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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
3
A fragmentary text offers a domestic cooking and household advice scene. It covers roasting beef with searing, oven timing of about twenty minutes per pound, and cautions against excessive heat and basting. It also includes stray notes on the Colorado Coal and Iron Company workforce, and assorted kitchen tips such as eggs, pop-overs, stale bread revival, and cream cookies.
Advice from London Leader and Chicago Herald notes warn against creditors as parasites of luxury. It urges self sufficiency through thrift diet and self reliance ideas, such as paying debts, keeping regular accounts, avoiding borrowings, and prioritizing health.
The article argues many agriculturists run farms as real businesses requiring capital, strong management, and ability to market produce at good prices. It compares farming costs to carpentry, stressing careful cost estimates, margins, and avoiding waste, with practical notes on lubricants and axles from the American Agriculturist.
Beed Tea for Invalids. Take one pound of tender lean meat, cut into very small pieces, pour a wine glassful of cold water, stand fifteen minutes, boil until juiceless, press through a gravy strainer, add boiling water to make one pint, season with salt to taste.
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