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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
9
A poem praising friendship and steadfast support. It extols a true friend who remains loyal in trouble, provides help when others falter, and endures without boasting. The speaker notes the value of keeping a few trusted friends who endure changes in fortune and charm.
A playful monologue about hens dying and the impossibility of replacing eggs with science. The speaker lists soups, puddings, cakes, cookies, and other egg derived foods as essential to daily life. He argues that science cannot create a real egg.
A Woman’s Home Companion September column offers a kitchen method to keep butter firm during oyster service. It also shares a hot macaroni with oysters dish using layered buttered bake dish and careful oyster cleaning tips for a simple luncheon or supper.
A recipe fragment instructs to layer two and a half tablespoons of butter then half a cup of buttered cracker crumbs, repeat, cover, and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven. Source: Woman's Home Companion September.
Front page column offers practical home remedies and cooking tips. Advice covers washing corks for reuse, prunes with pot roast, cleaning enameled ware, whitening rice with lemon juice, salt timing with milk, boiling fish, dough temperatures, borax in dishwater, and various tonics for hoarseness insomnia sore throats and cold cream. Also includes foot care and tongue health notes.
A pale, flabby tongue signals anemia while nervous depression is linked to tongue symptoms. Medical note describes tongue indicators as diagnostic clues.
A survey of inexpensive devices designed to ease daily life includes a hot water bag that stays warm via an electrical attachment, a vacuum insulated bottle case keeping liquids at constant temperature for a day, and compact pocket tool sets with screwdrivers gimlets and other implements.
The article lists extreme hygienic rules for morning routines. It advises against washing unless water is distilled with specific chemicals and redistilled, recommends air baths, urges new toothbrushes or daily fresh teeth, and warns against using brushes and combs due to bacteria traps.
A home-made mixture of Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla is said to relieve rheumatism and backache, cleanse and strengthen kidneys and bladder, and help urinary disorders if taken before Bright's disease. The ingredients are described as plant based and harmless, available at prescription pharmacies, with a warning to try by those with kidney trouble or weak bladder.
The fragment lists multiple precautionary recommendations to avoid contamination. It covers sanitizing mail and bills, avoiding certain foods with inquest ties, keeping quiet during meals, preferring new coins, and bringing personal dining items when out. The tone resembles health guidance from Harper's Weekly.
Spokane grocers rally for a full inquiry into alleged underfilled five gallon cans by Standard Oil. A. E. Powell, weights and measures inspector, has been enlisted to assist, with possible prosecutions if an enforceable ordinance is revived.
D. C. Carlson of Moscow Idaho, fined for selling codlin moth infected apples, will buy apples in carload lots from North Yakima to avoid Idaho law. Apples inspected twice before reaching the city, at shipment point and in Spokane, under Deputy Inspector Dowdy. Prof. Henderson of Idaho State University failed to sell his farm apples without a written guarantee of pest-free condition.
In Stevens county Washington 250 claims of 160 acres each were opened for settlement near Spokane. Among applicants in Spokane were 75 year old Mrs C Reed of Hatton and her 54 year old son. She secured a timber tract worth about $2000 and planned immediate improvements.
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