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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1913
Page
8
The article urges turning daily tasks into optional exercises to slim the figure and improve carriage. It suggests washing to the bottom of the tub, stretching on tiptoe, avoiding seat time for dressing, brisk market walks, and deliberate wrist and arm movements while hairbrushing, marketing, and household chores.
A housekeeper uses cups, tumblers, pitchers, and tins to store leftovers with noncovered containers. Folded filter paper forms light reusable covers that protect contents and fit any smooth receptacle, then can be removed and reused for future use.
Directions for preparing dried fruit, soaking it, making a syrup, and cooking times. Soak fourteen hours, simmer gently to avoid pulpy texture, serve hot or cold in pies or stewed fruit. For jam, use one pound sugar per pound fruit, add extra water, yield four pounds jam per pound dried fruit.
Instructions advise making lemonade sirup as a cheaper alternative to fresh juice. Boil one cup of sugar in one pint of water for about ten minutes, then add strained lemon juice or other juice and bottle. Use as needed and dilute to taste.
Thanksgiving entertaining centers on hospitality with a Puritan theme. Women host family and friends around the hearth, with Priscilla and John Alden costumes for young guests and a Longfellow quotation game. The evening culminates in a candy pull and a shared meal.
Amateur photographers are urged to avoid wasteful snapping and instead record film and supply purchases in a notebook. A sample ledger shows two dozen films yielding only a few good images while many others are out of focus or improperly exposed, reflecting discouragement from poor workflow and light and distance errors.
A historical beauty recipe describes a whitening mixture using tincture of benzoin and vanilla with rosewater to form a milky emulsion. It pairs a camphor water cleanser with glycerin borax for refining skin and reducing facial redness, applied with cotton and rinsed with soft water.
Instructions describe creating a decorative brassiere from alternate lace and beading strips with a wide ribbon threaded through. Adjustable straps are used for evening wear.
The Scotsman notes two garden plants that close blooms by day and open at night. Endymion awakens with the moon, showing vanilla fragrance, while Lychnis vespertina opens after sunset, its white flowers lifting from drooping calyces. The red Lychnis, diurna, flowers by day.
Harper's Weekly notes that air and moisture in the mercury render barometers unreliable. To test, hang the instrument, incline to hear a metallic click if no air is present, or a dull sound if air and moisture exist. Bubbles indicate air. mercury adherence suggests faults. Expert repair is advised.
The piece traces the origin of modern false teeth from Giussopangelo Fonzi, the Italian dentist who practiced in Paris after 1798 and treated Lucien Bonaparte. It notes Fonzi’s discovery of the denture material and his French Academy award, and mentions the empress of Russia as an early patient. Fonzi later moved to London and Madrid, where Ferdinand VII awarded him 1000 ducats annually for a denture set.
A reflective piece on unidentified bodies and the ripple of disappearances. It notes inquiries reveal anxieties among friends and hint at tragedies and heartaches from cases of people vanishing, driven by crime shame melancholy and longing for adventure.
A state official in a mountain region asked a barefoot field worker how far to Johnson's Carners. The woman refused to answer, saying only that her son Jim could, noting Jim has shoes. The anecdote underscores Jim's favored status and experience.
A cheeky editorial aside notes a young man with kid gloves in one hand and a cane in the other, joking that such appearance implies not seeking manual labor. The remark captures a light, humorous tone from a Gatawa column.
The prospect of winter travel to Southern California prompts inquiry into Burlington’s coach and rail tours. Personal guided trips via Denver and Salt Lake City promise comfortable, scenic routes for travelers seeking ease and sightseeing.
The London Spectator notes Francis Thompson wrote in a careful pencil script with a round band, easy for a compositor to read. It mentions his manuscripts of later poems are partly in ink and pencil, bound in penny exercise books and sometimes cut apart by scissors.
Sir Herbert Beerbohu tells of Lord Tennyson visiting a country house where local luminaries gathered. After dinner the host offered a telescope and Tennyson spent twenty minutes gazing at the heavens before quipping that people should think more of county families.
Drinking glasses known as tumblers trace their design to hollowed silver bowls whose rims always settle upright. The balance ensures they tumble gently back to position no matter how they are set on a table.
A exchange outside the bench features a judge questioning perceived laziness as references to a revolving door turn into a pointed insult. Dialogue centers on patience and sharp wit in a tense moment.
An Irish proverb quoted, stating that one who arrives openly and honestly will be welcomed without being asked.
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