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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1910
Page
5
The piece describes cleaning methods for diamonds using sawdust and bran, preserving pearls with contact to skin, and polishing various metals and ivory with specific solutions. It also covers decorative crafts like Russian crash centerpieces, outlining simple, framed designs and buttonholed lines for fabric work.
A dessert combines whipped cream, confectioners sugar, and egg white with marshmallows walnuts and angelica stem. Shape on heart shaped cake halves or angel cake slices, add a maraschino cherry center, and finish with a cherry syrup glaze.
Instructions outline beating butter and sugar, folding in flour and milk, then vanilla and stiff egg whites. Bake in small heart pans in a quick oven. Icing combines confectioners sugar cocoa and cream with vanilla, spread while warm.
A home cook’s guide describes chocolate cornstarch star molds with custard and currant jelly, vanilla or almond corn starch shapes with candied cherries and custard, and rice molds with simple variations. Core method uses two ounces rice simmered in one and a half pints milk with sugar until tender.
A playful observation from the Philadelphia North American about infant behavior. The piece notes a baby’s alarm clock like waking, constant turmoil, dish smashing, tumbles, fuss over trivial items, choking, daytime sleepiness, night crying, extreme temper, and mixed charm with visitors. It ends with a quip about water marked paper arousing suspicion of the milkman.
The article notes using embroidered material and edging for summer gowns with plain white as a base plus suggestions to harmonize with delicate colors. It mentions linen flosses for spaces and backround darning on embroideries, plus a skin care formula from Women’s Home Companion including alcohol benzoin glycerin lavender water and distilled water to cleanse skin.
English fashion spreads urge matching gaiters to hats as a style staple. Blue and white gaiters pair with blue turbans, gray with gray outfits, brown with brown tones, reflecting this season’s coordinated look.
Girls who want to begin sewing as a business can always find demand for well made shirtwaists. The entry into professional dressmaking comes through the fancy blouse and plain shirt, with originality in pleats and trim. Local girls clubs offer steady customers for novices starting small with inexpensive materials.
Neighbors can care for your canary while painting and turpentine odors dissipate. The strong fumes may seriously affect the delicate songbirds, so arrange temporary caregiver until the odor subsides.
A tip suggests rubbing soiled playing cards with a small rag dabbed in furniture cream to remove grease and stickiness then polishing with a clean soft rag for near new condition.
A Cortland subscriber writes to the Post Standard outlining oleomargarine components. He notes oleo oil from beef fat and neutral lard from pork back fat, plus milk or butter to imitate dairy richness. He argues oleomargarine has similar food value to butter and opposes laws forcing it to look like lard or taxing it as butter.
London report profiles Sidney Greville as the queen’s deputy when Elizabeth II’s ancestor is absent. The article notes his arrival etiquette, ceremonies, and silver cup gifts, plus his career from Lord Salisbury aide to royal secretary and trusted courtier.
Richard Spillane recounts Captain Kidd’s legend and the many treasure hunts sparked by his name from Long Island to Boston. The piece traces Kidd’s privateering, the Quedah Merchant raid, Gardiner’s Island digging, and the eventual trial and execution, noting enduring myths and political entanglements.
A poem attributed to Osh Wink in the Baltimore American argues that women deserve political influence in all areas of life yet remain barred from voting. It contrasts their public duties with the lack of voting rights, highlighting a perceived inconsistency in laws that promote equality yet deny suffrage.
An anecdote from Norman Mack's National Monthly recounts Patrick Henry defending a bail jumper. The governor challenges the man to admit the stolen “shout” and the carcass, then remarks that the man has no more claim than he does. The court later clears the accused.
A merchant in Ottawa keeps a domesticated fox squirrel in a large paint barrel with a small round door. The animal moves in and out during weather changes and the owner says it detects shifts by plugging the door when a change is near. He claims the barometer never errs.
A Chicago publisher cites Lady Cardigan's memoirs attacking an aristocratic Tollemache dame long deceased. Descendants to the third and fourth generation write papers denying the charge. A pro suffragist lashes Senator Blank for attacking militant suffragists, prompting sharp exchanges about libel and propriety.
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