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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
2
A mix of interview banter on writing style and distant notes cites a luminous style born of labor in a dim attic. It mentions Nile region rain absence, a million-label contract from an English brewery, four million immigrants with $25 million yearly, global match usage, and a London ad offering any desperate adventure.
An advertisement promotes Kasparilla T1 as a powerful household remedy for digestive disorders and related ailments. It claims to stimulate digestion, improve appetite, and relieve sour stomach, constipation, headaches, and fatigue linked to liver and kidney inactivity, offering refunds if unsatisfied. The product is marketed by Hoyer Chemical Co. of Portland, Oregon.
A periodical called the World and His Wife lauds children as fashion icons urging deference to their opinions. It lampoons strict parental control and notes a cultural shift toward child-centered trends with witty asides on daily life from dentistry to grocery routines. The item also touches on varied trivia from Hamlets to punctuation and annual egg-laying by the flounder.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a superior laxative option. It highlights cleansing, pleasant action, and lack of debility or dosage increases, urging purchase of the genuine Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. product via leading druggists.
Silage in steer feeding grows in favor as land costs rise and feeding stables stay high. Experiments at Missouri and Virginia stations show silage with reasonable dry matter offers advantages over dry stover. Plumb advises cover feeding and balancing with dry roughage, reducing silage when finishing cattle for shipment. A separate note describes a crib design to store grain without heavy lifting, using a hill site and pier-raising construction to ease filling and handling.
In Devon county the prevalence of tuberculosis among cows is high with a sharp impact on human deaths from consumption. English authorities publicize these facts. A charity reports eighty percent of local children affected by the disease. A farmer near Goliad recounts a barn building with willow posts showing unexpected growth, lifting floor level unexpectedly.
A Texas Goliad guard reports willow posts that were thought dead grew roots and rose. The barn atop them rose with the posts, standing nine feet high on stilts last spring. A new floor and siding made a two story structure with a nine inch gap to the ground, owner plans a three story barn in time.
Statistics show potatoes make about 13 percent of typical family food consumption. They are mainly starch and eating them alone yields a lopsided diet.
The edible portion of the potato is about 78.3 percent water, 18.5 percent carbohydrates mainly starch, 2.2 percent protein, 0.1 percent fat, and 1 percent ash. These are general averages with variation among samples. Pairing potatoes with meat eggs or fish provides a balanced diet due to nitrogenous nutrition.
Salt should be available to dairy cows at all times to sustain high milk yield. Shelter rock salt for free access and provide loose salt weekly in cow portions. Do not mix salt with feed as overconsumption can reduce milk flow.
The article advises disinfecting poultry houses to control lice using liquid lice killer and to spray roosts and nest boxes. It suggests a cheap whitewash made from lime and water with crude carbolic acid, noting it deodorizes and disinfects and can be used in large quantities without high cost.
The laying of soft shelled eggs is caused by lack of shell making material such as crushed oyster shells or lime. Hens need plenty of good grit as natural supply is often inadequate. Rice table scraps fatten hens and do not prevent soft shelled eggs per Farmers Home Journal.
Dr. Howard describes Darwin’s seed ball experiment showing six and a half ounce earth ball produced thirty two plants from five species. It notes tree wound healing depends on wound traits and season, not coverings, and warns protecting exposed heart wood with coatings. Milk for Calves discusses warmth preserving a constituent value in fresh milk, aiding calf growth and reducing fat cattle.
The metal towel bar, a common bath room fixture, now offers greater storage. A slight design change lets towels be placed on the rear while those in use hang from the front, improving convenience in a properly furnished bath.
Peel and halve peaches place in a pudding dish and bake with one pint of water until tender. Drain juice and cool then mix with milk eggs sugar melted butter salt flour and baking powder. Pour over peaches and bake to a rich brown. Serve with sweetened cream.
Boil and mash twelve medium white potatoes with one tablespoon butter. When cool, beat in three egg yolks, one teaspoon chopped parsley, one quarter teaspoon grated nutmeg and six drops onion juice. Mix until smooth, shape into cone croquettes and let harden.
The article describes how to make Boiled Custard with milk eggs sugar vanilla and a meringue topping, using a double boiler and scalding milk. It also provides Crab Apple Jelly instructions detailing apples, juice, sugar, simmering, pressing through a sieve, settling, boiling, skimming, and canning into jelly glasses.
A recipe instructs boiling tapioca with sugar in hot water until clear then folding in beaten egg whites pineapple and lemon juice. Cool and serve with cream. use half a pineapple now and leftovers for the next day.
A recipe list describes Delicious Corn Oysters using grated corn egg cream flour and butter fried like oysters. It also details Baked Eggs with butter salt pepper cream and oven time plus Potato Pancakes with grated raw potatoes milk eggs flour and lard, baked until done.
A brief note urges keeping a flat file in the kitchen drawer to sharpen bread, meat, and chopping knives. The advice presents the flat file as the best tool for maintaining edge quality across kitchen blades.
The suggestion proposes covering fruit with cold water and bringing to a boil before slicing to extract more juice. It claims this preheating step improves juice yield for lemons or oranges.
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