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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1907
Page
3
A decorative rail near the ceiling displays plates from various nations. Each plate shows a coat of arms in natural colors, with a unifying olive green border and red accents. Inexpensive at about 50 cents per plate, this style suits yellow or gray blue rooms needing warmth and harmony.
Practical kitchen guidance on baking and cooking habits. Weigh ingredients and test ovens, avoid hasty shortcuts, and keep tools and storage clean. Emphasizes patience, mastery of recipes, and avoiding waste to prevent spoiling dishes and future health costs.
A laundress advises against soap direct contact or hot water on china silk waists. She uses tepid water with white soap to wash, rinses in tepid and cold waters, presses out water without wringing, folds with minimal creases, passes through a wringer, then irons half dry with a cloth on top to prevent yellowing.
A simple recipe instructs frying two spring chickens to a golden brown. Line a platter with lettuce, place small biscuits on the lettuce, set the chicken atop, and pour a milk gravy thickened with cornstarch. Season with salt pepper and parsley and serve hot.
Lemon Sandwiches combine mashed yolks butter salt cayenne parsley lemon rind and juice on thin bread slices. Nut and Cheese Sandwiches mix pot cheese with chopped nuts paprika and spread on white or brown bread.
Recipe notes for a winter salad sauce using vinegar mustard turmeric celery seed and brown sugar. The text also states that excluding about 0.0 small vessels commerce is carried on by 30 100 vessels with total tonnage around 25 000 000.
An ad offers a 48 page Illustrated Eye Book from Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago and a free bottle for readers who mention the paper. It urges readers to write about eye trouble for Oculists to advise on Marine remedies and claims the product strengthens weak eyes and soothes pain while aiding glasses wearers and priced at 50 cents.
A rubberneck wagon approaches St Luke's hospital drawing sightseers. A white haired woman stands near a nurse while a man mows the grounds. The barker points to the hospital proclaiming its renown and quotes St Luke himself cutting the grass.
Frank J. Cheney declares as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. that their firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The oath, dated December 6, 1836, places the Toledo claim before public notice and promoter testimonials. The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally, with rest of text urging sales through druggists and recommending Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A look at state legislatures shows only six meet annually New York New Jersey Massachusetts Georgia South Carolina and Rhode Island. The rest operate on a two year cycle with Pennsylvania and Illinois noted.
Bremner county grand jury, which earlier indicted fourteen county medical association members for anti trust violations, reported new indictments against Dr. W A Rohlf and Dr O L Chaffee for conspiracy. They allegedly forced an independent doctor from a surgical case after he refused to sign the union scale.
A reader claims a bird made a splint for its broken leg and a Welsh rabbit tied strings to a plate fork and toast to escape doom. The account is presented with unnamed fear of repercussions. The note also touts 23 year old patent starches versus a new Defiance Starch claiming improved strength and smoothness.
In a playful exchange a claim is made that wrinkles cannot be kept from showing, noting wrinkles are head-liners. The message promotes Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Lewis' Factory in Peoria, praising the product and its dealer as a successful, mistake-free manufacturer.
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