Mayor endorses Peruna remedy for colds in Washington
Washington Georgia reports the mayor praising Peruna as an excellent cold remedy for his family and a recommended protector against colds. He urges every family to keep Peruna at home and requests a free edition of the Peruna Company almanac. He notes tablets are available and asks readers to inquire with their druggist for the 1914 Lucky Day Almanac.
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Washington
Georgia
Peruna Co
Columbus
Ohio
Overdoing Housework in Modern Life
The piece argues housework steals hours from life and cites limits on daily work. It quotes Charles Barnard noting no person can be fully efficient for every hour and suggests better, scientific methods and tools to save time. It frames housekeepers as seeking efficiency without excessive labor.
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Charles Barnard
Clergyman Testifies Dodds Kidney Pills Benefit Heslop
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania suffered dropsy with swollen limbs, heart flutter, dizziness, and exhaustion. After using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills his swelling disappeared and he felt well again. He reaffirmed his belief in the remedy months later and invites correspondence. Free household hints music and recipes offered with the ad.
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Edmund Heslop
Wigton
E. Heslop
Dodds
Rev. E. Heslop
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Ady
Effect of Rubber Threats and Patent Medicine Ad Copy
A fragment cites a brutal mayhem line about a sixth car and erasure, followed by an advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Pellets claiming to regulate stomach, liver, and bowels without gripe. The copy uses sensational language and a casual candy-like presentation. The piece ends with a sarcastic quip about heroism when stepping on a collar button bare foot.
Government Tests Road Materials For Farmers Aid
The Office of Public Roads in the Department of Agriculture tests road materials to guide communities building roads. Experts study binder types and traffic conditions to prevent wasteful spending and improve farmer access to shipping points. Director Page notes service tests and laboratory trials help select materials under real or simulated conditions. Chevy Chase near Washington hosts a model road using different materials while the lab conducts ongoing trials.
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Office of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Page
Chevy Chase
Washington, D. C
Office
Testa
Roads Pay For Themselves In Rural Value Gains
United States Department of Agriculture studies show road improvements raise nearby farm land values by lowering hauling costs and boosting farm profits. Better roads also enhance the appeal of farming as a business, with autos increasing rural values where roads improve.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Office of Public Roads
Warfare Against Weeds in the Home Place
A compact rural note warns residents to persist in weed control around homes and fields. The guidance emphasizes steady effort over time and keeping weed suppression a continuous priority to protect crops and property.
Card Catalogue Cookbook A Woman’s Efficient Kitchen System
A pioneering housekeeper used a small card catalogue to organize recipes. Cards labeled Dinners Soups Entrées Salads Meats Desserts guided daily meals, allowing quick access to forgotten dishes. The cabinet holds typed recipe cards, clipped items, and guide cards, forming a compact, inexpensive, expandable cookbook system.
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Christan Rajanea Moniter
Becaugse
Household Hints for Cooking and Household Care
Tips include testing fabric for linen versus cotton by moisture, cleaning dark wood with paraffine oil, diagnosing kerosene lamp flicker by wick and draft, steaming velvet over boiling water, soothing sore eyes with witch hazel, testing silk by fraying threads, comparing wrap and wool thread strength, frying doughnuts with brief boiling water dips, and maximizing small kitchens by adding a foldaway shelf instead of a table.
Baked Apples Procedure and Dressing Recipe
Select apples of uniform hardness and size, core and pare if needed, place in a bake dish with enough water to cover the bottom, bake in a quick oven with cover on ten minutes then uncover near finish. Serve with cream or a dressing of stiffly beaten egg white and warm honey flavored with lemon and vanilla.
Bombay Special Cocoanut Tart and Croquette Fragments
A fragmented recipe notes Bombay style sweet coconut dessert with milk eggs butter sugar and brandy folded with crumbled sponge cake or lady fingers and puff pastry bake 30 to 45 minutes. Also mentions a meat croquette mixture with veal beef or lamb breadcrumbs onion and herbs formed and fried.
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Bombay
Pineapple Salad Assembly Instructions
Pineapple slices placed on lettuce leaves are topped with grated cheese mayonnaise and a light sprinkle of nut. Optional center garnish can be a cherry type item for color.
Cleaning Windowa Try Using Newspaper Wiped panes
Cleaning window panes and mirrors described as rubbing the widow panel with a piece of newspaper dipped in kerosene or similar solvent. The fragment suggests a home cleaning tip using paper to scour glass.
Virginia Smothered Chicken and Other Dishes Recipe
The page outlines Virginia Smothered Chicken with steps to prep veal cutlets in egg and cracker crumb, baked squash with molasses, a trifled dessert with sponge cake, custard, macaroons, and a corn bread recipe. It details browning, basting, and serving notes for a hearty mid century meal.
Fried Oysters from a Crisp Batter Method
Select large fine oysters drain and dry with a napkin dip in bread crumbs then beaten egg and again in crumbs Add pepper or salt as preferred Crumble dry oysters between the hands lay on a platter to dry before frying Immerse in deep hot fat until a bread crumb browns Drain keep hot until all are ready to serve
Oyster Cocktail in Green Pepper Boats
Six medium green peppers are prepared by cutting stems and removing insides and seeds. Each pepper boat holds eight oysters on shaved ice with six plates total. A sauce blends Tabasco and freshly grated horseradish, poured over the oysters before serving with a teaspoon on each plate.
Olive Oil and Wax Apply for Cold Weather Shoes
Olive oil and wax polish leather shoes to keep them supple in cold weather. Rubbing with olive oil and polishing with wax helps prevent cracking and keeps the shoes looking new.
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Wu Piega
Canton Mandel
Hard Leap Soup Utterance Analysis Incomplete
The readable text discusses using a technique to dig and harden twice as long, implying efficiency. It mentions cheaper buying in quantities and storage, but lacks clear entities, dates, or locations to specify a concrete news item. The fragment reads as a fragmented note rather than a complete event.
Fragmented 19th century ad and quips fragment
A collection of satirical sayings and fragmented lines about consumption danger phrases modern ostentation and social quips. Mentholated cough drops and Peddlers Not Allowed appear amid mock dialogue and moral puns.
Beware the Gray Eye and its Destructive Sway
The fragment discusses gray eyed people as superficial and impulsive and warns of spiritual emptiness among them. It contrasts with a lighthearted dialogue about cake in which Mrs Bealbrugh-Nlow asks about the cake and Mr Deanbrough praises his mother’s marble cake, noting it resembles the real thing in taste.
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Beapbrough-Nlow
Deanbrough
Early Suffragette and the Tudor Laundress Offer
Militant-minded English women prefigured suffragettes with Margaret, countess of Richmond, Henry VII’s mother, famed for a brass effigy by Torrigiano. Camden reports her betting men would unite Christendom to march against the Turk, serving as laundress in camp, a vow-driven fashion of not changing undergarments until the holy sepulcher was retaken.
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England
Henry VII
Margaret
Countess of Richmond
Torrigiano
Camden
Christendom
Coffee Misery to Health: Postum Restores Strength
A reader recalls years of pale illness linked to daily coffee. After switching to Postum, dark and rich, health improved within months with better appetite and sleep. Now weighing 148 pounds, they credit Postum for vitality and full recovery. Read about Postum and its two forms Regular and Instant.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Gravera
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