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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
Jim Gearhart exposes Ryder who built a hydraulic jack powered house that tilts and slides to scare buyers. Ryder planned to sell high then buy back cheap, using Rackstraw as the unwitting victim and Rackstraw’s family as the frightened clients. Gearhart confirms Ryder’s mechanism and motives.
Guests discuss hostess manners and praise Caro lynn’s silver care. She mixes silver polish with alcohol for a brighter finish, rinses mouth pieces with boiling water, and rubs pieces with rough chamois for quick, long lasting shine.
Harper's Weekly reports the advent of locomotive powered trains on level and mountainous roads in France. The system uses a locomotor at the head of the train to drive attached cars via a transmission shaft, enabling each car to use its adhesion. Passenger trains run up to 18 miles per hour on level routes and freight trains reach 9 to 10 miles per hour. If successful, 25 000 communes could gain near rail competition in transport.
The London Lancet commentary argues that loss of thinking power explains early mortality among prosperous middle life. It says a 40 year old businessmans life becomes habitual and he wastes brain energy through sedentary behavior, leading to death from stupidity.
An elderly milkman counsels his son with stark honesty about diluting milk. He warns never to water down milk, but paradoxically advises first adding water to the can to enable a truthful denial when questioned. The teaching emphasizes deceitful practice framed as a defense against inquiry.
The article traces grain expansion from the Atlantic coast inland across settlements to the North Saskatchewan River and the Rockies. It notes the Richelieu valley as a historic wheat field with forty successive crops.
A Boston woman seeking divorce says her husband drinks 60 gallons of whisky a month. The Rochester Herald notes the estimate may be an exaggeration but suggests it would explain high per capita liquor consumption among a sober people.
The piece argues luck as a twisted social evil and asserts that its cure is pluck a warm hearted manly energy that refuses defeat and fights on until victory is achieved.
A recent count shows 1 318 000 people in India depend on state aid. The figure highlights the scale of poverty and social assistance needs across the country.
A detailed apricot souffle method using apricot puree, cream, egg whites, sugar, and lemon juice. The puree is strained, gelatine dissolved in syrup added, then whipped cream and stiff egg whites folded in. The mixture sets in a mold and is chilled before turning out with optional jelly garnish.
Soap well applied to drawer slides prevents sticking in furniture and closets. Varnish linoleum roughly every three months to extend life. Add paraffin to wash water to deter insects. Plunge boiled ham into cold water to make skin easier to remove and hemstitching easier to mend. Keep two hair brushes and wash daily to preserve brightness and gloss.
A summer drink recipe combines pineapple pulp with lemon juice and a thin sugar water syrup. Chill the mixture with ice, then serve in tall glasses after adding ice water.
One box red currants, one box red raspberries, two quarts water boiled to pulp then strained. Add a small cupful of fine sago soaked in cold water 15 minutes, boil till clear. Sweeten to taste and eat cold with milk or cream.
Four cups water two cups sugar dissolve gelatin in part of the water then mix with sugar in the remainder and dissolve. Then mix thoroughly and freeze to make a lemon sherbet.
Mrs. Herman Smith of Athens Georgia narrates how kidney disease and dropsy left her weak and unable to work. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with saving her life at a critical moment and notes the product, sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo New York.
A cartoon caption captures a man amid romantic options after a leap year night. The old man jokes about receiving three marriage proposals and weighing which to accept.
A ship doctor learns a death in stateroom 5 by a deathwatch steward. Hours later he finds the body still there. The Irish steward recalls he had mistaken room 26 and buried a man he believed near dead after hearing another saying he was near dead.
A three year old named May liked to cut things and when left alone with her baby brother she cut all the curls from the back of his head. The nurse exclaimed at the damage and May replied that they cut them themselves because the baby stood on a stool to reach the curls.
In Stone county Missouri a farmer’s boy rushed to Dr. T J McCord of Garen a to call him as his father appeared to be dying after supper of 14 roastin ears. The doctor advised feeding oats and promised to visit in about 30 minutes.
A reader recounts pale health and years of suffering linked to caffeine in coffee. After quitting coffee and switching to Postum, health improved within a week and months, with headaches fading and weight rising to 148 pounds. The letter, offered by Postum Co., claims Postum as a life giver.
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