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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
6
Poem reflecting a mother's heartache as children grow up and leave home. The speaker laments vanished days of care and wishes for simple tasks, while recognizing the bittersweet pull of parenthood and a son’s journey toward independence. Dated sentimental tone echoes Mrs. Elmer Richard.
Instructions cover white straw hats using soap, oxalic acid, and boiling water to bleach and clean. A second method uses ammonia in boiling water with dipping and sulphur, plus air drying. Colored hats can be refreshed with hot ammonia solution and pressing, or a cheap polish from chemists if faded.
A string of wry aphorisms on behavior and folly spans topics from gossip and honesty to money, love, and social pretensions. The quip set plays with irony, noting backbiters, thieving time, and the perils of pride in graduates while lampooning manners at dress events.
The guide advises using fresh rhubarb to stretch jelly. Cut fine cubes without peeling, wash, cover with sugar, and cook slowly over low heat without water until pink and flavorful.
A short recipe describes mixing one cup dates with one cup English walnuts chopped together with one cup sugar. A teaspoon of baking powder is stirred in, two eggs are well beaten and folded in, then bake for twenty minutes. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream.
A vintage recipe describes bread with two cups sponge removed, three quarters cup sugar, half cup mixed butter and lard, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder. Prepare a greased deep tin or pan, top with sugar and cinnamon, add butter lumps, let rise warm, bake when light for loaf cake lightness.
Reserve the heart and liver of chicken and chop finely. Add salt pepper allspice cinnamon cloves savory thyme sage and parsley. Soak half a loaf of bread in cold water, press dry, and pour over one cup boiling milk. Mix with chopped liver, melt butter, combine, cook, cool, and beat in two eggs. Stuff chicken when half cooked.
Chocolate fudge with cocoanut made by boiling two cups sugar and one cup milk. Add half a box cocoanut and butter sized like a walnut near the end. Stir until thickened, then pour into buttered pans and cool.
The instructions describe mixing one pint sour milk, three quarters of a pint thick cream or butter with hot milk, one teaspoon baking soda, one teaspoon salt, and two eggs. Combine all but eggs, then beat eggs separately and fold in. Add flour until pancake batter consistency, then mix eggs in last.
Instructions describe preserving currants grapes and berries by straining boiling and skimming impurities. Add sugar to taste then seal in baked bottles with corks and wax. Store in a dark dry place to prevent fermentation and bottle bursting. Grape juice is noted as medicinal for those with weak stomachs.
A London Mail reprint of Max O Reil s French humor book lists traits of a ideal wife. Seek a smaller, heart warmed wife who enjoys humor and philosophy and sits happily on back benches. She should value family, care for her father, keep him tidy and kiss him goodbye.
Harold L Hull and Hazel B Hayden were married at Dr J B Eaglesons Seattle home in a small ceremony officiated by Rev F L Hayden. The couple, after a night boat trip to Victoria, will reside in North Yakima. Hull of Hull Udell law firm and Hazel is daughter of Rev and Mrs F L Hayden.
Frank Farquhar formerly with a local paper now in Tacoma spent Saturday in the city. He and his wife have recently platted a large addition to Tacoma, marking a new development in the area.
A meeting of the W R C aid was held last Thursday at the residence of Mrs Nellie Coombs on Wenus avenue and B street. The afternoon was spent pleasantly with refreshments served and the group plans a forthcoming picnic.
Walter Ormsby Hamilton of the Herald office and Miss Mamie Dooley were married Thursday morning at the bride's Nob Hill home. Rev. M. J. Bywater officiated at St. Michael's Episcopal Church. A wedding breakfast followed, after which the couple left for a mountain honeymoon.
A. M. Bruce of Farmville Virginia credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with ending a twenty year battle with chronic piles and malignant sores. The remedy cured both conditions with no trace remaining. Available for 25c from C. C. Case’s drugstore.
Mrs. S- of Blackwell Oklahoma reports her infant became peevish fretful and refused food until using White's Cream Vermifuge. After one bottle the baby has not had a sick day and the smile returns. Sold by Colton Fry Drug Co.
