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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
3
A recipe instructs beating one egg then adding sweet milk to egg with dry ingredients sifted together sugar soda cream of tartar flour salt baked squash and a piece of butter. Bake in gem pans for about half an hour.
A recipe notes Cheese Rice made with one cup rice in two quarts salted water, butter, cheese, and cayenne served hot. It adds a Cheap Coffee Cake using suet butter lard, milk, yeast, flour, nutmeg, lemon, and cinnamon, with rising steps and small buttered sugar chunks.
A list of kitchen tasks and tips including melted cheese with eggs, a Vermont cider cake, pound cake methods, artificial butter, rye and Indian pancakes, and buying olive oil by the gallon. Also notes on lime prevention, polishing red apples, grating nutmeg, blanching almonds, kitchen tools, tarnish removal, grease spills, and fixing loose knife handles.
Mrs. K R Whitaker of Winthrop Tennessee reports that her two and a half year old daughter suffered a painful itchy eruption on the legs and groin since October causing sleepless nights until two weeks of Cotilicura remedies in February 1908. The child fully recovered and has remained clear since age fourteen.
Advertises Alien's Foot-Ease to ease pinching shoes and swelling when wearing rubbers and new shoes. Claims instant relief for dancing and parties. Sold everywhere for 25 cents with address for Olmsted Le Roy and Al 8.
Average land value on Manhattan Island stands at 272173 per acre per last year’s tax rolls. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething soothes gums eases pain and reduces inflammation. 25 cent bottle. New York. Nebraska listing 1003-5 York.
Advertisement style note urges plenty of regular exercise and promotes Sloan’s Liniment as a quick penetrating remedy for muscle stiffness congestion and inflammation. Includes testimonial from J F Brice of Tuscumbia Alabama and mentions its use for sprains cuts bruises cramps and athletic soreness. Also references outdated notices about unsafe London chapel and other miscellaneous items.
Last year potatoes were sold at an avenue price of 61.7 per bushel. This pricing detail appears in a local market report noting commodity values and regional activity.
A garbled collection of curio items and aphorisms spans health value thoughts, travel notes, religious giving in Auckland, and weather and craft tips. It includes a remark on marriage customs in Brazil, curios from Bouth Bea Island Christians for a London sale, and a Pan-American congress note. The passage pivots to practical advice on cake spices, floor polishing, longevity beliefs, wind speeds, and common motivational maxims.
The readable text notes half a billion people living in inadequate housing, seven hundred million affected by hunger and caves, and 600 with no regular shelter. Mentions Lemons juice as a beet flavor substitute and references beverage flavors.
Directions describe removing spots from fabrics by mixing three tablespoons of vinegar with one tablespoon of salt and applying Holling tint with a woolen cloth.
An old notice warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury as dangerous to smell and overall health. It promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and cautions buyers to ensure genuine product. Also mentions constipation remedy and Malta’s white stone buildings with Tolstoy anecdote about his youth and uglier disguise.
The fragment suggests potatoes are healthier than fried foods and baked potatoes save gas when plated. It also notes a cone shaped toaster with exposed wires and a remark that a man’s sympathy resembles his bank account, advising not to draw heavily on friendship.
A rare black fox pelts hunter’s tale notes the animal’s scarcity and high value. Wealthy buyers including Russian nobility chase the fur, with nightly efforts from North American trappers and even private game preserves attempting to breed or capture black foxes for elite fashion.
During the Revolutionary era residents including a youth named Housman hid firearms. Ambushed by two soldiers, he pretended to summon an advancing force, directing a feint that scattered the Britons. A pursuing detachment later found only his single set of tracks, not a herd of attackers.
The text narrates a fable urging the ant to consider the sluggard’s fate. It contrasts the ant’s labor with the sluggard’s dreamlike ease, warning that reckless toil ends in ruin while idleness yields no real gain.
A dialogue from The Baltimore American notes Shortleigh paying attention to Miss Riche while Fortune Hunter jokes about dividends. The scene contrasts interest and financial outcomes in marriage with witty banter.
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