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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1909
Page
7
A collection of kitchen tips and recipes including mint jelly to color and mold for lamb, liver and pepper with pork, squabs stuffed with corn, Nova Scotia chow chow, collapsible stoves for travel warmth, and spruce beer with hops ginger molasses and yeast.
Toast oblong bread strips on one side then top with two large oysters. Melt butter, add grated cheese, mix in egg yolk with cream, season, and combine into a sauce. Spoon over oysters, serve with lemon rings. Also notes wax coating prevents fluid seepage on fabric by beeswax treatment with iron.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients for a simple single egg cake. It calls for one egg two thirds cup sugar melted butter one third cup milk one teaspoon baking powder one teaspoon vanilla and enough flour to make a thin batter.
The Canadian Thanksgiving, celebrated earlier than in the United States, is described as well earned due to abundant harvests across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Weather and soil conditions yielded a projected 180 million bushels of wheat from seven million acres along with rich oat crops, enabling many farmers to recoup farm costs. The Toronto Globe notes widespread gratitude and a spirit of cheer in a fruitful land.
Humorous dialogue depicts Mrs Caudle urging her partner to return home after a six month absence. The partner explains fear of returning in the dark, highlighting domestic tension and timing.
A Oklahoma nurse, Mrs Minnie Turner of S B St Ana darko, credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid health improvement from backache and kidney pains. She reports five boxes built her up and urges others to try the remedy sold at 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo. The ad promotes the drug and ends with a rhetorical question about old fashioned boys.
An assortment of 19th century patent medicine ads touts remedies for catarrh blood purification and coughs. Highlights include a blood cure using syrup of sarsaparilla Toris compound and whiskey, Hamlin s Wizard Oil for blood poisoning prevention, Allen s Lung Balsam for persistent coughs, Lewis single binder cigars, and Winslow s soothing syrup for teething pains. The page also riffs on social quips about authority and gender.
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