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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1908
Page
9
A dialogue snippet portrays Miss Stubbles and Henry debating sincerity and fate after a relative’s death. The scene shifts to a long excerpt of humorous clippings including jokes about orphans, a sleigh ride memory, and light quips on marriage and wealth, reflecting comic newspaper verse and scattered captions from Chicago Daily News and Judge.
A quirky exchange features a child asking where to get a meal for 15 cents and a person replying on the corner. The joke shifts to a couple debating baby names with a list of 360 narrowed to 179, highlighting progress in naming.
A short, dialogue driven scene shows a Lady asking a boy to locate Johnny Tucker, a boy offers a quip about a misdirected search, and a tense exchange emerges with a curt reference to a judge and an undertaker in a grim street interaction.
A column offers practical cabbage recipes from salads to fried and creamed variants. It describes a luncheon salad with celery cucumbers and oil vinaigrette stuffed into a hollowed cabbage, a baked stuffed head sliced for serving, hearty fried cabbage with bacon, and a creamy cabbage sauce with flour butter milk.
A vintage guide explains washing sweaters with warm water, borax, and blueing to keep color. It also gives a layered cake method dividing batter into four parts for marble, nut, fruit, and loaf cakes with nutmeg and spices.
Advice on maintaining lacquered brass to stay bright and durable. Instructions cover daily rubbing in damp weather, gentle washing and drying, and polishing with chamois leather. Also explains sealing jars with beeswax and rosin to prevent air exposure. Includes turnip salad and apricot sauce recipe fragments.
Great care is required when painting weather exposed surfaces. Surface must be dry scraped and smooth. Mix pure white lead with fresh linseed oil and apply evenly. Using National Lead Company White Lead ensures better results. a purity test is available on request.
A humorous exchange shows a wife scolding her husband for overreacting to a doctor’s call for exercise. The husband derides the idea, joking that a man who has tended his furnace all winter should soon start lawn mower season.
A testimonial from J. Fr Hennen of Milan Missouri dated May 13 1907 credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with curing a long standing skin itching breakout and a leg infection following illness. The notice blends medical claims with other period advertisements and snippets from the Imperial Gazetteer of India and various products.
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