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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
6
A vintage menu of home cookery lists Jagged Rabbit and Somerset Salad along with Sauted Lima Beans West Chester Salad Moravian Sugar Bread and a cinnamon butter filled bread loaf. Each recipe includes steps from browning rabbit to fruit salads with French dressing and a sugared coffee cake dough option.
A guide to repurposing roast beef into beef olives with dressing and browning, plus goose stuffing, chicken livers with rice, chocolate soup, and roast beef salad. Includes festive tips like Christmas baskets, herbs, pine cones, and simple desserts such as baked pears and coffee ice cream.
A quoted principle argues that every able-bodied adult should have a job, work at their best suited task, and be paid the full value of their output. The statement emphasizes productive labor and fair compensation as core economic duties.
The speaker expresses a earnest Christmas wish for the Christmas Spirit to enter and fill them with Love to share with all. They hope that War will end and Peace endure eternally in the hearts of men.
A comic exchange centers on Mrs Godder who believes her husband no longer loves her. She writes to Santa Claus for a set of furs, entrusting the letter to a hired helper who then mails it.
The dialogue questions which book is most popular this Christmas with a clerk and Gotham respondent declaring the pocketbook as the top choice. The exchange satirically notes attention to books during the season.
In a playful exchange, Mrs Yeast asks about Christmas stockings, while Mr Yeast dismisses the idea saying stockings be hanged. The lighthearted banter reflects a domestic holiday mood.
A farmer and housekeeper discuss windfall apples and windfall cucumbers. A customer accuses the supplier of sending windfall produce and dirt, exposing a rural commercegag. An ad for anuric cures lumbago and rheumatism follows.
The Boston Globe notes the annual board bill for American rats at about 182 million dollars. Dr Richard H Creel, an expert in figures, estimates rat population equals human population. Without preventive action, rapid breeders will outpace resources. litters of ten to eighteen rats arrive, with bimonthly litters and multiplication beginning at three to six months.
An advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment promotes bathing with hot water to cleanse and purify the skin and applying the ointment to soothe and heal. It claims instant itching relief, clearing pimples, removing dandruff and scalp irritations, and healing rough hands. Free sample by mail with a postcard request to Cuticura Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.
A nurse questions soap use as Kitty Ponder jokes about cleanliness. The exchange ends with Kitty noting she cannot lick herself clean, so she must accept soap. An ad promotes Red Cross Ball Blue and notes canning preserves laxative properties of produce.
A hot water heating system for a six room house is projected to cost about 275 to 300 dollars.
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