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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
8
An advertisement column notes Tyree Antiseptic Powder for skin irritation, priced 25c and mailed free by Tyree Chemist of Washington DC. It also promotes Mrs Winslow's Teething Syrup, claiming soothing, anti inflammatory and wind colic relief for children. The piece includes brief quotes and a humorous dialogue fragment.
Mrs Edith Schwartz reports her child’s eczema began with pimples on the lower limbs and worsened with itching and burning. After trying several remedies a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition in ten days. Advertisement notes Cuticura sold worldwide with a Skin Book offer.
Hair fashion swings back to height but not as extreme as eighteenth century. The text recalls Marie Antoinette’s era with towering styles forcing doorways to rise. It mentions Mme de Genlis near Voltaire and the Duchess de Chartres displaying miniature figures in elaborate updos.
Boston painter Joseph Knowles plans to live undressed and unaided in northern Maine this month. He aims to survive until October 1 fifty to sixty miles from settlements, with no outside help, making fire by friction, a log cabin, and traps from woodland materials.
A reader touts Grape-Nuts as perfect for babies and adults, recounting use after doctors doubted condensed milk. She details a preparation method and claims improved health for her infant, praising the product in a testimonial about its tastiness and restorative effects.
An article outlines a plan for a church fair fundraiser with magazine donations, advertising commissions, and themed booths. It details product ideas from The Literary Digest to St. Nicholas, plus a Hobby Party where guests display favorite fads, sparking交流 and exchanges among attendees.
An informal moving in shower hosted by Polly and her friend celebrates single life with a playful mock engaged girl theme. Guests arrive with small gifts and supplies for a tiny home, including shelf paper, cleaning items, and pantry goods, making a cheerful, self supporting event.
A cautionary verse warns to guard speech and avoid gossip by carefully restricting one’s tongue. It urges all ages to practice discretion to prevent harm from reckless words.
A selection of recipes includes Grape Sherbet with gelatin, Dutch Rabbit with currant jelly glaze, Roast Duck and Rice, Tuttl Frutt Pudding rich in suet and cream, and Cherry Ice with cherry kernels. The piece ends by stressing that scientific cookery underpins intellectual work as much as paper making and printing.
A brief catalog of summer desserts with gelatine bases and a Frangipan Pie. Banana Cream uses bananas and lemon juice folded into thickened cream, then chilled. Frangipan Pie layers crusts with flavored whipped cream and optional fruit or nuts. Fruit Blanc Mange blends corn starch with milk and sugar, then coats fruit or serves with cream.
Notes mix taxonomies on fuel from distilling alcohol for engines and the odd comment on the stork as the rare bird. A brief, scattered set of quotes and reflections on learning and experience appears amid garbled text.
A compact humor piece weaves quips about pets romances and dreams. Banter moves through aviators dogs signs and jewelry with quick punchlines and light social row humor.
Mothers urged to inspect every bottle of Castoria for the signature In Use For Over 30 Years. Children cry for Fletcher s Castoria and seek the familiar remedy from infancy through childhood.
A shy suitor asks for his future father in law’s approval for marriage. The father tests income and finds it sufficient, even joking about occasional gifts from the bride’s father. The suitor asserts capability, and the father consents.
A late scene unfolds with Mr Staylate lingering as the family keeps wakeful routine. Minnie refuses to sing before breakfast citing superstition that it is unlucky to sing early.
The 1913 Fostoria scene reports deputy Ohio auditor W. E. Baker claiming honey bees near Fostoria have contracted an opium habit from poppy beds. Residents say bees abandon clover to raid poppies, work briefly then collapse as if stupefied, a curious anecdote from a New York Sun dispatch.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch letter argues men should be free to wear jewelry such as bracelets earrings and even nose rings if they desire. The writer reframes the issue as a test of American custom and individual expression.
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