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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1907
Page
3
A home column advises simple bedrooms with built in seating and wall mirrors, notes on wall colors and fabrics, and easy maintenance. It highlights chives as a winter herb, with a recipe for baking batter squares and chestnut stuffing including butter and mace. It ends with a note on a dinner planned for one o clock and preparatory dressing details.
Cooks debate sour milk use due to curd difficulty but beat vigorous to smooth. Proper soda proportion is half level teaspoon per cupful. Gas should not be pre-moked. use baking powder with flour. Also notes on useful table heaters for hot servings and a method to clean delicate kid gloves with sweet milk and mild soap for no odor.
A historic recipe explains making a cranberry pot pie by simmering cranberries with water and sugar, then topping with a rich dough and baking with the lid on for 15 minutes. The crust stays light and the dish is served with cranberries and sauce for a dessert-like finish.
Mrs Mary Wagner of 1267 Kossuth Avenue Bridgeport Connecticut describes five weeks bedridden with kidney disease bearing down pains backaches headaches and dizzy spells plus irregular painful passages and sediment in urine She credits Doan's Kidney Pills with steady improvement after the first box and full cure after five boxes Sold by all dealers 5 cents a bar Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
Dr. L Laloy of the Academy of Sciences in Paris advocates a life without mind theory. He argues small living organisms like insects are mere moving machines with no intelligence beyond plant-like instincts. He cites insects drawn to light and claims it explains plant growth toward light.
A long advertisement touts Allcock's porous plasters as a sixty year old, universally available pain reliever. It emphasizes pure simple ingredients, high standards, and global distribution by druggists. Also recounted is a Pittsburg funeral wreath telegram misunderstanding about an inscription on the ribbon.
A boat shaped rainbow hued amphibious carriage built in England for an Indian maharajah claims uniqueness. It rides on a four wheeled skeleton carriage about 16 feet long with rubber tires, a driver seat, and room for four. The body can detach to form an electric launch, weighing under one ton.
A Wisconsin woman recounts years of illness from cerebrospinal congestion and stomach troubles. After a doctor ordered no white bread and Grape-Nuts, she recovered, regained strength, and credits the cereal with her improvement. She urges others to consider the diet and cites the Postum Company.
An early 1900s seed promotion offers 2c postage paid seeds for a huge catalog. It touts extraordinary yields from vegetable and farm seeds and promises a free Berliner Earliest Cauliflower with a large mail order catalog. John A Salter Lead Co of La Crosse Wisconsin invites orders.
A European doctor who spent years in Tokio explains that hot baths at 104 desrels induce warmth after immersion but leave bathers cooled by cold water. He notes the bath’s warming effect in winter and cooling effect in summer, claiming it refreshes or cools accordingly.
A garbled OCR passage shows a mix of old time patent medicine ads for catarrh cures and tonics sold by Cheney & Co of Toledo, boasting testimonials and prices, alongside a string of jokes and captions about weapons and Roentgen photography. The fragment preserves names and places but is largely fragmentary.
A jumble of vintage ads and patter mocks remedies and consumer goods. Claims about Putnam Face less dye cost a cent per package, laxatives curing colds in one day, and dubious nerve restorers fill the page along with quips about safety razors with phonograph attachments and a Royal Magazine joke about shoe sizes.
Washington led the nation in shingles with a 1906 output of 19.5 billion, about 6,344 percent of U S total. The state operated 459 mills, reporting a daily yield of 47.94 million, vastly higher than the 1805 figure. No other state neared a trillion shingles yearly.
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