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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1900
Page
2
A retro advertisement-style note promotes baked goods supervised by Mr Math, hailed as the king of the business. It lists cakes, lager cakes, fine pastry, macaroons, and cream pie as offerings.
We are the exclusive agents for leading candy brands Hayler s Allegretti Lowney s and Funke s fine chocolates with daily fresh shipments arriving.
Local notice in shorthand mentions Math and Brautigam heading to KRELL and MATH. Contact shows phone 1164 and street address 1716 1718 Second Ave for further details.
An Irish agitator, O’Connell, faced danger as a meeting in a crowded first floor room nearly collapsed. Kentlemag warned that the floor was giving way, and O’Connell urged calm, directing most to stay seated while a few evacuated. He then led attendees to safety before the balcony beams failed.
The four year old Ardsley Flood son of J Flood now in charge of Van Cortlandt park golf links is the youngest golfer in the country. He began playing golf as a toddler and uses a special set of clubs. He routinely drives 50 yards and has a record drive of 190 yards at a country club in Dittfield Massachusetts. He appears at the Van Cortlandt links during visits and is a popular exhibition figure at locals events.
Mrs. S. T. Rorer argues in The Ladies' Home Journal that fast living erodes nerves and brains. She warns against heavy pies and complex foods that burden digestion and drain blood from the brain during work, urging mothers to build bodies with simpler meals and calmer eating habits.
A Kansas City Star piece explains ham smelling as a precise trade where a trained inspector uses a long steel probe and keen nose to separate wholesome meat from tainted stock. The tester works in brine and determines sweetness versus any slight non sweet odor, sending tainted meat to rendering.
A fragment from Florence Tull Winterburn discusses memory drawing and observation, noting how memory can deceive. Humorous snippets from Pearson’s Weekly Economy and London Fun feature Sarcasticus and Mis wife, a wife planning bread pudding from leftovers, and a young husband reacting to a shopping list.
A muddled society quips on clothing and money in marriage. A speaker laments wives always asking for funds while others note frugality and status. The dialogue wavers between fashion rules and financial strain in domestic life.
A long article extols practical forays into appetizing dishes from olives to deviled chicken and anchovy canapes. It offers tested recipes, kitchen tips, and household guidance for creating flavorful courses and reducing waste with modest seasoning.
Readable fragments describe a heavyset woman at table causing chaos, plus notes on corkscrew seeds like Spina pensatm that twist into the ground. A series of rustic fables follows with Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit, and misadventures of Rocky and others.
A garbled OCR fragment presents lines about battle and glory, then abruptly inserts a dubious claim about the average English man’s height. The text mixes poetry with an unrelated numerical fragment, yielding uncertain source vitality.
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