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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1909
Page
3
A passer by recalls a street scene at Broad and Lombard where a laborer digging a sewer exchanges greetings with a woman carrying a large basket. The dialogue centers on alimony payments and daily work, capturing local street chatter.
A pasted fragment shows a dialogue where Be and He discuss timing and plans to communicate later. A humorous exchange hints at advice on career and a plumber named Winke. The snippet ends with a casual remark about book covers being too far apart.
A muddled scene shows Mrs Flurry declaring she learns quickly at a card table while awaiting a hee tess request. Dialogue includes requests to cut the cards and hand a knife, with Mr Newlywed comparing Meth balls to his wife’s biscuits as a New Orleans pieay ope scene unfolds.
Fragmentary exchange between characters about collections and a bad debt. One speaker mocks not paying in a collection while another complains about money spent and a box left empty. It reads as a rural dialect snippet with unclear context.
A humorous classroom dialogue features a student naming the Wishbone as the most interesting bone in the body, a mock legal dispute over damages, a cashiered corn core paid for, and a joke about biscuits. The chatter includes a misheard medical term and a clash over a dollar refund.
A Baltimore American note mentions a conversation about supernatural powers and a dentist who allegedly killed Brassy's nerve. The piece also recalls the Human Frog in the museum and a contortionist revealing a secret about attempting to dress in a Pullman upper berth.
The passage presents disjointed characters named Loraine Evelyn and Reckless in a wintry scene on ice. They exchange clipped lines about manners, language, and a wandering figure, with a weary tone and hints of social roles. The text shows dialect and shifting identities in a cramped vignette.
A fragmented dialogue sketch features characters Mrs Sunflower Pete Green Sam Sunflower and Marlon discussing art marriage and persuasion. Other vignettes include amateur theatricals, predestination politics and social roles reflecting early 20th century humor and attitudes.
A Willimantic Connecticut woman reports five years of severe female ailments including backache irregularities dizziness and nervous prostration eased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts its safety and decades of proven help for conditions such as displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors and periodic pains.
A collection of old advertisements offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cured by Wall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co and notes endorsements from Wauptnc Kinman and Marvin Toledo wholesale druggists. It also advertises Fiala Catarrh Cure and It’s Easy to Find an Excuse for sins prompting charity. John I Brown & Son promote Brown's Bronchial Traches with samples. Finally a fact states Greenland whale weight averages 100 tons, about 88 elephants.
An old notice touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE with a signature line missing for K. W. Grovis. It claims worldwide use to cure everything in one day at 25c. The ad also notes some sausages imported from Germany are horse meat.
An elderly Caliornia reader Mrs Jamison claims six year stomach cramps vanished after nineteen bottles of Peruna. The testimonial notes nervous dyspepsia and full recovery, praising the remedy as all it is claimed to be. A brief, unrelated set of adage observations follows, including a court reading of love letters and a factoid on salt yields from evaporated water.
A Roanoke Illinois resident praises Cascarets after nine years of chronic constipation and monthly injections. He claims relief from piles and urges others to try the remedy. Also noted are Manila population stats from a health board release and a brief reference to tea in the German army.
Advertises Paz Ointment promising cure for itching bleeding and prolapsed piles within 14 days. Claims satisfaction guarantee with money back if not cured. Also mentions a 6 to 34 day trial period and refunds.
A home care tip advises cleaning mother of pearl ornaments with a paste of whiting and cold water to avoid soap discoloration.
The seed bed must be kept neither too wet nor too dry. In open soil seasonal variation can be mitigated by irrigation during droughts. Greenhouses and similar structures allow precise moisture control, with evaporation limited and watering used to replace losses. A pane of glass over seed receptacles can approximate this on a small scale.
A Cham bersburg man recounts years of eczema starting on the hand and spreading to arms legs and face. After doctors failed to halt progression he used Cuticura remedies and was cured, reporting no recurrence since 1908. Potter Drug & Chem Corp markets Cuticura remedies.
A reflective piece argues against chasing wealth or fame. It notes tailors and milliners dictating fashion while urging resilience and self reliance, recounting poverty as a hard but common spur to effort and self sufficiency.
A historical notice promotes Garfield Tea as a health remedy. It claims to aid liver and kidney disorders, stomach and bowel issues, constipation, and blood purification, presenting overall health benefits.
A fragmented notice describes concrete structures to store explosives in the canal zone and includes unrelated exhortations about aging, vigor, and a medicinal syrup recipe. The text shifts from practical planning to personal advice and odd aphorisms without coherent context.
Albert Nelson writes from Goose Lake country in Sas katchewan after leaving Benton County Oregon in September 1904. He describes rich virgin prairie, clay loam soil, and strong yields of oats and wheat, with land available at 12 to 16 dollars per acre. He notes dry healthy climate, December to March snow, and winters as a season of rest with homes and stables built for the first or second crop.
A California inventor designs a circular broiling frame with a metal ring net that sits in a skillet. Meat rests on the frame while butter cooks through the rings, allowing steak to cook without being immersed in grease.
A recipe details a lemon custard pie with sugar snow frosting. It uses lemon juice and rind, yolks, milk, and butter in the filling, baked until set. The frosting combines egg whites and sugar, whipped to stiff peaks, then spread and lightly sugared before a brief bake with door ajar for a tender crust.
Pare and quarter six apples and simmer with water until soft. Place in a dish, sprinkle sugar, then beat eight eggs with brown sugar and milk. Add grated nutmeg, pour over apples, and bake the custard for twenty to thirty minutes.
A fragment from a 19th century recipe page describes Rice Pudding with milk rice sugar butter cinnamon and salt baked until creamy, then a clam and pork dish with steamed clams, pork, onion, and milk broth, followed by an oyster salad with celery and mayonnaise on lettuce leaves.
Instructions describe preparing apple cocoanut pie with paring slicing mashing a lemon flavored filling, crust, and baking until just done. Top with desiccated coconut and a thick meringue, then bake until set. option to omit meringue and brown coconut on top.
Beat three eggs whites to stiff peaks. Fold in 1 1 4 cupfuls granulated sugar 1 tablespoon corn starch 1 4 pound cocoanut and flavoring. Drop on unbuttered tins bake about fifteen minutes and cool before removing from tins.
The method suggests tearing a newspaper into bits and lining bottles with half filling. Then pour hot soapy water with washing soda dissolved, let stand an hour, shake well, empty, rinse and drain.
A recipe describes mashing six medium potatoes with milk until smooth. Stir in one beaten egg and enough flour to make a stiff batter. Form into pancakes and fry until cooked through, ensuring the flour is fully set.
Boil orange peel changing the water until the bitter taste is removed. Drain and cover with maple syrup then cook until candled, stirring constantly. Also included is a tomato salad with cam fourth to one half pound stated ceer served over lettuce.
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