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MONDAY. APRIL 21, 1919.
PLATTSMOimi SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
PAGE THREE.
A Woird to the Wives
of FBattsmoythE
200 HOUSEWIVES IN NEBRASKA CITY ARE USING
Perfection Cookers
Perfection
cooker
HERE'S WHY-
You know the man who invented' the Perfection Cooker did
so to save his own life. Physicians had told him that the food he ate
was not cooked so that all the oils, fats and nourishing juices were
released, hence besides being unable to satisfy his taste and appetite,
he was unable to get the necessary stimulation to excite the salivary
glands, which had become pardyzed- So you see this man forced
his stomach to do all the work.
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Experimenting, he found that foods cooked under steam pres
sure regulated steam pressure were cooked right to aid digestion
and stimulate appetite, they tasted so mighty gocd. So you see ne-
cessity again became the mother of invention and gave to a waiting
world the most practical cooking utensil it had ever known.
Saves All the Flavor
The flavor in your food, no matter what you may eat, is con
tained in minute cells which must be broken up so that the digestive
juices of the mouth can act on them, and the more these flavor cells
are broken up, the better tasting is everything you eat.
Digestion's Greatest Aid
The greatest aid to digestion is food so Prepared that when it
reaches the stomach it is in a form easily acted on by the digestive
fluids and readily absorbed by the system. Focd3 cooked in a Per
fection Cooker are so prepared for ready digestion. Why, then, suf
fer from indigestion, blues, gTOUchiness or kindred ailments whcih
generally come from a deranged stomach, when you can have a Per
fection Cooker placed in your kitchen, learn how to use it, and pay
for it on as EASY TERMS AS YOU DESIRE?
Saves Fuel As Well As Food
A Perfection Cooker will cook the toughest fowl or meat in
one-third the time that is required by the ordinary boiling kettle, thus
materially reducing your fuel bill. A Perfection Cooker does save
you fuel and time.
Pays for Itself
We could devote pages of space to telling you about all the
good things a Perfection Cooker will do for you, but rather believe
you would like to see one for yourself and have its many merits ex
nlained to you. We guarantee it absolutely to do everything we
claim for it-SAVE TIME, SAVE FOOD, SAVE FUEL, SAVE
FLAVOR, SAVE MONEY AND WASTE NOTHING.
Mr. Fred Wagner, Proprietor Hotel Wagner,
is widely known for his culinary art. He has installed several in his
sanitary kitchen and is an ardent booster for this wonderful Cooker.
Try his meals andyou will be convinced with him of our
statements, as well as enjoy the best foods ever served anywhere.
Special meats served Easter Sunday dinner at the Wagner
Hotel will be cooked in the Perfection Cooker exclusively.
Don't Forget Special Price and Free
Cooking Demonstration at
lestoir Swa4k,
Plattsmouth, Nebraska
foir 4h M&jii H -Pay
EATS HIS WAY
TO HEALTH
Lincoln Man Discovers Way to Im
prove Food. Says Pressure
Cooking Saved His Life.
His name is William Gray and
his wonderful invention he has call
ed the Perfection Cooker a truly
marvelous piece of mechanism, so
simple in its construction and so
far-reaching in its usefulness that
its value to the world tan hardly be
estimated.
When we- think of the untold
human misery caused by eating im
properly cooked food, it is impossible
to estimate the worth of a simple,
inexpensive device which insures
that every particle of food put into
it will be properly cooked, retaining
all of the flavor and nutritive ele
ments, and in a fraction of the time.
required by any other known meth
od.
That necessity is the mother of
invention was no less true In the
case of Mr. Gray's Perfection Cook
er than in hundreds of other great
inventions. Listen to his own in
teresting story as to how the ideaj
was conceived and put into execu
tion: "It was about eight years ago.
and I had Just undergone a severe
surgical operation. The use of the
anaesthetic had left the salivary
glands paralyzed, which, of course,
made the digestion of food impos
sible. My physician said that some
means would have to be found to
stimulate the glands and induce a
normal flow of saliva. Now. I
knew, as everyone else does, that
food, properly cooked and palatable,
acts as a stimulant to the salivary
glands. I thought that if I could
just get the food I craved and have
it cooked in a different manner, that
is. cooked absolutely perfect, my
condition would be remedied and I
would again be able to enjoy eating.
