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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
3
Easy to make crowd friendly desserts and cakes for a house party. Pineapple Eggs uses gelatine and fruit filling in eggshells for presentation. Tee Cream Cake combines sugar butter milk flour and eggs with orange icing. English Tart features gooseberry preserves and a whipped cream topping.
Remove crusts from two or three small stale rolls and cut crumbs. Soak in boiling milk, drain excess, heat gently. Fry bacon into dice, mix with soaked bread, butter, and beaten egg. Shape into dumplings, flour hands, boil ten minutes, drain, keep hot until serving.
A historical kitchen guide describes cooking one pound steak with a splash of water until tender, cooling, dicing, then seasoning. It instructs making pastry from flour butter lard or dripping with Berwick baking powder, rolling, filling with meat and gravy, sealing, and baking briskly until cooked.
A readable fragment outlines making a curry with onions fowl or veal butter curry powder and lemon pickle with cream, then a raisin dessert with crepes and pears, and a Mexican style macaroni bake with gravy and tomato sauce, ending mid-sentence about oven.
The description explains a shade device Bick Room Shade fits a gas jet and can be placed correctly to shade the patient’s eyes while allowing light for nurses. It also includes a recipe note for a beef and carrot dish with instructions to boil meat, season, and thicken.
A recipe fragment describes washing and slicing carrots, boiling in salted water, then pouring over with a thin cream sauce and serving over hot broiled steak. The note attributes flavor guidance to Bach and suggests serving immediately.
A compact old fashioned pinch top bag to hold small sewing items. Describes ribbon selection, whalebone supports, hems, and construction steps. Recommends multiple bags by size and ribbon to organize buttons, needles, hooks and eyes, collar buttons, and similar small items for easy access.
A 19th century fashion note details the rise of shadow chemisettes and shadow corsages as a stylish veiling trend. It traces the evolution from ivory lace to layered chiffons and the high waist silhouette, noting practical draping that minimizes bustle while expanding fabric reuse.
The article explains altering old gowns into modern empire shapes, focusing on replacing V shaped yokes with round shallow ones. It notes success in adjusting necklines, especially for high stock collars, using colored net to improve lines and overall fit.
A practical safeguard for polished silver teapots, creamer, and sugar basin describes green leather lined bags that fit snugly over the items. The bags prevent dulling and scratches when not in use and can be sized to fit a full tea service, as illustrated by a sketch showing proper fit.
The article offers home beauty routines describing dry time for creams on the face and wrinkle smoothing with a specified technique. It notes eyebrow brushing with olive oil and camel hair brush, skin pallor signaling anemia, a toner recipe with nicotinic acid and camphor water, and cautions about round tuckers on younger women and debutantes revealing unkind facial traits.
A trader tells a visitor business has been dull with few callers. The friend predicts prosperity will bring crowds next time, joking that he may not even reach the door. The caller storms out, leaving the host puzzled by the exchange.
A reader recalls a four year journey with inflammatory rheumatism, skin peeling, fever, hair loss, and bed sores. After trying various remedies with little relief, Cuticura Soap and Ointment restored hair and complexion. Mrs Lavina J Henderson of Stamford, Conn. signs the note dated March 6 and 12, 1907.
Conversational exchanges reveal a wife asking about her husband’s whereabouts and a friend noting his habit of always taking the opposite path, highlighting his contrariness in a concise domestic vignette.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure promising to cure catarrh and stomach issues with a $100 reward to prove its effectiveness. It asserts the remedy can restore health by strengthening foundations and asserts testifying patients received positive results and work capability.
The mistral is a cold northwest wind that brings heavy damage in France and Italy. From autumn’s end to spring’s start it is especially strong, drying soils and driving dangerous storms over the Mediterranean.
An assortment of old time advertisements and quips, promoting a distemper cure with claims of guaranteed bottles and agents wanted. Includes notes on Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product and various proverbs, jokes, and trivial observations. The text references Goshen and general consumer items with no coherent single story.
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