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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
5
Algona Courier digest of light items notes playful quips on daily life and news. Jests touch on fashion, travel, court rulings, appetite peer pressure, and oddities from New York to Des Moines. Contains many named places and people in a brisk, period tone.
A fragmentary line describes a sunbonnet child and a cheerful country scene as the merriest moment the speaker can hope to witness, focusing on simple rural imagery and a sense of joy.
A collection of practical kitchen and laundry tips. Advice covers washing curtains in cold water with borax, rinsing silk stockings in soap suds, keeping pastries moist with paraffin, using a garden trowel to pack ice cream, and avoiding tearing stuffed fowls with toothpicks. Also includes peeling beets, coloring sauces with coffee, caring for azaleas, and thread storage. Recipes and techniques for fried tomatoes, tomato hash, tomato mayonnaise, and tomato fard accompany basic substitutions and flavoring tips.
A colonial era style kitchen note lists uses for leftover eggs including dressings soups and desserts. It describes chilling shells for clearing soup jelly or coffee, making a mayonnaise like dressing with yolks and vinegar, and several recipes including Gold Cakes Scrambled Eggs and Apple and Ginger Fluff with detailed steps and ingredients.
A reflective verse-like proclamation by William L. Price emphasizes a home as a backdrop for growth. It envisions furnishings and implements—kitchen wares to dressing table—touched by purposeful, tasteful craft. The passage frames art as a serious hour guiding domestic spaces.
Creative ways to reuse stale cake turn into peach canapés trifle sponge cake porcupine and mock plum pudding. Recipes use peach halves whipped cream custards berries and spiced fillings, with steps for blanching, beating egg whites, and chilling for service.
Manager Jennings adds Bill Burns from Minneapolis to fortify Detroit pitching. Burns, a veteran with Washington Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia history, is praised as steady, unflappable, and likely to become a top American League left hander. He helped Detroit beat the Athletics before and is expected to anchor the rotation this year.
The New York National League club has released third baseman Arthur Devlin to the Boston Nationals. Giants president Ward is said to want Boston to waive claim on Arthur Bues, a Giants infielder McGraw wished to farm out, but Boston would not waive.
The excerpt shows Armando Marsans from Cincinnati discussing hitting to left field and center field. He frames his aim as honoring the American flag, insisting he directs effort toward the flagpole and center field while rejecting any aim toward danger or disrespect.
Lajole had entered upon a long service period and was recognized for his years of dedication. The brief items mention Lajole’s continued involvement and a nod to his steady career, reflecting ongoing league or team context from the historical page.
A jumble of baseball moves and rumors from various leagues. De ep Gas Atlanta sells Catcher McMurray to Rochester while Giants release pitchers Ryan Evans and Jack Ferrell to Dallas. Artem Brouthers signs with Youngstown after key regional play. Harry Wolverton plans to stay trim to act as utility infielder for the Highlanders. Frank Schulte of the Cubs has hit 48 home runs off 36 pitchers in the NL. Tesreau remains Giants’ leading spitball exponent. Otto Jordan, sold to Chattanooga from Atlanta, named field captain of Lonkouta by Manager Smith. Dahlen expects Alien to shine in the National League. Grover Land to Toledo with Mud Hens then another catcher from Cleveland, while Beacher challenges Ty Cobb for steals. Dahlen touts a strong pitching staff with multiple named hurlers. Ace Stewart, ex-Chicago NL figure, dies at 42 in Terre Haute. Gipe and Bonner move to New Orleans as part of a wary deal with Manager Mack. McGraw also has word on Evans and Farrell heading to Dallas.
This note surveys old time records such as Silver Flint catching 835 games from 1877 to 1900 without mask or glove. It cites Adrian Anson playing 1,582 games with 2,252 hits and a .344 average over 16 seasons, plus Boatoh, Kellay, and Duffy batting feats and the first no hit game by Joseph Mann in 1865.
Russell Ford, asserting his durability in the American League, notes he has lost only one extra inning game. He cites archives: 1910 ten innings loss to Maltin of Detroit, 4 to 3, and 1911 wins in 12 and 13 innings over Walsh and Walker, 4 to 3 and 5 to 1, plus a ten-inning win over Kaler in Cleveland, 4 to 3.
Baseball turnstile trade seas Massa Mordecai Brown weighs Vin Campbell moving from Pirates to Boston for Mike Donlin. Campbell’s speed unsettled Clarke and became a double edged sword, as the young outfielder rushed start before hitting, prompting his replacement by the steady Donlin.
Charles Faust describes a chaotic scene as Reilly, the famed trainer, manages Victory's preparation. Daily visits to Reilly for medicine tips left Victory’s room resembling a drugstore with scent like an automobile accident.
A damaged OCR note records a double play at Wacoon Field with unclear details. Mentions King Sullivan and out on a ball in a forced sequence. The text is garbled with stray punctuation and partial phrases.
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