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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
8
A glowing praise for a new serial about Prudence, a nineteen year old girl who faces life after her mother’s death while caring for four younger sisters. The tale centers on her cheerful religion filled world, a meeting with Jerry, and a romance that nearly meets tragedy but ends happily. Endorsed by newspapers and preachers as clean and wholesome for homes.
A fragmented clipping recounts episodes tied to temperance and crime, including a vagrant interlude with a shoe request and a man named Mertz seeking a dry state journey. It cites anti liquor rhetoric, a lampoon of priv leged actions, Alabama banker J T D Wadsworth praising prohibition, and discussions on the broader national temperance stance with notes on Philadelphia’s public costs and revenues from liquor control.
A New York health department bulletin advocates inexpensive dietary shifts to reduce living costs. It praises germ meal corn, hominy, and especially oats as nourishing and cheaper than patented cereals, American cheese, dried beans, and Danish product alternatives. It notes high protein content and the need for bread, whole wheat, and vegetables like vitamins in moderation.
A National Food Magazine piece by Dr Barnard argues against daily dishwashing in favor of washing dishes once daily or thrice weekly. An experiment showed daily washing took 51 minutes weekly versus 4 minutes daily washing once a day, with fuel savings from heating water less often. The article includes recipe fragments for Gems and a creamed corn dish with parsley and tomato sauce.
A 1920s recipe describes stoned prune, almond, and grano sugar mixture for a cake filling. It details combining granulated sugar with boiling water to form a soft ball, cooling, then folding into beaten egg white and cream to a creamy texture. Prunes and blanched almonds are added between cake layers for flavor.
A fragment describes dissolving a quarter junket tablet in cold water then heating a cupful and adding two or three tablespoons of emingur, with vanillin and the tablet, to set in warmth until it rolls and then cooling.
The ad urges attention to kidney disease saying thousands suffer without realizing it and promotes Kilmer and Co Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It notes widespread cases, lists symptoms, and directs readers to purchase bottles or request informational booklets.
Sore corns hard corns soft corns and all corns can be lifted out with the fingers using freezone. A small cost buys a quarter ounce of freezone from any drug store sufficient to rid feet of corns or calluses without soreness or infection. The new drug dries on application and does not inflame surrounding tissue.
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy for biliousness and constipation. It claims to purify the liver and bowels overnight, preventing indigestion bad breath and other ailments, urging readers to choose the cheaper option and noting testimonials from buyers.
The snippet markets counterfeit money denounced as inferior to the original and promotes La Creole Hair Dressing at one dollar, touts non slip sidewalks against rising coal prices, jokes about doctors and lawyers, and notes coffee consumption in France.
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