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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
6
Wesleyan College at Macon Georgia founded in 1836 is older than Elmira college chartered in 1852 and is the oldest women’s college in the United States. The piece also notes cost of living and social attitudes with a brief aside on hatpin theft versus umbrella theft.
A miscellany of kitchen advice including using a microscope for food checks, cleaning tips for silver and copper, meat marinades, pudding moisture care, fabric bag repurposing, sassafras tea as a tonic, and early autumn recipes for duck and mushrooms. The piece also includes poetry fragments and reflections on traditional scents.
A cool day menu features steaming soup then broiled whitefish with creamed potatoes and an apple celery nut salad with dressing. Desserts include musk melon peaches and cream or sponge cake with bananas, plus a filling codfish chowder and sides like cornbread muffins and banana puddings.
A home canning segment describes watermelon pickles with rind slices soaked in salt water, then syrup made from sugar cinnamon cloves and vinegar poured over the rind. It also covers canned tomatoes, grape juice marmalade, and pickled onions with brine and spices, ready for winter storage.
A reflective noting voices how noble lineage can elevate a man but warns that even strong ancestry cannot redeem a bad character. The piece contrasts virtue with contempt and urges moral integrity over status.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a safe, tasty laxative for children with directions on dosage and a claim of harmlessly soothing the stomach liver and bowels. It invites mothers to say California when giving the product. A separate note mentions British scientists finding light traces deep underwater.
Bayer insists on Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer package with clear directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The name Bayer marks genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Aspirin is a trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Sulievlic acid.
The essay notes Reynolds used a spade-shaped fillet with a handle and no hole. His brushes measured 19 inches and he painted while standing. His studio was an octagonal 20 by 16 feet room lit by a single square window. He was a steady worker who disliked idle visitors and is regarded as the era’s greatest English painter. He died in February 1792 from liver disease and was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.
A party scene in Washington features a quip about Bolsheviks allegedly selling clothes from women's backs. Senator Johnson of California surveys the table as gowns with notable decolletage appear. An aside notes the gray kangaroo of Australia can outrun a horse and clear 30 feet.
A spinster recounts being kissed by a woman with influenza two months prior. The brusque doctor confirms transmission is possible, noting the long interval makes no harm in this case. The exchange ends with the patient lamenting she loves to talk about it.
The text presents a fragmentary dialogue about a murderer with yellow eyes and a wife warning of hanging. It references a Tuesday execution and a brief, sardonic exchange about sociability at a church social.
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