J Hill, the railroad magnate, offers the University of Minnesota a gift of 30 million dollars and extends to former President Theodore Roosevelt a salary offer of 200 thousand dollars a year to become president, succeeding President Northrop who retires this fall.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a tonic medicine to withstand severe strains on nerves and organs. Mrs J E. Van de Sande of Kirkland credits them with preventing a breakdown during a three month strain. The ad promises health, strength, and guaranteed satisfaction, price 50 cents at Robt. Prewett's.
Some men eat food at no restaurant that they wouldn't touch if served at home.
Mrs. F. Marti of St Joseph Michigan reports Foley's Honey and Tar saved her boy from a severe bronchial illness. She states the remedy cured the cough and choking when prescribed medicine failed, noting rapid relief and disappearance of distress.
An Alabama inventor has created a pitcher like mouthpiece for milk bottles that pours without dripping. The device uses a rubber sleeve and a cork to fasten, with a spring pressed cover similar to wire pitcher tops, operable by a finger lever.
A recipe describes brining cauliflower, green tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, onions, and peppers overnight then boiling in a mustard paste mixture. The paste blends mustard, turmeric, sugar, water, and cider vinegar, then combined with boiled vinegar to thicken before folding in the pickles and sealing in jars.
A baking dish is lined with peaches cut in half and stones removed, filled with chopped nuts, then covered with a custard of milk sugar and eggs. Bake slowly, serve cold with optional meringue or whipped cream, and a light dusting of cinnamon or cloves.
Pore halve and core pears slice thinly weigh or measure place in preserving kettle cover with one pound sugar to four pounds pears overnight. In morning cook in own juice until tender then lift fruit into heated jars and fill with boiling syrup before sealing.
The guide explains washing gray voile by soaking the dress in warm water with pure white soap for ten to fifteen minutes. It advises rubbing soiled areas, adding hot water if needed, wringing and rinsing in clear warm water, then hanging to dry and pressing on the wrong side while still damp.
A historical recipe lists ingredients for cider pudding and a cider-flavored butter sauce. The batter combines cider butter molasses saleratus citron and fruit with flour and is steamed three hours. The sauce uses butter sugar cornstarch water and cider to finish thick and glossy.
Wash and scrape six firm carrots then grind fine. Boil half an hour, drain, then per pint add two cups light brown sugar juice and half the grated lemon rind. Cook slowly until clear, about ninety minutes.
Peel and slice large white onions half inch thick. Parboil in salted water then drain. Butter a baking dish, place onions, bake until soft. Sprinkle with salt pepper and grated cheese. Return to bake until cheese melts.
A fragment advises stopping bleeding by applying finely powdered rice or flour to a cut. It notes that severe wounds may respond to this method to slow blood flow until further treatment.
A historical piece describes the game of capping verses where players pass sheets with lines and last words, then start new lines. other variants include starting with the final letter or repeating lines. It also offers practical prompts on concentrating to improve work and personal aims.
The article describes a craft activity for youths using old magazines scissors paste and folded paper to create new collages. Players cut images from magazines mount on larger paper and display their works after thirty minutes with prizes for prettiest, most comical or original sheets.
The earliest ink likely soot or lampblack mixed with gum water. It writes differently from school ink, being more solid and uniform in color. Surviving Herculaneum manuscripts show the ink as embossed, jet black on burnt paper, remaining legible after eight centuries.
A whimsical set of questions and quips about kite materials, center of gravity, and prairie flatness. The piece humorously notes sunlit western prairies and jokes about goats always being a little wee kid with a playful tone.
Snails have eyes on their antennae or feelers and appear as small black spots near their base. The eyes are simple but useful, though how much they see remains unknown.
A teacher offers to button a little girl’s coat. She declines saying the coat does not button up or down. it just buttons. The remark emphasizes the coat’s one way function and the child’s straightforward humor.
A nostalgic scene shows a small workbox with spools of silk and cottons a needle book pins and scissors. A nightgowned doll with a pitiful stare lies in bed while a girl plans many sewing tasks to clothe a poor doll for Golly.
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