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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
4
The Oklahoma City market lacks affordable rental housing for wage earners with a $10 to $36 weekly income. The editorial urges investors to develop suburban, model small homes priced $15 to $20 monthly, noting scarce three room flats near work and high rents up to $35 to $65. Ada faces the same housing issue.
Er nest Roberts of Fort Gibson harvested 13 car loads about 4500 bushels from 55 acres this season at roughly 50 cents a bushel. A second crop is growing with yields expected to match the first as shipments continue with the Frisco handling about 250 car loads.
A desperate woman lured by poverty uses a piano purchase to fake funds, then flees town with the piano and a cash windfall. She abandons suicide and escapes with money, seeking a fresh start in a distant town.
J. F. McKeel and W. C. Duncan dissolved their partnership after several months of joint law practice. Duncan remains in the former office they shared, while McKeel has moved to new quarters over the Ada National Bank building.
Welborn celebrated his sixth birthday at home with Sunrise playmates. Refreshments included ice cream and cake as the children enjoyed the party this afternoon.
Miss Lula Stubblefield who had been visiting her sister Mrs. Bige Baldwin at Duncan returned home last evening.
A community food feature lists cream biscuits with honey and preserves, Johnnie cake, Manover rolls, Wheat muffins, Allegheny tea cake, and rusk or sweet bread recipes. Local notices mention editor F. S. Williams visiting, residents traveling to Shawnee and Greenville, and social visits in Ada with movings and engagements.
A correspondent shares a frumenty method: boil a quarter pint of wheat in milk until tender but not pulpy, drain, and mix with a quart of milk, three ounces of sifted castor sugar, and half a cup of currants. Add cinnamon, simmer a quarter hour, then blend in heated yolks of three eggs and serve.
In gas stoves without a broiler, heat a pan until very hot. Sear the steak without grease, turn constantly until cooked, then finish on a hot platter with butter salt and pepper. A brief oven finish browns the dressing.
A simple kitchen receipt describes boiling macaroni then layering with cheese pepper salt butter cracker crumbs and tomatoes in a baking dish. It instructs to alternate layers until full and bake in a moderate oven for about an hour. The writer calls it splendid.
Mince cold roast lamb or tender mutton with salt pepper and tomato catsup. Add minced olives and mix into a paste with mayonnaise dressing. Spread between thin bread slices and cut into diamond shapes.
To soften the old brushes used last year, place them in a can of coal oil. When pliable, wash them in warm suds.
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