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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
2
Thomas A. Edison envisions automated vending in future stores. A customer would insert coins to receive wrapped goods via a slot machine. He argues machines can cut operating costs and that displaced clerks will gain new jobs as automation expands.
A Philadelphia millionaire hires Dr Charles A Eastman Amherst lecturer to locate a truly primitive Indian. Eastman will travel northern Minnesota and Canada’s Hudson Bay posts to study Ojibways Saultes Osweans and Minnesota Sioux long untouched by modern civilization and report on their arts and crafts.
The Rev. Dr. James Cannon Jr a Virginia Methodist delegate to the Edinburgh missionary conference urged merging Memorial Day in the North with all Confederate memorial days in the South into a single observance. He argued the day’s unification would make no difference.
The Detroit Free Press quotes a bride fearing her husband is developing a gambling instinct. She recounts an incident where he proposed to match pennies with Brother Frank to decide who should pay the car fare, highlighting the small wager as a concerning sign.
Mistress sets two strict demands for her new servant Mary. Mary asks which she must choose when confronted with a caller she cannot see. The exchange reveals a tension between honesty and obedience.
Glenn H. Curtiss proposes a New York to Washington course for a future air race to test landing places and navigation. He notes three stops could be sufficient and stresses public visibility along the route. He recounts his Albany to New York flight and the oil tank leak discovered afterward.
Cards circulated in Huntington and Hammond urge joining the World Health organization and discouraging kissing on the mouth. The motto Kiss not appears on a throat badge while a lurid verse warns against love’s dangers.
Jacob Stine of Port Vue proposes free Sunday baseball tickets to attendees of Sunday morning church services. He says he will resign as chief of police rather than stop a ball game. He has shared the plan with Port Vue preachers and at least one minister is considering adoption.
A report alleges Senator William Lorime used bribes to secure election. The article states claims of corruption involve a statewide race and unnamed associates. No official charges are presented in the readable text.
Detailed home method to wash corsets using soap jelly from yellow soap dissolved in boiling water. Soak five minutes then scrub with a nailbrush, rinse twice with warm water, drip dry, and iron inside before re inserting steels for a like new result.
Wash in thick hot suds from pure white soap and rinse through several waters. Put through a thin starch solution and squeeze out excess moisture between cloths. Pin the piece to a padded board and shape all points with pins. Dry flat, using sun on the cushion if the lace is very yellowed.
Use hot water and soap jelly to make a lather with a heaped teaspoon per gallon. Add a little liquid ammonia. Steep the quilt several minutes then rinse up and down. Repeat suds as needed. Rinse twice with clean water and ammonia. Run through a wringer or hang in wind, squeezing the bottom as water drains. Shake while drying and avoid cold air.
Use equal parts powdered pumice stone and linseed oil to clean and restore ebonized wood. Rub with the grain and finish with a dry soft cloth.
Worms and underground insects prey on lily bulbs. A preventive method mixes well rotted manure into the bed soil, digs holes 18 inches apart and six inches deep, places half an inch of sharp sand in the hole, adds three or four bulbs, covers with another half inch of sand, then fills with earth. The sand repels worms and protects the bulbs.
Use salt to kill weeds in flower beds by applying one to two inches deep, dampening periodically for a week or ten days to also destroy seeds. After treatment, rinse surface, dry, and plant seeds with no further weed worries.
Instructions for preparing orange punch in a home setting. Mix sugar and warm water, add lemon and orange juice with orange rind, beat briefly, strain into a freezer, chill in ice and salt, then freeze. Serve divided into six glasses.
To clean a bath sponge place it in water with the juice of a half lemon and let it soak overnight about twelve hours. This method uses lemon juice to refresh and sanitize the sponge.
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