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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
8
A practical guide from a vintage kitchen column describing ways to use celery root in savory dishes and a rolled ham preparation. It covers keeping celery root, simple and elaborate preparations, ham leftovers, and a breakfast sauce idea.
A center dish suggests spinach or swiss chard as a warm side. The recipe instructs steaming a bread mold four hours using yellow corn meal rye meal flour milk molasses baking powder and salt with optional dried fruit for sweetness.
A compilation of strange claims and trivia notes including a patentable trunk used as a bath tub a starfish nose facts about minerals in Spitzbergen crow insect destruction camel lifespans and a tale of goats in Switzerland a bell ringing cat on Guernsey and a door switch mechanism for its entrance.
A guide suggests transforming a fine handkerchief or net into an attractive slumber pillow. Sew linen and net on three sides, leave the fourth open for pillow insertion, then fasten with snaps or buttonholes. Add chiffon or silk roses diagonally for decoration and easy laundering through the opening.
The text urges careful treatment of the stomach, noting it can rebel when overburdened. It recommends resting before meals, cutting starches and sweets, stopping while still slightly hungry, eating slowly, and resting after eating to reduce indigestion. It emphasizes not binding the stomach to indignity and highlights the stomach's sorrows should startle the world.
A 1916 column examines June weddings and the superstition around a June marriage. It recalls brides and grooms facing delays, ring losses, and clever schemes to wed later in July or August, arguing happiness matters more than timing and noting a favored fate for love over superstition.
The Sylyton News urges balanced patience as children’s noise and activity upset residents. It argues suppressing kids harms society, while moderation and patience can improve the everyday environment for all.
Rockefeller Institute experiments by Doctor Wollstein on cats show potential immunity to mumps. Cats inoculated with human mumps saliva contracted the disease, then were exposed to attenuated infectious material from recovered cats with reduced reaction. Reinoculation of recovered animals yielded little effect.
Patrolmen Purtell and Mahoney and Building Inspector Corcoran report seeing a parrot in Ansonia Connecticut that manicured its nails with a penknife. The bird supposedly retrieved the knife from its cage and held it in its beak while scraping its toes on the blade before dropping the knife.
An elderly ad promotes La Creole Hair Dressing claiming scalp cleansing and hair darkening can repair grizzly hair at $1.00. A Washington Star quotation mocks early rising in a farmer and city boarder tale as part of a patriotic speech by Representative Gardner of Massachusetts.
An ad advises using Cuticura Soap with hot water to thoroughly cleanse and soothe an itchy scalp caused by dandruff and eczema, recommending a prior application of Cuticura Ointment. Free samples are offered by mail. A humorous wedding quip follows about maintaining formal nicknames on a honeymoon.
Disjointed chatter and rude remarks at a church service prompt a shocked child to confess it felt improper for the minister to boast during the service. The piece frames social proprieties and hints at broader moral judgments through brief, wry snippets.
A classic ad touts Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy and physician prescribed tonic. It promises long testing and urges sending ten cents for a sample while urging readers to start treatment. The closing quip mocks long sermons by noting collecting before the sermon.
Coveted by all but owned by few a beautiful bead of hair advertised. If yours is gray harsh or stiff restore with La Creole Hair Dress jug priced at 1.00. An umbrella features a storage battery electric light in its handle as a novelty.
A vintage advertisement extols Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims liver support, malaria drive, blood enrichment, and system vitality, priced at 59 cents, followed by a flirtatious note about a woman's feelings when in love.
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