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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1907
Page
5
A poem titled Baby's Shoes laments wandering small feet while the text shifts to practical household tips. It offers advice on ironing safety, kitchen board use, papering walls, and cleaning cane or willow chairs with borax and mild alkali.
The text advises sprinkling a sugar sprinkled sponge with sugar to attract ants then dropping the sponge in boiling water to kill them. It also notes irons stay smooth when washed in strong soap suds and thoroughly dried.
A vintage guide outlines furniture cleaning using naptha soap and sandpapering, then varnish and ebonizing methods. It details fur care with heat, sand a dab of logwood mix, and moth bags avoidance. Also includes recipes for wafles and chicken in rice cups with simple prep notes.
The article instructs on spring sweet pea planting with a six inch trench and a four foot frame of wood and chicken wire. Seeds should be thickly planted, later trenches filled with fertilized earth, and vines trained upward. Watering needs include heavy nighttime showers and roots kept damp with mowing grass mulch.
Rice balls mix hot boiled rice with chopped chicken and egg, seasoned and moistened with cream sauce, formed into small balls, breaded and fried. Rice and cheese balls add grated cheese and cayenne, then fry again. Rice waffles fold softened rice with eggs butter milk flour and baking powder to form batter for cooking.
A new approach fries sweet potato strips in hot fat after boiling to improve digestibility and flavor. The thin strips brown in seconds, offering a more wholesome result. drain on unglazed paper to finish.
Aunty's Cookies instructs to cream two cupfuls of butter with two cupfuls of granulated sugar and a cupful of milk. Add nutmeg and cinnamon, mix in five cupfuls of sifted flour with three teaspoonfuls baking powder, roll thin, dust with sugar, cut shapes and bake quickly.
A textile project describes sewing two silk panels to form a cushion with a ribbon pocket for chamois powder. It notes cleaning a rough tin, using kerosene, and a hair care section recommending lanoline vaseline and massage to maintain scalp health and stimulate follicles.
A local lumber yard advertises carload stained shingles costing less per thousand than ten shingles when installed on a roof. Scott's Lumber Yard promotes bulk pricing and quick delivery for builders and homeowners.
Dr Hall the veterinarian can be reached by telephone 2183 or at 102 South Selah avenue.
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