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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1888
Page
4
A collage of household tips and farm guidance detailing food prep like potato handling for stews, dates in milk for date pie, Indian Suet Pudding, Orange Cake and Orange Holly Polly, plus advice on root crops, seed corn, dress washing, and creating decorative flower holders. It also covers permanent pasture seeding with grasses, cautioning against early grazing to protect new growth.
An article describes a free ing kettle with a wire basket to fry chips for large groups. It notes four to eight quart capacities, a smooth design, and the need for a slicing device, towels, and careful handling. It mentions the Saratoga Revere Beach Nantasket chips as inferior substitutes.
Guidance for butter producers on proper packaging labeling and storage to ensure quality. It warns against mixed colors in tubs, improper brine use, overworking, and poor salting, noting how trier testing reveals defects and potential rancidity. It cites stencil tracking, clean labeling, and temperature controls as essential.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece lampoons the curio market from antiques to fakes. It notes Americans produce fake Japanese ware and Chinese bronzes, while some claim aged relics from distant lands. The column mocks inflated values and swindling as buyers chase novelty.
A dialog notes a husband who rebukes his wife only in two cases. The friend asks for the two circumstances and the husband replies he is rude when she reproaches him and when she does not reproach him. The exchange centers on marital conduct and social etiquette.
Mime Soliere, a beautiful avalatte woman and wife of a French professor, has passed her examination and is acknowledged as a Junior of the Paris faculty.
A masculine writer surveys what makes a woman ideal and why tastes differ. He cites Adelaide Neilson as a rare cross gender favorite, notes that Langtry and Mary Anderson fare poorly with women, and discusses beauty styles and feminine traits shaping affection and admiration.
A fragmentary exchange shows a wife facing illness in the family and a husband reacting with laughter. The tone suggests a domestic moment about interrupted plans and concern over a relative’s sickness.
A Sumerville Journal report records a bank cashier insisting discrepancies lie not in accounts but in cash handling. The statement emphasizes confidence in ledgers while blaming cash flow issues for any errors.
The Wisconsin Central Line offers courteous employees and superior sleeping dining cars and day couches. Departures from principal terminals are convenient and depots are centrally located making it the most desirable route between Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis and surrounding points.
A Cleveland Press feature explains kidney function and blood purification. It extols Warner's Safe Cure as a radical, scientific blood purifier for kidney disease and lists anecdotal testimonials from various individuals claiming health restoration.
Special land excursions in May and June offer greatly reduced rates from Chicago Peoria St Louis and all stations to Nebraska Kansas Minnesota Dakota and Colorado east of Akron and Sterling. Visit government lands fertile districts of central north western and north eastern Colorado and Minnesota Dunketacj and more. Tickets valid 60 days with liberal step over privileges.
The Missouri Pacific Railway offers low rate excursions to Kansas and Nebraska points forty miles west and south of the Missouri River. Tickets are one fare for the round trip, valid on May 5 7 2 3 and June 5 6 10 17, good for 40 days with ample stopover privileges. Contact NL BR Waewre R 131 Vine St Cincinnati Ohio for details.
A fragment notes a pupil kept after school for spelling and orthography and jokes about being spell bound. It then advertises Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion fever and ague debility constipation rheumatism and kidney troubles widely promoted in the period.
The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route announce a series of discounted excursions to Texas and Arkansas. Travel is offered on May 7 and 23, and June 1. Tickets are valid sixty days for return with ample stopovers allowed. N. K. Warwick, D. P.A., Fi Vine St., Cincinnati, O. Anza carate boom prediction and various ads follow.
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