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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1913
Page
9
A meditative verse contrasts male leadership with obedience and duty. It suggests living by necessity over desire, while duty in plow and sword shapes fate. heaven encompasses both giving and taking, and laurels may elude the warrior.
A collection of breakfast and appetizer ideas including oat meal cutlets fried in bacon fat, eggs in nests with parsley and buttered toast, egg and potato relish baked with cream, breakfast rolls filled with creamed fish, egg stuffed bread rounds, and mush rings fried in bacon fat served with prunes and cream.
Cyrus Hamlin and John Lyly quote urge activity over inaction. The lines contrast perseverance with caution and warn against idle compliance. The message champions proactive effort and thoughtful resolve.
Instructions for grape juice jelly and fudge plus peach chutney and marmalade tart. Grape fudge uses seven pounds grapes raisins walnuts and sugar cooked until thick then jarred. Peach chutney blends peaches cider vinegar onions garlic ginger raisins mustard seed sugar and chillies then bottled. Marmalade tart combines marmalade with apple or peach rings baked with pastry and lemon sugar, served with whipped cream.
A playful exchange notes that a person speaks about 12 000 words a day while a wife quizzes her husband about his chatter. The remark suggests the speaker is above average in talking.
In a brisk exchange Mose Yallerby and Melinda Mokeby clash over perceived appearance. Mokeby objects to a dig about looks, prompting a tense back and forth about chicness and insult.
Peach mango pickles prepared by selecting ripe peaches and brining for 48 hours. After soaking in cold water, pits are removed and filled with horseradish and celery seed, then sealed in jars. A spiced vinegar solution is poured over sixty peaches and sealed, ready to eat in ten days to two weeks.
A columnist urges replacing think of leftovers with reusable terms and methods. Create cucumber boats by hollowing sections and filling with dressing, onion, and radishes. Use pineapple halves for gelatin jelly or cream cheese salads. Edible container ideas extend to greens leaves and peels to add novelty to meals.
A simple method for honey vinegar uses one and a half pounds of strained honey per gallon of water. Keep the mixture warm for a few months, then adjust with more honey if strength is needed. Three pounds of honey per gallon yields a strong vinegar, praised for salads and ordinary table use.
A simple beef loaf recipe describes mixing one pound of fresh chopped beef with half a pound of fat salt pork chopped fine. Bind with an egg, season with salt pepper and grated onion, add milk and cracker crumbs, shape into a loaf and bake about forty five minutes, basting with hot water and melted butter.
Instructions describe making mock olives by combining green plums with a spiced vinegar mixture of mus tard seed vinegar salt and heat. Plums are washed dried laid on a board then soaked overnight drained reheated and reapplied before cooling and bottling.
Pears are peeled cored quartered and cut to pieces eight pounds mixed with four pounds sugar and a quarter pound Canton ginger and left overnight. In the morning four lemons are chopped with seeds removed and added. Cook slowly for three hours and pack into a stone jar.
An old toothbrush helps rub hydrogen peroxide into straw hats to loosen dirt. Rinse thoroughly with cold water and dry the hat in the open air.
A reflective quote notes that true mourning heals by tending to the living tied to the deceased. It underscores responsibility to family and community in honoring those lost.
A young man frets that marriage is impossible on his $10,000 annual income. He loves a girl who would marry him, but he admits he cannot marry and live on that salary. His friends react with consternation and pity as the punchline reveals he lacks the $10,000 himself.
A New York hotel allocates a floor for night workers called the Sleepy Sixteenth. It operates on an inverted timetable with a separate staff, its own restaurant and lift, and dedicated telephone service. Sleepers are not disturbed until late in the day and meals shift to afternoons.
Turkish crops this year are to be exceptionally good with early gatherings in former districts and a start in the hilly Asia Minor regions. Despite most able men being mobilized, 20 percent more land was cultivated than in 1912 and many grain crops may reach four to five times the previous year's output.
In the Police Court a defendant answers a question about intoxication with a witty assertion that he was ostentatiously sober, prompting a brief moment of humor amid proceedings. The exchange underscores sharp dialogue typical of courtroom banter.
A terse old proverb warns that arrogance invites consequences for those who overestimate themselves. The saying frames a universal moral about hubris and accountability.
Advertorial letters extol Grape Nuts as ideal for aging digestion and muscle, brain, and nerve health. Readers cite improved regularity, strength, and well being after long term use with Postum, noting the product’s whole wheat and barley make and added phosphates.
An excavation in Iowa employed unslaked lime to thaw frozen ground and the operation was entirely successful. The report also mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething and a sensational reference to a foreign wedding stabbing affray illustrated with cuts.
A humorous exchange between Bocker and a judge notes the public mood of high moral standards while evading constant elevator rides as they discuss the phrase The Sensation.
A sad eyed young poet pleads with his board ing mistress to explain the fate of his blank sheets. She apologizes saying they were waste paper. He replies that they haven’t written anything yet and remains disappointed.
A dialogue notes a paradox that in attempts to control or condemn kissing, one faces the fact that it cannot be suppressed. The exchange asks what argument undermines such efforts and answers with the idea that kissing itself weakens resistance.
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