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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
9
A collage of clipped comic lines and anecdotes from Chicago and Detroit papers. Jests on fathers in law and dining with a knife, pride, and social missteps mix with wedding drollery. Snappy vignettes capture workplace wit and party banter.
The Chicago Journal quotes a humorous exchange about marriage vows and wishes, contrasting a simple request with a jokingly overwhelming list of desires, illustrating light domestic wit from the era.
A church reports a strong rise in male attendance at Wednesday Friday and Saturday evening prayers over the past three weeks. The minister expresses great gratification at the hearty participation. The note appears in Hig Will's housecleaning column in the New York Weekly.
A slouchy looking man tells a Chicago Record Herald query he has patronized the same tailor for ten years, noting the candidate’s suit must be made of good stuff.
Spatts asks about pay for designing striking art posters. Kuller Skeem replies that it pays poorly in the long run, needing expensive suppers to induce nightmares for ideas, plus doctor bills.
Miss Smartt and Mr Jerkins argue in a social exchange about companionship and shared political views. Mr Swolle acknowledges Mr Jerkins as flawed yet notes their close association and aligned opinions.
A bystander declares a woman’s husband is dead, prompting the old woman to demand the truth while the distressed young wife bursts into tears. The exchange reveals harsh insinuations and public shock in a tense neighborhood moment.
In Baltimore American pieces a wry exchange notes a fruitless scheme around an aplen and a marriage to keep a woman in the family amid social pressure. A humorous quip on crossing “11” yields the answer Bridge.
A collection of practical home guidance covering moving heavy furniture with suspenders, air drying mattresses using a rope handle system, and safe methods to refresh gas mantles with salt. Also includes DIY instructions for pineapple preparation, stain removal using collk and sun, and a simple comfort doughnut batter fried in hot lard with tips for avoiding sticking.
Instructions describe making dandelion wine from blossoms with four quarts of boiling water, three days of stirring, then adding five pounds sugar, three oranges and three lemons, one yeast cake, three more days, then seven weeks total aging, strained through cheesecloth. A half pint of whisky and three raisins per bottle are added before sealing.
A recipe describes separating eggs and beating whites, then mixing yolks with milk and sugar to make a custard. Add grated apples with sugar to prevent darkening, pour custard over the apples, and chill. Serve as a light dessert with vanilla flavor.
A short kitchen note explains preparing a bread dough for baking tins. It instructs taking out a portion for one oat, rolling thin, sprinkling with sugar, rolling again two or three times, and handling no cupful of raising before baking as usual.
Damp newspaper or soft brown paper strewn about a room before sweeping traps loose dust and prevents it from spreading during cleaning.
A list of croquette recipes includes Bean, Cheese, Lobster and Chicken croquettes with steps. Directions cover preparing ingredients, shaping, coating in egg and crumbs, and frying to a golden color. It details bean croquettes with beans, butter, vinegar and molasses, cheese croquettes with cheese and yolks, and lobster and chicken variants with sauces and seasoning.
A practical guide to producing homemade sausage with lean pork and fat pork mixtures, seasoned with sage salt and pepper, packed in jars covered with melted lard, plus Oxford sausage method using chopped meat suet bread crumbs lemon zest nutmeg and herbs fried in butter.
A historical recipe note describes a moth-killing solution using alm, chloride of lime, and salt mixed with water, then applied to carpet edges. It also provides a pickle recipe: cucumbers and small onions salted, drained, then bottled with vinegar oil and mustard seeds plus celery seed and alum.
Make a small pocket slightly larger than the watch and sew inside the belt. Attach pocket flap to the belt for a slip in, so the watch cannot get lost. Also suggests using game goods for dress pockets to stay hidden.
Last year Brazil required over 20 000 jute bags for its coffee harvest with each bag costing about 18 cents to ship. The coffee bag industry earned nearly $4 000 in that year. Also note Lydia Pinkham's company figures and a Naples Europe tour for three months by Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham and family. Lottery spending in Mexico City nears $100 000 weekly with about 79 000 spent on premiums in the same period.
An OCR fragment from a vintage page advertises Murine Eye Remedy for red swollen eyes, with garbled text about prices and availability. It mentions druggists selling Murine at saddled prices and references Chicago. The snippet includes unrelated lines about a milliner, a cigarette brand, Peoria factory, race horses, and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup.
One of the essentials for happy homes is a wealth of health knowledge and trusted products. The text extols an ethical, physician approved family laxative, Syrup of Figs and Senna Elixir, as a world widely accepted remedy. It warns to buy only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product, available from leading druggists.
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