Time table for cooking vegetables from a 19th century home guide
An experienced housewife provides a timetable for preparing vegetables. It lists cook times for potatoes, beets, corn, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, beans, onions, spinach, peas, squashes, and other garden produce, noting to remove from heat when tender and to cook in meat liquor for boiled salt meats.
Household Tips From Daily Life Advice Column
Practical remedies and home care tips for common tasks. Jotting needs on a slate in the kitchen helps avoid forgetfulness. Avoid sun directly on beds. use side light. Remedies cover rust stains, burns, paint splashes, tea stains, furniture cleaning, and hair health from outdoor activity.
Peanut Sandwiches Palatable and Nutritious
The guide describes peanut sandwiches as tasty and healthy. It explains buying peanut butter or making it at home by shelling and skinning one quart of peanuts, grinding, adding olive oil or sweet cream, and spreading between whole wheat bread slices.
Washing Clothes How to whiten yellowed whites with tartar soak
After washing in the usual way, soak white garments overnight in clean water with a teaspoonful of cream of tartar per quart. When dried and ironed they become as white as snow.
Recipe fragment for Banberry Farts pastry
An OCR fragment describes a baking method including ground raisins and lemon, beaten egg, sugar, flour, a rich pie crust, and baking in small tins. The instructions mention placing a mixture in can centers, pricking edges, brushing with milk, and baking for about ten to sixteen minutes, then serving two per pie plate.
Oven Tip Warns Water Bowl Prevents Burning
A gas oven tip recommends placing a bowl of water on the bottom shelf to prevent burning while cooking and to aid washing up after the meal.
To Clean Doormats Advice for Light Coloured Mats
Cleaning tips suggest soaking mats in soapy water and scrubbing with a stiff brush. Rinse thoroughly in cold water and allow to dry standing up. Methods emphasize avoiding hot water to protect colors.
To Polish Faucets
A short note claiming femon juice will remove tarnish from faucets. No additional context or instructions provided.
Unfolding Faith in Joseph and Jacob in Scriptural History
Reading notes summarize Stephen’s defense and Hebrews catalogue, showing God’s enduring purposes and human disobedience. Focuses on Joseph and Jacob as types of Christ, tracing their journeys from Abraham’s call to Israel’s fulfillment through faith.
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Is It Right to Advertise Coca Cola
A political commentator argues against ad hominem attacks and defends Coca Cola advertising. The piece cites a court ruling on caffeine content and compares Coca Cola to coffee and tea to question advertising ethics.
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Coca-Cola Company
Coca- Cola Company
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Wireless Lighthouse Stations At Brest Cause Aids To Ships
The article describes wireless light houses as future sea warnings replacing traditional lighthouses bells and horns. Brest France hosts stations that emit automatic warning messages every few seconds, using clockwork signals at ten and thirty second intervals. Each station acts as an aerial mast with weekly maintenance.
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Brest
France
Pathfinder
Ringworm on Child's Face in Stratford Iowa Ad
Mrs Barbara Prim of Stratford Iowa reports her seven year old son suffered ringworm on the face for three winters. Red spots with crust grew to egg size and spread over face and legs causing intense itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for about a month the child was cured. Advertises Cuticura products and a Skin Book.
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Iowa
Barbara Prim
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Red Tape Delays Paris Clock at Petit Palais
The Petit Palais clock has stood still for 13 years after a Paris exhibition closing was cited as the cause. An official blocked the action, and the clock remains off the municipal list for maintenance, likely to stay that way until a council member acts.
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Petit Palais
Convict Keeps Pet Mice Before Transfer at Parkhurst
Captain Hanson reports a Parkhurst prisoner kept two pet mice and kissed them goodbye before transfer to another prison. He lined a box with flannel and saved bread and cheese for the mice, promising to ensure their care. The scene was described as unforgettable by the prison commissioner.
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London
Hanson
Parkhurst
Do you believe thinking men take a mental attitude
A humorous exchange contrasts a “semi-mental” view toward frivolous girls with a broader remark that those who complain life isn’t worth living do nothing to change it. The line hints at social attitude and personal responsibility without detailing specific events.
Milk Stations Grow Across Cities For Bottle Fed Babies
Milk crusade spreads as cities install milk stations supplying various milks to bottle fed infants. Stations run by nurses with physician hours, often in rooms or schools, with ice boxes desks chairs and tables as simple setups.
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Albany
Baltimore
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Dayton
Detroit
Hartford
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Lawrence
Mass
Jouigville
Lowell
Milwaukee
Newark
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New Haven
New York
Peoria
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Providence
Rochester
St. Louis
Springfield
O. Waterbury
Wilkesbarre
Worcester
Yonkers
Utica
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The Tortures of Prickly Heat advertised powder
A 25 cent remedy claims to quickly alleviate prickly heat and skin affections. Free samples offered by J. S. Tyree, Chemist, Washington, D. C.adv.
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Washington, D. C
Leclerg
Buenos Aires Plans World’s Highest Tower Over Eiffel
The city contemplates erecting a 1 173 foot steel tower surpassing Eiffel by 189 feet. A 1 000 000 candlepower electric light will crown a statue atop the tower. Plans include social facilities, cafes, restaurants, library, billiard rooms, gym, wireless telegraphic station, and meteorological observatory.
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Buenos Ayres
Eiffel
Oddest of Jails in Graham County Arizona
Harper's Weekly describes a jail at Cliffton Graham county Arizona carved into a solid quartz rock hillside. The four large rock chambers are entered through a masonry vestibule with triple steel bars. Windows are blasted holes with heavy steel bars. cement floor holds prisoners who are confined in the large cells. The quartz walls reach fifteen feet thick and no prisoner has ever tried to escape.
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Cliffton
Graham County
Ariz
Harper's Weekly
Ring Found in Courthouse Bird Nest
Joe Cannon deputy auditor of Hardin County Ohio recovered his lost ring after a janitor found it woven in a bird nest in the courthouse yard during cleaning. The search had been ongoing with no success until the nest discovery.
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Joe Cannon
Hardin County
Yost
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