Prune Charlotte and Vintage Kitchen Preserves
Step by step home canning and cooking notes cover prunes onions corn and tomatoes with bread and butter pudding flavors. Recipes outline linings jars boiling water sealing and basic sweet and savory dishes with cream ham cheese cocoa and grape juice processing.
Sugar Butter Icing With Lemon Flavor
Mix two tablespoons of soft butter into a cupful of fine powdered sugar. Beat until soft and white. Add lemon juice and a pinch of nutmeg or preferred flavoring. Set the mix in the ice chest to harden until needed.
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Seth
No Egg Gingerbread Recipe Card
A historic quick gingerbread mix uses one cup molasses two tablespoons sugar two good tablespoons lard or butter one teaspoon soda beaten with ginger cinnamon salt and a tablespoon vinegar add one cup cold water flour to thicken resulting batter.
Apple and Fig Preserve Mash
Peel and grate a large sour apple then add one pound of chopped figs and a small cup of sugar. Boil the mixture to a paste and store in tin jelly glasses for future use.
Sugar and Butter Mixture for Cake Batter
A list describes a basic batter ratio with three cups of sugar, one cup of butter, half a cup of sweet milk, ten eggs, and one teaspoonful of baking powder sifted with the flour.
Peanut Powder Paste with Butter
Freshly roasted peanuts are ground into a fine powder. Stir in half as much butter and mix until smooth into a paste.
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Stell
Domestic hints and curiosities from a vintage column
A collage of household tips and curiosities from a bygone era. Advice ranges from culinary tricks such as dipping fried mush in egg white for crispness and peppering halibut, to lamp cleaning with dry salt, vanilla bean in sugar, and keeping fruit jars on sugar to flavor. Other notes include fashioning earthenware clothing by Brazilians, public sketching bans in London, health claims about doctors, and ads for land, medicines, and curiosities.
Global snippets hint at mining, science and travel
The survey covers tin supply rises led by the Straits Settlements, mining safety laws, school dust control in France, a golden wedding in Tourcoing, wild bears near Smyrna, boar hunts near Sam, a German patent for self lighting matches, cinema eye strain termed cinematophthalmia, debate over Cook and Peary pole dates, garden chrysanthemum trends, Victoria Australia marriage licenses, Manila hotel bonds, a rat trap using electricity, baton history, ancient Aramean coin claims, France’s medical student growth, and protection plans for St Piran's Oracery in Perranzabuloe.
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France
Smyrna
Sam
Cook
Victoria
Australia
Philippines
Manila
New York
England
Various old news items and medical/testimonial notes
A collection of short items includes testimonials praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's health, assorted curiosities about world notes on orange blossoms and Holland land reclamation, a Denver teachers' association event, Chinese cavalry pay and horse care, minor city observations, and a floor operated beam drilling machine patent for electricians and plumbers.
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Louisville, Ky
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Mrs. Law’l LE
Fourth St
Cure for eczema proved by Cuticura remedies
A mother reports her child’s severe eczema cleared after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, with the rash completely gone in about two months. The note, dated September 26 to November 4, 1907, cites multiple doctors’ failures prior to the treatment.
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Cutieura
George L. Lambert
West Centre St
Mahanoy City
Norv
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Postum Versus Coffee Claims Health Benefit
A testimonial letter extols Postum over coffee, noting indigestion relief and better sleep after switching. The author says coffee caused distress, while Postum provided steady, easy preparation and family-wide well being.
Deafness Cure Claims and Odd News Briefs
A medical ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and offers $100 for any case not cured. A Belgian pigeon trainer pursues swallows as faster messengers. New York Court of Appeals rules seating carries people not luggage and grip owners can claim seats. In Prussia a burglar is convicted by teeth marks in an apple found on the thief.
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M. Summers
Bright
Haarlem
Ieee Woo
Goshen
Ert
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tie
Hall
Court of Appeals of
New York
Prussia
Cruel Joke Sends Men On Futile Job Hunt
A New Yorker’s cruel hoax advertised jobs for thirty able bodied men at an address, then the proprietor denied any ad. The panicked workers walked or rode fares, finding no work and questioning mankind. The incident condemns thoughtless pranksters who sow despair and slander.
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Fnllanapolis Star
Legal Rules on Rail Liability and Freight Cases
A compilation of railroad liability holdings from U S cases across Florida New York California and North Carolina addressing insurer liability for livestock damage breach of warranty by consignor negligent conduct of brakemen injuries to workers and duties of railroad operators to prevent harm. The notes cover Summerties v Seaboard Air Line and related rulings including derailment cab riding hazards and child injury from unattended push cars on public streets.
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Seaboard Air Line R. Ca
Fla
N. S
Magon
Nelson
N. C
S&s. Bh
Henson
Lehigh Valley R. Co
N. Y
N. BE
Clark
Colorado & N. W. BR Co
Cahill
BE. B. & A L. Stone & Co
Hat Blow Leads to Vast New Cave in South Dakota
A rancher on the Madock property in Pennington County finds a cave mouth when his hat blows away during a walk. Explorations uncover a potentially larger cave system near Wind Cave, with limestone walls blocking progress. Wind Cave is government owned and part of a national park.
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Black Hills
Pennington County
South Dakota
Black Hilla
Charlies Maddeck
Maddock
Cowvo
United States
National Park
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