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Candidate likeability is not character
By Rob Schwarzwalder “I never met a man I didn’t like,” Will Rogers is reputed to have said. That maxim might represent a healthy outlook on life, but should likeability be a priority as we cons...
Jan 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Getting serious about smoking's cost
By Patrick J. Quinlan, M.D. Congratulations to the City of Alexandria and the Southern University System on promoting better health and longer life with their recent decision to ban tobacco use....
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White House on energy hot seat
By Robert L. Bradley, Jr. As part of the newly-signed payroll tax cut bill, the White House has 60 days to decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has become a hot-topic...
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Various pieces of equipment needed to pull off a “boucherie” may have included: a crock to store salted meat in; a corkscrew to hold the cow in a certain place to feed; a meat hook for hanging a side of beef to age and a wooden bowl for holding all of the ingredients needed to season the meat. As with “we used everything but the squeal” when butchering a pig, many side products were salvaged from the slaughter of beef. Horn was made into a “boudinaire”, a piece of horn used to stuff meat into casings for sausage and boudin, as well as shoe horns and, reamed out, a large horn made a loud horn made for calling the cattle home. There was a time when dry gunpowder was carried in horns also.
Winter the right time for boucherie
Today’s post-holiday activities probably include going to the gym and working out. No need for this long ago. With gifts of deer sausage and wild ducks coming in this year, it brought to mind the ...
Jan 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Above are a small handled mug and the smallest of five pitcher sizes. The two larger ones are a handled stein on the left and a vase on the right. The small circle in front is an advertising mirror.
Old Sleepy Eye’s visage adorns collectible stoneware
Follow-up on the article I did on premiums that were found in the sacks of flour: one of the better-known flours was from the Sleepy Eye Milling Company in Sleepy Eye, Minn. That might sound a lit...
Dec 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some of the green glass reamers pictured here are Depression glass while others are in the Fenton glass style. The white milk glass one has “SUNKIST” embossed on its side.
Oranges used to help fight winter’s ailments
With the approach of winter, you’re being warned to get your heater ducts cleaned, check your car for anti-freeze and protect your pets and pipes. Most important, you need to get your flu and pneu...
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This wooden noisemaker was used in a “charivari” in November 1915.
Clapper customarily celebration newlyweds
In the process of adding badly needed shelves and re-arranging collectibles in the aftermath, I came across a handmade wooden noisemaker that my grandmother had given me years ago. It seems that th...
Oct 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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A tin that once held Sweet Olive-scented talcum powder.
Sweet olive: a scent that brings back childhood memories Remember When - Georgie Manuel column
As a child, I walked to school and was told never to cross the street BUT Mrs. Finley’s back porch full of goodies got me to cross over quite a few times. Her house was enormous and was on the nort...
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Famous visitors passed through this speck on the map Remember When-Georgie Manuel Column
Eunice may be just a speck on the map but she’s had her fifteen minutes of glory over the years. In the heyday of nightclubs (pre-1950) there was Berro’s Club out on the Basile Road. It was owned a...
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The bottles pictured above were donated to the Eunice Depot Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Martel, in memory of Gerald Martel’s grandfather, the late Mr. “Crip” Martel.
Old medicine bottles hold secrets of past Remember When - Georgie Column
The Depot Museum received a donation of old medicine bottles recently, and as is in the case of most bottled remedies from days gone by, they MAY be good for what ails you but they certainly do mak...
Aug 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Redistributing wealth to Wall Street
Remember those dark days after the 2008 financial collapse, when Congress vowed it would get tough with the banks? Well, that resolve seems to be dwindling. A move to undo some of the reforms legis...
Jun 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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These are two counter-top trade cards advertising Scott’s Emulsion. They date from the mid-1880’s. They claim that this cod liver oil with hypophosphites of lime and soda is the best remedy in existence for consumption, scrofula, colds and coughs, anemia and general debility. And is as palatable as milk. Au contraire, mon frere.
The taste could make you ill all over again Remember When - Georgie Manuel column
You can’t talk to anyone these days who hasn’t been sick or doesn’t have someone at home who is, thus the burning question: haven’t ya’ll been taking your cod liver oil these days? You remember, th...
Feb 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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