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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
3
An advertisement asserts the public seeks a simple pleasant efficient liquid laxative. It promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a proven combination by the California Fig Syrup Co. and urges purchase from genuine manufacturers via local druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
A garbled note hints at a local sports or community figure named Jonesome seeking spring prospects. No clear date team or event is readable.
A Natal newspaper notes a rising rate of personal crisis deaths among Europeans, exceeding England and Wales rates. Durban reported a daily pattern. the piece calls the trend deplorable and voices concern over youth and public safety in the region.
Miss Perkins, a handsome resident of the Crosses, enjoys a long ride with widower Billington, a wealthy real estate man. The Crosses women push for a marriage, but Perkins hides plans while declaring her own interest in buying a home. The episode ends with Perkins revealing she is seeking a house, not a husband, shocking the boarders.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened for traffic on May 24, 1883 and has carried increasing world traffic. Expert engineers declare it as serviceable as on its first day of use, maintaining its historic reliability.
Practical household notes cover moving heavy mattresses with old suspenders, laundering curtains, and making a ready curtain for furniture. Also advised are methods for handling gas mantles, removing iodine stains with sweet milk, and preparing pineapple with a choppy step by step frying recipe for pineapple fritters.
Two quarts of dandelion blossoms free of stems are steeped with four quarts of boiling water for three days with daily stirring. After straining, add five pounds sugar, three sliced oranges, and three sliced lemons, plus one yeast cake. Let sit three more days, then strain. Let stand four weeks, strain through cheesecloth, add half a pint whisky and three raisins per bottle, seal airtight.
Instructions describe separating eggs, beating whites stiff, whisking yolks with milk and sugar to form custard, cooling, grating apples with sugar to prevent browning, and folding apples into the custard or serving by turning custard onto a dish. The sequence asks when to combine and how to plate.
A reader shares a method for Plum Loaf bread, advising to set aside one loaf, roll thin, sprinkle with sugar, roll again two or three times, then work in a cupful of rails ins, and bake as usual for a tasty result.
Bits of damp newspaper or soft brown paper scattered before sweeping trap loose dust and keep it from spreading during cleaning in a room.
A recipe from Woman's Home Companion describes shaping cold sliced meat with a surrounding jelly. It details soaking gelatin, dissolving in water, adding sugar vinegar lemon juice and salt, then cooling and folding celery cabbage and pimentos before molding and chilling thoroughly.
Garden notes describe easy to grow garnishing herbs like celery lops parsley water crema pepper grass chervil burnet caraway and coriander seeds used in baking and pickling. Embroidering initials on linen is easier when fabrics are joined and snug in embroidery rings to keep fabric taut.
Proper hard boiled eggs start by piercing the large end with a needle to prevent cracking. Boil steadily for 15 to 20 minutes, then plunge into cold water and rest. Peel under cold water. keep under cold water while peeling for smooth results. Older eggs peel better than fresh.
Create a rich thin piecrust rolled to four inch scalloped shapes. Invert with teacups as guides, press over to form cups, bake until brown. Fill with two tablespoons of canned cherries or chosen fruit and top each with a spoon of whipped cream.
A pair of old kitchen and household tips. First a simple asparagus soup method from cutting ends to boiling and adding milk butter onion parsley flour then seasoning. Then a rather unsafe feather cleaning method using soap and gasoline to treat a white feather overnight.
A preserving tip suggests placing several large marbles in the kettle during long cooking and stirring to keep jam moving and prevent sticking or burning. For stain removal a process using milk and salt is described to lift wet ink and mildew spots before washing in cold water.
A 1907 note shares a witty vignette of a telephone operator mocking a flirtatious suitor and a dramatic testimonial praising Cuticura remedies for a long standing eczema. It includes a social gathering anecdote about Miss Molemy Brown missing a singing turn and Mr Green performing A Song of Thanksgiving.
The Hearts of Oak Journal discusses age perceptions across professions from waiters to statesmen and judges. It notes that 50 marks “old” for waiters, while leaders and actors are deemed young. athletes reach “old” around 40. railway workers are also called old by forty. The piece cites old age pension planners using 65 as a pivot.
The piece argues wives complain of marriage monotony while envisioning other arts. It notes both spouses face routine and suggests cultivating interests or hobbies to escape the rut. Marriage becomes monotonous only if pursued by two.
A fragmented passage features anonymous coffee praise and a money-back guarantee. It mentions Schilling's Best, a local grocer, and characters Healy and Mannering at a country picnic. A blushing moment and a sudden interruption with a bull are described in quick dialogue. The tone mirrors light newspaper comic or column chatter.
Otto E. Schaar, president of the Walters' club of New York, centers his critique on tipping as an opponent sharpens the point. He recalls a German court exchange where a accused wife replies to a prosecutor that her husband was “a big enter,” implying the body with arsenic could have harmed many.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly successful for sick women, claiming countless testimonials from letters to the Pinkham Laboratory. It stresses roots and herbs, no drugs, restoration to health, and avoidance of surgical operations.
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