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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
8
A practical guide to economical kitchen stoves with fuel-saving draft, inexpensive bed and table linens, and baby comfort items. Highlights include a gray enamel frying pan, a glass ice cream freezer, a hammock for babies, and care tips for ironing soutache braiding on linen with towels and damp cloths.
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century kitchen column offers culinary tips. It covers greasing cake pans with lard, avoiding water on meat, lighting safety, using a baking test with broom splints, and preserving meringue shells by letting ice cream mellow before serving.
A recipe instructs to trim roots, wash lettuce as a unit, tie tops, lay in a dish with two inches of meat slack, bake covered for thirty minutes, then lift with a fork, season stock with salt and a dash of butter, beat in an egg, and pour over the lettuce.
A humorous New York Times piece tells of a man who returns from vacation and confesses a desire to break a record, then spends a hot day drowning worms bought from a boy. On leaving, the absentminded man realizes he has forgotten where they were headed, sparking family confusion at Grand Central.
In a Baltimore classroom a geography lesson on the Mississippi River prompts a student to joke that if the name means father of waters then why not call it Mister Bippi. The teacher notes the river's historic associations and poetic value of the name.
A dialogie exchange centers on love, weakness, and pride between Will and a woman, with a comic aside about gravity. The text shifts to a dialect scene featuring a “Dear Old Mother Eve” couple and a humorous misadventure with a wash pot and a turkey, published in Everybody's Magazine.
A merchant appeals to customers to buy holiday goods, insisting demand will surge later. The message urges timely patronage as this is the last chance to secure items and avoid disappointment.
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