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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
7
A housewife friendly guide to homemade Christmas sweets features Ocean Foam and Divinity Fudge, coconut strips, Nut Creams, peanut creams, and fruit nut delicacies. It covers sugar syrups, egg whites, chocolate coatings, and simple methods to imitate store candies at low cost.
A call to provide a large box for children to drop pictures ribbons and scraps to design Christmas cards showing their ingenuity and creativity during holiday crafts.
Captain Roald Amundsen recalls a Christmas Eve aboard the Gros near the north magnetic pole. The sky glowed with an extraordinary aurora as temperatures plunged to 40 degrees below zero, turning the polar night into a radiant, shifting display.
A Washington town set a rapid corn to bread record as wheat was harvested, threshed, ground, mixed, and baked into rolls in twenty two minutes. The key change was using a fast motor car to transport the wheat to the mill.
The secretary of the treasury deflects a gubernatorial bid question by telling a tale about two Irishmen on St Patrick's Day who end up hugging lamp posts. Pat claims he cannot move because his hands are full staying where he is. The source attributes the joke to the New York Herald.
A reader reports intense itching and swelling on limbs two months ago. After trying multiple remedies with no help, a small amount of Cuticura provided immediate relief and allowed normal activities within two days.
A Tenn. woman credits Postum with restoring health after coffee caused indigestion nervousness and insomnia. She details weight gain and recovery after switching to Postum, calling herself a living advertisement and urging friends to try it. The endorsement is attributed to Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with a prompt to read The Road to Wellville.
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