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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 28, 1914
Page
3
A compact guide describes how to prepare onions by baking in buttered salt water until tender, by boiling in salted water then finishing with butter and cream, and by frying sliced onions after soaking in milk. It notes a tastier method uses bacon or pork fat rather than butter for frying.
In a small country town a woman known for attending every funeral reveals she derives morbid satisfaction from such events. She admits she did not know the deceased well and felt no life in the service, leaving neighbors to ponder her fixation.
Fragments recount Rudyard Kipling at age twelve sailing with his father and a scolding note about his conduct. The piece extols reading aloud in the home for health and vocal training, and ends with a joke about a wife and hat styles.
A Melbourne woman describes long suffering from neuralgia and biliousness. After trying many medicines she used Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills and reports marked improvement after two treatments and complete cure after four bottles, with ongoing daily use to stay well.
Christchurch reader Mr W Bull testifies Zam-Buk eased galled feet after hot baths and massaging the product into the pores. The ointment is touted to cure eczema pimples rashes blisters peeling skin and ringworm and to aid bruises burns and similar misfortunes. Available at chemists and stores for sixpence and threepence.
An uneven narrative recalls Joe Jefferson during a touring engagement in Chicago. The text describes a long day at the theatre, a sleeping star, audience reactions, and a dramatic curtain moment that ends with the promoter continuing the show after a comic interruption.
An early medical advertising claim touts Clarke's World-famed Blood Mixture and TURE as universal cures for blood and skin diseases. It alleges purging impurities from lungs heart stomach kidneys brain with thousands of cures and widespread sales at 2s 9d, warning against imitations.
A telegraphic despatch tells the story of Professor Morse overcoming illness and poverty to gain public notice for his invention. After eleven years of effort and seven years before Congress, a midnight vote in Washington passed both Houses approving funding. Morse, ill in bed, learns the news as his daughter Annie cries out with joy.
The article argues that poor milch cows improve with comfortable quarters and good feed, noting that neglect yields little milk and thin cream. It cites a dairyman’s observation of a cow milked by different milkers producing varying results, and stresses warm, clean shelter over mud and cold.
Hay crops at Yannathan and on the Kooweerup Swamp average nearly three tons to the acre indicating strong forage yields in the region.
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