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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1909
Page
2
The Beaver Herald notes a string of satirical observations on immigration, land lotteries, Spanish swindles, and global politics. It mentions Spanish prisoners, Belgian Congo disputes, Morocco’s sultan, and a broad critique of prosperity, war, and journalism, alongside quips about mail carriers and students with cars. It highlights Chinese students heading to US institutions and references Enoch Arden in a modern twist.
The era of house cleaning will fade as the electric vacuum eases chores in wired homes. Clean a room at a time, start with kitchens and pantries, use brown bags for walls and floors, and air the room after a regular sweeping day. Also notes recipes to repurpose cold coffee in cakes and desserts and a coffee custard and sauce for vanilla ice cream.
A vintage advice piece on home medicine handling and cold prevention. It stresses reading medicine labels, shaking bottles, replacing corks, and pouring carefully. It suggests cold water therapy and regular throat and chest sponging or rubbing to strengthen health and prevent illness. It extols the value of proper care, diet, and tempering life with healthful habits.
A quirky, mixed text blends poetic overflow with a home baking recipe. It mentions potatoes and muffins alongside advice on yeast and dough. The cooking portion details two tablespoonfuls of butter and sugar per cup, boiling water, scalded milk, a third of a yeast cake, salt, two eggs, and mashed potatoes.
As autumn approaches, try a pork salad with roasted meat and fruit additions. Add fruit like orange near the end for color. Use kitchen bouquet or caramel for richer browns in sauces. For salads, chop meat and serve with white sauce to thicken. When cake is unavailable, boiled trout with nuts and raisins on salted wafers makes a pretty, tasty dish.
Instructions for cleaning books with delicate bindings using chamois skin rubbed in powdered pumice stone. For white spots from furniture, rub with a cloth dampened with alcohol followed by a dry cloth.
Dissolve one yeast cake in water and mix with lukewarm water molasses and salt. Stir in rye flour cornmeal and flour. shape and bake as usual bread dough instructions without kneading.
Practical shoe care notes advise rubbing with vaseline or castor oil to extend life and improve appearance, waterproofing. If no trees available stuff shoes with paper and store on a shelf. Keep heels straight by adding a lift now and then to avoid a body going off plumb and tiring quickly.
The text challenges common kitchen beliefs such as sirloin versus round steak nutrition, the idea that more expensive cuts are healthier, and that rapid boiling or washing chicken after cutting improves safety. It cites quotes from Hugo and Wortewards to illustrate the confusion around cooking practices and weathered wisdom.
Peach season brings emphasis on using ripened fruit in its natural state. The piece praises peaches and cream as a preferred pairing and notes the desire for variety in fruit combinations, indicating a casual exploration of new and unusual peach dishes.
A fragmentary page offers household hints on nutrition and cleaning. It mentions eating raw carrots for skin glow, with caveats about thorough mastication, and cleaning woven items with a cloth dampened by alcohol. It also notes washing garments before they dry to avoid stiffness and restore appearance.
A fragmented recipe excerpt instructs washing pare quinces grate the pulp and simmer with water and sugar. It mentions adding grated fruit to a mixture and finishing with a final step involving a bell or jelly, though the exact final instruction is unclear due to garbled text.
A rustic recipe describes adding one cup of antt to a gallon of water then boiling and dropping in tomatoes until tender. The process ends with careful removal into a can as tomatoes supposedly make their own rules in this improvised method.
English scientists warn that reckless exposure during storms endangers life. Weather dangers include lightning striking trees, poles, or houses. people and animals are killed yearly. Shelters in houses or caves reduce risk, while open areas, boats, or rail cars can be perilous.
The text urges calm inward repose and self-possession to face all experiences. It promises that realizing the soul’s possibilities grants poise, faith, and mental strength, with every event having an adequate cause and attitude shaping experience, guiding will toward inner mastery.
William Jack of Terry and D owns a cigar that remained with ashes undisturbed after smoking. He laid it on a shelf on September 13 of last year, and today the cigar shows ashes still attached and unchanged. The ashes appear petrified, unfazed by handling.
A young man leans forward as Amelia unveils a small silver racket shaped tool of silk gauze and proceeds to perform a first disinfection act. Herbert observes the moment as the device is used in a science demonstration.
A short 1920s style home feature promotes a bungalow built to suit severe climates. It describes a dunesiow designed residence with western and southern influences, using rough finished 6 inch wide wooden siding in olive green. The piece invites readers to write for more details and a two cent stamp reply.
A bungalow plan describes rough siding and cement plaster exteriors with a pebbled finish and timbering. It outlines interior layout including five rooms plus vestibule pantry, bathroom and two closets, with a 20 by 14 living room, a dining room with bay window, and a compact 11 by 10 kitchen. The plan uses hardwood floors and yellow pine trim and estimates the total cost at 2100 dollars.
The article muses on hero worship as a universal instinct and the value of aiming high, citing Napoleon and Washington as motivators. It then recounts Gaston Reeves, a New York feeder, who weighs about three hundred pounds and, after a long diet, is told by his doctor an operation isn’t necessary, prompting a humorous endnote.
A man named Hodge, described as steady and unhurried, makes a name in the quarry. He appears calm yet diligent, proving that methodical effort yields results despite a slow surface.
Fragmentary diary style note shows Mary and her fiancé expecting Mary to work for income after marriage. He plans to be head of the establishment while she must hold a job for board and clothes. Mary agrees yet the excerpt hints at financial roles and social expectations, with brief dialogue about earning typing work at ten dollars weekly.
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