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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1907
Page
9
A fragmented note describes a method with alum water to kill insects and a chocolate cake recipe. It outlines boiling alum water, applying to pests, then making a cake batter with butter, sugar, egg yolks, melted chocolate, milk, flour, and stiff whites folded in, baked in two layers and iced.
A simple sauce recipe combines equal parts milk and white stock with one tablespoon butter and four tablespoons grated horseradish. Add a spoonful of cream, heat over hot water, and serve.
A rustic recipe outlines using a pound of shoulder or lamb cut into 2 inch squares with four thin potatoes and a finely chopped onion. Layer meat with salt and pepper, add onion and potatoes in alternating layers, finish with a thick potato topping, then bake three hours in a slow oven.
Stains on enamel can be removed by rubbing with vinegar and salt, left for a moment, then washed off. Use only mild soap on the tub, avoiding rough soaps. Once a week rinse the enamel with kerosene and then wash thoroughly.
The recipe explains a large six quart pan pie with layers of onions pork browned in a frying pan and apples sprinkled with sugar. It instructs alternating layers until full, sealing edges, topping with a perforated crust and baking four hours or longer. It notes hot or cold serving and possible potato substitution but mentions flavor differences.
Lift together two cups flour and salt with baking powder. Rub in butter and add one cup chopped nuts and sugar. Mix with milk to a soft dough, form small balls, top with nuts, brush with milk, and bake in a hot oven.
Soak two cups of stale bread frumps in four cups of scalded milk. Melt two squares of chocolate in a saucepan over heat. Add one third cup sugar then enough milk to pour. Mix with bread and milk, add salt vanilla and two eggs. Bake one hour in a moderate oven and serve with hard sauce. Cream butter with powdered sugar lemon extract and vanilla.
A compact recipe outlines trimming lamb, chopping onion carrot turnip and potatoes. Sauté vegetables slowly, add meat, simmer an hour, skim fat, stir in salt pepper and red pepper, finish by serving in a single dish with browned color.
A sugar butter milk eggs and chocolate cake recipe fragment outlines steps to melt chocolate in milk and dissolve soda, with directions to cream ingredients and bake. The text is incomplete and several words are garbled or missing.
Melt butter in a saucepan then stir in flour until smooth. Gradually add stock or milk while stirring rapidly and cook five minutes. Season with salt and white pepper. Use white pepper for a white sauce.
An advertisement asserts Mi o na stomach tablets quickly cure indigestion and related stomach weakness. It claims the remedy strengthens stomach muscles, boosts digestive juices, and aids natural digestion with a guarantee that the 50 cent box costs nothing unless it cures.
Prof. W. D. Lash superintendent of Zanesville schools visited his father Jacob Lash and brother E. R. Lash on Friday. Miss Alpha Baird returned Friday after several weeks with Mr and Mrs Carl Cable in Nelsonville.
Mr H H Gnutteau departed this morning for a weeklong visit with friends in Whipple. His daughter Miss Grace, who had been visiting him for the past month, left today for her home in Louisville.
Mrs. Edward L. Ewing came home today after a short stay visiting her parents Dr. and Mrs. David Sisson in Middleport.
Miss Marguerite Cleveland of Chillicothe is the guest of her friend Miss Bessie Driggs.
Dr and Mrs William McFarland of Pittsburg have returned home after a several day stay with Mrs Fannie Minear. They attended the McCune Dwinell wedding in Chillicothe on Wednesday with Mrs Minear accompanying them.
Rev. Dr. C Hbrkh Taylor of McArthur visited the city Saturday. Miss Lucile Buskirk of McArthur stays a few days with Miss Dorothy Will. A group including Carl Adams Frank Hamilton George Kaler Fred Beckley Evan Jones Dr J Jones Bob Wood and Belford Carpenter went to Columbus today to attend the Ohio State Oberlin game.
Master Ruple Jones, who has been very ill for several weeks with appendicitis, is improving in health, though very slowly.
Mrs S M Hudson and son Master Wilfred have just returned from Cincinnati where they visited friends and relatives. Mrs E M Mayo of Chillicothe, guest of Mrs Joseph L Pickering, left this morning to visit friends in Corning before returning home.
