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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
3
Practical tips on avoiding waste with leftover cereals fried as mush and served with syrup. Guidance on straining consommé, handling ammonia safely, preserving fish overnight, proper frying techniques, jelly from oranges and apples, and lamp wick maintenance.
Prepare china or plated scallop shells with a teaspoon of thick mayonnaise sauce. Fill with alternating pieces of cold chicken lettuce hard boiled egg fillets of anchovy and olives, cover with mayonnaise, smooth top. Cook chicken livers in butter ten minutes, rub through sieve, dust over sauce with egg yolk puree and parsley, garnish with pickled beef and gherkins.
A laundress guidance piece urges quick action to remove spots from delicate gowns. It notes two key rules: send the garment to cleaning promptly for easier stain removal, and inform the laundress about the stain’s cause if it is old to apply appropriate methods.
A recipe describes making molasses candy using West Indian molasses sugar butter and lemon juice. Boil three hours then test stiffness by cooling on a plate and pull for sugar candy about a half hour. Vinegar on hands aids crisp taffy and the mixture should be a light yellow color when pulled.
Melt two ounces butter in a stewpan until melted. Stir in one ounce flour until smooth. Gradually add half a pint hot water. Season with salt pepper and lemon juice. Boil and strain through a serve.
Recipe for a two layer spice cake with molasses butter sugar egg sour milk flour soda and spices. Filling uses grated apple sugar and beaten egg white beaten until thick then used as filling and topping. Instructions emphasize baking in two tins and finishing with filling and top.
To hang a large platter or plaque fasten three or four picture hooks at regular intervals over the edge with wire instead of plate hangers. For small plates use medium dress hooks and secure with wire in the same manner.
Quick kitchen tip notes that adding chopped carrots to jelly can help thicken it. It suggests using small carrot pieces and fatty doll-like matter to assist the set, though the text is garbled and unclear on exact method or results.
From King Edward VII era reporting a mother punishing Muriel with an ivory paper knife for disobedience. Muriel’s calm reaction follows and she vows to tell Jesus and wear flannel if needed. The anecdote appears in Everybody's Magazine.
Mrs Algy Cockburn of Shiloh Ohio describes her son Clyde’s year of eczema suffering. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept the first night and within six weeks was perfectly well. A leading physician recommends Cuticura for eczema. June 14 1907.
A short dialogue portrays Reginald quitting smoking after revealing his engagement. His fiancée objects to his cigarette breath, highlighting a domestic conflict about habits before marriage in a dialect scene.
A curious disease named red rust harms tea crops in northeast India. Cepaleuros virescens, the alga causing it, attacks leaves and stems forming yellow patches. It spreads via two spore types, waterborne and air carried, as noted by C M Hutchinson in the Memoirs of the Agricultural Department of India.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears to pay $100 for each case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Cure is claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists. testimonials available. Notary A. W. Gleason witnessed sworn statement dated December 6, 1886.
A conversation fragment shows a character remarking on a library’s growth of volumes since a prior visit and speculating about cost. Mr. Meeker jokes about being near bankruptcy due to purchasing souvenir post card albums and bookcase sections to store them.
Dialogue notes a wife asking about a Kitty discussed by friends at a club. The husband explains there is an ante to provide chaperone oversight for the Kitty, signaling proper propriety.
A Kansas City Times item recounts Louie, a bright South Side boy, visiting a barber with his mother’s consent. The barber clipped baby curls, returning a bare head. Louie quips the bald look will grow back since seeds remain.
A Boston observer recalls Charles Eliot Norton humorously lamenting youths valuing brawn over brains. Norton tells a Princeton game anecdote about a standout player named Poe and asks a lad if he is related to the famous Poe, prompting the reply that he is indeed the great Poe.
The Yonkers Statesman notes a humorous scene from last Sunday where choir members are described by vivid clothing. A soprano wore a pink hat with a purple waist, an alto had a green waist and yellow hat, while a basso sported a green necktie and a red nose.
An assortment of old promotional lines offers Pettit's Eye Salve for eye strain and Howard Bros drugs. Pazo Ointment claims a 6 to 14 day cure for piles with money-back guarantee. Also promotes Lewis tobacco, Ruskin quote on work, Mrs Winslow soothing syrup, Allen's Foot-Hase, and sample requests with names and locations.
In a Sunday Magazine piece a well to do patient pleads poverty to lower a medical bill. The doctor admits adding ten percent to bills for the poor, and adjusts the charge to $42 from $40. The scene highlights alleged exploitation in medical billing.
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