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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
3
A primer from The Housekeeper explains meat cooking methods. It details boiling broiling and roasting as variations in medium but identical objectives: quickly sealing the exterior to coagulate surface proteins and trap juices, then finishing slowly. It warns water temperature and lifting the cover influence flavor and texture.
The piece discusses artful wall decoration stressing proper framing and the value of black and white prints as superior ornaments. It then provides a peach souffle recipe with step by step sauce, folding whipped egg whites, and serving suggestions, focusing on careful technique and presentation.
A recipe for baked apples stuffed with chopped nuts and sugar, using butternuts and hickory or black walnuts. Bake in a drip pan with water, baste with juice, then crown with meringue and garnish with a cherry or cranberry. Also provides a furniture cream made from beeswax white wax Castile soap turpentine water and oil to store in bottles.
Raymondville records and Cameron County crops show high yields with minimal rain. Alfalfa and sugar cane thrive, cane lasts years, with Rio Grande Valley growers citing seven to eight alfalfa cuttings in year one. Cleaner plantation cane from Hidalgo wins a gold medal. A descriptive Gulf Coast booklet offered by John Sebastian in Chicago or St Louis.
Albert Douglas, set to succeed Grosvenor, tours Washington seeking quarters. He is offered a $1,000 monthly suite for himself and wife, but he calmly questions the extravagance and plans to inform his wife before deciding. Also, Republicans debate president’s call to curb indecent press coverage of the Thaw trial, praising the press as a check on Congress.
The text traces a sequence of name changes for the city now known as New York. It notes that it was New Orange under Dutch control, briefly New Amsterdam under English rule, then New Orange again after Dutch recapture in 1678, and finally settled as New York after English retook the city in November 1674.
A Maine man writes of 20 years with dyspepsia and liver trouble. After trying remedies, he started Grape-Nuts at breakfast with cream and sugar nine months ago. He reports near elimination of pain, improved liver function, weight gain, better sleep, and strength at age 70. He invites letters with stamps and mentions The Road to Wellville and Postum Co. materials.
The article traces Johnnie Poe, a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, a Baltimore Fifth Regiment veteran who served in the Spanish American War and the Philippines. He declined a commission, returned home, wandered Death Valley to Tonopah, then followed the lure of football in the late fall.
A mixed period brief notes a testimonial for the Gutfoura Remedies claiming eczema cure, praises Miss Corliss Babson as a pioneering young woman athlete and assistant to President Taylor, then highlights farm land options in western Nebraska and travel information for homeseekers from Omaha.
A biographical note recalls Senator Petrus as a Mexican war lieutenant who rode to California with the forty-niners, rose from major to brigadier general in the Confederate army, and gained admission to the bar at Gainesville Alabama at age 21. It places these acts in a period when Texas was independent, California was Mexican, Britain challenged the Oregon claim, Andrew Jackson dominated U.S. politics, and Polk had not yet become president.
Prices for Colonists and others to Chicago to the Pacific coast offered by Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern lines. Duly during March and April at 33. Double berth tourist sleeping cars at 7, through to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland with no extra charge for personally conducted tours. Details from A. Hutchinson Manager Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago.
An obscure fragment describes a young woman riding a motor omnibus who discovers a strange disability related to motion and sound. The passage clues a sudden realization about voice and identity, ending with a startled line about unable to keep her voice.
Thudlohn A Asler Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin and John A Snizer Seed Co of Crovee Wisconsin promote two foot long oats as a novelty in their seed catalogs. They offer free catalogs and samples by mail, toutting the cereal as a major hay food, with additional notes on advancing farming resilience and a distant medical advert.
A collage of product pitches and curiosities appears including dire warnings about garments finished with a faceless dye, promotions for Garfield Tea claimed to purify blood, and notes on California prune yields for 1906. It also hints at job ads in Joliet and muses on language and literature through quirky excerpts about Homer Rafael and Wagner.
An old advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. It cites testimonials from Mrs Ford and Miss Miller, claims broad success, invites women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, and promises rapid guidance based on her experience.
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