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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
7
D O Barto explains early chick care focusing on warmth dryness and quiet during the first three days. Avoid feeding or drinking to prevent bowel trouble and ensure comfort via brooder conditions free of lice clean water grit charcoal and bright surroundings.
The author argues that home mechanics blend farm and house systems, noting that heat water and light are essential for a well equipped farm home. He links sewing washing and other chores to machinery, promotes furnace heat gas engines electricity for laundry and cleaning, and stresses stove design for efficient baking and safe operation.
Practical guidance for preparing old fashioned oatmeal samp and wheat using long cooking methods. Includes water ratios salt soaking overnight prep, double boiler finishing, and serving tips with optional variations and leftover use.
This recipe describes beating yolks with boiling water, thickening with sugar and flour or cornstarch, adding salt and vinegar, then baking in a rich crust. It also instructs whipping egg whites with sugar to form a meringue, with a hint of lemon extract for a lemon pie. It yields two large pies.
Peel six oranges very thinly and cover with hot clarified syrup. Squeeze twelve oranges and four lemons, mix juice with syrup, strain. Add two ounces clarified spirit and six drops prepared cochineal. Stir, pour into a crushed ice mold. Lemon jelly same method with no cochineal and four ounces sugar.
A brief recipe describes boiling one cup rice until tender, pressing it in a buttered dish, chilling with a weight, then slicing into half inch pieces. The slices are greased, toasted to a delicate brown, and served with maple sirup.
Instructions advise scraping soap to fill under the nails before blacking a stove. This helps prevent hard to remove residue from sticking in the nails during cleaning.
An extra sirloin is broiled on a hot planking board. Broil five minutes per side, turn once, and keep the board very hot. Garnish with mashed potatoes, place under the broiler, dust with salt and pepper, rub with butter, and cover top with broiled oysters. Return under the broiler briefly and serve very hot.
A simple chess pie method blends brown sugar with two beaten egg yolks and butter. Add cinnamon and water to fill a pie tin, boil, then thicken with flour and a little water. Finish with a frosting made from the white of the eggs.
A National Magazine tip advises wrapping a joint of meat in a cloth wrung out in vinegar and hanging it to air to keep it sweet for many days during warm weather.
Prof James W. Glover of the University of Michigan shows a $10,000 ordinary whole life policyholder could save about $20 yearly if tuberculosis and typhoid fever were eliminated. Tuberculosis costs vary from $16.70 at age 20 to $1,750 at sixty. at twenty it cuts life expectancy by about two years and 158 days. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis urges a collective effort to lower rates as death from tuberculosis declines.
A persuasive advertisement argues neglect of skin and hair harms happiness and success. It extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for poor complexions rough hands and hair issues, claiming they are affordable. A postal request to Cuticura Dept Boston offers samples and a booklet on treatment.
A string of aphorisms and product pitches appears, including lines about reading, digestion, Garfield Tea, Lot’s wife, LEWIS' Single Binder 5a, and snoring. The tone mimics a joke-filled pamphlet or advertisement page. Named products and a biblical reference appear among general musings.
A Rochester mother recounts relief for her 13 year old daughter from monthly dizziness and cramps after two bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Stoutsville sixteen year old also reports headaches backache and irregularity improved with the same remedy. The Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company has received hundreds of similar letters from mothers praising the product.
The article touts a French remedy named Therapion as a major medical breakthrough. It claims Therapion has produced miraculous results in kidney bladder and nervous diseases and invites readers to request a free book from Dr Le Clerc Med Co in Hampstead London to judge its value for lifelong suffering.
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