"I knew that my trouble, as in
the case of thousands of others, had
been caused primarily by eating im
properly prepared and indigestible
foods. I knew that food, as ordi
narily prepared, loses much of its
nutritive value' by being cooked in
an open vessel, or kettle, which al
lows much of the flavor and sub
stance to escape and prevents the
heat element from reaching all parts
of the food at the same time, which
results in the food being unevenly
cookefi. When food thus partially
cooked is taken into the stomach it
imposes a severe strain on the di
gestive apparatus, resulting in
chronic indigestion and many at
tendant ills.
"While lying in bed at the hos
pital. I began to think out a way
to prepare food as I knew it should
be prepared. When I had recovered
sufficiently to go to my home. I ask
ed my wife to prepare a piece of
meat by placing it between a hot
skillet and a hot flat iron, so that
it would cook from both sides at
the same time. This crude experi
ment brought very satisfactory re
sults, and the meat thus prepared
tasted the best of any that I had
ever eaten. It was because the
heat element in cooking had been
evenly distributed, allowing the
meat to cook on the bottom sides
and top at the same time and at
the same degree of temperature.
The meat Juices and the flavor had
all been retained, because there
was no way for it to escape.
"Following this crude device. I
made a cooker of cast iron material
which, though an improvement over
the skillet and flat iron affair, still
lacked perfection in every detail.
After several years of experimenting
I discovered that an aluminum
kettle, with a steel cover, clamped
down by a single screw, and equip
ped with a safety valve, answered
every requirement of a perfect cook
er. The biggest problem was to
produce a safety valve that would
allow the food to be cooked at a
given degree of heat and temper
ature and at the same time warn
the operator of the cooker when a
sufficient amount of steam had been
raised. This was finally Bolved
through the use of a small steel
ball about an inch in diameter,
which fits on top of the escape valve,
allowing the heat to be limited or
increased to twenty pounds pres
sure, or 276 degrees Fahrenheit.
When the required amount of heat
has been attained, the ball begins
to dance from the exhause steam, as
a warning to the operator who
merely turns down the fire under
the cooker to the proper degree.
"There is no circulation of steam
within the vessel. which allows
different, articles of food, such as
rice and onions, to be cooked at the
same time without the slightest
taint of mixed flavors. Simply
place a cover over each article, and
the concentrated 6team pressure
from all sides of the vessel pre-?
vents any escape of flavor or odors.
All sorts of food may be perfectly
cooked in this manner, In a fraction
of the time and at much less ex
pense than by the old method of
the ordinary pot or kettle.
"I firmly believe that I owe the
fact that I am alive today to the
discovery of this means of cooking
food in an absolutely perfect man
ner, which makes any article of food
easily digestible and at the same
time makes it far more palatable and
nutritious than any other known
method." Adv.
DIED AT HOME IN
COUNTRY THIS A. M.
WESTLEY WOODWARD LIVING
SOUTH OF UNION, DIED AT
EARLY HOUR THIS MORNING.
From Saturday's Daily.
Word has just been received of
the death of Westley Woodward,
who is a pioneer of Otoe County,
living a few miles south of Union,
this county and near the station of
Wyoming, on the Missouri Pacific,
in Otoe county. Mr. Woodward has
made his home in that vicinity for
many years, being a "pioneer of Otoe
county. The funeral has as yet not
been announced.
DIED YESTERDAY AT
BARTLETT, IOWA
Charles Bates Succombs to Effects
of Cancer -of Throat Funer
al This Afternoon.
From Saturday'? Daily.
This morning Leigh Bates. George
Bates, "Fred Westlake and E. J.
Kruger drove up from their home
at Avoca and departed for Bartlett,
Iowa, where they were called by the
death of Charles Bates, brother of
Messrs. Leigh and George Bates and
brother-in-law of Messrs. E. J. Kru
ger and Fred Westlake. Mr. Bates
died yesterday from the effects of a
cancer in his throat, from which he
had suffered a great deal. He was
about 55 years of age. The funeral
occurs at Bartlett this afternoon and
interment will be in the cemetery
near there.
PLATTSMOUTH SURELY
A BUSINESS PLACE
Prom Saturday's Dally.
From a perusal of the Platts
mouth Journal, one not acquainted
with the burg, or the paper's news
reporter, would imagine that Platts
mouth was the busiest town on the
glebe. The reporter has a chronic
habit of reporting nearly everyone
visiting the city as being there "on
business." It's amusing. Nehawka
Ledger-Register.
Oh. Yes, it is amusing, we know
of a young man from Nehawka, who
used to come to Plattsmouth four
times per week, ostensably "on busi
ness" but he does not come any
more, perhaps, that is why the edit
or does not know that "Plattsmouth
is the busiest town on the globe."
