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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
9
A college graduate in Puck quips about endless knowledge yet admits practical ignorance across daily tasks. He jokes about mastering science, subsistence, reproduction, medicine, and money but cannot boil beef or make porridge or earn a cent.
A jumble of whimsical phrases and era tone stories. The text blends urban satire with domestic scenes and snippets from literature and cartoons. It weaves images of expectant families, bribes, and barroom chatter with humorous exchanges and dated magazine snippets.
A chaotic exchange from early prints shows a wife accusing her husband of kissing the housemaid, with the husband claiming mistaken identity. The dialogue includes a lawyerly demand for payment and repeated visits by the collector, noting the wife’s irritation at the repeated petty bills and interruptions at the home.
A fragment from the verse of Wallington Stas reflecting on perspective and worry. The lines contrast personal anxieties with others’ responses and humor, noting how seriousness can appear trivial to others.
A lighthearted aside notes being late for a wedding yet confident about timely divorce proceedings. It reflects humorous tension between ceremony and separation in a domestic life context. The remark juxtaposes wedding timing with divorce plans, implying personal upheaval.
A fragment from a humor piece features a pompous boast about ancient European lineage and a humorous exchange over a daughter's dot and a milk joke about serving it to a dog. The lines reveal social vanity and domestic irony in short snippets from newspapers.
A quoted exchange from That Spoller notes a judge remark on love at first sight, contrasting belief with reconsideration. The line hints at skepticism and second thoughts in romance, framed by a courtroom or literary voice.
A goat in a yard confronts hunger while a stray horse questions the scene. The animal peeks over the fence and a comic exchange unfolds, ending with the intruder slipping away as a judge figure is cited in the odd vignette.
A Chicago Tribune brief captures a witty exchange as a fair bridge player asks what one does with a poor hand. The response is humorously blunt, noting the man behind her usually swears when confronted with such a hand.
A clipped dialog fragment shows a remark about a face being damaged in transit and a quip that it was already like that when obtained, suggesting a humorous misunderstanding between speakers.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece recalls the old practice of making pin cushions from red flannel heart shapes and glass bases. Brick cushions stored long needles and pins, with yearly top renewals. Mary Wilkins cushions symbolize thrift era mementos, crafted from dress scraps and fringe, reflecting practical beauty and domestic memory.
Embroidered linens must not be washed with regular loads and require careful hand washing in warm water with white soap. Drying involves Turkish towels and pressing with a hot iron on a white cloth, avoiding heavy pressure. New potatoes in England are best boiled with mint and finished with melted butter. skins can be rubbed off with a stiff brush to avoid peeling.
Advice warns against using damp cloths with linseed oil on wood. Do not rub when the wood is damp or when not enough time is given for thorough absorption into the grain. Otherwise, moisture causes a smeared surface and dust will cling.
A trimmed guidance piece outlines plain baked custard using four eggs one quart milk four tablespoons sugar a pinch of salt and optional flavors like nutmeg rose water and almond with careful baking in water bath. It also describes making a warm underskirt from a father's woolen shirt by sewing a waist and finishing with a crochet shell stitch.
Peel core and slice a large sweet apple and seedless orange. Layer in a deep dish with one half cup sugar. Bake or chill as directed and allow one hour before serving.
Recipes using stale bread include Crontone fried in butter until brown, Hyde Park Brown Bread with rye meal and soda, Mock Bisque Soup with stale crumbs and tomatoes, and Ham Timbales baked with ham and eggs. Each dish blends pantry staples into nourishing servings with milk, spices, and butter.
Tarnished silverware brightened in buttermilk for two hours then washed in hot suds. Men collars torn into strips serve as wax-taper substitutes for gas lighters. A baking powder can with holes punched serves for the same. A strip of asbestos cloth interlines front holders and a piece on the ironing board saves the sheet. Surprise potatoes bake hot, scoop out and mash with butter cream salt and pepper, then refill skins and bake until very hot.
Instructions describe Grange jelly starting with five sweet oranges plus a tangerine or mandarin, seeds removed, strained, sugar balanced with juice, boiled forty minutes then poured into moulds. Also notes on fish keeping with vinegar for flavor, boiling water additives, and fat fish preservation. Green vegetables should be cooked in cold water, while above ground veg should be boiled to keep color.
Separate the joints of the brisket and term the meat. Bake with a little water and baste with butter. Make a gravy from the trim mings by boiling in water, thickened with flour and butter. Serve with the meat. Season with pepper salt and a touch of onion.
George B. Farley of Concord New Hampshire recounts a two month skin outbreak described as raw beef like, intensely itchy and burning. After trying several remedies with no relief he used Cuticura and within hours the itching ceased. swelling subsided and he could wear shoes within two days. May 14 1907.
A freckled boy boasts his father is a genius. The father attaches a shoe brush and whisk broom to Bowser the hound's tail to shine his shoes and dust his trousers without effort. The tale mocks a belief in clever hacks and contrasts the dog's routine with a skeptical observer.
English athlete Eustace Miles criticizes rich foods as poor for digestion during a Chicago vegetarian dinner. He mocks costly car tires and touts constitutional healing, warning against local remedies for supposedly incurable catarrh. He promotes Hall's remedies and a general skepticism of nonconstitutional treatments.
A Baltimore American item notes three people walking together and humorously labels each with odd disorders or roles. The scene prompts astonishment at encountering a dozen brainy individuals in a crowd, reflecting the paper’s playful tone.
The United States Institute of Modern Accounting of Chicago offers a free booklet explaining how to become a head bookkeeper or public accountant. It promises to double earning power and directs readers to address Chas. A. Sweetland, Supt., Suite 8, Boylaton Building, Chicago.
The Contrary Child story shows Mrs Popley and Mr Popley arguing over their son George refusing milk. Mr Popley blames the child's stubbornness on imprudence from earlier remarks while Mrs Popley defends her stance.
Readable bits mention Thebes with gates and tens of thousands of fighters, plus scattered fragments about baseball, a barré stave, a pa'a shoe, and a cigar dealer. The text mixes playful phrases and historical references with garbled proper nouns and misprints.
An angry citizen confronted Detroit trolley officials after a conductor stepped on his wife's dress, tearing over a yard of material. The superintendent noted no fault by the company and asked if a new dress should be provided. The man waved the cloth as proof and proposed matching it.
A Philadelphia Press clipping narrates a visitor touring a padded cell and a man deemed mad after losing love, then moves to a comical neighbor exchange about a spring chicken, illustrating a mix of tragic pity and everyday humor.
Product ad style note about a foot cure for hot painful feet sold by a druggist with pricing and address hints. Includes odd quotes and promotional claims attributed to sources, with scattered mis-typed language and fragmented lines.
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