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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
7
A Pennsylvania representative in Congress cites rising mine disaster counts to justify a 150000 dollar study into causes and preventive rules. He argues for uniform safety laws across coal regions to ensure equal protection as workers move between districts.
Horace notes the name Mary Jane de Bunnes appears on the graduating exercises program. Evelyn questions which Mary Jane. Horace confirms Mary Jane de Bunnes as the genius.
A Vanity Fair quip praises the natural woman as the ideal muse for art surpassing nature, lauding the girl with unwaved hair and hygienic shoes as the foremost spinner among the fashionable set. It contrasts conventional polish with pure natural charm.
A testimonial from a consumer explains how coffee harmed his nerves and sleep and how switching to Postum restored health. He notes initial resistance but eventual approval and urges others to try Postum, adding the motto There’s a Reason and citing Battle Creek, Michigan.
The guide recommends early dusting with paris green and flour for cabbage worms, switching to pyrethum powder after heads form, and frequent spraying for control. For plant lice on cabbage or trees, kerosene emulsion spray and tobacco decoction are advised with cautions on application temperature and timing to protect new growth. Emphasis on sanitation and repeated treatments.
Connecticut’s famous Southport Globe onions are highly bred and sold across Ohio and New York. The white globe variety is praised for its perfect globe shape, thin skin, fine flesh, crisp mild flavor, and high market prices in New York City. A yellow Southport Globe exists with similar shape and quality. The onions are noted as excellent crop producers and ideal in their class.
A corn meal cake recipe combines corn meal flour sugar salt and soda sifted twice. Eggs sour and sweet milk are whisked in then heated with melted butter. The batter is topped with milk and baked for about thirty minutes yielding a custard like streak through the cake.
The twenty four inch disk plow is recommended as superior to other sizes. It pulls easier and handles dry hard ground better than the mold board plow. It cuts through trash well, resists clogging, and requires less sharpening. Do not cut furrows wider than eight to ten inches. Two twenty four inch plows cutting eight inches each are better than a single larger implement cutting sixteen inches.
The article describes an automatic dump wagon designed by a Connecticut inventor. The wagon box pivots on a frame, allowing easy unloading of contents. It highlights the mechanism's simplicity and efficiency as shown in the accompanying illustration.
The system places most weight behind the pivot with the forward end of the box held by a lever behind the driver’s seat. To dump, the driver turns, releases the lever, and the load automatically tips over, saving time by not leaving the seat.
The Delineator advises baking whole red apples with skins intact and seeds cleaned. Fill cores with sugar and a pinch of salt, add water to cover, and bake in a quick oven, basting often, preferably in granite or earthenware rather than tin.
The piece catalogs egg substitutes made from skim milk, fats, albumen, starch or flour, coloring matter and leavening powder along with mineral waters. It warns that such products cannot replace fresh eggs, lack nitrogenous matter and fat, and may be harmful.
Prof Rane of the New Hampshire Experiment Station recommends the American purple-top ruta-baga as a strong market sort often selling for twice the price of early white turnips. It is a good keeper and free from sponginess, with sowing advised by July 10 for a fallow crop after early peas.
When steak is not porterhouse it can be tenderized like French chefs. Coat with olive oil and vinegar, place on a plate, and chill in the icebox for four hours, turning the meat six times, then broil.
The loco weed causes heavy losses for plains stock in Colorado. C D Marsh reports locoed cattle can be cured with strychnine and locoed horses with Fowler's solution. Keep animals away from loco, feed nutritious meals with laxatives, magnesium sulphate helps both constipation and may counteract poison. Immunity is not possible due to slow cumulative onset.
Prof. Herbert F. Roberts of Kansas State Agricultural College and Experiment Station will visit Europe this summer. He is commissioned to inspect Central and Southern European wheat areas for superior hard wheat varieties suitable for introduction into Kansas.
Smoothing drag aids soil prep with spring implements and disks. New Zealand asks for Shorthorn bulls from milking lines. Kangaroo rats devastate vineyards near Santa Cruz California as a man is attacked by a mule in West Virginia. Secretary Wilson predicts bumper crops while Texas dominates cattle. 10,000 Panhandle steers sold for 250000. A Connecticut farmer uses incubator sprouting for seed potatoes. A sheep killing horse terrorizes a Washington Pennsylvania flock.
Break spaghetti into pieces and boil in salted water until just tender. Add half a can of tomatoes, then brown onion strips in butter. Mix in two pounds ground beef, brown thoroughly, then add spaghetti and tomatoes. Stir and boil a few minutes before serving hot.
The potatoes are selected of small size, peeled and quartered, then soaked in salted cold water for thirty minutes. They are drained and dried, then fried in hot fat until light brown and finally drained before serving.
