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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
3
An essay compares American and Latin suitors in romance, noting Americans' awkwardness yet tender feelings and the Latin wooer’s ease. It cites Octave Thanet and Macaulay to illustrate how wisdom and restraint in women influence relationships and loyalties.
Poem by Blanche Goodman praises the enduring black silk dress from grosgrain to moire antique describing its versatility for luncheon tea ball dance and calls readers to resurrect the all sufficing garment despite changing fashions.
A humorous verse by Sidney Smith offers salad dressing directions. It prescribes two boiled potatoes strained smooth and a measured amount of mustard, salt, Lucca oil, and town vinegar, plus two hard boiled eggs, onion fragments, and anchovy sauce for a rich, tempting blend. The poem playfully elevates dressing craft and the eater's delight.
A physician specializing in insomnia advises sleeping with a pillow under the feet and nothing under the head to ease early insomnia and nightmares. He warns against sleeping on the back with arms over the head or folded on the chest, and recommends light covering even for short naps.
The two princesses Teweeleema and Wootone kanuske, last royal blood of the Wampanoags, live in poverty on Lake Assawampsett in Massachusetts. A public effort seeks material recognition of their rights and Massasoit’s services to colonial New England.
Mrs. Emma Barry of San Francisco returns from an Arctic journey claiming to have traveled farther north than any other white woman. She accompanied her husband on prospecting for gold and will rejoin him in Alaska after laying in supplies.
The Grama Duchess Elizabeth widow of Grand Duke Sergius who was assassinated in Moscow in February 1905 has retired to a convent near Moscow and may take the veil. Since her husband’s death and her adopted daughter Marie’s marriage to Prince William of Sweden she has withdrawn from society.
A fragment notes contact lines for Gamble's Drug Store and Mutual Life Insurance with office and residence listings in Iowa, including specific phone codes 121-M and 123-J and Mutual office 199.
Boil a cheap cut of meat until tender then cool and chop. Reheat the boiling water, add more to reach desired amount, mix in chopped meat, and thicken with white corn meal. Cook five to ten minutes, pour into a dish, chill, slice thin, and fry. A hearty winter breakfast substitute.
A historical recipe describes stuffing peppers with tender Bermuda onions parsley bread crumbs lemon juice salt cayenne mushroom catsup and celery salt. Boil peppers five minutes then bake twenty minutes in buttered hot oven and serve on toast rounds with a celery garnish.
A vintage salad dressing method uses beaten egg whites as a cream substitute. Mix corn starch sugar salt, add one whole egg and yolk, stir in vinegar, cook in a double boiler, then fold in the beaten white to finish.
Crumble a pound of sponge cake with half a pound of grated cocoanut. Pour over rich milk or cream and soak it. Stir in four beaten eggs. Butter a mould and arrange four ounces of preserved ginger around it. Steam for ninety minutes. Serve with warmed ginger syrup poured over.
Parboil onions in salted water for 10 minutes then mix with cold boiled rice. Add milk curry powder mace pepper salt and butter simmer 10 minutes remove from heat flavor with lemon juice. Serve over hot mashed potatoes with toast triangles and parsley sprigs.
A home pastry guide instructs mixing salt shortening butter and lard into flour with cold water to form a flaky dough. Roll to a quarter inch, cut five inch rounds, fit under patty pans, bake light brown, then reheat trim edges brush with beaten egg, dip edges in parsley and fill with creamed oysters or other fillings.
Peel and slice medium white onions soak in salted ice water for an hour. Drain and mix with a pint of baked beans tabasco paprika sugar yolks of two hard boiled eggs salt olive oil and white wine vinegar. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with olives.
Two tablespoons melted butter and flour with salt and mustard and cayenne. Cook in cream until thick then add stewed tomatoes and grated cheese. Fold in two lightly beaten eggs with a pinch of soda for a creamy tomato cheese noodle dish.
A historic kitchen note describes dissolving five pounds of sugar in half a pint of water, then adding six grated quinces and cooking until thick as honey. The method emphasizes thorough dissolution and a twenty minute simmer.
Peel and halve four sweet potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and steam off excess moisture. In a skillet melt sugar with butter and a splash of water. Boil to a brown caramel then toss potatoes in the glaze until coated. Serve hot.
Break macaroni into one inch pieces and soak until soft then drain. Grate cheese and spread over macaroni. Beat three eggs with three cups milk and three quarters cup sugar, add butter nutmeg and vanilla, pour over the mixture and bake in a moderately hot oven for a delicious dessert.
Mash boiled potatoes and mix with flour to form a stiff dough. Shape into finger length strips and boil in salted water until they rise. Cool under cold water, then dry and fry in butter. Serve with steak and tomato sauce.
Preparation instructions describe using medium ripe tomatoes with centers removed. Fill with finely chopped celery and cover with a mayonnaise or cream dressing. Plate with lettuce leaves for garnish and serve as an appetizer.
Fashion notes describe piping widely used on gowns and accessories. Edges of sleeves revers cuffs coats and skirts feature piping in satin and other colors. Black remains preferred with harmonizing palettes. Piping even appears on ball gowns across fabrics like tulle chiffon net and satin. Widths range from a thread to three inches.
A New York milliner introduces a printed linen necktie for the smart set. Ground in dull ecru with tiny pink, blue, yellow flowers and touches of green, it features a one inch neckband, black silk binding, back hook, and front two loops with four variable length ends. Worn around shirtwaists, it complements blouse frocks and soft stocks for early autumn.
A claim states that a single ounce of eggs yields 89 000 silk avorms, indicating a rapid production process. This fact centers on a claimed conversion rate and equipment or method implied by the source text.
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