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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
3
The article notes the four century span from the first conception to completion of the Corinth Canal. It cites an 800 B. C. survey by Petlander using Egyptian workers, Nero’s initial work on the site, and a revival in 1892, with completion in 1898 of a canal less than four miles long.
A Detroit Free Press fragment describes a phone call where a shrill voice asks Mr. Wilson for help with grandpa’s illness and insists on a quick update. The scene shifts to a Home Journal joke about putting up a fight, with a quip about patience and earnings contrasts between a wife and husband.
Fragmentary dialogue mentions memory of a face versus a remembered name and an awkward compliment about an attractive name in a Yonkers Statesman piece. The brief exchange centers on recognition and the oddity of recalling identity.
The exchange from Pennsylvania Punch Bowl presents a sharp social quip about the pain of arranged or loveless marriage and the challenge of divorce, framed in a light parlor humor voice typical of period gossip columns. It reflects societal pressure and personal unhappiness within early 20th century marriage norms.
Adrian Markham, a paying teller at the Tenth National Bank, finds a $20,000 package missing from a desk cage. A detective unravels a nail imprint on the cage and a boot head hidden in a suspect’s boot, leading to the recovered money and Markham’s exoneration.
A rapid statewide push for alfalfa launched by the Kent County Alfalfa Growers Association, with support from the Grand Rapids Association of Commerce and the Agricultural Extension Department of the International Harvester Company. Notables like Perry Q. Holden and J. H. Skinner led tours as farm crowds packed meetings, signaling a move to plant thousands of acres by 1915 and expand campaigns into Allegan, Ohio, and seaboard states.
An Illinois inventor creates a flatiron that carries its own stand with it. The iron balances on three legs, two at the front and one at the back, keeping heat away from the legs and allowing the user to rest the iron briefly without searching for a board support.
Gather four quarts of blossoms and a handful of leaves. Place in a stone crock with four quarts of boiling water and four sliced lemons with pits removed. Weight to keep submerged, cover, and steep in a warm place two days. Strain, add three and a half pounds sugar, rerack in crock, and let stand ten days in warmth covered with a thin cloth. Bottle when ready and store in a cool place.
A recipe instructs draining cooked spinach, wringing dry, and reheating with butter and cream. It then adds beaten eggs, shapes into balls, cooks in boiling water, and serves with hot cream sauce containing capers.
A method for making ready to use liquid glue by breaking up the glue, mixing with alcohol in a tight bottle, and aging four days with occasional shaking. The glue dissolves in the alcohol and will keep for years, remaining liquid when used.
A fragmented recipe describes mixing dry mustard with vinegar and sugar, heating to a double boiler, adding egg and olive oil, then straining and storing in a covered crock. The text preserves a kitchen instruction style with notes on quantities and preparation steps. The recipe fragments include mustard, egg, sugar, olive oil, vinegar, and cooking time.
A recipe style note describes making nests from eggs, butter, salt and pepper. It notes mixing, buttered pudding like batter, placing eggs in nests, topping with salt and pepper, and baking until cooked.
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