Homemaking Tips From The Ladies Column
A vintage column offers practical household hacks. Instructions cover cleaning bottles with tea and vinegar, stopping pipe leaks with soap and whiting, refreshing Mackintosh cloaks, renovating a wicker chair with green satin cushions, glazing rolls, making fried breadcrumbs for game, assembling meat and breadcrumb layers for pie, cooking Norfolk dumplings from dough, and preparing a banana syrup using raspberry and red currant juice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackintosh
Two Hoods for Children from Coat Materials
Two hood patterns No 1 and No 2 are described for kids using coat fabrics. No 1 features a back dart that shapes at the neck with gathered fullness, a straight front, and edging of swans down or lambs wool. No 2 offers a jelly bag variation. both are designed for comfort and gentle fit if a child naps inside.
Roast of Lamb and French Grissoles From Old Receipt
A historic recipe describes roasting a leg shoulder or loin of lamb with lard butter and onion in a covered iron pot. It instructs browning, continuous turning, adding water, and cooking evenly, with served mint sauce and balanced vegetables. Also outlines cold meat croquettes with breadcrumbs suet onion pepper and hot sauce.
Export widows trade exposed by Pekin report
A Fengtien correspondent says a Japanese importer has brought about 9000 Japanese widows to China. He offers them as domestic servants or secondary wives. Photographs are shown to buyers who select, the woman weighed, and value set at 60 cents a head.
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Miu
Wifes Punishment From New York Daily Mail report
A Georgia wife, wife of Charles Lloyd, poisons a family tragedy as her lover flees. Lloyd shoots at Davis, misses, then returns and kills their twelve year old son in the hallway. Davis escapes. Lloyd jailed. The mother is barred from viewing the child’s body as neighbors remove the corpse.
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New York
Daily Mail
Georgia
Charles Lloyd
Quitman Plantations
Lloyd
Davis
Priest challenges parishioner over church coal fundraiser
A priest notes Tim Nolan did not contribute to a church coal fund. Nolan retorts with a sly remark, prompting the priest to scold him after service for disrespect. The exchange centers on the fund to heat the church.
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Nolan
Tim
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Kenney
W. Edwards
Chesterfield
Melton
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Hordern Brothers
Federal Glothiers
PITT
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Ment
Grainus
Government House
A.W. Burnet & Co
Kam
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