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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1905
Page
6
An Austrian inventor has developed a celluloid material usable for hats and delicate flowers. The hats resemble traditional styles yet resist heavy showers and look better after rain. Used in Germany, notably Vienna, they could be popular in London’s rainy seasons where drizzle ruins bonnets.
The advertisement touts Cuticura Soap as the world’s greatest skin soap used by millions. It promotes Cuticura Ointment as a pure emollient for preserving and beautifying skin, cleansing scalps, stopping hair loss, softening rough hands, soothing rashes and chafing, and serving nursery needs for mothers and general toiletry.
A financier urges frugality to his anxious spouse over a $1000 bill for fall bats while a wife defends her own economies. The era’s mood blends humor with penny pinching as ads tout cures and products from Dr. Kline to Piso and Laxative Bromo Quinine, reflecting early 20th century consumer culture.
A dated home recipe describes Househeld Airs Meat Roll using chopped meat crackers and dough made with meat broth, baked in a deep pan. It also details Milk Soup made from a quart of milk, salt, cinnamon, sugar and egg yolks, scalded and warmed in a water bath, aimed at delicate persons and children.
A recipe for baked scallops prepared in shells with salt lemon juice parsley and bread crumbs plus a rice enriched pudding using corn meal milk sugar molasses ginger nutmeg raisins and citron folded with sour milk and flour. The scallops bake about twenty minutes while the pudding cooks three hours in a moderate oven.
A Northwest horticulturist urges adding multiple bathrooms in mid sized houses arguing they boost health and comfort. He says one or two baths are insufficient for most households and suggests replacing parlor space with extra baths, criticizing conventional home design.
Practical household guidance covers keeping table linens clean without hot soapy soaking to avoid stains, storing pumpkins above freezing, keeping cheese moist with vinegar, preventing floor paint streaks, renewing willow furniture with sulfur fumes, and maintaining writing desk supplies like ink and envelopes to prevent missed correspondence.
Between the sound and silence comes a lift of the heart. The poem speaks of pain woven into love art and joy as life’s quiet moments reveal meaning beyond thought. The restless search ends, and a sudden uplift occurs between living and day.
A humorous anecdote shows censorship in Italy when Ermete Novelli’s grandson news is blocked. A Florence-born father questions public order as a telegraph to his father reveals a boy. War correspondents joke about novels at headquarters while a Boston Herald note mocks “Forty Liars.” An ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for cures.
Letters from Sisters of Charity across the United States praise Peruna for easing catarrh and throat loss of voice in young girls under their care. A Detroit Catholic institution commends Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio for relief and aims to share a free book about the remedy.
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