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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
6
Many housewives found muffins collapse from moisture. KC double-rise powder provides two raises, one with moisture and one with heat, keeping muffins light and moist without sogginess. As with biscuits, softer dough yields lighter muffins in the oven.
A batter combines flour baking powder sugar lard or butter water or milk and an unbeaten egg to form a smooth mix. Fill oiled muffin tins and bake gradually until muffins rise to the top then brown. Recipe yields 12 large muffins with optional raisins or currants.
A vintage recipe instructs mixing graham flour and pastry flour with baking powder sugar and egg milk or water and melted butter to bake light moist muffins. The batter should be soft to ensure fluffiness.
Cream the butter, add the sugar and eggs. Sift corn meal, flour, salt and baking powder three times. Add dry mix to wet alternately with milk. Bake about twenty five minutes, start slower then raise heat to brown.
A compact recipe lists ingredients for One-Egg Muffins: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 3 good teaspoons baking powder one half cup sugar optional half cup melted lard or butter 4 or 5 fried bacon bits 1 cup milk or water. Mix and bake as One-Egg Muffins. Copyright 2018 Jaques Mfg Co. Next Week's Lesson Puddings.
A kitchen note on using IXC double raise baking powder to mix muffins the night before and bake in the morning. Describes oven temp, timing, sifting flour and powder, and using milk or water. Suggests creaming butter and honey as a spread for muffins and other baked goods.
Edgar Lucien Larkin argues in the New York American that 100,000,000 suns have been inferred from photographic plates and probability. He notes that even this immense mass cannot impart the high speeds of runaway suns traveling through space, whose velocities far exceed typical stellar motion.
Tasters claim adulterated olive oil is hard to detect yet can be identified by its favorable taste and throat effect, signaling inferior quality and possible mislabeling.
A Philadelphia Ledger note explains drowning prevention by floating rather than frantic climbing out. It states a person who remains cool and keeps nostrils above water can float until rescue. It cites experiments showing fish can survive days with wetted gills while humans with nostrils above water do not drown.
An old soldier writes to his colonel asking the army to go to blazes after years of suffering. The reply enforces formal protocol, stating any movements must be entered on army form 123 X. Y. 4 and includes a copy of the form.
An irate parent voices strong objections to his daughter’s engagement claiming the suitor lacks brains and sense. The confrontation centers on the insistence that the match should not proceed.
A Detroit Free Press quip notes a student athlete faring poorly as teammates virtually knock him out in the third inning during a recent college game. The joke highlights the rough turn of a young player’s college baseball outing.
A brief, comic exchange shows a willing landlady offering a tramp a task to cut a cord of wood, as the tramp negotiates a possible location and a map. The humor frames working-class exchange in a Boston Transcript voice.
The article reviews M. B. Price’s Siberia detailing how a political exile in Minusinsk lives. Exile limits movement to his district, weekly sign‑ins, constant surveillance, yet grants money and social access as he pursues mining ventures and capital for Mongolian frontier concessions.
The New York World explains that when a person blinks the eye perceives darkness for an instant due to an eighth of a second lag. A new view arrives before the old vanishes, creating persistence that fuels motion pictures and illusion. It also explains torches and rotating wheels appear continuous rather than sequential.
A tale from the Indianapolis News quotes a gun store scene where a rude man buys a Maxim silencer and escapes amid confusion. It also recounts Thomas Edison telling a discouraged man that persistence builds success, comparing it to a ladder formed by repeated failures.
Poem fragment notes Mexico’s poor lamenting tyrants and exploited peasants. It foresees justice awakening as oppression falters and a hopeful dawn approaches, with peace symbolized by an olive wand and the Rio Grande as a dividing line.
Work is underway on a granite Mormon temple in Cardston Alberta the Canadian center for the faith. The $300000 project will use BC granite with $10000 in machinery on site and local supervision. The temple will serve about 10000 Mormons in Canada and nearby northern US communities with funds mainly from tithing.
The national forest reservation commission approves buying 86 700 acres of Pisgah forest in North Carolina from the late George W Vanderbilt estate for 433 500 dollars. The purchase keeps the name Pisgah forest and aims to make it a game refuge to preserve eastern mountain fauna. The Weeks law purchases in the eastern mountains total 1 077 000 acres.
The article details the intricate manufacture of 12 inch battleship guns, from ingot casting to forging, cooling, and wiring. It explains rifling, spinning projectiles, breech mechanics, and the gun’s brief active life lasting about three seconds per shell at high speed.
The national chamber of commerce reports an abundant fruit harvest outlook, with yields greatly above the ten year average in most regions except peaches. The forecast quotes a general expectation of large production for all fruit types.
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