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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
4
Somerville Nicholson of Northwest Washington claims Peruna cured his chronic ailment and asserts thousands of testimonials from navy figures support its effectiveness. He urges readers to try Peruna and visit Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio for prompt results.
In the September Delineator Isabel Gordon Curtis offers guidance to lighten housework in a series on The Making of a Housewife. The issue also covers domestic items including cookery recipes for Delicious Cream Jellies Decorative Color Salads and The Potato. Alice M. Kellogg explains How to refinishing and Ward Macleal writes Growing Bulbs Indoors.
In North Carolina Sandy Mush Aunt Minty Biers lives alone on a mountain cabin steps. For forty two years she waits for her fiancé Jacob Munhall who went missing during the war days. She believes he will return.
A Colorado man credits stopping coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee for healing heart trouble indigestion and nervousness. He says after quitting coffee his heart steadied his digestion restored and life insurance was no longer a issue. Postum claims a reason explained in The Road to Wellville booklet.
The Rev. Joseph Dunn Burrell preaches on Abraham as God’s friend at Classon Avenue Presbyterian in Brooklyn. He urges readers to like God, share similar tastes, and remain loyal through hardship, citing Damon and Pythias and the historical Friends of God as models. He asks readers to become friends of God rather than merely seeking His gifts.
A religious exhortation emphasizes counting letters from Genesis to Revelation and reading the Bible many times as a measure of devotion. It urges despatch of missionaries to save souls, noting thousands dying daily, and ends with a call to wait on God for salvation and protection through Jesus.
Reverend F B Meyer notes that simple daily acts can shape noble character. He argues the method matters more than the act itself, comparing knitting needles to the material foundation of virtue and beauty.
The passage notes that during illness housewives use thick unbleached cotton comforters, pillows, and boilsters protected with cheap fabric to protect the ticking. It also gives an egg hint: eggs covered with boiling water and left five minutes digest more easily than eggs boiled rapidly for three and a half minutes.
Mending knife handles using resin in the handle cavity after heating the knife part. Potato serving methods include initation New Potatoes in a cheesecloth bag boiled in milk and water, then baked with white sauce. Quick Potatoes with hot cream. and Syracuse Hot Salt Potatoes boiled in brine and drained for mealy texture.
A collection of home baking instructions including Fairy Gingerbread with molasses and ginger, Banded Apples with red jelly, Fricassee Chicken with gravy, Puree of Green Peas, Domino Cakes with chocolate accents, and Orange Pie with custard. Berlin railways run special tree blossom trains for city dwellers to view flowering districts.
An advertisement claims FiTS permanently cured with Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. A $2 trial bottle and treatise are offered. The ad cites testimonials and lists Dr H Kure of Philadelphia and other products for teething and cough relief. The piece also notes manganese glass turns violet in sun and mentions calomel meaning beautiful black.
Mrs Mary Sanders of Camden New Jersey recounts a severe infant skin ailment. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the sores began to heal quickly and the child slept through the night. In one month all sores disappeared.
An advertisement urges buying fresh linseed oil at 60 cents per barrel and mixing with Longman Martinez Paint to reduce cost. A testimonial from James Barron of Rock Hill, S C praises L and M paint for residence work. Also notes a Mary E Lease endorsement of Dean's Kidney Pills with pricing and distributor Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The Chicago Record-Herald says some people refuse to believe that the man who rocks the boat is any more of a fool than the one who wants to run autos a mile a minute on public highways.
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