Cascarets Cure for Stomach Trouble and Bad Breath
A reader from New York reports months of stomach distress and green tongue with foul breath. After two weeks of Cascarets, symptoms vanished and the remedy is recommended to others. The ad copy touts pleasant taste and guaranteed results. Also includes a rural-tinged proverb from Uncle Eben about staying awake on the job.
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Cascarets
Chas
H. Halpern
7Th St
New York
N. Y
Proof of Love in Auto Goggles
A brief humor item from the Louisville Courier Journal notes a man in love being amused by thoughts of his partner. The fragment mentions admiration as expressed through a playful line about her looks viewed in auto goggles.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Vagrant Proves Trade Skill Despite Police Questioning
A vagrant asserts he can make brooms as a living and declines to answer where he learned the trade after being questioned by the police magistrate. The exchange shows tension between the vagrant’s livelihood claim and authorities probing his background.
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Police Justice
Improved clothespin and orange fool recipe
A description of an improved clothespin with movable multiple clamps that keeps clothes off the line and stays on the line after use. Also a recipe for Orange Fool with orange slices soaked in sugar, milk custard thickened with cornstarch, folded egg whites and baked to brown, served cold.
Egg Yolk Mustard Paste on Toasted Ham Bread
Mash hard boiled yolks to powder then mix with olive oil vinegar salt pepper and French mustard plus a drop of tabasco. Chop whites fine and blend with yolk paste. If needed add seasoning before spreading on sliced Graham bread.
Blackberry Catsup Recipe Notes
Mash berries and boil with water, simmer fifteen minutes, mash and strain. For each quart of juice add half a teaspoon each mace cinnamon pepper and white mustard. Reduce to a quarter of the original volume, add white wine or cider vinegar to reach desired strength and consistency, bottle hot and seal.
Peppers for flavoring and garnishes
Not everyone is familiar with the canned Spanish pi mentoes. They add flavor to soups salads and other dishes and are tasty stuffed with breadcrumbs rice or meat or fish mixtures as an entree or served whole as a garnish with steak.
Preserve mustard glasses for labeling with labels inside
Instructions suggest saving mustard glasses to hold soda baking powder and cream of tartar. Print or type large clear labels and paste inside the glass to prevent rubbing off during washing.
Cook batter for fried corn fritters with egg
Combine three quarters of a pint grated corn with one yolk, salt, and pepper. Just before frying fold in beaten white of egg and a splash of cream or milk if corn is dry. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat and fry until brown.
Properly storing oil with sugar for freshness
Instructions advise adding two lumps of leaf sugar to each pint of oil after opening. Store in a cool place to preserve flavor so the last bit remains as delicious as the first.
Short Suggestions on Domestic Cleaning and Care
A wire broom is good for horseradish grater cleaning. Condensed milk lasts longer with the top left open to air. Spermacetia in boiled starch adds gloss. borax stiffens starch. Pineapples should be sliced then pared to remove eyes with less waste. Do not wash white silk knit underwear in warm water or resinous soap. Use tepid water, white soap, and iron dry to prevent yellowing.
White Steamers Use Kerosene as Fuel
The White Steam Car makers demonstrated kerosene as fuel on the 1909 Glidden Tour from Detroit to Denver to Kansas City covering 2650 miles. Observers noted lower fuel cost, no smoke, easy handling, and successful nonstop operation with minimal repairs, boosting demand for the White models.
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White Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Detroit
Denver
Kansas City
Pinkerton
New York Sun
Convention Hall
Ten States
Middle West
Right eous indignation and a teething remedy note
A quirky public exchange uses informal slang about “right eous indignation” and a child teething remedy. It references Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as top choice for teething pain. Paris underground railways move 35 000 daily with 32 miles in use and 25 more miles under review.
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Mrs. Winslow
Paris
Strong Winds and Sand Storms Cause Eye Granulation
PET TIT S EYE SALVE provides quick relief for eyelid irritation from wind and sand. 25 cents. Available at all druggists or Award Bros Buffalo New York.
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Pettit
Award Bros
Buffalo
N. Y
Hemmed In Rankin Advocates Opening Savings Account
Fyle wonders why Rankin has not opened a savings account while noting their spending account has been shut down. The dialogue shows concern over financial access and the need to manage money.
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Rankin
Stage show prompt features slender man in female disguise
Maybelle remarks on a performer in disguise as a woman. Gladys notes the appearance is up to date and mentions the person lacks hips.
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Maybelle
Gladys
Meemster and the Kirk Contributions in Sanbeth
In rough dialogue the text notes a lack of attendance at church in Sanbeth and a speaker claims only a shilling to donate, implying modest means for church contributions. The Cleveland Leader fragment reflects a regional Scots tone and community scene.
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Kirk
Sandy
Cleveland
Well Supplied
A social exchange reveals two women contrasting leisure and labor. One relies on music while the other balances music with sweeping dusting sewing and dishwashing, illustrating different approaches to time and work.
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Louisville Courier Journal
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