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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
6
Edward Singer recalls a late night visit at Idy Winn family home in Indianapolis. A flustered daughter and a beau interrupt a quiet household as Idy pleads for calm and helps tidy the room. The memory ends with a tender reflection on old times and a whispered reunion.
In a mid June bus encounter, Jessie Poell crushes strawberries and meets Robert Armstrong. Their awkward first exchange becomes a fateful connection, unveiling Charlie Bourchier’s engagement to Emmie and an accidental path to marriage.
A new device adapts the microphone to vault security by wiring it to a bank safe to transmit faint drilling sounds to a watchman via telephone line. Major telephone manufacturers plan to market the system. A stray quip ends with a comic exchange from the Chicago Post. People who boast of honesty will bear watching.
The article explains skilled cut glass work requiring a long apprenticeship. It describes glass sourcing, cutting, and finishing steps including roughing smoothing and polishing. It notes the fragility of thin glass and the durability and value of cut glass, plus recent novelties like mushroom stoppers and rose down patterns. It emphasizes artistry, technique, and the demand for high salaries in this craft.
The British vice-consul at Lezhory highlights a curious industry centered on Orris root beads. Exports have dropped from 20,000,000 to 4,000,000 area as the root is used in medical dressings and self crafted “fingers” for teething. Fragrant grains are shipped to Germany and Austria for incense. Professor Cook contends the coconut proves civilization began in America.
A New York Commercial Advertiser item discusses sunless northern windows and houseplants that thrive without direct light. It also covers homemade violet powder using laundry starch and essential oils, plus a method to sterilize preserves with two upright water-filled cylinders and an iron base, touted as a simple household contrivance.
A reader guide warns that serious burns require a physician if possible. If unavailable, apply varnish to seal the wound, or use a cold water rinse and a thin paste of charcoal or egg white with sweet air. Do not apply antiseptics or products causing stinging and ensure the burn is gently covered.
Dried Beef in Brown Sauce pull in to small pieces half a box of canned fried beef. make a coffee cupful of the sauce color it with a tea spoon of kitchen bouquer add beer heat well and serve with parsley border. Orance cookies bake quickly with nutter sugar and flour and spices. Corn meal mesh bread uses corn meal mush with egg whites beaten and baked. Chocolate Charlotte mixes gelatine chocolate and cream with whipped egg whites and sugar then molds with sponge cake and chills.
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