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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1915
Page
3
A nursemaid style guide offers recipes and tips for using baking powder biscuits to create fruit desserts and snacks. It suggests fruit toppings, nut additions, rolls, turnovers, prune loaves, layered cookies, and cinnamon bars as quick, tasty treats with minimal effort.
A miscellany of kitchen recipes and salad ideas from an old breakfast menu. Includes Eggress Corn Muffins with corn meal and milk, cucumber boats with salmon mix, raised crullers, pepper relish for fish, dandelion salad tips, cheese balls with nuts, baked bananas with citrus sugar, and a hearty potato salad with peppers and capers.
Nutritional vegetarian dishes broaden meatless menus. Macaroni with butter sauce bakes under a white cream top, then crumbs and cheese. Beets with spinach pairs butter and cream over warm beets for a bright border mold. Rice croquettes use overnight rice, cream, peppers, and a cheese sauce for a rich finish.
A humorous fragment discusses stifling yawns by pressing under the chin toward the tongue during dull talks. It also includes a short joke about unlucky thirteen at a dinner party where a wife and husband recall their meeting. The exchange hints at irony and social discomfort.
A digest of early 20th century mining notes from Wisconsin and Colorado fields. Details include refinery contracts at Greytull and oil drilling near Gebo, hot springs county, plus naval reserve 1 creation near Natrona. Reports of ore strikes in Mollie Gibson area, Mayflower camp, and Cripple Creek vein activity. Mining majors raise wages. Isabela, Pikes Peak, and Ray Consolidated reflect strong outputs. new camps along Deer Creek attract attention.
On a Bucyrus bound front car a courteous young man asked to light a pipe. The stern woman refused with a sharp retort, prompting him to move back as he asserted the smoking cabin. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports the exchange aboard the train.
The text presents a sequence of humorous exchanges and vignettes. It features characters like Johnson Bronson DeAuber and Exbert, with jokes about Swiss scenery, peaches, ostriches mistaken for angels, vivisection, and a waiting list for jobs. A mention notes a 25,000,000 Indian population historical reference.
A humorous poem fragment notes a pessimist’s view of a preacher and a joke about a wife buying a husband on installments. It also mocks fake telegraph tips as false advice and fake secrets. The tone satirizes marriage, work, and gullibility with witty lines and wordplay. The setting feels like an old church and social scene with knockabout humor.
The sole Alaskan representative at the General Federation of Women's Clubs convention wore a necklace of gold nuggets she dug and washed herself. Mrs Hacon notes the anecdote, adding that she did not play the piano while her mother washed them for her.
A fragment notes an inventor who creates a frame to hold a piano or violin with pedals to operate the bow. The text teases a debate on whether the world is improving and hints at a public figure named Robert contemplating such claims.
A Berlin professor estimates the commercial value of a flash of lightning lasting one thousandth of a second at 29 cents. The remark suggests why some people fear lightning for fear of losing money.
A light dialogue between a newly married couple humorously contrasts dog training with hiring a nurse and jokes about valuing pat roads at 50 million dollars. The exchange shifts to a comical proposal to circulate money through road work and to commission a burdock plant count.
A clipped dialogue presents a philosopher noting that every man bears secret sorrow and the Joker observing outward happiness masks a skeleton within. They discuss purpose, self fitting action, and a recurring theme of revelation versus a growing insurance policy metaphor.
A fragmented period-piece dialogue features physicians debating disease costs, a vote of thanks to the fly, and a chorus of social jests. Characters include an old maid, a bride, and a recruit, with exchanges about single blessedness, hats, war and support, and marital partnership.
A partial dialogue shows a character contemplating a fusion of a thistle with a cactus. The exchange hints at a thorny, spiny herb and an unusual promise to name a plant after a mother in law, with the line ending abruptly as the idea develops.
A whimsical quarrel over a proposed marriage ends with Mrs Simpleton awaiting a plain yes or no. The page also recounts a brave pet dog in Wilson, North Carolina saving a girl from a rabid canine, then being shot after rabies fear. Other bits mention Maude's Red Cross role and a humorous Blue Bird inquiry, plus a joke about religion.
A conservative Mass woman advocates Grape Nuts as a healthful staple. She details five years of use for young and aged, including as a meat substitute and a morning meal with hot Porsium and fruit. She cites improved health, steadier nerves, and weight loss, with the product from Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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