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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1909
Page
2
Fragmented instructions warn against using cold water for jellies and outline measures for strained fruit juice and sugar ratios. Tips cover heating and adding sugar, canning procedures, avoiding accidents with hot preserves, proper jar handling, wax sealing, and cooling. Includes a soap recipe for cleaning fabrics using laundry soap, sugar, honey, and turpentine.
Readers learn old fashioned methods for preserving fruit in jelly and freezer, removing jar covers, and making bouillon from bones. Also included are tips on berry desserts, ham sandwiches with pickles, fruit salads, knife care, and household shortcuts with mushrooms and green pepper notes.
An assortment of promotional blurbs praising laxatives Cascar ets and Allen s Foot Ease, claiming health benefits and urging trial to gain lasting merit. Also a note about the Woman Sabbath Alliance of New York addressing women to refrain from entertaining that deprives servants of Sunday rest.
Sequin details lead fan decor while mittens appear on fashionable women at a watering place. A giant movable bridge in Asia, built by a Chicago firm for a railroad in Hurma, features a double leaf roller and a 200 foot opening. Testa notes wind movement of fifteen mph forces 186 cubic feet of air per hour through a one eighteenth inch opening.
Vere Josephine Sullivan served in Chicago as a special policeman with full authority to detect thieves in department stores. Field Marshal Roberts celebrated a golden wedding anniversary described as an imperial festival. Other curious notes include butter made from ghee preserving for two hundred years and U S telephones being heavily used.
A New Hampshire woman describes severe indigestion and pain from a poor diet until trying Grape Nuts. She notes rapid relief, restored digestion, clearer mind, renewed energy, and regained strength after adopting the cereal as her staple.
The article argues that true prayer differs from mere saying a prayer, urging belief in a personal God and attentive conversation. It stresses prayer as a real connection with God, urges persistent prayer for church, children, and the world, and holds that prayer aligns life with divine power and purpose.
A devotional meditation on faith during hardship compares spiritual sight to a widening pupil in darkness. It urges trust in God's hand during trial and cites John 14 to comfort the troubled heart with promises of divine presence and guidance.
The piece warns against selfish habit, urging loyalty to truth and openness to all truth. It argues life should provoke neighbors toward virtue, not merely sing of Zion, and criticizes those who focus on bad news or stay fixed in their tracks while their ship wrecks from overloading with freight.
Fragmentary editorial admonitions emphasize humility and truth even when public roles test character. It warns against self glory and urges guarding hearts while helping others, noting that bearing sorrow unhelpfully weakens influence.
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