Hands Cracked and Bloodied in St. Clair Missouri Report
A Missouri reader describes a long lasting itchy cracking hand condition, matching eczema, that worsened last February and disrupted work. After failed home remedies, a testimonial claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition following a doctor’s advice. The notice advertises Cuticura products and a free Skin Book, dated March 2 1912, with sample offer details.
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St. Clair, Mo
Rome
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Mary Taylor
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
The Marvel of It
A fragment from a column notes one odd truth about life as a thinker considers human ambition and self deception. It contrasts those seeking chances with many who misread openings. The piece hints at personal insight and social observation.
Too Much Renunciation in a Witty Exchange
A playfully sharp exchange unfolds as Mr Nagg derides women and Mrs Nagg counters with comments on marriage and male habits. The dialogue turns on behavior, worry, and social expectations in a domestic scene.
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Mr. Nagg
Mrs. Nage
Barber Shops Flourish Across China After Revolution
An exchange notes that since the Chinese revolution many have cut their hair, prompting a boom in barber shops across the Far East. Singapore businessmen import American barber supplies and struggle to obtain ships and stock. Chinese reportedly prefer American hair clippers, signaling a rise in American barber supply trade.
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China
Far East
Singapore
Ecbairg
Nelst
Proper Use Of Fats Home Rendering Of Beef And Suet
Handsome guidance on rendering fats at home from bacon scraps to suet and leaf lard. It covers slow cooking, water blanching, and combining lard with suet, plus methods to clarify fat from scraps and store in cool places for long use. Includes German housewife practices and cautions on fat flavor and odor.
Worth Knowing on Cleaning and Polishing Household Items
Tips include whitening silver with soapy water and silver paste, washing lace curtains with muslin battens to keep edges straight, removing tar with citrus peels, and cleaning knife handles or bone items using lemon juice followed by fat to remove stains and grease.
Bathroom Stool Fashioned for Comfort and Care
A low stool with a broad seat serves for drying, dressing, and pedi care. A keeper notes its effectiveness and cautionary use. The cushion is a thick white towel cover with a square top and wide edges. Covers are owned, about 60 in rotation, changed daily each morning.
Home Made Soda Water Formula Steps
A recipe describes making soda water by boiling water with sugar, then adding tartaric potash, beaten eggs, and syrup. It instructs cooling, bottling, corking, and a separate soda mix with sugar and water, poured in a glass with two thirds water and a teaspoon of soda.
How To Keep Green Vegetables Fresh Overnight
Home Department Magazine explains a method to preserve greens such as spinach lettuce and parsley. Place the vegetables with roots or cut ends in a vessel of water as you would a bouquet of flowers. Keep them hydrated to stay fresh until the next day.
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Home Department
Peach Preserves from Paro and Free Stone Fruit
Peach preserves instruction lists Paro and free stone peaches with six pounds peaches to three pounds brown sugar. Sugar layered over peaches and left overnight. Next morning cook in preserving kettle two hours, skimming as needed.
Pretty Summer Silks Fire Up Simple Gown Designs
The piece surveys practical summer gowns in light silks and chiffons, noting foulards and taf fetas offer color, fit, and economy. It highlights two easy to sew models with black satin trims and lace appliques, one slenderizing with a chemisette, the other in blue and white with green accent.
Little Girl Frock Styles and Simple School Dress Trends
The piece reviews home made presents and sewing items for a girl, from cretonne lamp shades to lingerie lace and embroidered tea cloths. It discusses children’s frocks favoring simple lines over complex adult styles, noting coats and skirts with plain fronts, large collars, and modest details suitable for school age girls.
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Bouare
Natural colored Pangae Costume Returns for Everyday Wear
The natural colored girl returns in a Jinea or pongee costume with a leather pump, lisle hosiery, and a coarse unbleached Maen lace petticoat. She wears a raffia or Panama outing hat with a Shantung scarf, a sunshade, and a raffa handbag. This understated look provides welcome relief in areas saturated by all white outfits.
