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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
15
An advertisement urges women to seek help from Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It promises confidential advice from women and touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female illnesses.
Denmark has 187 soldiers per 10000 people, the largest proportion for a country. Also notes Monaco as the smallest European army. Plus brief product pitches for Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Ends with a claim about Yakutsk as the coldest city.
A speaker at a political gathering recently spoke with emotion about missing old faces he used to shake hands with. He brushed away a tear and recalled past acquaintances, as quoted by the London Globe.
The Atlas Engine Works of Indianapolis boasts a fifty horsepower boiler and engine outfit every thirty minutes of the workday. Visitors see twenty acre boiler yards and ten to twelve trainloads daily shipping engines worldwide. The plant illustrates rapid mechanical evolution, with advances in valves, governors, and direct connected shafts, while offering every boiler type from fifteen horsepower horizontals to Atlas water tube units.
The article notes locomotives can move 200 tons per mile every three minutes. It describes a team repairing a ten ton vehicle to haul one ton for one mile, illustrating intensified labor efforts.
An advertisement touts Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers as a drug free cure for belching sour eructations and stomach troubles. It claims rapid relief, gas absorption, disinfection of the stomach, and improved digestion with heart action becoming stronger and regular.
It notes that many women choose Monday for washday though Tuesday is preferable for sorting laundry removing stains and mending linens. The piece argues the extra day allows stain removal before it sets and repairs before washing.
To brighten gilt frames take flour of sulphur enough to color one and a half pints of water Add four or five bruised onions. Strain the liquid and, when cold, wash the gilding with a soft brush. When dry the frame will shine as bright as new.
Describes a variety of common kitchen tools including marble pastry slabs, sink strainers, salad washers, dish drainers, small pastry brushes, egg beaters, and removable bottoms on cake and pie tins, noting endless styles and sizes available for household use.
A kitchen staple, sharp scissors, is described as a versatile tool for trimming lampwicks and various food tasks. The piece notes scissors save labor and can handle trimming bacon, ham winds, and fowls, as well as salads, though not for paper.
A thrifty method for cleaning feathers from chickens and other fowl. After picking and washing in multiple waters, scalding if needed, feathers are dried sun or oven dry, then beaten in a stout bag to fluff them. Proper cleaning removes decomposition and leaves a sweet smell.
A home recipe excerpt describes Maple Sugar Rolls with a crust of flour salt baking powder butter milk and a filling of citron walnuts and maple sugar, then rolled and sliced to bake. It also covers Orange Cream Pie layers of oranges cream whipped with gelatin and sugar, and Veal Loaf a savory mix of minced veal pork onion thyme marjoram salt pepper cracker crumbs veal gravy and eggs.
A reflective line notes that a person who expects all things easily is unlikely to be surprised by anything. It cautions against complacency and urges awareness of life’s unexpected moments.
Patient reports throat irritation turning to bronchitis, notes relief after using Peruna two years ago and ongoing checks with Peruna to avoid choking sensations. Doctor consulted in each case.
Seventy two year old Robert Schoenhauer of Newburgh New York describes severe blood poisoning and a foot injury treated with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. After two weeks the foot healed completely and onlookers doubted his recovery. Ad dated August 1905.
The nickname Yankee traces to Native American attempts at rendering Jenglish as Yanghies and Yen ghies. In 1775 British soldiers used Yankee and Yank to refer to American colonists in an offensive vein.
The article notes that tea was cultivated in China 2,700 years before the Christian era, highlighting early agricultural development and regional use.
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