Pudding in Sherbet Glasses and Other Small News Notes
A pudding made with rice and chocolate served in tall sherbet glasses, topped with whipped cream, was featured at a recent dinner. A baked custard with whipped cream and Maraschino cherries appeared in sherbet glasses. An observation notes grass and tree proximity harms grasses and fruit trees. A Piqua Ohio well released hot water for two hours. An average girl with two or three stickpins begins to discuss her jewels.
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England
Piqua
Ohio
Strawberry Cream Fritters Recipe Steps
Mix one cup fine bread crumbs one beaten egg and pastry flour with salt and sugar Add mashed strawberries and baking powder enough flour to handle Form into small balls fry until golden Roll in pulverized sugar Serve with a berry enriched hard sauce.
Chowder with pork potatoes and cod
Brown a cup of minced salt pork and place in the chowder kettle. Layer sliced raw potatoes with salt and pepper, a layer of flaked codfish, a layer of broken milk crackers, bits of butter, and another layer of fish. Pour enough milk to cover and simmer until potatoes are tender, adding more milk if needed before serving.
Shoe Fly Cake Recipe Summary
A historic shoe fly cake recipe uses five cups flour one and a half cups sugar one cup tard then one and a half teaspoons soda mixed with boiling water molasses and flour. Bake in crust to yield four good sized shoe flies with a top layer left aside.
Cream Puffs and Rhubarb Rudding Recipe Notes
Cream puffs made from cup flour half cup butter cream butter and flour until smooth add cup boiling water then three eggs fold and bake twenty five minutes. After cooling fill puffs with cream. Rhubarb rudding chopped rhubarb sprinkled with sugar then batter of sour milk eggs batter and soda baked spread on rhubarb and served with sugar and cream.
Raspberry Shoricake and Other Quick Kitchen Ideas
Instructions describe making a berry filled biscuit dough bake sheet layers with sugar and butter. Also notes on planting mustard and cress for tea sandwiches. Lemon pie recipe uses lemon juice rind egg sugar water cornstarch baked between crusts. Kraut is chopped in a cabbage barrel as an easy method.
Tips for kitchen safety and preservation from old household advice
Practical hints cover mixing dressings and preventing separation, flavoring custards, cooking water for vegetables, and ensuring gruel texture. Additional guidance advises drying teakettles, preventing rust by soap application, and using cayenne pepper and camphor to deter mice in pantries and wardrobes. notes camphor scent fades over time.
Quotes and a Park Named in Montclair New Jersey
A collection of aphorisms and observations covers cleverness, gender, and war. Montclair, New Jersey, names a local breathing space Love Park, a feature among quoted opinions on women, courage, and value. The piece notes the 1796 half dollar with fillet head valued at thirty five dollars.
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Germany
Landwehr
Montclair
N. J
Love Park
Spain
Great Peninsula
Tolstoi
Athlete Finds Better Training Food Boosts Strength
A Michigan athlete credits Grape-Nuts and Postum with improved energy and muscle gain during training. He notes weight increase from 124 to 140 pounds between June and September and says mornings feel better after adopting the diet.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pligs
Simple, Pleasant Laxative Syrup of Figs and Senna
The Well Informed demand a known value liquid laxative. California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs with Elixir of Senna, described as gentle, prompt, wholesome, and effective. For sale by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Lessons in Love and Chivalry in Dorothy Dix Advice
Dorothy Dix notes that marriage trials and romantic entanglements stem from wives shaping a husband’s choices. She argues that a hero delays proposals due to wealth and that bold short haired women erase male chivalry. The piece celebrates women’s resilience against male folly.
Proof for Two Cents and Cures for Kidney Pain
An appeal by G. W. Winney of Medina New York invites kidney sufferers to write for a personal account. He cites his cure with Doan's Kidney Pills after eighteen months of hospital care and severe back pain claiming he gained weight from 143 to 162 pounds. Also notes common table salt as a home dentifrice and a quip about girls seeking husbands. A spider spun a web two and a quarter miles long.
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G. W. Winney
Medina
N. Y
Doan
Dean
Mr. Winney
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Tin output dominates world markets amid global notes
The piece notes the Malay states supply about sixty percent of worldwide tin production. It touches on Berlin firemen using water jackets to reduce heat exposure. It also comments on politeness as social advertising and cites garden lore linking a man’s garden to his character. It mentions a teething remedy and a quip on Swiss towns and boarding houses.
Phonograph Aids Declamation In Viennese Schools
A phonograph used in some Viennese schools repeats speeches by famed actors to teach pupils declamation. The article notes a superintendent’s view that three pursuits people think they can improve are newspaper publishing streetcar operation and teaching. It mentions wit, lawyers, and humorous ad exchanges in Liverpool.
Two Cures of Eczema and Other Brief Items
An old testimonial extols Cuticura as curing an infant’s eczema after doctors failed, and later eased a full-body eruption for an adult. Also notes a royal habit change, elephant-hide carpets in Indian cities, and small ads about oil lands, ink from camphor, vermin destruction, Berlin umbrella machines, and Canadian wheat maturity.
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Society For the
Berlin
Canada
Opportunity of a Lifetime Presses For Los Angeles Colony
An advertisement from LA PROSPERIDAD COLONY ASSOCIATION promotes an option on 400000 acres of land including timber and fertile soil with two rivers. It promises a home and an equal share in the enterprise with easy payments and a literature letter request from Dept. H 646 Chamber of Commerce Building Los Angeles California.
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LA Prosperidad Colony Association
Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles
California
All A Mother All A Mother
An article on seeking healthier maternity for women in lonely homes, urging awareness of organic derangement and the need for preparation for healthy maternity through a described remedy.
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound News Card
Mrs Maggie Gilmer of West Union South Carolina and Mrs Josephine Hall of Bardstown Kentucky report health restoration and motherhood after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad promotes the remedy for female ills with claims of cures and offers personal advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Maggie Gilmer
West Union
S. C
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Josephine Hall
Bardstown
China fathers and property split and Hanley sewage plant
The text notes that in China a father cannot leave more property to one man than another and reports Hanley England's new $50 000 sewage plant to treat 9,608,000 gallons daily with clear effluent. It also mentions a rubber bath mat to prevent slips and a quip about optimism when a home team loses.
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China
Hanley
England
Short Stories and Anecdotes Across Borders and Courts
A collection of humorous vignettes and anecdotes from varied sources. A New Jersey neighbor mistake, a state insane asylum scene, a Paris physician tale, and a judge’s coat mix up reveal social foibles with gentle irony. Contains named figures and locales in compact, period-voice form.
Percentages in Shopping from a New York Globe
A department store floorwalker classifies women shoppers into four types. Five percent belong to the impulsive fourth class who know what they want, go directly to it, and leave quickly. The other classes cost more time and money.
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New York Globe
Proverbs and Phrases Across Cultures
A compact collection of sayings from various traditions. It juxtaposes warnings about prosperity with calls for prudence and valor, notes on generosity and restraint, and a Turkish proverb about nonviolent resistance despite harm. The mix reflects cross cultural insights into behavior and ethics.
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Agricola
Cam Gustain
Twain Missed Train telegram to employer
Truthful note recalls Mark Twain missing a work train and sending a brief telegram stating the train left at 7 20. The anecdote cites his failure to wire an excuse to his employer though he did not offer more details.
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Mark Twain
Ian
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India
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New York
Ryan
Castoria
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Qgood
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Mr. Hubbard
Ricard
Paris
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Judge Wright
Keosauqua
Judge Knapp
Knapp
Senator Wright
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