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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
7
In Switzerland where winter sports are popular, stretcher units on runners await at ski jumps to slide along smooth paths or be carried over rough ground. Attendants use straps over the shoulders to transport injured skiers to safety.
Mrs. John B. Whittaker of Madison Indiana credits Doan's Kidney Pills with easing headaches backache swelling and weakness after kidney trouble. She notes improved health and urges other sufferers to remember the name Doan's. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Two women in a social scene exchange thinly veiled jabs as they part. A first grandee jokes about a living mother, whose age is compared unfavorably to the other’s. The flirtatious banter ends with a biting laugh and a quick departure.
Instructions describe crafting a ditch digging tool from a hard plank and steel bars. The bed piece measures five and a half inches by two and a half inches thick, with rear and front sections varying in width. Diggers are steel bars, two and a half inches wide, three quarters of an inch thick, twenty four inches long, bolted to the plank and sharpened like a pickax. A rear rod with nuts, brace rods, and a front wheel stabilize the device for trenches two feet deep or more.
An adjustable draw iron above a rod guides the trench with height suited to ditch depth. Handles move up as the digger lowers, cutting digging effort. In hard subsoils the device saves labor, making seventy five rods of ditch feasible. It eases drainage in tough eastern soils previously requiring excessive effort with picks and shovels.
Practical notes on keeping dairy cream sweet by sanitation and rapid cooling using well water. Kansas Farmers Almanac cites cooling methods and temperatures. Also summarizes E I Oswald Maryland studies on manure fermentation and seed vitality, finding low weed spread risk in barnyard heaps and higher risk in carload manure shipments.
An exchange warns that a man claiming state authority visits orchards, marks diseased trees, and a second man offers a root injection cure for a fee. Both men are described as swindlers. only county inspectors are empowered to inspect orchards.
The Ruralist questions why dairy butter makers accept losses on common country butter which sells well below 25 cents per pound even in summer. It notes that uniform good quality butter could be contracted year round at that price, yet many makers continue costly methods.
Peaches rot more in damp muggy conditions than in cool dry air. Some varieties rot more readily. fuzzy skinned peaches are particularly affected.
H Mead argues rot depends on weather and cultivation more than variety. Early peaches show more rot one year, less another. Champions suffer rot in bad weather, Crosby and late varieties resist. Fuzz vs smooth fruit not key for orchard planning. frost-hardy trees fare best, Crosby Pratt Hill’s Chili praised, Crawford group weaker. Chinese types bear young but fuzzy varieties’ minor hardiness offset by flaws.
Denver Field and Farm notes old time dairymen favor red clover for milk production, though alfalfa’s perennial crops offer more harvests per season. The piece cites past milk quality and growing habits, highlighting regional farm trends in Colorado.
An illustrated account describes using a gasoline engine to pump water, churn butter, saw wood, and run a corn shredder. The system powers the house and barn, with a cement basement under the stable and manure management that keeps fertilizer on the land. The farm, 150 acres of black soil, grows corn, oats, wheat, hay, flax, and vegetables, and profits more from pure bred cows than from the soil.
Advice on managing cabbage worms and cut worms for gardeners. Recommends arsenate of lead spray at 1 ounce per gallon, covering foliage until heads form, and using 130 degree water to kill worms without harming plants. Tar paper around cabbage and tomato plants deters cut worms by forming a protective ring.
Instructions describe pitting and weighing cherries, extracting juice, and composing a syrup with sugar and water. A Maraschino cordial is added near the end, then cherries are packed hot into jars and sealed.
Pare and slice citron then weigh it. For each pound of fruit use one half pound sugar. Boil fruit in fresh water until clear, drain. Boil sugar with water to a syrup, add lemon slices and ginger per pound of sugar. Return citron to syrup and boil twenty minutes. Fill jars and seal.
A simple bake uses half a cup butter and three quarters cup sugar creamed, one and a half cups flour, one egg, one cup raisin water, one teaspoon soda sifted with flour, nutmeg and cinnamon. Add seeded raisins dredged in flour and bake thirty minutes. Flavor described as distinctive and inexpensive to prepare.
Use one melon cut into squares after removing heart and rind. Soak in strong salt water overnight. Simmer a quart vinegar with five coffee cups sugar five cloves five cinnamon sticks grated nutmeg and half a lemon. Add rinsed rind, boil ten minutes, and can in jars without sealing.
The method describes boiling new potatoes with mint sprigs then draining and pouring melted butter over them for flavor. It notes that new potatoes should have skins rubbed off with a brush to make them white and smooth.
Recipe notes describe filling a cake with a mixture of sugar water boiled until clear folded into beaten egg whites, with raisins and hickory nuts. It also explains lifting baked cakes by wrapping the pan with a wet cloth to release a sticking cake intact.
A compact recipe lists ingredients for curried eggs: four eggs and butter plus onion flour milk curry powder lemon juice and boiled rice. It offers a simple middle course dish with a curried flavor profile from a historic cookbook style.
A household tip suggests adding a half teaspoon of vanilla and a bean-sized pinch of baking soda to coffee just before serving. The baking soda allegedly neutralizes the sour taste from free acids in the brew.
This excerpt offers dated how to's for avoiding lice in birds, preserving fruit like pineapple, sugar for pineapple, cleaning skillets with a small wire broom, using carbolic acid to repel mosquitoes, cleaning milk vessels, soda for sour milk pitcher, tea toast preference, white oilcloth apron for baths and dishwashing, flea control for dogs by drowning, cutting glass with tepid water and dry brushing, crystal polish for old pieces, clarifying rancid butter, and salting water.
A wide range of brief notes cover abstinence in the English army, youth work limits in Italy, and Dutch bulbs. economic shifts show gold reserves rising in Europe and a surge in US button production. Naval and industrial updates mention Mitsubishi shipyards building Pacific vessels and rising auto output valued at $125 million.
A Louisville Courier-Journal quotation questions greatness and fate noting that public roles like the vice presidency can seem thrust upon individuals. The exchange contrasts ambition with circumstance, reflecting on how achievements arise or are assigned.
Lumbermen cutting a large pine near Shohola in Pike County Pennsylvania discovered a Revolutionary era flintlock musket lodged inside a hollow section. The rifle, dating from pioneer times, may have belonged to wounded patriots from the July 22, 1779 battle between settlers and Indians nearby.
A twelve year battle with eczema on hands arms and feet ended after using Cuticura Remedies. Charles T. Bauer from Volant Pennsylvania reports rapid healing and no recurrence. Also mentions New York legislature considering a plumage trafficking bill and Hawkins Wizard Oil as a throat remedy. תק
The gown features embroidery in a daisy pattern done in silk to match the fabric. The waist and sleeve effects are described as novel, adding distinctive styling to the piece.
A Richmond Virginia woman describes health improvement after giving up coffee and using Postum and Grape-Nuts. She reports weight gain and restored energy and memory, saying she now easily walks long distances and feels like a new woman. The letter invites readers to try the products.
A Philadelphia advertisement by Munyon's offers a free medical examination blank. Readers are told doctors will diagnose their case and state if cure is possible or not, with no obligation to follow the advice. Address given is 53d and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
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