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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
4
The baker explains wedding cakes are often rented rather than bought. He notes brides and grooms use large centerpieces for show then buy minimal cake for guests and box it for the event. A rental cake may be refreshed and reused, earning about $3 per wedding. Also ad copy for Tyree's antiseptic powder ends the snippet.
A shipwreck survivor hides for three days on a cannibal isle then creeps toward a clump of bushes to observe natives. He overhears a voice asking about a card and prays, believing the savages to be Christians. An unrelated ad promotes Mrs Winslow’s soothing boothing for children.
A Nevada man vanished from his wife and three children for ten years. While passing through the state he regained his memory, discovering he had moved to Texas, remarried, and started another family. His wife died the week before his discovery. He blamed overwork for the memory lapse while handling complex contracts.
An English ship with English crew and an American passenger witnesses a heated dispute between two stewards. After a barrage of insults, one steward mockingly claims the other “eats just like a passenger,” revealing tensions aboard during the voyage.
The Department of Agriculture promotes waste reduction by teaching canning of surplus fruits and vegetables. Government experts demonstrate steam canning, sterilization, and storage, with clubs forming nationwide to educate farmers and families.
Practical summer advice covers laundry, bedding, and keeping a home homelike. Use thin cotton blankets, laundered sheets at the bottom of the linen pile, and fresh flowers on desks and bureaus. Leave fires ready for lighting when away, mop bulk buys like soap and starch, and use simple oven heat methods for quick cooking.
Leftover pot roast is ground with onion egg crackers pepper salt and sage to form a loaf baked until browned. Macaroni is served with the brown gravy. Tart uses fruit marrow flour sugar and water baked gently. Red peppers are prepared and canned with vinegar and sugar. Other notes cover a white cake and cleaning paintings with potato peelings.
A reader laments farmers burning corn stalks and argues it harms soil fertility. The writer questions the logic of burning to clear land, noting soil humus loss and the cost of maintaining livestock. He asserts plowing under stalks preserves fertility and warns against land degradation.
A series of agricultural tips discuss storing pumpkins in a wide, hay-covered stack for winter feed, guarding against contamination from worn utensils, and using fodder to balance rations. Additional notes cover sorting vegetables on belts, lawn-making timing, disinfecting whitewash, profitable hog feeding, early poultry labor saving, deep plowing for peach trees, and turnip forage for ducks.
Farmers warned that disease and pests like lice threaten chick vitality. Advice covers lice control with oil treatments, dusting, and timely spraying of brood coops using safe roaster or coal oil mixtures. Emphasizes prevention, clean housing, warmth, and freedom from vermin to improve poultry losses.
Practical advice for beekeepers on timely shipping of comb honey before cold weather to distant markets. Emphasizes replacing failing queens, breeding from strong stock, wintering bees hatching from August 1, and preparing brood through supplemental feeding. Notes swarm timing, queen emergence, hive distribution, and calmer bees when colonies are well spaced and robs reduced.
A New York man designed a machine for sorting potatoes featuring a sloped frame, angled rollers, and a belt of interwoven wire strips beneath the hopper. Potatoes are poured into the hopper and spread into the chute for sorting by size and shape.
Lime helps prevent roup in poultry during damp weather by sanitary, dry quarters. Apply thoroughly around the poultry house and yards to scatter airglaked contagion and improve health conditions for the birds.
A house mother outlines a summer schedule that confines heavy cooking to Saturday using a coal stove and a fireless cooker for vegetables during the week. She bakes cakes and bread, roasts meat, and prepares meals to last through the week with minimal heat, while offering preserved cherries and rhubarb methods and noting a natural fountain in Guatemala.
A guide describes making natural burlap porch pillow covers. Cut inch wide silk strips from discarded ribbons, thread through burlap with a tape needle, and sew half inch stitches to form bold interlaced squares or triangles in a swastika design. Several covers can be completed in one afternoon for display on a porch hammock or diazza.
Recipe notes mix one half can corn with an egg then heat with salt and pepper. Stir in bread crumbs until the butter thickens. Let stand 20 minutes. Batter should be thick enough to drop by tablespoon and not run. If needed add crumbs. Fry small cakes in bacon fat until brown and crisp. Serve with bacon for breakfast.
A fragmented cooking note describes melting butter on a flat plate or dish, cracking eggs carefully, seasoning with pepper and salt, and baking in a moderate oven until the whites are set. The text shows garbled phrases but centers on a simple fried eggs technique.
A contributor explains preserving foods by covering with water. Items bought at Thanksgiving stayed in perfect condition for four months when kept submerged in water inside a Mason jar.
A garbled OCR fragment discusses watery eyes and granule past issues. It mentions eye care and care needs but contains unclear phrases and nonsensical word groupings. The readable terms point to possible eye health concerns requiring medical attention.
A dead pigeon dropped down a Glasgow chimney as an elderly woman named Elizabeth Hotchkiss sat by the fireside. The bird scattered ashes over her and she sustained severe burns. It is believed the pigeon perched on the chimney head and suffocated before falling.
An advertisement touts a blood purifier called 8. B. B. that promises rapid healing of eczema. It claims internal cleansing via a vegetable formula, circulating to the skin to repair damaged tissue, with no mineral drugs.
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