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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
6
Rosa Starr of Birmingham aged twenty five built a small newspaper trade into a sizable business by hard work and leadership. She manages buyers, staff, and finances, praising work as the key to her success. The piece notes a lavish wedding table decor and reception details with floral, glassware, and souvenir elements.
This guide explains proper frying with a deep pan and basket, using clarified fat and maintaining smoking point. It covers collecting scraps, purifying fat, heating gradually, frying technique, draining, reusing fat, and reclarifying when discolored.
A fragmented paragraph hints at a domestic scene with a young housekeeper preparing a breakfast for a bridal party. The text is unclear but suggests intimate setting and careful table arrangement.
Linoleum is a neat durable floor covering that should last at least five years on kitchens or dining rooms with normal use. Clean by wiping the smooth varnished surface, avoid soap scrubbing, use warm water or warm water with milk, and wipe baseboards after mopping. Apply furniture polish twice a year for protection.
Instructional note describes making knit needle caps from corks covered in flannel. Cut corks to about one inch, smooth tops, wrap with elastic between the corks, sew ends, add decorative outer covers, and finish with beads. Caps slip onto flat cork ends to fit knitting needles.
Cleaning copper kettles involves rubbing with a lemon half then rinsing in cold water and polishing with a woolen cloth. Dry thoroughly to prevent rust which is hard to remove.
A fragment advises placing a lump of orms root in the washing boiler to perfume linen, with fragrance lasting through ironing yet not overpowering. Another method suggests a Tokay bean in the linen drawer to yield a balanced odor, best released with warmth.
Instructions explain turning a cracked shade upside down to reuse it. Remove the weight stick, sew it into the end that was top, cut off edge, and reattach to the roller. When completed the shade appears new again.
To clean rusty iron pots kettles and skillets place one piece on a clear coal fire reduced to red coals. Burn until almost red hot then remove with coal tongs and cool. Scrape with pot rings and sandpaper then wash with soapsuds.
Fresh unsalted butter forms the base and is creamed before flavorings are added. Popular additions include olives anchovy sardines cheese chives parsley dill caviar and salmon for a smooth well blended spread.
Instructions describe making moccasins from glove ends or chamois skin for durability in creeping tasks. A lemon half in the ice chest is said to prevent milk and butter from tasting of vegetables or muskmelons.
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It explains inflammation of the Eustachian tube causes hearing loss and offers $100 for any deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
The Cuban matron loses control of household management to a cook who handles cuisine and marketing. Cooks are paid monthly sums and decide marketing allowances, sometimes saving money from the budget. Meals include an early fruit breakfast and a late luncheon style meal, with a half grown girl assisting. some households employ male cooks.
In Fedora Tennessee C V Pepper writes he was bedridden with lung and throat hemorrhages. Doctors failed to help until he used Dr King's New Discovery, which gave instant relief, stopped coughing and bleeding, and let him return to work in three weeks. Stewart's Pharmacy offers 50 cent and one dollar sizes with a free trial bottle.
An 1812 geography describes California as a fog bound wild land with unhealthy damp fogs. It claims northern shores host cannibals and the interior holds active volcanoes and vast shifting snow plains that sometimes shoot up tall columns.
Doctors advise immediate attention to early signs of bowels loosening in children and recommend Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil as directed. Sold by Cook Sherman. The item also notes Dr John Gorrie of Apalachicola Fla and Frederic Tudor of Boston as early ice trade innovators and mentions Gypsies’ debated origins.
Pains in the stomach colic and diarrhoea are quickly relieved by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. When in need of such a medicine give it a trial. For sale by Cook and Sherman.
The San Francisco Fourth of July committee repudiates General Funston’s claim troops would be unsafe in the streets and declines his parade offer as plans are abandoned. The reply covers Funston’s June 17 letter and his later explanation, stating his phrasing targeted a lawless element, not the committee, while noting disorder falls to the people to handle.
Guthrie O T June 26 The Ola homa supreme court dissolves district judge Pancoast injunction blocking the constitutional convention from voting on its proposed Oklahoma state constitution. The convention will reconvene immediately and an election date will be set.
Official forecast notes likely showers and thunderstorms across Illinois Indiana and Michigan with cooler air. Wisconsin and Iowa also show rain with cooler conditions. Winds shift from variable to fresh northwest as the day progresses.
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show July wheat at 91% 92% with Sept and Dec ranges, corn around 52% with mixed futures, oats near 37 38, pork futures at 15.70 to 16.28, lard around 8.85 9.07, short ribs 8.65 8.87, cash winter wheat prices by sample, cattle and hog receipts and price ranges, and East Buffalo and Indiana Wisconsin prairie feeding prices noted for reference.
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