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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
2
An advertising appeal urges holiday shoppers to buy Hart Schaffner & Marx suits and Viking Graduate outfits for men and boys. It promotes fall coats, neckwear, mufflers, and furnishings as Christmas gifts, claiming mutual profit from the sale.
A guide for women to craft attractive, low cost window curtains and portieres. It describes simple materials like unbleached muslin and cretonne, plus a gray cheesecloth living room border with blue green accents. It also offers embroidery techniques using mercerized threads and Kenningston stitches.
When a bottle of olives is opened and not all are used, add a teaspoon of pure olive oil or just enough to cover the remaining olives in the jar. This prevents the olives from becoming flat and stale.
A guide advises using a bicycle pump to blow dust from a clogged sewing machine. After air cleaning, finish with a soft cloth to remove remaining particles and restore smooth operation.
The note quotes Lincoln urging focus on single tasks and handling major aims first. It presents a succinct maxims style guideline attributed to the era, emphasizing disciplined order and prioritization in work and decision making.
A collection of home remedies and recipes. Bath mixtures using lemon juice witch hazel sea salt and creolin temper heat while lavender water and cologne refresh on hot days. Practical tips on desserts bread crumb puddings neat shoe laces and a Spanish tamale recipe with corn olives and misins.
Readable excerpt urges stable work as a virtue, quoting Homer to condemn wandering life and celebrate steady toil as a moral ideal for mortals. It frames work as protective against erratic fate and social instability.
A vintage dessert guide by Cornelia Bedford outlines Belle pudding variants using bread crumbs, milk and eggs with options for chocolate, spice, and cherry flavors. It includes Cherry Bread with meringue, Queenie fried custard slices, and Simple Fruit Pudding with raisin and citron mix, steamed and served with vanilla sauce.
A vintage baking method uses butter eggs sugar milk walnuts raisins currants and baking powder to form a three layer cake. Alternate cake and custard layers of milk eggs cornstarch and salt then frost with stiff egg whites and top with walnut pieces.
Instructions describe almond wafers with butter sugar milk bread flour almond extract and baking then rolling while warm. Also batter for fritters uses egg yolks water flour salt olive oil and stiff egg whites with a note on browning from olive oil and a line about lard for frying.
A noted quote attributed to Jamen warns that envy breeds confusion and evil acts, reflecting a moral lesson on social dynamics and human behavior in opinion.
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