AID TO MARRIED HAPPINESS COCKTAIL TALE
Russell Hopking of the St. Regis devised the Panama cocktail with Charles Luther Burnham. They recited the mix of brandy caracaro dry vermouth and French vermouth from a bartender's notebook. A guest with $300 joined the tale and later vanished after buying fur for his wife, his fate hinted at by the ferry house discovery.
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Russell Hopking
St. Regis
Panama
Charles Luther Burnham
Hopkins
New York Press
Senator Soreham Signals Interest in Reform Enterprise
The exchange centers on Senator Soreham saying he will take an interest in the reform enterprise to offer practical suggestions. He notes it is unfavorable to his friends, but he plans to engage enough to render the effort impractical through his input.
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Senator Soreham
Unfortunate Allusion Sparks Domestic Debate
A fragment cites a remark on gender roles noting that many men expect wives to manage households on almost nothing. The line evokes a proverb about bricks and straw, reflecting tensions over domestic labor and resource sharing.
Coffee Heart Very Plain In Some People
A Brooklyner describes heart palpitations tied to long coffee use and his switch to Postum. After learning proper preparation, he finds Postum palatable, energizing, and healthful, with no heart symptoms except when drinking coffee away from home. He cites Battle Creek Postum Co. and the book The Road to Wellville as references.
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Brooktyn
Postum O
Battle Creek
Wellville
Secrets of Corn Dodgers From Southern Oven
A vintage recipe explains corn dodgers made from southern corn meal and flour with salt. Mix a batter by scalding with boiling water or milk and melted shortening, form into half inch thick cakes, imprint with a finger, then bake moderately until well browned and serve with butter for breakfast or luncheon.
Beating and Baking Techniques From An Early Guide
Practical kitchen tips on cake making emphasize hotter ovens for thin cakes, avoid tin pans, use an earthen bowl and wooden spoon, and line tins with paper. Guidance covers sugar texture, egg white handling, and achieving light, frothy whites without collapsing them.
Improvement in clothes props overcomes wind displacement
An old style woolen pole in clothes props is prone to dislodge in wind, letting clothes drag on dirty surface. A new pole features a double hook to keep it secured under the rope, preventing movement and maintaining clean laundry off the ground.
Bombay Chutney Recipe Dowry of Spiced Preserve
Bomb ay chutney lists ingredients including two bell peppers six green tomatoes four onions one cup seeded raisins one and one half cup sultana raisins and a dozen apples. After chopping thoroughly add two cups brown sugar one quart best white wine vinegar two tablespoons salt and dry mustard and one tablespoon mustard seeds. Put one cup whole al uplee into bag and boil with rest removing bag when finished. Boil one and one half hours slowly.
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Bombay
Fruit Pudding From Simple Steamer Recipe
A simple inexpensive fruit pudding recipe combines suet molasses sweet milk and raisins with flour and baking soda. Mix well and steam two and a half hours then serve with a foaming sauce for a delicious dessert.
Cleaning Fluid Recipe From An Old Page
An old recipe outlines making a cleaning solution by dissolving Good Cleaning Fluid and White soap in one-eighth day with water, heating, then cooling. Add one-half ounce saltpeter and stir until dissolved, then add one cup ammonia and bottle at once. Sponge goods in and fuld until clean, then rinse in clean water several times.
Wisconsin State News In Brief
A jumble of short state items notes a Hillsboro farmer’s death after a shooting near Rafle, a forestry station plan on a 14 000 acre government range, church rebuilding after a fire, Wisconsin dairy statistics for 1910, lake disease endangering horses near Lake Winnebago, western migration and immigration commission reforms, a Milwaukee doctor’s suicide, a baby left at a rooming house, drownings on Jiangua Lake, suffrage league talk of a new Political Equality League, a Neenah divorce, Appleton youth robbers sent to the industrial school, Superior fight deaths, Marinette church fire, and Manston burglary convictions.
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Vitogea
Ivar Stepke
Hillstote
Ead
Jerry Rotel
le Dging
Stepke
Roffel
Gond
Mim
Rafiel
Stopke
Suhoussner
Lake
Winnebago
Madison
Wisconsin
Nakotae
Canada
Milwaukee
Hugo Q. Tisner
Vohk
Third Street
Tilsner
Francis Jones
Tde
Wighth Street
Bay of Jiangua Lake
William Seymour
John Kain
Oshkosh
Neenah
Grace Dawson
William Dawson
Dawson
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. H. Stevens
Appleton
Wang
Industrial School
Charles Taylor
Grimson
Willam Condon
Edward Davis
Alexander Hill
Duluth
Charles Hitt
Talon Center
Spinster Loses Teeth Mail Mix Up in Camden
A Camden postal mix up lost a spinster’s upper denture plates mailed January 1. The letter, written to the Postmaster General, asks for help. she spent 35 dollars and cannot afford replacements. Postmaster General Hitchcock assigned a top inspector to locate the missing teeth and restore them.
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Jersey
Hitchcock
Carden
Camden
Cuticura Heals Severe Skin Ailment Says Philadelphia Patient
Miss Sara Burnett of 2135 Fitzwater St Philadelphia reports years of psoriasis like scales. After doctors and hospitals offered little help she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, noting itching relief and skin improvement. Cardingal Gibbons endorses Tuberculosis Day in national move.
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Sara Burnett
Fitzwater St
Pailadelphia
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Agle Props
Columbus Ave
Boston
Chicken dinner banter and old time remedies
A Camden lawyer encounters a diner in a restaurant and asks how the chicken is. The reply is cheerful and invites mutual check in. Interspersed are antiquated lines from Mrs Robin Winslow’s soothing syrup and coarse sermons about eternal punishment.
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Camden
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