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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1885
Page
3
A montage of columns on education for girls and domestic arts, tea prep, wildflowers, and home management. Includes fashion trends for thin corsages and beaded trims, public figures like Laura Bridgman, and Washington society etiquette debates amid varied society sketches and notices.
Instructions to farmers on using artichokes as a hog feed, notes on plowing in green manures, clover forage value, and practical haying tips. Highlights include artichokes yielding seed for hogs, rye and manure experiments, clover as high quality fodder, and timely haymaking steps with curing, stacking, and storage guidance.
A baker's beans dish and several fruit desserts are described with step by step instructions including soaking beans and baking long hours. Strawberry jam and shortcake recipes are detailed with cooking times and ingredient ratios. The item also reports Ezra Hersise, a National Express Company messenger, stole a $10,000 money package. the money was recovered at his house and he was arrested. The piece closes with a plug for a medical book, Science of Life.
A vivid portrait of the Italian royal drawing room, detailing Queen Marguerite of Savoy’s gracious, multilingual greetings to each guest, the meticulous etiquette of presentation, and the royal dress described as olive velvet with steel embroidery and pink feathers.
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