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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
8
An old kitchen article offers frosting tips for cakes and patty cakes, suggesting butter coatings for hot cake, sugared crusts, candied orange decor, and coconut frills. It describes creamy frosting method with sugar syrup and egg white, plus multi color frostings and storage tips.
A vintage note outlines hot weather meals with fruit sauces cold sides and light desserts. Recipes include Eggs With Piquant Sauce Baked Beets Chili Con Carne and Ripe Cucumber Relish with steps and serving tips for a refreshing summer menu.
OW introduces a trim, versatile day dress in the same weave as suits for fall. The straight-line frock features a slight flare at the skirt with narrow belt straps, three-quarter sleeves, and inverted plaits. Detachable satin vestee can swap with lace, promoting practical wear in various weathers.
The article notes sport suits and hats becoming staple college wear with casual yet spirited styling. It highlights a two color crossbar skirt matched by jersey coats, patch pockets, and lace vests, available in brown navy black green gray.
Bayer tablets offer guidance from physicians across 21 years of testing and millions of users. The ad promotes the Bayer Cross on tablets as safe for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. Handy twelve tablet tins cost a few cents with larger packages from druggists.
The dialogue shows a witty exchange aboard a vessel as one echoes missing the boat while another asserts not missing anything and calls themselves an airplane, highlighting nautical humor and brisk banter at sea.
The piece traces tattooing from early Polynesian practice to present uses, noting its esteem in ancient times and its varied techniques from simple black ink to complex color patterns. It describes gash tattooing, where deep cuts are filled with clay to create a raised flesh cameo.
The article explains that gold coins retain their face value due to their gold content and world price, while silver and other coins lack sufficient metal value. Paper currency depresses coin values, a trend seen in Europe, driven by demand for dollars in trade and export imbalances. Under normal conditions exchange demand tends to restore parity among currencies.
A collage of ad lines and quips from a Boston Tran page includes a call to use Red Cross Bull-Blue laundry stain remover, Swiss claims about a cement holding machinery, and aphorisms about mothers, romance, lingerie, and ball pitchers.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claiming it treats kidney liver and bladder ailments and neutralizes uric acid. It asks readers to request a sample bottle by mail with ten cents and notes large and medium bottle sizes sold at drug stores. The piece ends with a proverb about wisdom and knowledge.
Rex Beach quits novels for screen writing and notes how quickly some can earn ten thousand dollars per week. An English poet venturing into film laments rejected scripts while actors juggle demanding contracts and high pay, as Wadleigh reassures the crowd.
A Saturday afternoon incident in a grocer shop ends with a woman asked to carry her own purchases as the grocer explains his right hand is away with a swollen foot, leaving him unable to assist.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls a boy named Junior who comes to the table dirty, prompting his mother to send him away to wash. He explains meekly that he persists because once she forgot to send him. The anecdote highlights a family moment and a child’s memory of rules.
A fragmented note contrasts monologue about a harsh, misnamed incubator chicken with a grim metaphor. The speaker jokes about food and a rough, unsanitary kitchen as soap and water symbolize the first stage of a melting pot.
Fragments describe a strained relationship with playful teasing over how she plays her hands. The text hints at a casual, domestic scene where a man tolerates his partner’s style even in a poker game.
A marginal biblical reflection cites II Peter 3 3 noting one day with the Lord equals a thousand years. The fragment mentions a sick woman able to sew sheds while mending.
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