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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1909
Page
3
The Housekeeper's Notebook discusses fireless cookers as a modern kitchen convenience. It describes Norwegian and domestic box designs using asbestos paper and non conducting fills to trap heat, enabling boiling foods to finish cooking without active fire. Examples include a home made box with granite kettles and a trunk cooker with hay packing.
A 1906 essay argues salespeople must be continually "at home" to customers, offering warm, patient, genuine courtesy. It contrasts two salesroom scenes, urges smiles, personalized attention, and adaptiveness to customer needs, noting lack of service harms business and that goodwill strengthens both workers and profits.
In the central plains, farms of 160 to 320 acres dominate Indiana to Nebraska with scarce 60 acre plots. The article argues for larger net profit through intensive farming, proposing field layout, alfalfa adoption, and a two year two year potato hay rotation to stabilize yields and reduce costs. It details a 1906 to 1907 plan including crops, livestock changes, and expected income shifts.
A Midwest curios buyer recalls a Paris boot maker Jacques and a Chicago hotel tale of boots with hidden gems. Detective McCormick tracks two smugglers, a key confession, and a raid revealing diamonds inside hollow boot heels.
The text explains fireless cooking by placing food in an airtight insulated box with a nonconductive lining, ensuring the food is steaming and at boiling point when it is inserted. It notes many possible missteps if the rules are not followed.
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