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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
5
A collage of light humor and social sketches notes aging, marriage, travel, and fashion trends. It playfully mocks fixed ideas while tossing in regional quips about detectives, mosquitoes, and coastal misadventures, with a dash of nautical and sports aside.
A colonial style menu presents several recipes for hearty meals. Egg Bellah uses fat pork cubes, bread cubes, potatoes and eggs with parsley. Cream of Carrot Soup blends carrot pulp with milk, butter, flour, and egg yolk, then parsley. Potato Cake combines mashed potato, sugar, raisins, walnuts, eggs and spices for a rich cake. Cocoanut Soup with curry, coconut, peas, milk and butter. Tea raising and bake is a meringue topped loaf. Chocolate Bread Pudding coats bread with chocolate, milk and sugar, baked and served warm with a butter sugar sauce. Queen of Puddings layers milk, bread crumbs, yolks, lemon rind, jam and meringue. A Delicious Bread Pudding suggests fruit layers and optional cream.
A brief verse notes light thinking easing stress at night. Bunbee is described pirouetting and tapping at the door as a humorous remedy for worry, promoting a cheerful habit of looking forward with gladness. The tone is light and whimsical.
A historical guide outlines several stew recipes including Spanish, Irish, and veal stews. Instructions cover browning meat, simmering with water, adding vegetables like tomatoes carrots and onions, and thickening with browned flour. Variations suggest using beef neck, chuck, and veal shoulder with seasoning and butter for flavor.
A fragmentary OCR item shows vague terms like sweet milk and yolky phrases. No clear event, date, or names are readable, leaving only scattered crumbs of potential notice language behind.
A fragmented, poetic line evokes a dinner bell, seasoning, and praise in loose, archaic tones. The text presents a phonetic spell of cadence and ritual without clear narrative or named entities.
A fragment discusses entrees served between courses with varied preparations. It highlights Gnoccha Im Romana made with butter flour cornstarch milk eggs and cheese, Mushroom deviled coatings, Chestnut croquettes with chestnuts cream yolks sugar vanilla, and croquettes of many kinds including fruit fish lobster clam and vegetable fritters, all framed as entrees.
A fragmentary story describes a lawyer turned sailor on a ship carrying a million gallons of oil bound for Sydney. It mentions Richard Matthews Haett Harvard 1910 and references Judge Hand, with disjointed phrases about education and work at sea.
The account recalls Joe Cantillon and Charles Comiskey in a rivalry from the Western League. Cantillon narrates training pitchers on an artificial mound, forcing Comiskey to retaliate with a grave pitched setup. The tale ends with both sides agreeing to revert to normal pitching heights, after three days of lopsided scores.
Report notes Roy Thomas on payroll for Quakers Hia services, with focus on pinch hitters and five players. Cleveland pets from Central League show high hitting averages over 800, while first baseman M Petersburg Virginia and Fred Clarke receive a tryout. St. Louis Browns acquire pitcher Spencer from Quincy, but purchase delayed amid announcements.
The article discusses managers frequently swapping pitchers after tough hits, leading teams to carry more pitchers than before. It notes fatigue and nerves drive quick changes, regardless of age or status, contrasting with eras when pitchers endured early runs and still won.
In Washington a joke targeted umpire Harley Parker during a White Sox Senator meeting. An officer from the United States Senate questioned Parker in the Driscoll Hotel lobby, claiming a warrant for him. The mixup tied Parker to the play involving Germany Schaefer and Sunny, ending with Parker explaining the incident to the officer.
Three budding players named Peters catch eye for the Naps as live boxing coverage highlights their promising form and potential. Gregg is noted among observers for steady technique guiding the trio.
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