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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1903
Page
15
An article notes new anti mosquito devices such as large umbrella cages made from pink blue green nets, with families using them on porches. It describes do it yourself cage construction, social mosquito parties, and related pest control ideas, plus advice on oil and netting to keep mosquitos out of homes and rain barrels.
Edwin Arnold urges studious women toward astronomy while Dr Rosa Minoka serves as resident physician at a Philadelphia hospital. The piece offers practical household tips from soap bubbles to foot fashion, color guidance, corset warnings, and room arrangement suggestions. It also notes Mrs Chamberlain as an enthusiastic photographer and mentions a Chinese women’s medical college led by Dr Mary Fulton with silk cultivation bulletins, plus fashion details like suede gloves and geisha lamp shades.
Instructions describe making a cheese cake with two quarts milk two junket tablets two eggs beaten butter sugar nutmeg and a pastry lined square dish. The mixture is simmered curdled strained combined whipped and baked for about thirty minutes to form a jelly like cheese cake.
Instructions describe mixing one part murlatic acid with two parts water to clean items named Uronse and Bronze. Apply with a cloth, let dry, then polish with sweet oil. The process emphasizes removing grease and dust before finishing.
A set of summer dessert ideas including peach custard cups made with milk flour eggs and butter plus baked peach toppings. Cherry drink using fresh cherries brandy and sugar notes. cool cup with lemons claret soda water and cucumber rind. harlequin pudding layered with sponge cake strawberry or peach preserves and whipped cream.
Head master in a dockside district describes alcoholism's impact on families. He cites drunk fathers and gin-soaked mothers as the root of child misery, detailing scenes in gin shops and barns where women and infants gather while race day activities unfold nearby. The piece highlights poverty and drink driving neglect and despair.
A schoolmaster denounces drinking as the root of crime and misery. He cites reused pupils, neglect, and mothers who spend meals and money on gin. He details ruined health, truancy, theft of clothing, and calls for removing children from drunken homes to protect them.
Catherine Tingey of Leyton was remanded on a child neglect charge after her husband, a 50s weekly ironmonger's assistant, testified she had consumed alcohol for years and left four children in a deteriorating state while he worked. Dr Nicholla labeled her a chronic dipsomaniac and the bench warned against treating wives as merely a money source.
A Victorian feature details hunting trophies repurposed into furniture including a tiger bear and giraffe pieces. Mansions such as Buckingham Palace and Baroness Eckhardstein’s Groavenor Square hall display bear lamps lighted from behind, a giraffe chair from British East Africa and a baby elephant hall porter chair now in New York. Also notes parrots as fruit stands and a coal black swan lamp centerpiece at Hampstead.
The article describes Newfoundland coast salvage norms where salvors claim half the recovered items. It notes temptations to keep valuables like silverware, and mentions punishments, looting of champagne and wines, and widespread disorder as wrecks attract large crowds and theft.
A Pacific island lore note describes worms with thick bodies and a defined neck linked to a head like a monkey, dwelling in New Zealand Australia Semean Solomon Islands and parts of Hawaii. In the Sandwich Islands they are called me ta lu ki meaning creeper with a child's head. An old New Zealand legend mentions colossal beings once threatening human extinction on the islands.
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