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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
3
Poem urging reverent tribute to fallen soldiers with imagery of flowers, garlands, and eternal memory. Emphasizes parents, spouses, siblings honoring those who sacrificed in battle and rest in distant graves. Ends with blessing and divine reward for the dead.
A mournful poem recalls a soldier’s cap marked Co. K laid away with daisies over his grave. It honors the fallen unit and the brave who faced fire, asking history to tell how Co. K stood firm in danger and duty.
A reflective verse tribute by George Bancroft Griffith honoring Union soldiers. It evokes tranquil landscapes from Tennessee to Virginia, notes of memory over battlefields, and gratitude for sacrifices that preserved freedom. The poem pleads for renewed national life and enduring remembrance of heroic souls.
A collage of peanut based bread and biscuit recipes including Whole Wheat Nut Loaf and Peanut Biscuit with steps and proportions. The text also includes brief kitchen tips and unrelated humorous exchanges, ending with miscellaneous ad-like lines and aphorisms.
A simple apricot sponge recipe describes draining canned apricots, boiling sugar with the fruit juice, soaking gelatin, sieving apricots, adding lemon juice and the melted gelatin mixture, folding in stiff beaten egg whites, and chilling in a mold. It is served with a custard made from egg yolks milk sugar and vanilla.
Peel and mince three onions three turnips one carrot and four potatoes. Fry with lard drippings ham and parsley then thicken with flour. Add stock and milk, boil while stirring, season with salt and sugar, sieve, and serve with toast or fried bread.
Stand three grocery boxes end to end back to back and tack them together. Attach a third box to the side, add two small shelves in each, cover with linoleum on top and curtains on three sides. A handy cabinet for bedside with space for books medicines and small items.
Cream scrim curtains with lace bands at top and bottom create an artistic vestibule hiding a front door. They offer a relief from the lace panels that distort doors in many city houses.
A vintage recipe describes mixing one pint prunes with beaten egg whites and flour, then baking in a buttered pudding dish for 25 minutes. The dish is served with sugar and cream for a simple dessert.
Mrs Josi Ham of Shamrock Missouri praises Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier saying her health improved from severe female ailments to full energy sleep and happiness. She credits the remedies with easing pains headaches and nervous spells and restoring family life. She invites others to write for confidential advice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Company Lynn Massachusetts.
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