Raw Eggs as a Tonic
Reported tonic uses of raw eggs include consuming whole eggs in sherry before meals. Proponents claim freshness matters, yolk integrity aids benefits, and raw eggs digest more easily than cooked forms.
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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1907
Page
3
Reported tonic uses of raw eggs include consuming whole eggs in sherry before meals. Proponents claim freshness matters, yolk integrity aids benefits, and raw eggs digest more easily than cooked forms.
An English journal notes the renewal of a three mile steel rope used to pull all London trains from Glasgow Queen Street High Level over the Cowlairs gradient. The endless rope costs 3000 dollars, lasts ten to twelve months, and is moved by a stationary engine at Cowlatts. Trains attach via a chain at Glasgow and are pulled up the first mile and a half, where steep 80 degrees would defeat locomotives, then continue unassisted from the summit.
A man recalls summers in a woods cabin where mosquitoes and heat left him miserable. His mother used soda water to soothe him, but one day she forgot the soda and his father fetched laundry starch by mistake, creating a comical misstep in a family remedy tale.
Stir half a pound sugar and six ounces butter to cream. Add two beaten eggs, a teaspoon cinnamon, salt, two pounds flour, and a compressed yeast cake dissolved in lukewarm milk. Mix in enough milk to form a stiff batter. Beat well, cover, rise in warmth. Bake in small buttered cups when light.
Melt one square chocolate with two level tablespoons sugar and one cup milk. Stir until forms little balls in cold water then until pearly hard. Turn onto buttered plates to cool, and when nearly cold cut into squares.
The season 1905 06 in German territory in Africa yielded only 65 bales of cotton. The area planted was nearly as large as the American cotton belt, yet production remained scarce.
The Senate approved a diplomatic and consular appropriation totaling 3,085,477 dollars. It also approved placing control of the Panama railroad under the Isthmian canal commission. Heavy snow paralyzed parts of the west Alps with Grenoble reporting five feet. Powell explosive accidents and other national news include mine blasts, fatalities, and bills advancing in various state legislatures. Oldest Mason Otis Eddy died at 102 in Rockford Tennessee.
Idaho lawmakers debated bills to curb mining activity and enforce Sunday rest, while the senate tentatively advanced an anti lobby measure and a tax printing proposal. The house killed an apothecary bill and English language prescription requirement, and committee visits on bridges and county boundaries moved forward.
A period advertisement page touts remedies for women with back pain and kidney issues. It cites Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas praising Dean's Kidney Pills after passing gravel stones and regaining strength. The reel promotes Catarrh cures, pills, tonics, and a general sales pitch for patent medicines and household remedies.
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