WIFE IS VISITING IN COUNTRY
Guy Morgan is kept pretty busy
the past couple of days looking af
ter business in the store while his
wife is visiting in the country at
the home of her sister. Mrs. Ben
Wiles, who was so seriously burned
Thursday afternoon, and assisting in
administering to the warUs of the
distressed woman.
O'BRIEN WILL RECEIVE AH
INCREASE III SALARY SOON
Lincoln, April 18. Supt. W. J.
O'Brien of the state fish hatcheries
will get a salary boost from $1,800
to $2,100. and Chief Game .Warden
Koster from $1,600 to $1,800, un
der a compromise agreement be
tween the house and senate con
ferees on the general salaries bill,
H. R. 557, which was reported Fri
day and approved by both branches.
The house passed the bill with
out raising the pay of either officer
in the fish and game department,
but the senate voted to give O'Brien
$2,400 and Koster $2,000. In the
first conference it was recommend
ed that the house figures stand, but
the senate refused to adopt that fea
ture of it and the committees went
out again. They decided to split
the difference half way.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The great benefit derived from
the use of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy has been gratefully ac
knowledged my many. Mrs. Benja
min F. Blakeney, Decatur, 111.,
writes, "Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy Is by far the best medicine for
-olds and coughs we have ever used
in our family. V gave !t to my
children when email for croup and
have taken it myself."
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
D
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She Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use Tor over thirty years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
,Z sonal supervision fince its infancy.
'Cc4ca4ZZ, Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience agcirst Experiment.
What is CASTORIA '
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant us for the relief of Constipation, Hatulencyv
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; allaying Feverishness arising
. therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowe's, aids
. the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
FANTASY COMING
'Fi-Fi of the Toy Shop" Will be
Presented by the Liberty Girls
at Parmele May 8-9.
The Business Girls Liberty Club
has arranged to stage the famous
musical fantasy "Fi-Fi of. the Toy
Shop" at the Parmele theatre on the
evenings of May 8th and 9th.
The performance will be given un.
der the management of the John B?
Rogers Producing Co., of Ohio, who
make a specialty of rehearsing and
staging high class amateur produc
tions. It is announced that rehearsals
will begin shortly. The production
has been given throughout the East
with marked success. It is built
along the lines of "Babes in Toy
land' "La Copelia" and "The Love
Tales of Hoffman," in that the lead
ing characters in the extravaganza
represent toys and dolls. And the
Liberty club is made up of lots of
"dolls." The principals will be drawn
from the leading musical and dra
matic talent of the city. Many tal
ented Plattsmouth people will par
ticipate in the choruses and inter
pretive dances. Miss Verna Hatt is
chairman of the committee in charge
and will -be assisted by different of
the members of the club.
This will be one of the entertain
ing events of the season and should
be of interest to all the people of
Plattsmouth and vicinity.
PIONEER DIES THIS
MORNING FOLLOW
ING LONG ILLNESS
J. A. DAVIS. OF WEST OF MUR
RAY HAD BEEN SICK AL
MOST TEN YEARS.
Passes Away at An Early Hour To
Day Leaves Six Children.
All Being Sons.
'After having"!)- sick-afc-his bom
several miles west of Murray for
more than ten years. J. A. Davis, a
pioneer resident of Cass county,
passed away this morning having
been seriously ill for only about a
week. Prior to that time, while his
health was not good, no fearB were
entertained that death would claim
him. but the past week brought
about his rapid decline.
Mr. Davis was born October 7th,
1839, and moved to Mills county,
Iowa, when a young man. After re
siding there for a number of years,
he came across the river to Cass
county in 1881.
Beside the aged widow, Mr. An
derson leaves six children,' all sons,
as follows: M. S. Davis, of Haxturo.
Colorado; Dr. T. V. Davis, 'of Lin
coln; O. A. Davis, of Murray; Dr.
J. R. Davis, of Lincoln; I. M. Davis
and Ray Davis, both of near Mur
ray. No arrangements have as yet been
announced regarding the time of
holding hte funeral.
Hid
You Must Build
to make profits; you can't get ahead waiting for lower
prices that may never come.
We are fortunate to be able to get the building
materials that we need. Waiting for better conditions
is stagnation and poor business.
We will help you to the lowest building material
prices that are possible today, they may be higher to
morrow. You better start at once.
E. X RICHEY,
PHONE 40
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