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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1906
Page
2
The article argues that skilled and expert workers combine mind and muscle, predicting social respect and higher earnings as civilization values brain and hand labor. It advocates technical schools, manual training, and early technical education to raise mobility, efficiency, and prosperity for future makers.
A southern woman offers practical cooling tips for hot weather. She favors plain cold water with lime juice, wet cotton behind the ears, ammonia in the water, cold water bags at the neck, and cold compresses. She notes lightweight fabrics and bare feet for relief and urges foot baths and room privacy to ease heat.
The text argues that boys should complete a strong common school education and, if possible, attend technical school to gain scientific training. It claims educated workers outpace untrained peers, with a five year horizon showing the trained boy surpassing the untrained one two to one, and stresses that experience cannot replace education.
The Commoner outlines a cabbage recipe. Boil cabbage in water until tender then drain and slice. Prepare a sauce of vinegar butter sugar and an egg, pour over cabbage, season and serve hot. He warns against disposal of hot cabbage water without disinfectant and suggests venting the kitchen.
A simple warm day salad uses three smoked herrings heated through then prepared with onion eggs potato parsley salt pepper vinegar and oil. Mix thoroughly and serve in a salad bowl with optional boiled beet as garnish.
The recipe describes mixing corn meal with milk hours before baking to remove raw taste. When baking, add salt, egg, a spoonful of flour and soda, or baking powder with sweet milk. Mush should be boiled long, then kept in a covered oven at boiling heat for several hours.
A recipe note explains making a dressing for one quart of finely chopped cabbage. Boil a mixture of vinegar sugar salt and pepper then rub butter with flour to a cream and add it to the hot vinegar. Stir in a beaten egg and pour over the cabbage while hot.
A historical recipe advises using six tablespoonfuls of scraped chocolate or three of chocolate and three of cocoa. Absolve in a quart of boiling water with rich milk, scald, and serve hot. This quantity serves six persons.
An article explains how to observe bees by placing a rectangular glass aquarium on a window sill and observing their building behavior. It describes confining bees, feeding them a sugar water syrup, adding rustic supports, and noting how bees attach combs and create supports to mimic a hollow tree. A veteran beekeeper recalls a colony with fantastical, pillar-like combs and long rounded centers.
Karl Soffel of Paris, famed naturalist, found snails sleeping and snoring in a glass jar in his library. One specimen, raised among grape vines, led the loud snore, a peculiar sound noted while he worked.
Carlos Wilson, famed collector of Napoleonic items, 2000 volumes and 9000 portraits and prints, has died in Boston. His collection is described as the finest in America, possibly the world.
The likely range of years over which cancer can occur is similar in both sexes 46 to 64 years. The mean age at onset is 65.2 years in males and 49.9 years in females.
Miss Annie Hendren of Rocklyn Washington reports sustained health after using Peruna and Manalin. She states she can now perform housework milking cows and managing a mill, crediting Peruna with her recovery and happiness. The letter underscores Peruna's broad appeal among women in honest toil and praises Dr. Hartman’s remedy.
Cornelius Vanderbilt representing the Vanderbilt family and Alfred G. representing his mother applied for membership in the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati. The society elected Cornelius as the proper representative along with 15 others.
A letter dropped at the Chicago general post office shortly before train departures will ride electric subway cars to the Park Row station and into mail elevators. The system links with Illinois Central and other lines, replacing wagon haulage for sack mail and enabling fast delivery to cities from St Paul to New York.
A collection of brief quotes from ancient and classical thinkers on virtue, wealth, speech, and public interest. Notable voices include Confucian, Teremee, Plautus, Bias, Solon, Synesius, Phocylides, Pythagoras, and Cato.
A collection of aphoristic lines discussing moral perception and social behavior. The text critiques complacency in business and gendered vanity, noting that minor expenses reveal larger disappointments and that fault-finding often targets others while ignoring one’s own faults.
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