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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1904
Page
7
Charles M. Booth of Englewood New Jersey just turned 100 and says he is the oldest life insurance policy holder in the United States. He was insured in 1843 in a company then newly organized and still operating. Piso’s Cure is described as a cod liver oil medicine that has cured coughs and colds for forty years at 25 cents a bottle.
A sarcastic exchange unfolds as a museum manager challenges a man marketing himself as a professor of physiognomy. The challenger notes the claim is a rank imposture while recounting a jab about judging his wife’s chin.
A recipe details making meat pies with suet and butter pastry and cooking method. The text also discusses la grippe and promotes Peruna as a treatment with multiple testimonials from named individuals, including Mrs. Weinberger, J R Guill, Silas Lincoln, Alice Dressler, Miss Jean Cowgill, and Judge Horatio J. Goss, plus an invitation to contact Dr. Hartman for advice.
A busy housewife benefits from a mechanical flour sifter that speeds bread making. The device holds the sifter in one hand while a single hand cranks a ring mechanism attached to the handle. The ring loosens and breaks up flour to pass through the sifting screen.
Cut all meat from four cold fowls into dice. For each cup of meat add half cup of celery cut in half inch lengths. Season with salt and pepper and moisten with French dressing. Toss well and serve in a chilled lettuce lined salad bowl with rich mayonnaise. If fowls are small use six fowls.
Combine one quart grape juice with half teaspoon clove extract and lemon juice. Freeze, then fold in stiff egg whites. Pack in a border mold with buttered paper and ice salt for two hours. Serve by filling center with small cakes, crown with grapes, unfold onto lace napkin. What to eat.
Wash one quart of cranberries and cook with boiling water for ten minutes. Add one pound of sugar and cook five minutes more. Rub through a sieve, wet small cups in cold water, fill molds, and let jelly set. The result is a firm bright jelly.
Practical tips cover keeping milk from scorching by boiling with soda in milk, brightening tins with hot soda water and whiting, rinsing pans before boiling milk, extending parsley in a cool jar, salt on dish spots and claret stains, avoiding starch to prevent clo thes rot, and soft soap on putty to remove glass panes.
It is a significant fact that with the phenominal increase in the price of coffins has come a marked decrease of mortality among local Chinese. The natives just cannot afford to die at the present undertaking rates.
A promotional note touts a cream separator that works in nine minutes leaving minimal butter fat and priced at two dollars each. The writer urges readers to obtain the John A Saltier Seed Co catalog for more on this machine and other farm seeds.
A tersely worded, decades old Chicago snippet shows Remus asking Sam about experience with wives and Sam replying only of raising mules. The fragment then shifts to an unrelated ad like closing line about nervousness and a Dr R H Kline in Philadelphia offering a free trial battle and treaties.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution describes Mars Tom as the happiest man, famed for spending three fourths of his time hunting and gathering food to eat. The tone mocks or highlights a frontier lifestyle with dialect.
A stained water bottle should be cleaned by adding tea leaves and a tablespoonful of vinegar then shaking well. Rinse thoroughly with clear water. If stains persist, let the tea leaves and vinegar sit for several hours and use a bottle brush to finish.
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