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Newspaper
The Sunday Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1915
Page
26
The narrator recalls moving into a new home with orderly, methodical steps. Each room was cleaned and organized before arrival of furniture and belongings. By late afternoon the house was in order with tasks completed, curtains hung, and dishes unpacked, leaving no stress or chaos.
This fragment lists household instructions for carpet cleaning with salt and gasoline, lamp maintenance including wick removal to vent gas, furniture cleaning with ARM suds, jelly straining, and preserving muslins with alum. It also covers latch adjustment, sour milk flavoring, milk and soda substitutions, soap bark bags for spotting, making paper fireproof with alum, and cleaning copper using chromate of potash.
A report on experiments by scientists shows that coffee strength depends on grind fineness, not cooking time. It recommends grinding fresh, using seven tablespoons per six cups water, and a drip method with a fine muslin filter for best aroma, color, and flavor while avoiding egg clarification.
The piece suggests using spare time to create affordable gifts. It covers making a five to six inch crochet doily bonbon basket with No 5 crochet cotton and para wax, a sewing basket from doilies with satin lining, aprons from lace, and handkerchiefs. It also notes assembling gift items from a yard of ribbon, a small chamois, and narrow lace.
Recipes describe turning cold chopped beef or chicken with rice into cakes fried in salt pork fat, and making Marmalade Puddings with suet, bread crumbs, candied peel, and eggs baked in a mold. Also includes rhubarb pie filling and chocolate flavored cakes with sugar and vanilla.
An old narrative describes a child’s imagined playhouse set with gas shelves a clock and a small drawer full of cloths. The scene includes a tidy table a rug a floor painted pine and simple cleaning tools. Children played quietly under their mother’s guidance in a small yard arbor near the house.
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