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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
4
A period style column offers easily prepared dishes and home remedies. It covers sour milk pancakes with whole wheat flour, a night batter method, and a balancing routine. It then lists lotions for baldness and skin whitening, hair care, hand care, nail and wrinkle tips, plus a regimen of baths and gentle cleansing to maintain a youthful appearance.
Instructional items describe preparing large chickens by stewing with fat meat, then scalloped calves brains in individual shells with eggs and cracker crumbs, and making whole wheat muffins. It includes kitchen cleanup tips, a grease stain remedy, and several sandwich ideas with Neufchatel cheese, mushrooms, and lunch-box friendly fillings.
A spring 1717 blizzard in New England dumped ten to twenty feet of snow, burying homes and paths. Wildlife raided farms as bears and wolves pressed deer protection efforts. many houses and chimneys vanished under snowdrifts. A Newbury man walked through deep drifts to surprise a sweetheart three miles away, marking the era’s harsh winter ordeal.
Mothers of young children are urged to prevent croup by giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the first sign of hoarseness or even after the onset of a harsh cough. The ad claims the remedy dispels all symptoms and avoids anxious days, praising its safety and popularity with thousands of mothers. For sale by all druggists.
An antique ad touts Hledzic Bitters from Albert L Perrie's Drug Store as a remedy for indigestion appetite stomach liver and kidney troubles. It claims quick relief and compares favorably to other tonics, noting suitability for rheumatic pains and general aches.
In a Christmas week recollection the writer recalls childhood yesteryears with Dan Steiner and friends, notes festive town events, church services, gifts, and coal stock. The Missouri Girl appears at the Opera House, junior hall dances, Sunday school entertainments, and county celebrations mark a holiday season full of warmth and reflection as 1902 ends and 1903 nears.
Professor Robert T. Hill outlines five major active volcanic regions in the western hemisphere. He identifies the Andean chain in western South America, a belt across southern Mexico, the Central American group along Guatemala to Costa Rica, the Windward Islands, and the volcanoes of Alaska and the Aleutian chain, with gaps between groups marked by nonvolcanic zones.
A Yorkshire coal miner nervously asks a girl to marry by joking he has insured his life. She teases him about his lack of a wife, and he finally reveals his plan to leave his future money to her. They celebrate and go to tell her mother.
A Glasgow clergyman and a country youth share a sharp joke aboard a train. The youth declares he is both a coupler and uncoupler, outwitting the minister with a sly quip about marrying and joining folks. The passage ends with a note on perseverance of young eels overcoming flood barriers like Thames gates.
The Detroit Free Press reports a warm Sunday sermon where the minister rebukes the audience for attending to unimportant matters. He warns that followers fret over comfort and may face death tomorrow if they neglect the holy word.
A fragment discussing belief in a Scottish scientist's claim about chess's cultural link. It notes that nations with the most chess play are more civilized, citing Spain's Renaissance era as a peak and suggesting few people in some regions care for the game. It mentions "Atehionn Gale" and "Philp Sidney" in garbled phrases.
A newspaper snippet discusses cattle feeding with shelled corn or broken corn, favoring broken grain if steers can chew it. It covers grinding crushing or soaking options, hogs following cattle, and the value of roots in winter rations. Also mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and assorted local ads and notices including an annual stockholders meeting and credit notices.
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