An advertisement touts Tonsiline as the fastest cure for sore mouth and throat and warns of serious diseases like croup and diphtheria. It urges readers to keep a bottle at home and lists prices of 25 and 50 cents from The Tonsiline Co Canton Ubla.
Mr and Mrs Lester Sickles of Columbus visit Mr and Mrs Theodore Dean. Mrs A E Graham called to Jerseyville for sister Mrs W A Evans. Anna Sickles and Myrtle of Columbus guests of Mr and Mrs A E Graham on Mill Street. Mrs Charess Harris of Athens to return from Clinton flats after McCune Dwinell wedding. Mr and Mrs Charles Markeson of Hanover C H Virginia visiting Mr and Mrs Fred Baker on West State Street.
Pineapple lemon and orange ice cream vanilla cream delivered to your home packed in ice ready to use when you are ready contact CLINE-PHONES 21.
An advertisement claims stomach heart and kidney nerves weaken causing organ failure. It urges avoiding drugging or stimulating these nerves and promotes Dr Shoop's Restorative tablets or liquid from Racine Wisconsin with a free sample test to prove health benefits.
The piece surveys popular English hog breeds like Yorkshire and Essex gaining ground in Wisconsin Minnesota northern Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota. It notes purebred boars crossing on grade sows and claims Essex and Yorkshire produce strong mothers and good breeders while market shifts favor heavier barrows over light hogs amid a rising spring supply.
The September crop report signals serious feed shortages with corn oats and barley down by 691000000 bushels total. Despite a better hay crop, staple foods and byproducts remain tight with higher prices and limited substitution possibilities. Hog prices may shift as lighter hogs lose premium and heavy hogs become scarcer while the lard market looks strong.
A London Penny Pictorial tale shows a boy and his friends planning a mock railway crash using a perambulator as the train. The infant is imagined as a passenger tossed from the vehicle and saved at the last moment, then the boy is later released from a dark closet.
Fragmentary note claims a product named Dean's Regulats operates easily and torn stomachs accompany constipation. Mentions 25c price and urges asking a druggist for them. Text is unclear and evidence uncertain.
The London Mail notes that every cottage woman in Finland masters spinning and weaving. It praises Kalevala women for weaving embroidery and metalwork, framing these crafts as symbols of national pride.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers beet pills are sold by Cline's Pharmacy and claim not to gripe. The advertisement pitches the product as easy on the stomach.
A man and his wife quarrelled with sharp barbs about divorce. The man warned that exposing her conduct would win him a divorce, while she retorted that simply presenting him to a judge would secure a divorce for her.
A vintage ad touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the remedy for accidents and emergencies, claiming it quickly subdues pain and heals hurts for anxious families seeking fast relief.
Mrs J Courtland Webb left this morning for Moxahala to visit her parents Mr and Mrs A J Noe.
A Farm and Fireside correspondent describes a simple corn cutter to prevent mouth sores in cattle fed ears. Uses an old buggy spring fashioned into a knife pivoted on a bench with a hoard slot guide to cut corn into small pieces for easier feeding.
Professor Fraser of Illinois Agricultural College tests a new dairy lesson in a country school with home milk samples. Price of milk to farmers from Borden for six months ranges from 1.80 to 2.00 per 100 pounds. European dairying on valued land and better cows improve yields, with 300 pounds butter per cow vs 140 locally. Emphasizes better starters, calf rearing, dry housing, and balanced rations of corn silage and alfalfa for dairy cattle.
An English traveler in Naples loses eighty pounds and two Napoleons from a silk purse on a boat. A local Italian observer, noting oppression under the Neapolitan government, exposes the pilferer by revealing the boatman’s corpse with the purse. The episode ends with a veiled rebuke from the king’s representative.
French veterinary report shows sugar improves fatigue in overworked horses. A surgeon fed 200 grains daily mixed with daily feed in forced matches, with results noted as overcoming fatigue. Regular distribution throughout the day was maintained.
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