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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1910
Page
3
A detailed guide urges a staged room by room approach to house cleaning inspired by nature. It stresses preplanning with decoration in mind, setting a fixed budget, and coordinating across rooms. The piece covers closet sorting, washing fabrics, woodwork, walls, stairs, den through kitchen, and emphasizes rest to avoid injury.
Peel two dozen large potatoes and four onions. Cook in a saucepan with pepper salt and grate of butter. Add two quarts of milk or one quart milk and one quart water. Simmer until tender then strain into saucepan. Stir in butter cream and serve hot with fried croutons.
A historic recipe outlines three quarts of marmalade made from three pounds rhubarb three and a half pounds sugar lemon juice and zest salt to taste. Boil until cooked then add one pound finely chopped almonds before canning in jars. Preserve for winter use when rhubarb is ripe.
Dice cold chicken then season with salt and pepper. Melt butter in a saucepan, stir in chicken and chopped celery. When heated add cream, stew 15 minutes, stirring. If milk is used instead of cream, beat an egg yolk into the milk. Serve on toast.
A nineteenth century style guide note explains treating gilded frames with sulphur to impart a golden tint to a small amount of water, adding bruised onloos, straining the liquid, and washing gilding with a soft brush after cooling.
A practical tip describes taking a cracked egg, wrapping it tightly in waxed paper, and twisting the ends securely. The egg will boil without the inside spilling through the broken shell, preserving the food.
An advertisement claims a free trial bottle of Dr. Cald Syrup Pep can cure indigestion and related ailments. It lists Mr. Lapley and Mrs Northrup as endorsers and offers mailed bottles at 50 cents to 1 dollar, with a doctor’s address for inquiries.
Mine Lillian Brown of Liberty Maine describes a two year scalp itch progressing to hair loss and bleeding. After trying Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for six weeks the itching ceased and hair regrew to her knees, with no further scalp trouble since.
Speaker Cannon at a Washington dinner tells a young suffragette there is room for both sexes. He says the woman’s work is inner provisioning and the man’s is outer provisioning, reflecting gender role notions of the era.
A collection of medicinal adverts and humorous clippings mentions Doan's Kidney Pills from the Fonter-Millurn Co. of Buffalo New York, praising relief for Bright's disease and dropsy. The page also includes medical notes, jokes, and consumer notices about tuberculosis studies and other health topics.
Shawnee Oklahoma markets its rise from a brush pile town to a 6000 population city in 14 years. It touts a meat packing plant employing 1800, a cotton fabric mill with 600, state universities enrolling 1000, and suggests vast investments await men of means. Potential buyers urged to act now as prices will rise.
A garbled dialogue fragment shows Pather challenging a suitor about supporting his daughter while the other party laments financial inability. The exchange shifts to a shaky proposal and a misheard or corrupted line about partnership.
An advertisement touts the Overland car as the finest yet, emphasizing faultless performance. It claims high demand for self-run vehicles, asserting production of 140 cars daily though orders exceed supply.
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