Romance and Reality From Uncle Remus Magazine
A quote from Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus Magazine compares romance and life’s hardships. Billy Sanders warns youths to face reality and endure minor troubles to strengthen bonds, likening life to a road with rough places and bamboo thorns.
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Billy Sanders
Shore
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus
Choosing Wallpapers by Room for Comfort and Health
Select light but not bright papers to lift spirits. small patterns enlarge tight spaces while large rooms take bigger prints. Vestibule grove effects. halls plain felt or tapestry. bedrooms floral with light or dark body. parlor decorative design. sitting and dining rooms arbor or orchard motifs. bathrooms kitchens and laundries paint. Do not layer papers to prevent mold and peeling.
New England Cod Dish Served In New York Hostelry
A noted New York hostelry presents codfish as the centerpiece boiled and served hot on a platter. Rich white sauce with riced yolk or chopped hard boiled egg, parsley, and a ring of boiled beets carrots onions and small potatoes surround the fish. A sauceboat offers diced fat salt pork with its fat and tiny pickles accompany the dish.
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New York
Fig Preserves Method from Historic Text
Take ripe figs and cut crosses on top. Soak in salted water three days, changing daily. Rinse with fresh water, add leaves to color, and cook until green. Cool in cold water, changing twice daily for three more days. Add sugar per pound of figs and flavor with lemon or ginger, then cook until tender thick.
Do Not Knead Bread Improves With Simple Sponge Method
The article explains a no knead bread method using a sponge. Mix the sponge in the nsal way and let it rise. Stir in flour with a wire fork, flour the bowl, and chop the sponge with a knife without pounding. Cut into half inch squares, assemble into roafs, and allow rise before baking.
Beef Hash Cakes Recipe
Chop cold corned beef finely and mix with slightly more than equal cold boiled potatoes chopped coarsely. Add onion juice, form into small cakes and brown in butter or beef drippings. Serve each cake on buttered toast moistened slightly.
Gator Tale Spars With Sleepy Fisherman on River Bank
A tall yarn from the Atlanta Constitution tells of a fisherman who, after a long day with no bites, drank more whisky, slept on the riverbank, and watched an alligator snatch his boots and his jug. The tale ends with the gator enraged by whisky and the man performing feats to stay safe.
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Gators
Atlanta Constitution
Not Guilty Surprises at Hardware Show Inquiry
An elderly gray dressed woman approached a hardware counter in a show and asked for "any little vises" in a moment that revealed how innocence can trigger suspicion. The anecdote, cited from Youth's Companion, highlights perception and misreading in public spaces.
Wife Convinces Husband To Drink Postum
A wife recounts how coffee harmed her health and how switching to Postum improved her wellbeing. After trial and family use, her husband also adopts Postum, ending their coffee dependence. The letter is presented as an advertisement from Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
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Wellville
Notable Husband Gift Gag in Local Column
A humorous exchange shows Mrs. Caller chiding for gifting the same necktie yearly, while Mrs. Athome admits she buys ties for her husband each birthday and the joke rests on the gag of repetition.
Soldier Son Commends by Uncle in Colonial Encounter
A tense exchange depicts Uncle Ben confirming his son has joined the army after a grim remark about a soldierly duty. The dialogue captures a moment of initiative and obedience within a historic brigade, reflecting social hierarchies and military service.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised in Letter
A Ohio reader from Columbus writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped during the Change of Life. She reports relief from nervousness headaches and other symptoms and says she can resume her own work and recommends the remedy to friends.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
E. Long St
Columbus
Ohio
Mrs. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women and Lydia E. Pinkham
The advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a fifty year remedy for female ailments. It claims it cures displacements inflammation and other symptoms and invites women to write for advice, listing Lynn Massachusetts as the address.
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Lydia HE. Pinkham
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