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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1910
Page
8
A 1920s guidance piece advises a golden red season luncheon with feathery yellow decor. Menu ideas include celery soup or fruit course muskmelon balls, chicken croquettes with white sauce, vanilla ice cream, and preserved yellow pumpkin. Avoid ribbon decor on food and use yellow accents in tables and favors.
A old fashioned recipe instructs cutting corn from twelve ears and shredding one small head of cabbage. Sprinkle salt over the cabbage, let stand, drain, then combine with corn. Add one cup sugar two quarts vinegar and half cup ground mustard four small red peppers. Simmer until tender then seal in hot jars. If cabbage is disliked celery may be substituted.
The article discusses the difference between digestible and nutritious foods. It lists easily digested items like oysters and gelatin as low in nutrition and highlights nutrient rich foods such as milk cheese eggs fish lean meats and poultry. It notes energy from excess foods stored as fat and identifies underground vegetables corn rice bacon olive oil cream butter grapes dates figs honey and sugar as examples.
Peel rind and cut into one inch slices and salt overnight. Make syrup with four pounds sugar two tablespoons ground cinnamon one teaspoon cloves and two quarts vinegar. Tie slices in cloth, pour hot syrup over drained rind add spices and let stand 24 hours. Reheat syrup four mornings in succession. Cover for winter use.
A brief remark defends fried tomatoes as tasty garden produce while acknowledging taste varies. It argues ancient cooks might have erred in calling them poisonous and notes modern views differ among educated people. Frying skill matters.
Robbie Effert, five, was found asleep in a chicken coop behind 4610 Warwick Ave Chicago after his mother locked him there for 12 hours while she went out. Officers delivered him to the juvenile officer. the mother confessed and was fined $26. Neighbors alerted police, the child clung to a skirt and burlap for warmth, and the father works nights as a waiter.
A Kansas City reader praises Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap for infant skin irritation, recounting a four month old’s severe chafing and infection improved quickly. The ad extols Resinol products as high grade, widely available, with a free booklet offer.
A short moral vignette about Alan who, after daily play with his younger brother, thanks God for not being impatient and for sharing candy fairly among father, mother, and brother. The boy notes gratitude that there was some candy left.
A quip-like verse by H. B. Benedict warns bachelors and single folk against delaying marriage and purchases. It ribbingly argues that postponement leads to missed opportunities, the worst outcome being life passing by without a partner. The piece uses playful moralizing tones about timing and choice.
An exchange in Puck presents a hunter and a guide in a staged talk about a new employers' liability law. The hunter clarifies the guide is not hired but part of the party, then worries about potential legal trouble if an accident occurs.
Civil war veteran George C. Peck, long believed dead or missing, is reunited with his family in Anna Illinois after 48 years apart. He had enlisted from Attleboro Massachusetts, lived in Idaho, then settled in Anna where he worked in insurance. His wife Mrs Peck mourned him in Pawtucket. A son identified him from a photograph of the Andersonville stockade and notified Washington authorities, confirming his identity.
John Reimlinger of Folly farm Tottenville sues Henry Hochmeister for assault claiming Hochmeister and three young men shaved off his mustache after a visit to Folly farm. Hochmeister says it was a wager. Judge Handy ordered trial at the court of special sessions.
Oath by Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cuangy & Co Toledo that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Ball's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Gleason, December 6, 189% pasted with ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Take All's Folly Sleep included, plus unrelated literary snippets.
A man reports waking with fiery itching on March 30 and spreading to his body. After bathing with Cuticura Soap and applying Cuticura Ointment, he felt better by April 1 and was fully clear of itching that day. The testimonial dates April 27 1909 and cites Potter Drug as seller.
Ad offers free Christmas post cards with gold embossed flower and motto designs. Mentions Art Post Card Club in Topeka Kansas and includes various quotes and medicinal and advertising rhetoric from the era. Contains multiple product and slogan snippets with no single cohesive news event.
Fragmentary wartime dialogue mentions a ship bomb and a torpedo counterbalance. The snippet shifts to a cynical quip about sainthood and social sympathy, then advertises soothing syrup for teething with garbled text and stray phrases about revenge.
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