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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
6
A 1907 newspaper notice announces a large temporary sale starting December 17 and ending January 1 offering half price items in multiple departments. Every fifteenth customer wins their purchases free, with cashier announcing the winner and each purchase logged. Items include Mens Suits Boys and Childrens Suits Fur, shoes, gloves, and luggage at substantial reductions.
A collection of home made candy formulas including Honey Gandy Peanut Brittle Chocolate Garamele College Girls Fudge Everton Taffy Popcorn Balls Cream Walnuts and Cream Nut Fudge with step by step proportions and cooking notes, promising traditional sweets for the holiday season.
Instructions describe making a nut butter base with butter and vanilla, cooling in a pan, then preparing a mixed fruit nougat with roasted peanuts, figs, raisins and candied peel. Sugar is moistened with vinegar, butter added, cooked to near hard stage, then rolled in a cloth and sliced into pieces after cooling.
A winter vignette unfolds as a couple crosses paths near a hearth and mistletoe. The scene hints at romance with hints of secrecy as the beloved awaits below the mistletoe while distant snow falls and warm light glows.
The piece describes Kotie as the patron saint of Japanese children. He is pictured with a large sack used as a boat to cross rivers. Believed to have eyes in the back of his head, Kotie watches youngsters and embodies traits reminiscent of Santa Claus.
A renowned Christmas tree stood at Windsor Castle in the early 1940s, becoming one of the era's most famous seasonal symbols.
Notable for the total value of gifts rather than height. The crop of presents reached 45,008 dollars, equivalent to the value of the product from 9,000 acres of forest land.
Practical sewing notes describe darning methods for worn linen around holes using a damask patch on the right side, strengthening edges and concealing repairs. It covers knife cuts, jagged tears, and when to apply tape on the back, plus tips for machine quilting and a hemming procedure. Includes recipes for suet pudding and a watercress soup as shown in the same feature.
A boy explains a family practice of reusing and repurposing clothing. A bartender brother, a meat market worker, and a painter father wear hand me downs until too worn. Old overalls become paint clothes then kindling then soap base for garden growth.
The excerpt captures a satire flavored exchange about social status and marriage. A mother-Isson conversation recalls poverty, ambition, and a governor, while a scene mocks the notion of punishment for marriage as a lighter, comic take on fate and social climbing referenced by Puck.
A hostess and Mrs Oldcastle debate beliefs in a witty exchange. The conversation turns on religious faith and a playful remark about men wearing diamond-studded fans and their frazzled look at the bottom.
A Washington Star item notes a persistent campaign speech with days of appeals in the public arena. It contrasts claims from opposing sides and asserts one side can prove its case against the other.
A playful scene unfolds as Jack Tremayne loses his temper amid a post dance chat in the conservatory. The bachelor’s figure, referred to as the Fair maid, teases with fashion talk on hats and winter garb while pondering the cost of such finery.
A collection of witty exchanges on courtship and social manners from Yonkers Statesman and Chicago Daily News. The fragments joke about patience in asking Pegsy to sing and English girls remaining single after a broken engagement with Mr H.
A Detroit Free sample quotes a jokey exchange about unemployment linked to tobacco scarcity. A grieving widow laments a liver illness as the cause of death, illustrating dark humor in a local vignette.
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