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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
7
A fragmented wartime era style blurb promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry soap with lines about purity and cleanliness. It references charitable acts and a public acknowledgment of guilt, mentioning Digge and Magee in a brief, loosely connected dialogue.
An old time hay box cooking method offers economical, hands off meals. Prepare a hay box with lined pockets, place boiling vessels inside, and seal to slow cook porridge stews soups and lentils for hours with minimal effort. The technique suits busy workers seeking cheap, warm dinners.
A homemaking note describes a confection and dessert mold using rice, figs, gelatin, and ginger. It gives directions to prepare a ginger cream, mix with gelatin and whipped cream, then fold in rice and serve as a cold mold with whipped cream.
Food instruction notes mashed cold boiled potatoes with milk cheese onion salt pepper and butter. Potatoes are browned in a frying pan and flipped to brown the other side then served with tomato sauce.
An 18th or 19th century tip advises cleaning pewter by mixing powdered pumice stone and soap into a paste, adding sweet oil, washing with warm soappy water, rubbing pewter with the paste moistened with water, letting it stand overnight, then drying with a soft cloth and polishing with a mild polish.
The article touts Western Canada as a fertile opportunity for farmers seeking 160 acre homesteads at low prices and easy terms in Saskatchewan. It cites successful settlers in Lloydminster district, reporting rising cattle herds, high yields, and strong markets for livestock, urging rapid preparedness for Europe’s postwar demand and a future stock industry surge.
A compact page ad and filler items present in a late era issue. The dominant ad touts Hanford’s Balsam with claims of healing wounds while a youth themed motif touts age reversal and a mock debate on justice. The text blends commercial pitches with quips about law and youth.
The readable lines discuss a man named David doubting the ease of catching all men with goods and reflect on popularity, beauty, and subtle hints of social cleverness. The text reads as a stray composition with scattered phrases and nonstandard spellings.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment as skin cleansers and healers. It promises clear, youthful skin and soft white hands with emollients. Free samples offered by mail from Cuticura Dept Boston.
A garbled clipping blends Grove's Tasteless Chill jokes with a price note and a Henry Fielding style mock story. It also includes diet tips and short exchanges about courtship and manners, ending with a social maxim about trust and character.
A jumble of quips and dubious tips appears, including stray lines about helping men, a Bray gag about prices and colleges, warnings on sprains with Hanford bed, a joke about fashion and crows, a wife and husband exchange, Ivy poisoning treatment with Stantorts Balenm, and musings on love and wealth.
Ad brief touts a beauty product themed as a bride’s path to splendor. Mentions a $1.00 price and a notion of choosing a husband by selecting the right appearance. Text is fragmentary and unclear but centers on bridal beauty and value.
A collage of domestic anecdotes and social quips from a 19th or early 20th century paper. Tales include a tramp with a chopper, a housewife dispensing lessons, a New York limousine incident, alimony jokes, wedding cookery scenes, and a light debate on women voting. The tone mixes humor with everyday street scenes and dating mores.
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