A simple plating method uses a large plate lined with lettuce or parsley, edge slices of deep red peeled tomatoes, and a center of inexpensive cucumber slices for a colorful, appealing presentation.
A historic cooking note describes mixing one teaspoon soda with three pints sour milk two eggs one teaspoon salt one tablespoon fryings one half pint wheat flour and graham flour to thicken then drop from spoon. Sugar added to taste if desired.
H H Gross secretary of the Farmers Good Road League and special USDA agent told Peoria that forty years of road funding have been squandered on dirt roads. He argued black land in Illinois can yield good roads as cheaply as Massachusetts with a moderate annual cost to landowners, perhaps not exceeding current road taxes.
Wash and scrub ham and put in a baking pan with two cups water. Bake twenty minutes to the pound. Take it up and remove the skin. Stick into the fat cloves and cover with grated bread crumbs. Brown lightly in the oven.
The article explains how horses with sore fore feet and legs compensate by using the forelegs to support the body. To avoid pain, they adopt awkward gaits that lessen discomfort, often starting with a single foot and progressing to pacing.
A collection of DIY tips covers stopping gas leaks with gum in jets, reheating old jelly to restore texture, using water and sugar, tenderizing onions turnips and carrots, turpentine to repel water bugs, preserving paraffin for ironing, drying woolens on the line, dishwashing during cooking, lemon and salt for copper, oxalic acid for copper and brass, lamp chimney cleaning with alcohol, and borax for brightening daily silver with hot water rinse.
A Baltimore Sun joke cites a learned German scientist attributing gout and toothache to Pharaoh Menephtah who refused Moses. It notes his height of 5 feet 8% inches, death in 1215 B C at age 60, and portrays him as a cross, self‑indulgent ruler with chalky blood vessels and bad temper.
John Starr, a Gloucester shad fisherman, hauled his gill net and feared a sea monster. Two kegs of beer surfaced. he recovered one keg before the other slipped away. Friends confirmed the beer was fresh and foamy.
Mrs. Della Meanes of Maysville Kentucky describes years of kidney pain bearing down hips dizziness and swelling. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with dramatic relief and eventual cure after using the product sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A physician notes that one in thirty women are slightly color blind while one in five men are. He describes testing with a machine and remarks about absolute color blindness being rare and differences linked to tobacco smoke and smoking status.
Mrs Henry Porter of Albion Nebraska reports large penny sized sores on head and neck after measles. Hair fell out and doctors’ remedies failed for six months before Cuticura remedies were started. Within a week the condition improved and in three weeks it disappeared. This happened seven years ago. August 25 1906.
An advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring systemic treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio is touted as a universal internal remedy with a $100 payoff for any uncured case. Sold by druggists for 75 cents plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Sheffield Scientific School purchases a site at Rocky Beach near Bradley Point Savin Rock for a small research and collecting station. The building will serve immediate needs for marine specimen study and will be used when Woods Hole is closed during the college year.
An Egyptian report notes native families pay an average tax of 4.65 dollars per acre or 28.5 percent of crops. Foreigners and land companies hold 655000 acres. Insolvency liquidation and estate redistribution since 1902 may release large amounts of gold from unhoarded holdings.
An advertisement touts easy lemon pies titled Those Delicious Lemon Pies made with OUR-PIE reparation. It urges trial at grocers for 10 cents and notes universal appeal, produced by D-Zerta Food Co. Rochester NY, with a Munich quote on luxury versus taste.
Free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder available by writing Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York. Promises quick relief for tired sweating hot swollen feet and eases new or tight shoes. Also marketed as a cure for corns and bunions with retailers listed as druggists and shoe stores. Price 25 cents.
London experiences its heaviest traffic during 8 to 9 am and around 6:30 pm. Between 8 and 9 am about 164000 people enter the city, while 175000 depart between 6 and 7 pm.
Instant relief for all eyes irritated by dust heat sun or wind Pettit's Eye Salve advertised by Howard Bros Buffalo New York in a compact drugstore notice highlighting topical relief from irritation.
Mrs Owen D. Evans, a Redcliffe graduate, has won the $100 prize offered for the best original essay by the women's auxiliary of the New York Civil Service Reform association.
An 1860s ad touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething with claims to soften gums ease inflammation and relieve wind colic all for 22 cents a bottle. A separate statistic notes 3869 foreigners attended German universities during winter semesters making up 8.3 percent of total enrollment.
One essential for modern homes is reliable information on health and good living. The genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., is praised by physicians and the Well-Informed for its safe family laxative properties and wide acceptance.
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