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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
6
The piece describes a Balkan plan to restore barren Herzegovina through staged grazing reserves, moving from sheep to cattle to goats, with parallel plots and annual readiness. It notes a conservation emphasis, sowing seeds, and a nonjail approach that hires seed collectors to replace imprisonment.
The article describes vibrant salad preparations with yellow orange and pink themes using lettuce, apples, tomatoes, and dairy dressings. It shifts to textile chatter about khaki like covert cloth rivaling blue serge, suggesting fashion warnings and remedies with black satin and high collars.
A fashion feature describes a green faille silk tailleur trimmed with dyed blue fox fur. The ripple skirt borders the fur and codar, with black satin. It notes styling shifts toward plaid accents, shorter jackets, and cautions against certain plaid fur combinations and long coats.
Select Jarga tart apples wash and wipe dry. Remove centers with an apple corer. Arrange in a pan with a little water, fill centers with sugar. Dip syrup during baking and serve warm with cream. For a richer version part the apples bake in a dish with sugar raisins nuts butter and lemon juice.
Fragment describes steaming a white fish until tender and removing bones. It details a milk and flour dressing thickened, then beaten eggs butter and seasonings added. Layer fish and sauce in a baking dish, top with crumbs and bake until done.
A garbled excerpt offers culinary hints about salt in potatoes doughs and croquettes. It mentions using rubber bands for wrapping foods and adding lemon juice to keep figs unclogging choppers. It also references rubbing bacon drippings into a chicken before stuffing and using sausage in place of stuffing.
Date and peanut pudding. Beat two eggs well add one cup granulated sugar one cup chopped peanuts one third cup flour one teaspoon baking powder and one half teaspoon salt. Bake in buttered pan in moderate oven about one hour. When cool serve on flat dish with lemon syrup and whipped cream.
A new bloom called Ranunculus gains favor for corsages bouquets and decorations. A small red flower with a dark nearly black center resembles a tiny poppy and has a slender stem like the poppy.
A compact leather corkscrew case idea shown in two-piece soft wash-leather with Diagram A laying flat and Diagram B forming the back and pockets. It folds over the handle, uses a press button, and a cork tip protects the blade. edges bound with ribbon and a snap fastener.
Blue is a dominant color in fashion with blue serge outfits gaining popularity for multiple seasons. Accessories follow with blue nets, stockings, handbags, and hats. Rich blue velvets and brocades for evening wear highlight the season's refined royal tone.
Beavers fur grows fashionable again with beaver pelts used for collarettes and sleeve edgings on pussy willow silk frocks and white cloth tailored frocks. Some garments feature a broad beaver border, though this trimming is very expensive. Older women should avoid beaver as its delicate fawn color flatters younger complexions.
A Louisville woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoration to health after severe female troubles. She describes fainting spells, bloating, and left side pain, and urges others to seek the remedy before considering surgery. The ad promises confidential responses from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A observant maid denounces men for leaving papers in public cars while noting women avoid picking up others. She cites hygiene and principle, arguing women would not borrow another's paper and remain fastidious, viewing it as grafting.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura care for skin and scalp with Soap to cleanse and Ointment to soothe rashes itchings redness and dandruff. It invites readers to sample by mail via address postcard to Cuticura Dept XY Boston and notes availability everywhere.
A brief remark ponders a single vocation that would not fit anyone, with aviation offered as the implied answer to the humorous query. The line hints at flavor of a light editorial aside from a larger discussion.
A playful exchange about holiday shopping ends with a pun on finishing. The dialogue suggests a light moment as a shopper admits completion and humorously blurs fishing with finishing.
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