Home style dishes and desserts from a vintage cookery page
A quirky collected menu of bake goods and savory dishes. Recipes include Lightning Cake adapted with butter and almonds, Dog Biscuit Balls with bologna, Pineapple and Cream Cheese Salad, Banana Parfait, Rice Muffins, Spanish Potatoes, Scalloped Potatoes and Hominy, Macaroons, Banana Bread Pudding, Banana and Strawberry desserts, and various lettuce and barley based dishes. Also includes notes on liberal lettuce use and dinners like Curry of Beef Heart.
WHY UNCLE GAM CHOSE ROCK
The Rockford area is praised for prohibition impact with Dry Towns driving population, hotel expansion, cash sales, and bank growth. Vendors, saloonkeepers, and grocers shift to new fortunes amid dry laws. The piece cites Frank Segan on migration and wartime camp effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gam
Rock
FORD
Tockford
Frank 8. Segan
Rockford
Nelson
National Bank
America
Camp Grant
Sam
Perilous Beer and Prohibition Debate
A moral tale contrasts a sober 21 year old soldier with a drunkard who fails to serve. Accounts warn beer harms health and family stability, citing medical views and wartime duty. Newfoundland's 1917 liquor ban shows no revenue loss, with year revenue higher than 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newfoundland
Charge It Please In A Liberty Bond Sold
A bank scene shows a banker prompting a young woman to pay for her Liberty bond with a brisk reply “Charge it, please” reflecting a flirtatious moment in a savings drive.
Odd Nostalgia Incomplete Copy Reflects Fragmented Text
A fragmented OCR passage mentions a druggist and applying a product at night with strong effects on the skin. References include a distorted name Orhinn and a dismissive line about a pudding from a cookery book. The text is garbled and lacks clear narrative structure or verifiable events.
Swamp-Root Kidney Ailment Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as the top medicine for kidney ailments. It urges readers to start treatment now and to mail ten cents for a sample bottle, asking mention of the paper in correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Kress
Sune Day School Times
G. J. Briggs & Co
Providence
I. I
Fletcher’ Castoria
Mansur Drug Co
St. Paul
New York City
W.Y
W. H. Chapman
Montreal
Que
Pleteher
Kilmer
Dr. Imer Fe Co
Higghmnten
Marriage Question Echoes in Child’s Play
In a clipped exchange, a child asks about marriage while a resigned reply jokes about alimony, implying grown up plans remain distant. The dialogue satirically notes adult financial arrangements and social expectations.
Equivocal Queries Stir Debate On Deception
A fragmentary exchange debates marital trust and deception. A speaker questions how a man who constantly deceives his wife should be viewed, referencing a puzzling request to engage a plain book and a cryptic phrase.
Birth Decline in War Hit Britain and Central Powers
In a presidential address Sir Bernard Mallet cites a war caused birth decline in Britain and estimates German losses at 2,000,000 and Hungary at 1,500,000. He links central power birth drops to wartime hardship while Britain enjoyed better conditions than in peacetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brutiattea Pociety
Bernand Mallet
United Kingdom
Germany
Hungary
Great Britaia
Deadly Parallel Describes Hun Attack Fire Response
In a Pearsfield report a soldier recalls a Hun assault likening troops to bees, their fire dwindling and then dying. David at Pearm 118 notes they were composed amid the flames of thorns, reflecting wartime hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
Iowton Evening Transcript
Fragmented sarcasm about truth in a conversation
The text presents a quip about a beggar and a woman, noting denial of drinking and a claim that many men lie about themselves. It reflects a dialogic moral sting and a facet of social hypocrisy.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chip
Emerson
Ylaree Dru
G Nokeshieistian Temperance Union
Bam
Edwards
M. P
Scottish Temperance League
Glasgow
House of Commons
Mr. Edwards
Fletcher
Rtrs A Gee
AbelpfalRer
Granetty
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Jensle
Bonae
10Th & Liberty Stn
Stock Yards
Statins
Kansas City, MO
Teubey
Costa
Uae
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