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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
4
A garbled relic runs through curious phrases about a Paris diamond cross and stolen gems, a strange prayer reference, and odd museum curios. The prose hints at miscommunication, a political note, and a contortionist anecdote, all mixed in a jumble of stray quotes and captions.
Baltimore February 21. The Lorrimer Institute led by Wm Chas Keene reports widespread results from its popular hair treatment. Free trial kits are mailed to applicants, with information on restoring growth and improving hair condition. Address requests to Branch 217 Baltimore Md for a no charge trial carton.
Mrs Pelle De Rivera recounted at a dinner a tale about a public school boy's winter mischief. A teacher scolded Jimmy for a sticky cheek and ordered him to wash. The boy set out to the yard, found a mud puddle, washed, and returned with a rag.
In Blugville a baseball game scene unfolds with banter as Jim Ant-Ran and a fellow react to an approaching officer nicknamed the fig cop, creating a humorous moment during the event.
A garbled excerpt mentions visitors and names such as Ge ieee tar and Mel Caters Cure. The speaker asks where they were seen and replies they were at the plumbers, with a remark on a remarkable sight and casual chatter about attendants and locations.
A garbled page fragment presents assorted musings and aphorisms. It mentions Sam Ge at Drug Stores and Fuller and Gartiehd Tea mixed with health talk. The text pivots on opinions and restraint, noting that strife can corrupt both sides.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as uniquely effective for women's suffering. It cites a Lynn Massachusetts laboratory with over a million letters from women praising cures and says the remedy saves some from surgery and is harmless, made only from roots and herbs.
An old kitchen guide explains making rich puff pastry with flour butter salt and cold water then rolling folding and chilling the dough seven times for even rise. It also describes a luncheon dish using leftover stewed chicken and biscuits cut to form a lid filled with chicken parsley and baked until tender.
A step by step recipe describes selecting a plump fowl, stuffing with parsley pistachio sausage meat and cooked sausage, seasoning with pepper salt mace and herbs, braising in water until tender, deboning, then assembling with sausage and herbs, pressing overnight and serving cold with browned pork fat gravy, potatoes and onions.
Prepare two ounces ham or tongue ears and half an ounce cream salad dressing. Butter small mokis or cups and line with the mixture. Scatter chopped ham or tongue and parsley. Season with pepper and salt. Break an egg into each mold and bake until set. Serve on a salad with cream dressing and beetroot garnish.
Instructions describe making a starch based sauce with eggs and milk, flavored with lemon or vanilla, and a broiled young guinea hen brushed with oil or butter, served with parsley butter watercress and cranberry jelly. Includes potato stuffing from mashed potato and bread.
A home recipe describes filling glass jars with half sized cucumbers and preparing a pickling solution from one gallon vinegar, one cup salt, one cup sugar, and one cup mustard. Mix thoroughly before use.
Sago Blancmange: soak five ounces of sago in 1 pint water for four hours. Drain excess water, then simmer with 1 pint boiling milk with three ounces sugar. Cook gently until translucent, flavor with vanilla, color with batchel cochizes, then mold and unmold to serve.
Mrs Mary Hinson of Strother Street Sterling Ky credits Deens Kidney Pills with restoring her eyesight and curing chronic headaches dizziness and back pain. She notes rapid improvement after starting the remedy and urges others to try it as sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A disheveled man staggered from a Maine speak easy and slumped on the sidewalk while passersby watched. A pedestrian noted the fallen man and alerted the proprietor, who emerged and asked what was wrong as the man slept. The incident ended with the man snoring and the onlooker reporting the fallen sign to the proprietor.
Fragmented excerpts discuss Fahrenheit the thermometer pioneer and his standards, a Morning Poems note on four poems daily, a laundress misaddressed letters, and a child’s Sunday School tale about God with ears like a corn stalk. The pieces reflect light literary miscellany in a periodical.
A Nebraska woman extols Grape-Nuts and Postum after seven years of use. She credits the cereal with improving her health, notes her children eat it three times daily, and claims it is economical and palatable while replacing tea or coffee.
An advertisement touts a family magazine almanac offering beauty culture manicuring weights measures and remedies alongside varied amusements for households especially rural readers. It mentions porcelain discoveries and a free subscription upon request and hints at light humor and social entertainment.
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