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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1907
Page
3
The article advises neat, clean lunch baskets for long commutes to school. It recommends oiled paper wraps, multiple sandwiches on whole-wheat bread, sensible fillings, and ample portions, plus a simple cake, fruit, and cookies. It warns against candy unless maple sugar is available.
A homemaker can strip painted walls without hiring help. Use hot water with strong potash to scrub, rinse with cold water, then dry with flannel. For old paint apply a wash of lime and potash, let dry overnight, then scrape away the paint.
Instructions describe making peach preserves by mixing peaches with sugar and sun-drying until transparent, then canning. Also details pickled peaches with peaches sugar vinegar mace cinnamon and cloves, simmering to create syrup, recombining peaches, then canning.
A traditional pickle method blends cucumbers green tomatoes cauliflower and onions in a heavily salted brine then alum nutmeg and vinegar based mustard sauce is prepared and poured over the veggies A finishing parrafin seal is suggested Also a brown bread recipe uses graham and white flour baking powder salt molasses and English walnut meats for a rich batter baked in a moderate oven.
Almonds and rice are ground together and cooked with sweet milk in a double boiler until thickened. Add salt to taste and serve. No yeast bread combines graham and wheat flour with soda and sour milk. mix, then bake immediately for a quick loaf.
English immigrant William Knowles cultivates 13 acres near Middlechurch on the Red River reporting a bountiful harvest. He foresees 1500 bushels of potatoes from 4¾ acres with one tuber weighing over a pound, plus 600 tomato plants yielding heavy fruit. Crops also include onions, cabbages, cauliflowers, turnips, carrots, pumpkins, cucumbers, celery, peas, lettuce, rhubarb, and a fine asters display. Manitoba soil praised for vegetable growing after England experience.
A domestic exchange centers on judgment of Mr Markley for his shabby appearance. The wife defends him while the husband counters that his wife’s clothes ruin a man. The dialog reveals social pretensions and marital tension.
Dr. Herman Reinbold a German chemist states that pure alum baking powders are less injurious than Cream of Tartar powders. He notes the pure food law does not ban Cream of Tartar powders and argues a concentrated mouthful of alum in baking powder would do no harm to any stomach.
A city boarder asks about endurance race cars passing. an old farmer calls them endurance racers to locals. He says the road endures like a test of patience as these cars repeatedly spook livestock and threaten horses.
A promotional note touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming constitutional treatment through the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers a $100 reward for any failure to cure and lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as sellers with testimonials available. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and Lewis' Single Binder cigars with brief inspirational sayings.
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