In a clipped opinion the Dallas Optimist calls a Democrat in Oregon a wise guy. It says a minority stockholder votes the majority and appoints his own to top offices while giving the majority only husks.
A nostalgic notice highlights Dr. King's New Life Pills as painless purifiers that relieve headache and biliousness and maintain bowels. The ad notes the 25 cent price at C. C. Case's Drug Store.
A moral anecdote argues against mail order buying. It asserts conscience favors local home merchants who help in tough times, warning mail order sellers only want money and offer no lasting support.
Secretary James R. Garfield and Gifford Pinchot, chief of the forestry bureau, reached Tacoma today. A social schedule included a London at Union club and dinner at American Lake Country Club, with plans to depart for Portland tonight.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a pleasant and effective cure for constipation and torpid bowels. It claims the pills prevent appendicitis and tone the system, priced at 25 cents at C C Case’s drug store. It also includes a comic exchange about real loafing and a quip from the London Tatler.
Mrs Raymond Conner of Shelton Washington writes that kidney trouble persisted for years until Foley's Kidney Cure gave immediate relief and cured her She praises its effect on eliminating poisons from the blood and notes Sloan's drug store sells the remedy.
Advice on marking and sorting laundry to ensure quality service and self help. A testimonial promotes Herbine as a liver regulator with Fort Worth Texas origins and Colton-Fry Drug Co selling the product.
Historical note praises Abraham Lincoln as the foremost American figure. The text also touts B Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a universal remedy for coughs colds bronchitis influenza and pulmonary diseases sold by Colton Fry Drug Co.
Frank Geissler, a horse trainer, wrestles a full grown ostrich in the Lackawanna yards at Hoboken. The bird, en route from Hamburg to Cincinnati, tears his clothes and bruises him during a ten minute struggle before workers restrain and cage the animal. Geissler vows it is unsafe to grab an ostrich by the neck.
Prof and Mrs Dow and Mr To will leave Monday morning for Lake Chelan to spend the summer camping along the shore of the lake.
The Priest Rapids Railway company of Seattle with capital of one million dollars filed articles to build a ninety mile standard gauge line in Douglas county and southward through Garfield Kittitas Yakima and Benton to connect with the Northern Pacific. W. R. Rust H. K. Owens Manly B. Haynes and E. H. Guie are incorporators and W. S. Rust will lead construction. The line would run along the Columbia river from Wenatchee toward Kiowa with branches to wheat country and ties to Hanford Irrigation & Power holdings strengthening irrigation development.
All the world knows Ballard's Snow Liniment has no superior for rheumatism stiff joints cuts sprains lumbago and all pains. Buy it try it and you will always use it. Any user is a living proof of its effects. Trial bottle prices 25c 50c and 1.00. Sold by
The forthcoming September first enactment imposes penalties from a $10 fine to $500 and six months in jail for continued violations. Enforcement will determine effectiveness, with critics noting it fails to curb consumer use and may allow direct mail orders to expand.
Amos F. King of Port Byron New York aged about five years was troubled with a leg sore most of his life and is now healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The product is guaranteed by C C Case Druggist at 25 cents.
A pigeon belonging to John Shuker of the Market Drayton Homing Club was released at Gloucester and arrived in Market Drayton in seventy two minutes covering seventy two miles. The return telegraph noted the timing and release.
A note praises breakfast foods as plentiful but rejects them as a gift. It mentions Rocky Mountain Tea offered at C. C. Case’s Drug Store and invites readers to seek relief from noise dust flies and heat at the North Yakima Sanitarium.
In Yakima County Superior Court Thomas E Grady is appointed referee to locate bondholders and coupon holders of Yakima Improvement Company under a 1907 mortgage deed. Public notice orders 30 day filing with proof of ownership and taxes. affidavit details and trustees listed for Yakima Spray Manufacturing incorporation with 6000 capital, trustees named.
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