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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
3
A collage of quips and cartoons from Puck and Yonkers State showing Mars talk, witty exchanges about democracy, women rulers, charity, and idle home life. A mix of home front humor and light satire on memory, mortgages, and linguistics.
A fragmentary excerpt presents dialect humor with questions about lambkin napkin and a sudden note on tariff reform. It includes a passenger on a branch line, a guard, and a farmer comparing tariffs to weather, suggesting a rural snapshot of light dialogue and social observation.
A fragment from a late issue compiles stray remarks and sketches from humorous columns. It references a child with notable opinions, a betokened charity scene, and a transit mishap, ending with a quip about misused coins and temper on a fishing trip.
A sequence of witty snippets shows Mrs Gottrox and others trading banter about money love and marriage. Jokes touch on green goods, safe bets, theatrical humor, and playful misreadings. The dialogue parodies psychology and daily life with quick quips and puns.
German naval chief Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, famed for steering Germany toward sea power, is portrayed as a shrewd, practical leader who turned patriotic opinion to support a vast battleship program. The article notes his rise from peasant origins, naval service, and mastery of global shipyards as he drives the Reich toward naval supremacy.
Lexington citizens report that an equestrian statue of Gen John Hunt Morgan will be erected before the Fayette county courthouse. The Kentucky division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy accepted the statue design after a heated committee meeting, with objections raised by Mrs James L Arnold and others. The group plans a $15,000 fund to cover casting and placement, with a fall installation expected in Orange.
President Taft named Washington-George W. Woodruff United States district judge for Hawaii but opposition over his lack of judicial experience and several overruled Interior Department rulings has delayed action. Friends pressured for confirmation, yet suspension hints at transfer or withdrawal and possible reassignment.
Ferns provide an excellent preservative for packing food fruit and meat and even fish. Isle of Man herrings packed in ferns reach markets as fresh as when shipped. Experiments show potatoes packed in fern logs stay fresh for many months longer than those stored in straw, keeping springtime freshness from fall harvest.
A recipe for awakening fine biscuits with a rich mix of milk lard butter sugar salt and yeast. It describes warming milk dissolving yeast adding to batter rising shaping dough rolling to half inch thickness cutting, brushing with butter, letting rise, and baking 15 to 20 minutes in a hot oven.
Practical hints on cleaning clothing and fabrics use rice water for delicate muslin wash wine vinegar and lemon for stains emery paste for steel and sandpaper for paint scratches and lard to lift spots. Numerous domestic tricks reference thrift dinner-table chores and small household purchases like a child’s broom for radiators cleaning.
A vintage recipe describes soaking gelatin in cold water, then adding boiling water sugar and lemon juice. It mixes in orange juice and rind, with a meringue topping of stiffly beaten egg whites and a custard made from egg yolks milk sugar and salt. Optional serving with whipped cream or as orange cubes with cream.
Select potatoes of large size and pare them. Slice thin with a cutter. Drain briefly and dry well. Fry in hot oil, drop in small batches, spread on unglazed paper to drain. Cool, store in waxed paper lined tin. Sprinkle with salt before serving. bake briefly to finish.
A vintage recipe outlines seed cake ingredients including flour baking powder caraway seeds butter sugar eggs and milk. It instructs creaming butter and sugar then beating in eggs, folding in dry mix with milk, and baking in a hot oven for about forty five to sixty minutes.
Rice water serves as an excellent milk substitute. Use ample water when rinsing rice, cook, then drain and save the liquid. The remaining rice can be cooked to thicken, and the cooled rice water can be added to creams or purees to aid thickening.
Prepare a dough like strawberry shortcake. Cook rhubarb slowly without water until tender. Flavor with lemon or nutmeg and sweeten to taste. Split cake lengthwise and finish as with strawberry shortcake.
Mrs Kessler of Pewamo Michigan suffered chronic kidney trouble and painful symptoms until using Dean’s Kidney Pills. After treatment she regained health and invites others to inquire. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Poster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A flirtatious minor incident unfolds as Hut admonishes Minna for social mingling with men, warning her she is not married. The exchange highlights rigid social expectations of propriety and the restrictions placed on women in their circle.
A playful dialogue shows a lover stuttering through a proposal to Maud with repeated syllables and garbled sounds. He asks if she will marry him, while she hesitates and laughs at the awkward speech. The scene ends with her surprised reaction to the sudden request.
Obscene quip turns on farmers’ dislike of women golfers. A farmer fears pins left in grass by a woman foursome endangering grazing cattle, with a punchline about cushions and a ninth hole reveals the sexist premise in a dated joke.
Learned Justice Hetts of Kingston New York says Lazy men have a right to Hue Our lazy men are our most potent History shows that as a rule with a rule a exceptions our greatest men had either indolent or shiftless fathers as fathers of Shakespeare Lincoln Napoleon Bismarck and other worthies indicate On the other hand great men's children are few and far between Power in a lazy men is accumulating as in a coiled spring but the great man has little or nothing left for offspring
An elderly reader testifies that switching from coffee to Postum relieved nervous dyspepsia and improved brain and nerve power. She cites her physician and notes her husband also benefited, with a steady, non stimulant effect. The letter promotes Postum and mentions The Road to Wellville book.
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