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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
9
A reflective essay contrasts modern hospitality with old fashioned sociable, generous hosting. It criticizes crowded, businesslike entertainments and notes how etiquette shapes guests’ stays. It weaves practical tips and light satire on domestic servitude, manners, and household tasks amid midcentury domestic advice.
A luncheon or tea dish recipe describes removing skin and bones from six sardines and cutting them into pieces. Combine with six cold boiled eggs quartered, one large apple cut into strips, and three cold boiled potatoes diced. Add half a teaspoon chopped chives and four tablespoons French dressing. Serve very cold.
To clean leather upholstery, wash with warm water and a little vinegar using a clean cloth. To restore the polish, whisk whites of two eggs with a teaspoonful of turpentine, rub into dry leather with clean flannel, and rub off with a clean new cloth.
Arrange a bed of lettuce and top with thinly sliced Trankforter sausages. Add sliced potatoes, a white onion, and firm pickles. Toss with four tablespoons of French dressing and serve on denttuce loaves for a fragrant cold salad.
Miss Emma Shirley of Killbuck New York describes kidney disease causing headaches dizziness and weakness before starting Doan's Kidney Pills. She reports twelve boxes cured her and she gained six pounds, crediting the treatment with saving her life. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A charming hostess known for hosting at one of the big houses boasts her premature white hair as a sign of experience. She recounts a tea moment with a debutante given a blue cup. The hostess quips the cup is two hundred fifty years old, prompting the debutante to remark on its storied preservation.
Hiram Mattingly of Vermillion South Dakota describes ten years of worsening sores on his body preventing walking, hair loss, and costly failed remedies before using Cuticura Ointment and Soap. After three boxes he reports complete cure and restored health following an exhausting search for relief.
A peasant supplied a baker with three pounds of butter daily but the butter weighed only two. After questions and a joke about scales the peasant reveals he measures butter with bread. He is acquitted. The piece then extols white goods and lauds Defiance Starch for stiffening without thickening, promising improved appearance.
A man and woman summit a tall Adirondack peak breathlessly after a long climb. She complains they forgot the glass for nature’s beauties, while he jokes about drinking from the bottle in the lunch basket.
A fragment shows a dialogue about a large watch taken from a pocket and claimed as a family heirloom. An unrelated ad taunts readers with Defiance Starch Collar product directions and a line about poetry without writing. The text is irregular and appears from a vintage newspaper page.
A Wisconsin man writing from Cayley Alberta in 1906 recounts rapid homestead success in the Canadian Northwest. He details land purchases, rising values, profits from sales, livestock, crops, and improvements, noting a total fortune around 13 000 and the journey from about 2 000 to this wealth in under three years. He praises the Canadian government agent for encouragement and invites others to follow.
A brief meditation on taking time away from routine to regain energy. The piece contrasts sea travel as a refreshing change with home laundry routines, then endorses Defiance Starch as a stronger, thinner option to keep fabrics looking fresh and stiff without heavy paste.
Henry Thomas Spindler who died at Brentford England aged 4 was long associated with the old London Sun. He served as proofreader to Charles Dickens and owned many of the novelist relics including proofs with lun alterators.
A garbled assortment of phrases references marriage trouble a Maine camping trip a failed union and hints at crime and ads for starch headache remedies and a tobacco or skincare product. Names are unclear and some lines mimic newspaper copy yet lack coherent narrative or date.
Tip from the Sage jokes about chasing stray dogs to the pound as wasteful power. DC Ticeman questions the plan while the sage imagines wagging dogs powering a trolley. The ad then shifts to praise Defiance Starch as safe for fine fabrics and strong enough to need less product for a perfect finish.
A northern England woman manufacturer devised a method to convert old rope and cordage into a rough fabric. She unraveled the aged material and wove it through a secret process, producing a new cloth form.
Rimer admits occasional trouble moving his mouse while Grittick comments on her clumsy feet and difficulty escaping.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Toot Ease for swollen hot aching feet in women with a trial package. It asserts no substitute exists and lists a New York address. A stray proverb about disagreements in marriage ends with a remark on patience and causes.
An old style advertisement fragment touts facial reformation and social polish with a line about a dine world. It references Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children and a Lewis Factory dealer in Peoria, noting a price of 24 cents per bottle.
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