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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
10
Mrs L B Arnold of Denver Colorado praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as the best and safest cough and chest relief. The product is available through BP 8 Shadle & Co with oysters and dressed poultry at U V Janes’ meat market across town.
Albert M. Fish of Hummingsburg Indiana testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his long kidney trouble after a decade of relief and ongoing use. The ad notes widespread endurance of the remedy, urging readers to buy from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as sole U S agents with a 50 cent price.
Mothers living far from the schoolhouse can use a 16 inch square box packed with excelsior to transport hot lunch. A tight covered tin or agate pail sits inside, surrounded by excelsior, with a linen or dark canvas lid. Rice or beans can be kept warm and ready for the children four hours later, avoiding tomatoes in tin pails.
R J Howell of Tracy Ohio testifies that Foley Honey and Tar Compound relieved his wife’s severe cough and sore lungs. He describes the illness as the worst seen, resembling consumption, and notes that within three bottles she was completely cured. The testimony reflects a medical relief claim.
A young politician lends a cautious, confidential air about his wife's reception attire. He recalls she chose white at breakfast, then rose, while a grey gown, black face, and another outfit are seen near the wardrobe, all interrupted by a snagged hair.
Council Bluffs resident Patrick Danathan tells fellow townsmen how he cured kidney and bladder troubles after a year of illness and rheumatism. He credits Foley Kidney Pills with easing pain and restoring health, claiming a complete recovery. The account underscores a personal remedy and urges others to try the pills.
An offer from American Drug and Press Assn of Decorah Iowa promises a trial package for relief from kidney and backache. The notice mentions a payment of ry cents and advertises fresh supplies of carbon paper and typewriter ribbons at the Vindicator and Republican Co.
An item promotes a simple dye method using gasoline and tube paints to color fabrics, feathers, and lace. It instructs mixing ratios, testing on cloth, and finishing by air drying, with a caution about fire and light exposure and lemon juice to remove paint stains.
A Tarrytown New York manufacturer markets a combined egg-beater cream-whip and mayonnaise-mixer. The oil dripper attaches to the handle and can be attached or detached in seconds, making the device versatile for kitchen use.
A vintage suet pudding recipe outlines a rich batter with sugar molasses suet raisins currants milk or coffee and spices. It directs assembling batter chilling steaming in portions for 2 to 3 hours and serving with a butter flour sauce enriched by sugar and optional wine or brandy.
A vintage Flemish salad combines one endive four Dutch herring fillets three potatoes celery two apples one onion chopped parsley and French dressing. Bake the onion in its skin then cool and chop. Dice herring shred apples and celery cut potatoes into strips and mix with the endive. Dress with acid dressing. Garnish with parsley and surround with lettuce hearts.
Peel and slice four bananas and four oranges removing pith and seeds. Wash one pint strawberries. Layer fruit in a glass dish, pour dressing over and chill. Dressing: boil one cup sugar with half cup water for five minutes, add to beaten yolks over simmering water until thick, chill, then add half cup lemon juice.
Divide six hard boiled eggs into halves and place them in a dish. Melt butter, stir in flour, cayenne, and water then cook briefly. Add egg yolks and grated cheese, mix, pour over eggs, top with buttered cracker crumbs, and bake quickly in a hot oven.
A reader describes a traditional floor finishing method using an ordinary mop, crude paraffin oil, and cheese cloth. Soak the cloth in paraffin oil inside a crate pan for several days until absorbed, then apply for hardwood floors. dusting with cheesecloth yields a highly polished surface.
Earl Ewen outlines winter care for brood mares including when to work them, housing and feeding practices, and avoiding overexertion or loading pregnant mares. It covers pasture, stalls, bedding, forage mixes, and the impact of feeding on foal growth, plus tips to prevent fighting and manage ill tempered mares. It also notes mice damage to apple orchards and protection methods.
A detailed home bread making lesson outlines yeast activation, scalded milk, sugar and salt balance, flour addition, kneading until dough is elastic, rising times, shaping into two loaves, baking until golden and firm inside, cooling and crust finishing with milk or butter. It notes a bread baking contest tied to college extension courses and urges girls to begin now.
A historic tip advises covering a burn with freshly scraped potato and applying a new scraping as the old dries, described as drawing out the fire. The method is noted as painful briefly but effective, reflecting a grandmother’s remedy.
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