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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
4
In 1860 I moved to Missouri and met Cy Paddock whose cheerful laugh won neighbors over. When guerrillas attacked, Paddock led a pursuit and, after his wife and children were killed, his laughter turned demonic as he exacted vengeance on the attackers.
A narrator attends a ball with Reginald Keen and spots a mirrored double sister wearing a white rose. The lookalike flirts with Reginald, who betrays the narrator by embracing the other woman. The narrator reveals her red rose, signaling refusal, and confronts the scene with jealousy and accusation.
Guidance on darning stockings before holes form. Instructions cover darned thin places on the wrong side with loops at both edges. For large holes, apply strong net before stitching to keep wear neat and comfortable.
A wartime era care note says petroleum or kerosene removes stains from furniture. Wet a muslin rag with crude petroleum and rub the spot, letting it soak. Repeat if needed. use petroleum for polishing oak to avoid odor after rubbing.
When a fire lasts hours bake apple sauce in an earthen pot. Use sweet or medium sour apples, pared and quartered, with two to three tablespoons of molasses and enough sugar. Add one cup water, cover, and bake five hours to yield a dark red sauce.
Instructions describe boiling water with brown sugar saltpeter and salt then cooling. Beef is soaked in the pickle for ten days, washed, coated with bran, and hung to smoke for three weeks over a smoldering fire using hickory or oak chips.
A step by step home method describes stretching gloves onto a board then rubbing soiled areas with cream of tartar or magnesia. After resting an hour, rub with a mixture of alum and fuller's earth, brush clean, rest again, apply bran whiting with flannel, then shake and brush to finish.
Cleaning Kettles describes loosening chalky deposits by heating an empty kettle over a clear fire, then preventing furring with a marble or oyster shell. Tooth Powder provides a mix of orms root, camphorated chalk, eucalyptus oil, and storage guidance in an airtight tin.
A small amount of pipe clay dissolved in washing water reduces labor and soap while cleaning the dirtiest linen thoroughly. The method is especially helpful when outdoor bleaching is not possible.
This item lists a remedy mix including tincture of aux vomica two grams salicylate of soda five drams and essence of pep sin to yield four ounces with a suggested adult dose of one teaspoonful every two or three hours. The passage reflects period medical formulations and dosing guidance.
Those troubled by yellow skin and biliousness may find an excellent remedy in phosphate of soda. Take one teaspoonful in a wineglass of hot water two or three times a day.
A farm tale of Farmer Johnson trading livestock for oxen, two days of stubborn plowing, and a dramatic resolution led by a temperate minister. The scene includes the widow Barnes, a village church, and a turn toward gentleness as oxen finally move the plow with calm guidance. The tale ends with the minister reconsidering his own actions and choosing restraint.
The twenty six year old assistant pastor at Christ church Robbindale accepts a call to the Second Church of M where his mother lives. The new post carries a four thousand dollar salary and ties him to a leading church benefactor. His move unsettles Robbindale church members who valued old ties and closed circles. FLORENCE ETHEL CROSBY.
A Paris masked ball party rides in a car through the city at dawn. Marie de Tour, a provincial student, fears the fast pace and strange lights as companions urge speed. A crash follows after a red light and a timber obstacle. only Marie survives, while others die. Marie returns home and condemns Paris nightlife.
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