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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1908
Page
7
The article explains testing painting materials with a pea sized White Lead sample on charcoal to ensure purity. It warns against adulterated white leads and promotes National Lead Company offering a free blowpipe test and a Dutch Boy Painter booklet to verify pure White Lead.
Aspiration and Mr Newwed discuss antique house items while Madam notes the nursemaid’s four children. The exchange plays on perception and social show, with a nod to theater crowds described as “bangers-uo” by a Baltimore American line.
A humorous dialogue has Barber and Cutting bantering about baldness and secrets. Knicker notes Old man Kayne’s claim to an estate, while Willie asks about the difference between a restaurant and a cafe. Hicks jokes about time and the future.
A OswegoMont woman credits Postum Food Coffee with curing eye weakness and pain blamed on coffee. She quit coffee, brewed Postum longer at high altitude, and after about three months reports no eye trouble, healthier nursing baby, and improved dyspepsia and headaches in a friend. The ad closes with the slogan Theres a Reason from Postum Co Battle Creek Mich.
A Wyoming inventor introduces a tool to draw a wick through lamp burner tubes. The device uses a finger piece on one end and prongs on the other to grip the wick. pushing the tool through the burner then pulls the wick into place. Also included are kitchen notes for preparing ham and a roast with stuffing, skinning, and baking steps.
Melt resin with tallow and pine sawdust to form ignitable blocks, then cool and cut into inch squares. Chocolate Blanc Mange combines milk, grated chocolate or cocoa, sugar, and cornstarch thickened, poured into a mold and served cold with cream.
A three pound roast browned in butter is cooked then simmered with hot water and salt. Within an hour of serving a vinegar sweetened with sugar is added with raisins and cloves, the meat is removed, gravy thickened with cornstarch, and served.
A quick tomato soup recipe uses a 2 quart can of tomatoes, onion, salt, bay leaf, mace, water, butter, and flour. It is pressed through a sieve and served with croutons. Oatmeal is cut, dipped in a mustard butter cream mix, rolled in crumbs and fried, served with broked sausage.
Boil six peach kernels in milk to flavor custard. Keep heavy cotton mittens for hanging clothes and use a duster with whiting to polish glass. Turnips taste better when unpeeled, sugar can sweeten bitter water, heat lemons to boost juice, briefly cool boiled meats to peel skin, mint with sugar eases chopping, wine leaves suit baked beans, mint sauce with spinach, candles last longer on ice, recycle candle ends with turpentine for floor and cloth polish.
An old article extols Borax as a pure harmless powder suitable for disinfecting sinks drains and utensils and cleaning bed linen clothing and kitchenware. It claims Borax is safe economical and versatile ending with a note about London gas bills on foggy days.
A medical note warns that cold foods hinder digestion by lowering stomach temperature. It advises avoiding chilled meals to support effective digestion and comfort.
The Well-Informed demand a simple pleasant laxative and the California Fig Syrup Co. presents Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known safe effective remedy. It is marketed as genuine by the California Fig Syrup Co. with a fifty cent price per bottle and sold by leading druggists.
San Diego to host a vast Atlantic fleet arrival with about five thousand enlisted men and over two hundred officers in a grand parade next Wednesday at 2 PM. The event precedes formal welcome ceremonies in the city park with speeches by Governor Gillette and Mayor Forward. Ships will land troops by small boats at noon, testing landing drills as 64 blue jacket companies and 16 marine companies form the first naval brigade for the voyage to the Pacific. Confederate and Spanish war veterans and civic groups will join the procession836.
A Brooklyn physician builds a card catalogue of each patient’s ailments to feign familiarity when they return after long absences. He references past symptoms to appear a well informed healer to his patients. A mix of unrelated notes on gelatin, rubber, Maine university plans, and employer attitudes follow.
Mrs Bridget A Mulally an elderly woman living alone on South Fourteenth Street St Louis was found dead with her throat cut between Saturday night and Monday morning. A long purse containing money was missing and an old rusty knife lay beside it in the fireplace.
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