Scientists find microbes in snowbells and other odd notes
A miscellany from The Marshfield Times reports discoveries of microbes in snowbells and futuristic lines about judges in Chicago and a St Louis man who sacrifices gold to save life. It notes wrecks and rail rate talk, obituary for Comt John Creighton, and profiles of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Rasulll, Saint Israel and other figures. It mentions postage stamps history, a giant sunspot, Navavino survivor John Stainer, conductor Hans Reichter, Henry James on American women, and Belgium's King Leopold as Europe’s wealthiest.
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John 4. Creighton
Omabe
Holy Empire
St. Gregory
Leo XIII
Craighton Universlty
Omata
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
United States
Kolves
St. Paul
Ways of Mending Time Saved and a Better Job Done
Practical sewing guidance on mending rents in fabrics. It advises aligning edges, reinforcing with tissue, and using patches of matching material. The method covers light and heavy fabrics and includes a backstitch darn and final pressing for a neat finish.
Baked Celery with Cheese and Ham Pie Dish
A vintage kitchen note describes Baked Celery with Cheese including celery, bread crumbs, and cheese baked in layers with butter and milk sauce. It also outlines a Ham Pie recipe using cold ham slices, boiled eggs, a young fowl, pepper, and gravy baked under crust, with optional mushrooms for flavor.
Peach Shortcake Recipe Card
Prepare a dough with a pint and a half of flour two tablespoons of sugar two teaspoons of salt two tablespoons of butter one beaten egg and milk to make a soft dough. Bake quickly then split open spread with butter. Add sweetened peaches from a quart can and whipped cream in layers peaches then cream.
Fashion Notes On Spring Outerwear and Accessories
The piece describes spring wear with short cap sleeves for jumpers and jackets laced with tiny black velvet bows. It notes front fastening styles, a dog collar idea to pair with BR evening gowns, and a gown described in terms of narrow black velvet strips, featherboned, decorated with jet buckles and blue bow or buckle back fastenings.
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Eto
Glazed Sweet Potatoes and Corn Cure Advice
A vintage kitchen note offers Glazed Sweet Potatoes with boiled sweet potatoes roasted in butter and seasonings, plus a Corn Cure advising removal of pressure by stretching shoes and adding leather. It mentions Soivine as an option from a chemist.
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Pup
Bermuda’s Easter Lily Monument to Gen Hastings
A long affair links Bermuda’s Easter Lily to Gen Russell Hastings, Civil War hero and White House groom. He settled in Bermuda after a visit with his wife, built Souci in Hamilton, promoted Easter Lily cultivation, and died a loyal American. A monument honors him in Hamilton.
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Iritsh
Bermudas
Hayes
Russel Hastings
White House
Washington
Bermuda
Feneral
Hastings
Hampton
Detroit Free Press
Japan
Mies
W. K. Harris
Quaker City
America
Bermeda
Hamilton
Vintage patent medicine and tobacco ad jumble
Mixed ad copy lists Mrs Winslow remedies, Lewis’ cigars, Garfield Tea, Allen’s Foot Ease, and other products. It touts patent medicines for digestion and liver health, a single binder cigar, and a foot cure, all from various sellers.
Long-Lived Bishops and Church Leaders in Insurance Risks
Long-lived clerics are viewed as good insurance risks. The piece cites bishops Howman Huntington Williama McQuaid and Andrews aged 90 to 82, noting their faiths. It then promotes a seed catalog offer from John A. Snizer Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin, promising postage paid bundles and free catalogs to gain 200000 new customers.
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Howman
Huntington
Williama
McQuaid
Andrews
John A. Snizer Seed Co
Box W
la Grosse
Wis
Smellers and scentmakers earn good wages in trade
The London World notes skilled noses as a buyer’s asset in perfume making and gas-escape reporting. Scentmakers require delicate scent perception to blend perfumes, with Queen Alexandra’s violet at ten pounds per ounce passing five professional testers. Leading firms pay four to seven pounds weekly, while street lighting contractors hire “swellers” to detect gas leaks, sometimes earning over three pounds in a week before fees drop to sixpence per leak reported.
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London
Queen Alexandra
Fifteen Years of Eczema Relief Reported by Soldier
Ennant Worell of Fort Crook Nebraska describes long battle with stubborn eczema on hands arms and legs. He credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Nosolvent for six days of relief ending itching and sores. He says he never felt better.
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Phyafcians
Ennant
Back-Buttoning Waists: New York Women’s Clever Trick
New York women reportedly discovered a back fastening method for blouses that avoids chambermaids’ grasping hands. By putting the blouse on inside out and threading sleeves before turning it right side, the top to bottom hooks can be fastened, freeing pockets and reducing help needed. The question remains if others have adopted the idea.
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New York
Gotham
Easter Dawn and Creation Myths in Fragmented Verse
The text blends archaic Easter reverie with a distorted account of Christ’s resurrection and a late insertion about a Chinese creation myth. It juxtaposes religious imagery of angels, the empty tomb, and rising Christ with a folkloric, speculative tale of the world formed from two halves of a shell and the sea as the white abdomen.
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Cor H
Dog’s Claim to Honor in Amundsen Arctic Journey
When Capt. Ronald Amundsen left San Francisco for the east he arranged special transport for his dog. He said the farthing dog is the only of its kind to have made the north west passage, being attached to him as much as he to it.
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Ronald Amundsen
San Francisco
Yale Scholar Declares Twain Greatest American Novelist
Professor Lyon William Phelps of Yale praised Mark Twain as the greatest American novelist in the nation’s literary history during a recent Connecticut lecture.
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Mark Twain
Lyon Wiliam Phelps
Yale
Connecticut
Dr Williams Pink Pills Cure Rheumatism Says Patient
Two years in bed at 201 Cameron Street Detroit after rheumatic attack. Patient Robert Odsert details years of suffering, swelling, pain, and heart strain before using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He reports rapid improvement and says he is perfectly cured with no recurrence. Pills sold by druggists or mail order from Schenectady New York at 50 cents a box or six boxes for 2.50.
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Williams
Robert Odsert
Cameron Street
Detroit
Mich
Dr. Willames
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