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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
3
A noted elocutionist shares tongue twister lines drawn from a 200 plus piece collection. Highlights include Six thick thistle sticks and Two toads tried to trot to Tedbury with other playful phrases. The text also cites a joke about a Bright Boy and a grocer's store dialogue.
A woman, vocally demanding goods, enters a corner drug store and asks to use the telephone. She queries about the dollar stock of soothing syrup and then orders ten cents worth of lamp oil while maintaining a calm, if careless, demeanor throughout the scene.
A fragmentary excerpt recalls a lost love at a play mentioning a past vow to love till death. The text shifts to quips about toothpicks and a comical tale from Old Barnacle Ben claiming a ten foot Ash from Borneo, then clarifying birds versus fish.
A Brooklyn Fagle quip notes a paradox regarding a man named Robinsky described as the worst yet also connected to a note insured for 20000 dollars. The remark highlights irony in a local social circle and references an insurance detail tied to the subject.
A muddled rumor from press clippings hints at a settlement interest referenced by Miss Rosenwent. A male figure warns of confusion caused by remarks as another tale mentions fright at a dance and a suggested settlement at once in a cheeky exchange.
A Metroit Free Press quotation notes that having more money does not equate to possessing more brains. The remark argues against judging intellect by wealth, reflecting social commentary on economic bias and personal merit.
A long reader guide to farm management covers feeding, housing, and hygiene for poultry, cattle, and sheep. It urges intimate wife consultation, clean yards and forages, proper grain mixes, and winter preparation. It stresses water quality, brushwood windbreaks, and moisture control, plus seasonal tasks like tool care, manure composting, grafting cuts, and preparing lime sulfur spray for San Jose scale.
A vintage column offers indulgent dessert recipes such as Mountain Dew Pudding Rice and Almond Cream and Neapolitan Pudding with gelatin and chocolate, plus practical tips on glass bathroom shelves and affordable drugstore bottles for toilet needs.
A chaotic street scene unfolds as a man fights police, a boy defends his father, and stones fly. A mother questions why details were not shared earlier, while the son boasts he could not hit a barn door.
A fragmentary OCR reads a comic dialogue about gender roles and household work. A man might head a family but a woman’s hat bills cost most. A poetical exchange shows a father demanding a boy cut ten cords of wood, with rough banter about lighting a fire.
Cut celery into two inch pieces then into straw thick strips. Prepare a thick onion and tarragon flavored mayonnaise with paprika and lemon. Dissolve gelatin in the mayonnaise, cool it with cold water, then heat to dissolve. Fold celery into dressing, mound on lettuce, and garnish with stuffed olives.
A Norristown Georgia resident writes of a life changing cure after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The ad promotes the remedy as a standard treatment for displacements inflammation ulceration and related symptoms and invites women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham.
Pare, quarter and core the pears and cut in slices. Place in a preserving kettle with enough water to keep from stinking and cook until soft. Rub through a slice and measure. To each pint add one quarter of 8 pounds of sugar and stir until dissolved. Fill jars with the pulp to overflowing and seal. Steam jars for 90 minutes, then keep in the steamer until cold. Wipe and care for them as you would preserves.
A simple dessert uses leftover breakfast coffee. Pour off the grounds and steep for an hour before dinner, then combine in a double boiler with a canful of minute tapioca. Cook until clear, then stir in sugar and butter. Serve hot with plain or whipped cream.
Hint advises using soap and water to clean and rinse fowls before finishing dressing. It recommends a cloth with soap to rub the bird thoroughly, then rinsing in clean water, describing this as the only sanitary dressing method.
A brief cake recipe lists one cup sugar one half cup milk and four hundred forty four grains of flour two teaspoons tartar one teaspoon soda a pinch of nutmeg and a sprinkle of candied caraway before baking conveyed in a fragmentary handwritten note
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