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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
3
Sample meals for a healthy child from eighteen months to two years old outline daily foods and portions. It stresses safe meat preparation, cooking methods, and cautions against giving candies, pastries, bread crusts, drinks, and tough family-table foods to toddlers.
The guide advises greasing the preserving pan with olive oil to prevent burning. Add butter about the size of a walnut per six pounds of fruit after sugar is added and the jam boils. Do not let the jam boil until the sugar has melted to avoid thinning.
A simple fruit dish instructions to wash prune fruit, grate lemon rind, add cinnamon and allspice, three tablespoons sugar, cover with water, simmer until soft, and serve warm or cold.
Stenciling curtains often yields colors that look darker while applied but lighter when hung at windows making the final effect appear opposite to the expected shade.
The article explains how to create a balanced diet through planned menus, balancing protein fats starches and minerals. It covers cost efficiency portioning income, family needs climate and individual differences, and notes that one man's meat is another man's poison.
Soak the ham overnight then wash and scrape. Simmer with onion carrot turnip cloves peppercorns bay leaf in water four hours. Add cider or vinegar and cook until tender. Brown in oven, reduce the liquor, make a flour butter sauce, serve with meat.
Pare and grate four large cucumbers. Boil water with peppercorns onion and salt for 20 minutes. Add gelatin dissolved in cold water and strain. Line a mold with cucumber slices fill with jelly, chill on ice, unmold onto watercress.
Readers consider window shades to brighten a large living room. A redbird motif on greenish brown branches or large red or mulberry flowers with foliage offers vivid contrast. In brown rooms, long sprays of rich golden glow shades work well as decoration.
Washable paper used to cover pantry shelves serves as a cheap oilcloth substitute. It can be held with thumb tacks or cut to cover and paste down over shelf edges.
An advertisement urges avoiding calomel and its mercury dangers. It promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable tonic that purports to cleanse the liver and bowels, with a money back guarantee and claims of universal family benefit.
A home team pitcher walked in his fourth straight base on balls to force a run as a fan shouted a taunt about his training. The pitcher ignored it while another spectator fired back with a sharp insult about pitching skill.
A Virginia reader credits a Pellagra treatment by Baughn with curing his wife and prays for the inventor. The ad touts a free book and promises money back if the remedy fails, urging consultation of American Compounds.
Princeton President John Grier Hibben spoke at the Lake Mohonk arbitration conference using a comic tale about a plumber and a millionaire to illustrate how violence and oppression will not vanish until justice is fully paid. The tale ends with the millionaire recanting his stance and the plumber receiving change.
A meek man challenges a slick book salesman over a 70 volume speeches set priced at 680 dollars. He examines the index and notes the omission of the world’s greatest talker, whom he says is not included.
A gas department representative visited a householder claiming meter suspicion due to a quarterly reading decline. The official noted meters rarely fault, and the explanation tied to a daughter's marriage last June, leading to no further action and the meter departing without blemish.
An ad touts a "Magic Washing Stick" that halves washing time without rubbing or a machine. It claims to be harmless to all fabrics and usable on white, colored, and woolen items. Sold by druggists and grocers. 25 cents for 15 washings. send 2 cents to A B Richards 60 Sharman Texas.
Lloyd George answered a Welsh meeting insult with wit, saying in mock gravity that North Wales measures a man from his chin up while the chairman measured from chin down, ending the chair’s jibes. The exchange left the audience silent and the meeting restored.
A New York Times dialogue shows a woman tired from endless club meetings debating price controls on bread. The economy club passes resolutions and petitions to regulate flour costs, warning bakers face legal pressure as households fear bankruptcy.
An advertisement touts resinol soap and resinol ointment as fast relief for itching and dermatitis including eczema and heat rash. It claims immediate soothing action, deep skin penetration, and eventual clearing with regular use. A light anecdote on a bachelor preferring a room near crying babies closes the ad.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic advertised as a general tonic with quinine and iron. Claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system. Price 50 cents.
A humorous exchange shows a husband correcting his wife after she notes a bird’s twittering. He quips that the singing birds are invariably the woman birds, reversing expectations with a light marital jab. The moment plays on gendered language and domestic tease.
A brief, humorous dialogue unfolds as two men trade quips about a capucine advertisement and a political job, ending with one asking if the other listens to yarns and the other revealing a new office.
A humorous dialogue about summer fruit and canning. The speaker notes using three stenographers this year and praises one wife for her knowledge of spelling, grammar, and fashion.
An advertisement urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the signature of Fletcher and notes the product has been in use for over 30 years. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
An auto enthusiast laments the high volume of automobiles in the European war and questions the benefit as manufacturers flood production while battle damage intensifies. A pedestrian agrees the pace outstrips destruction.
Many war zone hospitals order Allen's Foot-Ease for convalescent troops to soak or wear in shoes. It refreshes feet and prevents tiredness and soreness. Sold everywhere for 25 cents. Free sample address given. Also a note claims flies ignore bald heads.
Florence, South Dakota resident Mrs. P. W. Lanseng credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with ending months of severe bearing down pains backache and headaches. She used one bottle then three more and could work daily. The ad urges other women to try the remedy and notes the company offers confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
A courtroom exchange features a sharp line about always paying as one goes, a remark on bankruptcy, and a humorous aside that angels do not play the bagpipes, highlighting wit and misdirection in a legal setting.
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