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Panama
Boudoir Shams and Gear For Elegant Rooms
Delicately styled Swiss shams and gearfs for the boudoir appear in tamboured plaid and plain Swiss designs. Heavily scalloped edges and braid work decorate pillow shams, bureau dresses, and tabia scarfs with plaid muslin or Swiss cushions and cretonne covers. A cushion box and couch covers feature gay cretonne, with a colonial rag rug or matting for light filler.
Protecting Blouses With Underarm Strips From Repair Experts
A fashion tip from Good Housekeeping Magazine notes that strengthening the underarm area of blouses with a tailored strip of fabric helps prevent unsightly holes. New York dressmakers use this technique to extend wear and preserve fabric quality.
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New York
Good Housekeeping Magazine
New Stock Collars Fashion Update
The new grandfather's stock collar returns in a Robespierre style at the height of fashion. A white linen collar with a plaited black silk stock turns over, trim and smart, pairing with tailored blouses for morning wear.
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Robespierre
Renovate Crepe Mixture for Rusted Craps Restoration
Skimmed milk and water with a touch of glue heated to a scalding temperature. Technique involves squeezing and drying like muslin to restore old rusty black craps, achieving a finish comparable to new with careful handling.
Care and Use of the Casserole
Instructions on using a casserole safely, including soaking in cold water before first use, never heating dry, avoiding sudden temperature changes, cooking with moderate heat, and placing the dish in water if cooking at high heat. Also notes it takes about twice as long to cook in a casserole as in ordinary methods.
Classic Scones From A Home Cooked Biscuits Guide
Instructions describe making rich biscuits with milk butter sugar and salt, yeast and egg, kneading and rising twice, shaping into biscuits, baking in a hot oven until puffed and golden. The method emphasizes patience and a final praise that they are the best ever eaten.
Premium Fruit Cake Ingredients and Method
A vintage recipe lists ingredients for a premium fruit cake including sugar three cups flour one and one half cups six eggs one and one half cups acur cream and two teaspoons saleratus. Directions advise beating eggs, adding sugar and butter, dissolving saleratus, thinning with flour to prevent fruit settling, and layering seedless currants citron throughout with alternating batter.
Banana Cream Banana Tart Recipe Card
Banana Flo. Line a deep plate with rich crust and bake brown. Filling: cream sugar with butter, beat in egg yolks, add flour, boiling water until thick. Stir in vanilla. Layer sliced bananas with cream in crust, two layers each. Frost with beaten whites and sugar. Bake until brown. Serve cold.
Lemonade Ginger Punch Recipe from Old Ledger
A vintage recipe describes Lemonade Ginger Punch using five lemons one cup sugar one cup boiling water ginger ale fresh mint cold water half a teaspoon gelatin Wash lemons and slice them with sugar then stand thirty minutes add cold water dissolve gelatin in boiling water mix and chill with ginger ale mint leaves added an hour before serving.
Preserving Cherries For Jelly Or Preserve Tips
The guide advises preserving cherries by weighing fruit and adding sugar pound for pound. Layer fruit with sugar, then pour over juice and boil gently until syrup thickens. Short stemmed cherries or Morellas are best. sweet cherries are not suitable.
Nice Fruit Conkies
A simple fruit cake style batter mixing two cups crown sugar one cup butter three eggs a teaspoon nods dissolved in five tablespoons sweet milk a teaspoon each of cloves cinnamon allspice and nutmeg three cups flour and one cup chopped raisins. Drop by spoonfuls onto a pan and bake.
To Save Matting From Dirt With A Protective Cover
A short instruction promotes using a cover for cleaning implements. It suggests slipping a protective covering over a broom to keep dust from matting. The tip emphasizes ease of dust collection and saving the matting during sweeping.
Woman's Health Claim Endorses Pinkham Remedy
An Odd Virginia woman reports improved health after long suffering from menstrual and back issues. The letter praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's ills with confidential advice offered by a Pinkham Medicine Co representative.
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Odd
Ivan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marta L. Hottoway
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