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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
7
A fragmentary column recalls Mrs McGrew hosting quips about tea cakes and dough, Mickey’s visits, and neighborhood antics. It contrasts daily chores with playful schemes and a wish for simpler home tasks, all narrated in a playful rural voice. The piece ends with a short exchange about a tramp seeking cloth and a meal.
A slender pretty girl boards a street car and sits between two men. A portly colored mammy enters, and the girl offers her seat by saying Auntie take my seat. The woman replies with humor asking which gentleman’s lap she sat on, in a quote from Magazine of Fun.
A collage of short jokes and witticisms from various papers. Bits on music and the accordion, a humorous misnaming incident, a singing boast, a wolf metaphor, a school delay, a runaway driver, blind justice, a doctor’s bill settling, and a debtor’s “ten cents on the dollar” tale. Named places appear in passing with no single unfolding story.
Nebraska Senator Mibbert iWitchcork, longtime state figure and World-Herald founder, chairs the opiate and currency committee inquiry. He plans to send thirty questions to bankers and experts to elicit views on currency faults and remedies as he pursues fiscal oversight and policy questions. Born fifty four years ago in Oink, he studied in public schools, Germany, and Michigan, practiced law, then started the World-Herald. He has served three terms in the lower house and won a key Senate primary, aligning with Bryan.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports uncanny wind music from Pyrenees cliffs that mimic organ pipes. Deep gullies channel air to produce varied tones as winds shift, inspiring local superstition about divine voices and human powers.
A survey of historical English remedies shows odd practices from Northamptonshire using torn halved atek child heads rolled in meat fed to a dog to transfer disease, to cornwall meals shared by families named John and Jenny. Other cures include roast mouse for whooping cough, riding a bear to prevent illness, a snake around the neck for goiter, and earthworms steeped in quicklime rubbed on rheumatic joints.
The Japanese ambassador to the United States, Chinda, has long shaped American relations. Educated at Delauw University, he studied with Beveridge’s classmate, rose through diplomacy from consul general in San Francisco to minister in Brazil and St. Petersburg, then vice minister of foreign affairs and later ambassador to Berlin before succeeding Uchida in Washington. He is about fifty two.
A southern Africa hunter recalls lions engaging in voluntary gymnastics and leaps. A young male miscounts a zebra distance, repeats the Jump for instruction, and with two comrades observing, the group circles a rock then restarts before a final leap. The lions roar throughout, “talking together” as described by the watcher.
The excerpt argues against pronouncing "Am" as Am and critiques spelling simplifications such as progrum for program. It notes that English tends to keep original endings like erum and questions why telegram is shortened while progrum is used. The piece critiques speech niceties and spelling shifts.
A woman asks about her husband's anxiety over the money market. He replies concern over the money market while she counts her purse, noting worries about work and wages in a brief Tit-Bits fragment.
London Stray Stories notes Folly may have mixed up music with gym time as she plays. The exchange shows surprise at her plan for a punching bag.
A financial feature shows a woman holding a purse high for display while other women watch, contrasted with a man keeping a similar item hidden in his inside pocket to avoid his wife’s notice. The caption appears in the New Orleans Picayune.
Acquaintance exchanges with a humorous claim about knowing faults and being introduced to a mother challenge a Detroit Free Press reader. The brief quip contrasts private judgments with social introductions, reflecting light gossip tone.
A veteran discourse on why players love the game and how simple signaling helps teams win. It contrasts baseball coaching signs with a fable about a Woodman and a forest, where choosing the Ash for a handle leads to ruin for the trees and a warning about collective folly.
A survey of uncharted regions highlights Dahkna in Arabia as a vast riverless tract nearly 400000 square miles from Mecca to the southeast coast. The piece notes other frontiers including arctic and Andean zones where explorers face peril from banded jungles to deadly serpents while recounting legends of El Dorado and sparse British Australia.
A Washington dog’s eye treatment and his steady courage return. Johnson’s school days reveal memory, games, and a rope drag winter pastime. An old sailor game entertains children as Penny Post history notes rapid postal changes from Queen Victoria’s era.
A playful instruction piece urges patience during a photo session. It directs the subject to sit still avoid movement laughter or sneezing while the photographer snaps a portrait, promising a successful result if the sitter complies.
An Oregon man patents a combined baby jumper and swing called the saddle. It hangs from a ceiling by cords and secures the infant with openings at the front. The device lets the child swing legs freely and can bounce, with a detachable end trigger to switch modes, offering safety and rest for mothers.
Instructions describe stiffening net curtains using gelatin starch. Dissolve a quarter-ounce gelatin in cold water for an hour, then in boiling water until clear. Dip curtains, wring dry, strain if needed, add tea or bluing before straining, and adjust gelatin amount if stiffness is insufficient.
Instructions explain reversing faded shade portions on the roller to extend life. Cut off old hem untack shade, reattach hem end to the roller, press rolled end, fold a hem and stitch loosely or by hand, reinserting the old hem stick. Shades are restored and durable again.
Pique fabric can be made into durable bedspreads for summer at the cost. It may be pieced down the center with embroidery or with a white linen band. Edges finished with banding. material can cover center piecing. A pique spread selling for 80 or 40 cents a yard would wear for years if carefully made.
The guide explains soaking ham overnight in cold water to remove rind flavor. It recommends scraping washing boiling fifteen minutes, discarding the water, then finishing by peeling, peppering, and baking with brown sugar. A touch of vinegar or sweet cider enhances the taste.
Fragments describe using leftover lemon peels with salt to scour copper kettles and remove brass stains while also removing odors from fish. A milk disguise method suggests adding meat extract to boiling milk to aid invalids who dislike meat flavor. A teaspoonful of this mix may revive exhaustion.
A brief note describes sweetening rancid batter by melting butter and skimming it. It instructs placing light brown toast in the mix for a few minutes to absorb the unpleasant taste, resulting in improved flavor.
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