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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
3
Advice urges owners to handle delicate garments at home using soft water and careful washing. Steps cover rinsing, bleaching, and drying, plus starch or gum arabic stiffening for sheer fabrics. Ironing tips emphasize proper heat, order, and spacing to avoid damage, with home care for lace, embroidery, and Irish crochet.
Guidance on avoiding metal contamination in kitchens. Warns that metal utensils, spoons, and tin cans can poison food through leaching, especially in mayonnaise and canned goods. Advises using heavy plated utensils, earthenware molds, proper ice cream freezers, and discarding worn enamel pots.
A jumble of home care directions covers brass copper nickel steel and woodwork cleaning with acids abrasives and oils. It also includes a fish chops recipe using salmon shredded wheat biscuits paprika and macaroni shaped into chops and fried with lemon garnish.
In old Europe and England a discipline for female scolding used ducking. A chair fixed to a beam over a well was lowered into water multiple times, the inmate tied in the chair. An 1780 account recalls Cambridge near Magdalen College where a woman was ducked thrice, with a carved devil scene on the stool, later replaced with a new chair bearing the same engraving.
Dr Walker promotes proven methods for chronic and long standing diseases of men women and children. He claims to have served Gra not cowmly for over fifteen years and offers free consultation and examination. He invites those who failed ordinary treatment to seek his expert care.
Instructions for making strong French coffee by repeated percolation, washing silk stockings with lukewarm water and Castile soap, rinsing, drying, and pressing. Includes a muffin recipe: combine dry ingredients, add egg and liquid, mix, rub in butter, add milk or water to form batter, bake in a quick oven.
Clear Fritter Sauce directs mixing one tablespoon corn starch with half a cup sugar then adding to one cup boiling water and boiling five minutes while stirring. Remove from heat add butter lemon juice and a touch of vanilla or substitute with brandy rum sherry Madeira as desired.
Instructions describe preserving butter by salting and sealing in a stone jar with salt water for weeks without saltiness, plus tempering glassware by gradual heating and cooling in cold salt water to resist sudden temperature changes. Applies to lamp chimneys tumblers crockery and similar items.
A historic remedy uses boiling tea water poured over used tea leaves to stain and clean varnished and stained woodwork. After steeping, the liquid is strained through cloth to remove solids, then applied to lift dirt quickly from surfaces.
A historical tip advises rubbing wax on the wrong side of the pillowcase to seal feathers inside. Heat with a hot iron until the wax melts, then press to set the seal and prevent leakage. The method aims to minimize feather spill during pillow filling.
Cut cold boiled potatoes into half inch slices. Fry in hot fat until browned on both sides. Remove to drain and sprinkle with finely minced parsley. Serve hot to taste.
Bake baking powder biscuits cut to muffin size and baked in rings. Butter well, add a layer of fruit between and stack them, serve with sweet cream.
Dr Walker advertises treatment for stomach and respiratory diseases including bronchitis asthma and lung conditions, plus kidney and bladder troubles, blood and skin diseases, female complaints, dropsy, constipation, rheumatism, goiters, tumors, scrofula, varicose veins and related ailments.
A paper notice urges readers with nervous conditions such as prostration neuritis neuralgia insomnia debility and related symptoms to seek prompt treatment. It states Dr Walker will visit and invites those unable to find a cure to consult him.
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