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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1894
Page
7
Daisy work uses ordinary dotted muslin and washing silks or fast colored cottons for quick, affordable embellishment. Designs center on daisy motifs, crosses, and French knots, suitable for pillows, borders, sachets, nightdress toppers, and small baby items, with care tips from The Housewife.
A New York Lodger and Albany Cultivator columns discuss simple cold care with modest means. Advice favors proper clothing, ventilation, and temperate care over heavy medicines. They cite sassafras tea boneset tea and ena tea as traditional remedies and describe flax embroidery to mend worn fabric and towels.
A vintage recipe describes mixing suet with molasses raisins flour soda salt and milk to form a stiff batter. Steam for an hour and a half. A companion puddin g sauce uses half a pint of water thickened with flour and seasoned with butter and vanilla.
Instructions from The Household on creating milliner's folds for bodices and skirts. Emphasizes precise cutting with pins and chalk lines, folding edges for a neat seam, and inserting a whalebone to guide stitches along the outer edge without piercing the fold.
The piece argues that color coded dinners such as pink or yellow are not good style. It stresses that discerning hosts care about spotless napery, polished silver, and immaculate crystal for a well kept table, not gimmicks.
A vintage coffee cake recipe blends granulated sugar butter and eggs with New Orleans molasses and cold coffee. It uses raisins cinnamon nutmeg cloves soda dissolved in coffee and flour to form a batter baked slowly in a buttered or lined pan.
A fragmentary page mixes household tips such as turpentine floor cleaning and paper preservation with fashion notes on waists hats skirts and draped fabrics. It mentions weaving styles, color accents, and forthcoming dress innovations including panniers and tournure ties.
The New York Tribune notes Dow 1's Flour Awards announce the first official World’s Fair diplomas for flour from Washburn Crosby Co. The Washburn Flour Mills in Minneapolis receive a medal as judges laud the flour as strong and pure and fit for family and bakers’ use.
A garbled list details many merchants offering Gold Medal and Superlative Brand flour with a 25 cent coupon per 100 pounds or 50 cents per 100 pounds, citing numerous store names and locations. The mix includes references to Washington, Providence, and various towns, with multiple brand mentions and coupon terms.
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