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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1912
Page
9
Upper Sandusky woman writes that after failing health and nervous fatigue she improved using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She urges sick women to try the remedy, claiming decades of use and widespread trust as endorsement.
A garbled advert mentions Pettit's Eye Salve for eye diseases claiming to cure burns and cuts with quick relief. The text also features fragmented dialogue about food and song, plus a note on Matrimony in Australia detailing marriages from ages sixteen to ninety-nine, including a seventy-seven year old wedding to an eight teen. The passage preserves strong dates and ages as reported.
Exiled Moroc co former Sultan Malai Hafid, while staying at Vichy France, visited Les Ardoisieres a Napoleon III retreat. Three young sisters timidly asked him to sign their post cards. Two sang for him and he inscribed praises praising their voices. The third girl failed to sing and one of her pistors baying sung for her, the Sultan added the name Gabrielle.
A physician testifies to Postum helping his own heart trouble after quitting coffee. He notes nervous and heart symptoms improved, credits caffeine reduction, and says he now prescribes Postum for patients whose nerves or stomach react to coffee. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
Instructions describe lining a shallow pan with buttered paper, beating a sugar and flour mix with butter and flavorings, baking a light sponge, rolling with warmed jelly, and finishing with powdered sugar. Contains several misspellings and ambiguous measurements from OCR.
The article describes blue and white china trends in homes with Delft German pieces for breakfast and dragon pattern Japanese sets for afternoon tea. It notes versatile uses for breakfast and luncheon and lists components like plates cups saucers teapot and cake plates. It also includes a recipe for currants with cinnamon and rice flour.
A fragmentary recipe outlines cottage pudding with sour cream and baking soda, baked in gem pans to yield sixteen servings. It adds a thin syrup, a lemon or vanilla hint, and a milk and sugar filling boiled seven minutes, then cooled for layering and assembly.
A fragment describes preparing deviled tomatoes: pare and slice twelve tomatoes, mix yolks from two hard boiled eggs with butter sugar mustard salt cayenne and vinegar, beat until smooth, heat dressing, broil tomato slices, then top with hot dressing and serve on a warm dish.
A fragment offers kitchen guidance for housewives on preparing a cereal dish with lard and water, plus a bread bake recipe. It describes greasing pans, forming a thin crust, and removing the cereal easily, followed by a milk bread bake with egg, fruit and spices baked for two hours.
A fragment outlines a cake recipe with butter sugar flour baking steps. It mentions beating whites separately and baking in patty molds with soda and vanilla. The readable items include cup measures and partial ingredients indicating a standard cake mix procedure.
George W. Perkins, backer of Col. Roosevelt, faces accusations of steering independent firms into the International Harvester trust. Edward P. Grosvenor, special assistant attorney general, presented documentary proof showing Perkins’s role as Harvester chairman of the finance committee in a scheme to absorb the D. M. Osborne company and other independents, with contracts and agreements dated 1903 to 1905. Court proceedings in Chicago yielded subpoenas and extensive document reviews as officials press the government’s case.
Four inmates confined on forgery and burglary charges escaped by sawing cell bars on the second floor and dropping to the ground. The escapees are Red Clark Albert Roberts Frank Wilson all jailed for burglary and Jacob Johnson charged with forgery. No trace found. County commissioners have offered a reward for their capture.
Washington reports Secretary MacVeagh will issue orders within weeks to reduce currency and national bank note sizes by one third and overhaul designs. The new notes will measure about 2 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches, far smaller than present 7 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches, with a completion timeline of eighteen months for the transition.
Representatives of seventeen British automobile firms decide to form a $26 million combine in New York to combat the invasion of the American low priced car.
Owensboro Ky September 19 A sixteen year old girl Myrtle Stinson was struck and killed by lightning while crossing a field. Her clothing was stripped from her body in the final moment. Her brother was knocked unconscious by the bolt.
The National Dairy Show in Chicago runs October 24 to November 2, featuring 1200 to 1400 head of top dairy cattle judged by experts. The event aims to advance dairy education, breeding, feeding, and market production with industry leaders sharing knowledge for profit and progress.
In a domestic moment a bill is passed between spouses with a line about taking care of the payment. The dialogue suggests practical handling of household finances and mutual assistance in meeting obligations. The tone mirrors candid daily life from a bygone era.
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