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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1906
Page
7
Celery can be served in many ways beyond plain stewed. A curry uses chopped celery with stock, onion, flour, curry powder, lemon juice, and rice. For breakfast, cook celery with eggs and butter, then mix in butter and season to form a firm, hot dish served with buttered toast.
The passage presents many household tips for salt. It suggests adding salt to beaten eggs to lighten them, sprinkling on fire for a blue flame, and using salt at the oven bottom to prevent cake burns. It also claims salt will absorb spills like claret or ink, can be used as an occasional toothpowder, helps ostrich feathers curl, and even strengthens eyes when bathed in salt water.
Practical guidance for a well appointed sewing space. Highlights include an old pier glass for full view, a dresser style piece, a long kitchen table with back support for cutting, scrap baskets and hampers for materials, folding table, adjustable chairs, a sewing machine, and a Judy form with a tree rack for hanging unfinished garments.
To keep chamois leather in good condition it must be kept clean. When soiled, mix three pints of tepid rain water with four tablespoonfuls of ammonia and soak for an hour. Work with a wooden spoon, press out water, rinse in tepid water, rub with hands, and repeat until clean. Hang in shade to dry and rub until soft.
Cream butter and sugar then whisk in milk and flour with soda and cream of tartar. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and flavor with almonds or rose. Bake slowly in a steady oven for a moist, delicate cake. halve the recipe if desired.
A silk handkerchief should not be boiled or rubbed with soap to stay white. Make a lather from finely shredded white soap and hot water, wash the handkerchief, rinse in cold water, then dry quickly in sun or by the fire when damp but not wet.
A short note describes an emergency drawer as a practical feature containing essentials such as a selssors court plaster absorbent cotton ware line soft linen and an antiseptic kept ready for immediate use without rummaging through a medicine closet.
A vintage ad style notice promotes Defiance Starch Sixteen ounces for ten cents while noting most brands offer only twelve ounces for the same price. It mentions a Peoria dealer and includes various quotes and promotional asides about tobacco and products. It also mentions Senator William Pinckney Whyte and his abstentions from saloons, smoking, and cab rides.
An advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as the sole effective remedy. It offers a reward for cures and notes dosage and availability from druggists at 75 cents plus circulars and testimonials.
Quoted from Eve’s Daughters by an esteemed authoress urges use of Allcock’s Plaster for back stiffness and persistent pain. It recommends applying over the seat of discomfort for days or weeks and renewing as it wears for steady support.
A tiny monkey traveling from Genoa to Heidelberg is repeatedly recategorized at customs from animal to bird to cat and finally to a dog as it moves through Switzerland and Germany. Each change carries small charges, ending at Heidelberg as a dog near the university town.
A patient suffers from chronic indigestion and nervousness tied to breakfast foods. After using Grape Nuts, appetite returns, heaviness dissolves, and weight increases by 15 pounds in six weeks, with nerves calming and health restored. The testimonial cites Postum Co. and The Road to Wellville.
Joseph Wilgus of Montpellier Ohio says exposure and driving caused kidney trouble with irregular secretions, retention, frequent night urination, and pain. He reports relief from the pills from the first use and endorses them. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Tea shipments from India for the year ended April 26, 1906 totaled 214,198,943 pounds worth 29,294,936 dollars. UK imports led at 166, e60,000 pounds with others including Canada 15,019,000 and Russia 9,991,000. US purchases fell 97 percent and Persia down 65.5 percent.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairmount Walden's Ridge Tennessee recounts using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills after a prominent physician failed to cure her child's eczema. She reports almost instant relief and complete recovery in six weeks with no recurrence, noting the remedies as a valuable household standby twelve miles from a doctor and costly mountain travel.
Visitors from the north attend a Colored Church service in Alabama where the preacher’s joke about John I and John II causes amusement. The choir struggles to fit a hymn to the words Purge Me with Hyssop, prompting a chorister to request a different hymn. Honey Production Shows Spain Leads In Beehives While Germany Follows.
The Boston and Maine railroad plans a pension system for aged and disabled employees. The move aims to provide retirement support to workers and reflect evolving labor benefits.
An OCR fragment lists tobacco and dye claims and a varied mix of quotes and ads. It references Putnam Bace less dyes, a Lewis cigar from Peoria, a warning on hair color in love, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, and Kaminateen for teething pain.
Important to Mothers urges caregivers to examine every CASTORTA bottle for infants and children, ensuring proper use and safety of arafe and cure remedies. The notice underscores vigilance in product selection and dosing to protect young patients.
A historical note explains the leap year privilege proclaimed by a Scottish act around 1228. It states that every unmarried woman may name a man she favors, and if he refuses, he pays a fine of one hundred pounds or less based on his means, unless he proves engagement to another woman, which would excuse him.
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