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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
9
Household tips explain pruning methods to sweeten prunes by slow cooking to produce natural syrup without added sugar. Additional guidance covers picture hanging straight, floor cleaning with soda and hot water, avoiding soap and ammonia on cloth, using skim milk for oilcloth shine, rubber shoe heel protectors, and furniture cleaning with linseed oil turpentine polish.
Instructions for stove care emphasize thorough cleaning of stove tops and sides, oven cleaning with a dedicated brush, and washing for purer bread and cake flavor. Do not leave dust or grease on oven doors, use newspapers for removal, and finish with a wet cloth. Remember to clean the pipe inside and out.
A recipe describes macaroons soaked in quarter cup sherry folded with egg yolks milk sugar breadcrumbs and macaroon crumbs. Bake in a hot water pan 20 to 30 minutes then top with stiffly beaten egg whites sugar and lemon juice and continue cooking until set.
Select medium potatoes bake in skins until nearly done. Cut nearly through one end scoop center. Fill hollow with a small slice of fried bacon tightly rolled. Close the cut end and bake again until fully cooked.
Interwoven ribbons and tinsel are best cleaned by using bread crumbs and powdered blue, then shaking and rubbing with a clean cloth. A solution of liquid ammonia is suggested for tin sel or gold lace.
To stop rust on fire irons during summer rub them with a rag moistened in vaseline and sweet oil. This simple method prevents rust effectively.
Brownsville notes the St Louis Brownsville and Mexico line as the southern terminus opening vast fertile land between the Nueces and Rio Grande to irrigation and two crop per year vegetable farming. Easterners flock in as towns rise and ranches subdivide, aided by artesian wells and a January 15 low-rate excursion bringing 16 carloads.
The article traces early zoological gardens to ancient China and other cultures noting sacred animal cults and rulers seeking rare creatures. It cites 1150 B C as the oldest Chinese menagerie and references Darius’s lion den and white horses in classical lands. A live giraffe toured Schonbrunn in 1828.
Michael Steinman of Brooklyn describes a twelve year misery from infancy to twelve years old with eczema. After doctors failed and a newspaper ad for Cuticura products, his son improved after using Soap Ointment and Resolvent, ending with a cured skin that became smooth as silk.
In another part of this paper a note highlights an interesting advertisement about the country and how readers can learn more. It promises details and guidance for curious readers seeking further information.
Swedish savant Ryberg posits metargon as the key to a universal atmosphere linking planets and the solar system. He claims discovery around the sun precedes others by eight or nine years and notes evidence in comets meteorites and solar surroundings.
The Burlington Route announces a Land Seekers Information Bureau to aid western land seekers with free guidance. Write D. Clem Deaver General Agent at 1004 Farnam Street Omaha Nebraska describing desired land to learn availability and cost.
A cheerful woman retells her experience with an endless chain letter scheme. She sent five names and a ten cent piece and soon received a silk petticoat described as fine, non crocking, and valued as a pleasant result of the chain.
Quote style note from Baltimore American and Kansas City Journal highlights bold resolve against danger. The focus is on confronting peril directly. No specific event or person beyond general sentiment is provided.
Warns readers that imitations resemble Allcock's porous plasters but lack their effective ingredients and may be harmful. Urges buyers to insist on Allcock's as the original genuine external remedy and safest choice.
Advertisement touts Dr. R. H. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer as a permanent cure for fits, St. Vitus dance, and all nervous diseases. Offers a free trial bottle and treatise from 931 Arch St Philadelphia. Ends with a cynical line about rights and sitting on others.
A repaired ad promises cure for piles including itching burning bleeding and protruding types within 14 days. If not cured, money is refunded. The guarantee emphasizes a fast relief claim and full refund policy.
Be honest in your business relations. It pays to be honest. Lewis' Binge Binder straight So cigar made of mellow tobacco. Your dealer of Lewis' Factory Peoria Ill. A cheerful He is often better than the solemn truth Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething gums reduces pain cures wind colic 25c a bottle. Heart failure and cash failure often go together.
Paul Morton cites a story about a boy who defends butter on jam as an economy. He argues proposed cuts are not saving money but wasting value over time, using the jam on bread analogy to stress efficiency.
An OCR page fragment shows assorted ads and slogans. It references Lewis' Factory Peoria Illinois tobacco products and a cure all style claim with Laxative Bromine Quinine Tablets. Garfield Tea promises multiple household uses from constipation to rheumatism and blood purification amid social notes.
Occult Review warns that psychical research could become a fashionable society amusement with few practical aims. It notes prominent members of the Society for Psychical Research who do little to curb this trend.
The John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin announces a new oats variety with heads reaching three feet in length. The catalog promotes it as a remarkable cereal hay supplement and claims it as the greatest food in America.
Free 148 page Seed and Tool Catalog mailed to all intending buyers. Send 6 cents in stamps to receive free samples of Two Foot Long Oats and other cereals. John A. Salzer Seed Co. Box W La Crosse Wis.
An eleven year old prince of the Sirguja State has shown extraordinary shikar skill. He began using a gun at seven and has since killed seven tigers six panthers and two bears, along with other game, as reported by the Allahabad Pioneer.
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