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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
7
Oklahoma's largest State Fair and Exposition prepares for twelve days of displays across twenty one departments. Entries flood the new Agricultural building and Machinery Hall will feature a vast dairy cooler amid Indian agriculture exhibits showcasing tribal products and education.
Mins Fannie Merritt Farmer presents new fireless cooker recipes. Cracked Wheat with boiling water soak overnight and cook, Smothered Haddock with tomato soup, Roly Poly lamb and veal roulade, Scalloped Beg and Potato with Cheese, String Beans With Cheese with sole sauce and parmesan finish.
An enigmatic fragment from the Eve ning Holler recounts a staff humorist lamenting a chaotic day. The narrator describes his wrist being set in 17 different styles and types, expressing exasperation at the burden of constant adjustments and the absence of humor in the task.
A fragment reports old silver coins linked to Elizabeth and James found buried in the garden at Manor Farm Itchen Algh Hampshire. It suggests a Royalist connection to Charles Cheriton died in the rout. A small anecdote about Elsie at dinner ends with a quip about praying for pudding.
A quirky note on teen shopping joy and fleeting purchases, alongside muskrat as a key North American fur animal. The year’s fur harvest lists 6,600,000 muskrat pelts prepared and about 1,700,000 marketed, reflecting scale and impact.
A lively cheeky girl who had been chattering at length with a magpie fell silent when an exceptionally fashionable woman visited her mother. The visitor asked if the child had lost her tongue, to which the girl replied that she had only lost her breath, not her tongue.
A pupil astonishes classmates by correctly quoting a geography book during an auction discussion about South America. The student reads that the region is inhabited by a species of monkey, identified as apes, in a moment of triumphant literacy.
A critic argues that public service fails when a person focuses on posing new questions rather than solving established ones, calling for practical help over endless inquiry.
The fragment reflects a grim view of life under conflict where men are deemed beasts and women bear burdens. It hints at social roles shaped by chaos, with quoted phrases suggesting dehumanization amid wartime hardship.
A practical tip for do it yourself paperhanging suggests applying paste to the wall rather than to the paper. This method helps amateurs align patterns more easily and reduces tearing, saving time and effort.
Captain W V Lucas, an officer in the Fourteenth Iowa, recounts a humorous Civil War barber shop incident during General Price’s raid into Missouri. In Pilot Knob, a barber shaved only half the face before the fighting interrupted, leaving one side cleanly shaved and the other with a two weeks’ beard as the captain rejoined his company.
An Iowa reader reports clearing pimples and dandruff after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The letter describes two to three years of irritation then relief after sample and purchase, with a note offering free samples and a skin book. Also mentions a Barkhamsted woods find of a tree with three different wood species.
A chaotic collage of dialogue and scenes includes travelers arguing about a motor, a peddled tale of Manford’s Balm of Myth spreading in India, names and greetings across conversations, and a slapstick Aladdin tableau. The piece closes with a note about Hanford's Balsam and women qualifying as food inspectors in New York.
Rochester New York firm Perry Nursery Co advertises 1200 acres under cultivation and offers commissions, weekly pay, free canvassing outfit, and low guaranteed goods. They seek locals to take orders and write for terms and particulars promptly. Also includes unrelated ad snippets and a divorce statistic note.
A Washington to Baltimore auto tour stops at a Hagerstown inn where poor fare and inadequate kit lead to a Welsh rabbit quest for cheese and large square crackers. A German prince visits a city station, and a teacher’s coal of fire joke elicits Tommy’s reply. Includes a note on a literary critic rewriting a disaster head as “O Restican Bea” and a recipe to make tenacious mucilage from Spanish onions.
Portha big and little burns in cook fog and baking. keeping Hanford Bab oom of Myrrh near for quick relief Ady. The text suggests shopping rituals and transient pleasures, with unclear names and fragmented phrases about remedy and routine.
A fragment notes that some individuals burn bridges behind them while others demonstrate they are proof of the act, reflecting on personal or social consequences of severed ties.
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