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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1912
Page
3
Mrs. Wm Hols mann of Chicago writes that a lifelong throat and bronchial cough, once feared as consumption, improved after three bottles of Peruna. She reports better appetite, less coughing, and chest pain relief, praising the remedy and recommending it to others.
A Chicago woman credits Grape-Nuts with ending a five year doctor visit cycle. She says after starting the cereal five years ago she recovered from indigestion headaches nervousness and rheumatism and can do her work at home. Her husband also reports improved strength during his night shifts.
William A. Radford offers free readers questions on building topics. The piece discusses cottage style versus two story houses, foundation and roof costs, and how to fit comfort, layout, and modern living into a cozy four room down and three upstairs plan with a $2,700 target. It notes prefernces for living rooms over parlors and the value of open front spaces and ventilated interiors.
An early tuberculosis warning argues night sweats arise not from tubercle bacilli in the lungs but from poisons absorbed in a disordered digestive tract. It says cleansing the gut stops the sweats, and with proper nutrition and fresh air the disease gradually improves.
Martha McCulloch Williams presents a festive menu suitable for paper bag cooking during winter. Recipes include Blue Fish or Sea Trout on a plank with a buttered bag, double sirloin roast in a bag, baked squash, cold beets, slaw, and a rich cantilever of side dishes. Desserts feature plum pudding, nut candy, stuffed dates, and a rum baked apple dessert.
A 1911 Associated Press feature describes methods for repurposing roast beef into bag baked dishes and puddings. It covers shaping meat in paper bags, layering with onions potatoes and eggs, and finishing with crusts sauces and tomatoes. Extra recipes include rice pudding and meat balls baked in bags for children and family feasts.
The excerpt jokes about speakers at dinners and quips about bromide and laxative bromine guinine. It mentions E W gE signature and a World spread to curse a cold in one day. A social line about marriage expectations and a flirtation exchange appears. Dr Pierce’s Pellets advertising claims aid digestion and constipation relief.
A stylish physician breezily asks the patient what ails him and the patient replies with uncertainty asking what is new. The light dialogue captures a humorous exchange between two well dressed characters.
Professor Twiggs claims habit shapes man as Old Codger agrees. Canute J. Babson is noted to be run over by the same car twice yet returns home along the same lane at about the same hour after consuming similar amounts of hard cider.
An ethnologist says leap year exists year round in Papua because Pa pun male ignores courtship while women pursue marriages. He notes men overlook proposals and a girl’s engagement is symbolically branded, while men avoid lovemaking.
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