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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
3
The article explains dew and snow bleaching for garments. It recommends scalding in weak borax water, laying flat on sunlit grass or snow, turning after a day or two, and using light misting if noon sun is hot. Snow bleaching suits fine lace and cambrics, with freezing nights enhancing results and minimal wear.
Bananas served chilled on ice with cream make a fine dish. Baked bananas use ripe fruit peeled lengthwise, buttered pan, sugar, and lemon juice, then cooked with hot water until semi transparent. Serve with red currant sauce and berries, or a sauce of crushed berries and cherries, and let cool before serving.
Instructions for Lemon Cream Pie and Angel Cake detail steps from preparing yolks and lemon rind to making a meringue and baked angel cake. The lemon filling uses corn starch, boiling water, and sugar, while the angel cake relies on stiff egg whites, sugar, flour, cream of tartar, and careful folding, with a hot-water bath note.
Advice on selecting washable dresses for young girls highlighting fabrics such as white cotton linen and madras. Recommends white for economy and durability, suggests pale blue as a color option, and favors simple collars and cuffs over elaborate ruching.
Cream butter and cheese with salt mustard and paprika for a pink spread. Add anchovy paste dissolved in vinegar then spread on thin bread slices.
A simple batter blends corn pulp one pint with sweet cream one egg half teaspoon salt quarter teaspoon pepper and scant flour. Drop spoonfuls into hot lard and butter and fry both sides until browned.
Fragments describe making grape jelly from grape juice and apple juice with sugar. The text mentions boiling twenty minutes and stirring in one pound of sugar per batch, though some words are unclear.
Free pamphlet outlines U S homestead laws and how to secure a quarter section of farming or grazing land along the Chicago and North-Western Railway routes in South Dakota Wyoming and other states Special excursion rates to homeseekers Information available from W B Kniskern Passenger Traffic Manager C N W Ry Chicago.
Five year old Nellie avoids punishment by twisting away from the mother's lap. She protests she must have air if she is to be spanked, a humorous exchange set inside a domestic scene. The excerpt is attributed to Harper's.
C V Beltz of Tippecanoe Indiana details a two year eczema suffering across limbs below knees. After trying physicians, remedies, and folk cures with no relief, he reports immediate improvement and eventual recovery after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Quote from Mackintosh follows.
An old advertisement claims ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Kase for swollen hot feet. It touts the cure as practical for sweating and aching feet, with 25 cent price at druggists and a free trial package. Ac cept no substitute and directs to A. 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N Y.
A collage of 19th and early 20th century patent medicine lines and tobacco ads. Mentions Krause's Headache Capsules, Druggists 25¢, Norman Lichty Mfg Co Des Moines, Hope in subtle things, spirit Pacchiarotto, Lewis' Single Binder cigars, Peoria Illinois factory, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with 25¢, and Persius quote about hope of victory.
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