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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1909
Page
7
A Philadelphia Ledger puzzle shows a gardener placing a window card promising all branches of his trade. Readers are invited to identify flowers bulbs bushes leaves and more such as clover and herbs by navigating a word puzzle that allows repeated letters and any movement without skipping.
A Popular Mechanics writer explains a finger trick to remember month lengths. Start with January on the left hand knuckle, drop between knuckles for February, continue to July, then restart for August through December. 31 days on knuckles, 30 days between, February 28.
A quaint saying traces to a king who showed that a city’s walls are its people. An ambassador learns the army is the wall. Also notes a tricky English sentence and a game with a feather where players blow it away or pay a forfeit.
A boastful pug in a cartoonish scene challenges all dogs to spar while a cautious Maltae cat replies from a safe perch. The pig invites a ground bout and the cat counters with an offer to spar from the tree, creating a playful animal village moment.
A party game prompts players to trace a chain of facts from the moon to related items. Participants answer briefly about each subject, then link back to the original topic before ten counts end. The round ends with the questioner starting a new chain elsewhere in the circle.
A simple farm method uses a carpenter square and a notch in the beard to level by driving the end into soil. Place the square as shown, suspend a string with a light weight, and the resulting alignment provides a level.
A collection of lighthearted riddles and quips including why hats aren’t felt lightest and the staircase being easiest for lawyers to ascend. It features hacks like drunken men not drowning, a four year old Kenneth celebrating a birthday, and pun filled lines about cats and ships.
A Filipino student argues that rich but idle land in the Philippines can be activated by good roads and diversified farming. He cites irrigation, better transport, and modern tools as drivers of wealth, stability, and national progress, with farmers becoming modern producers.
A historical overview challenges the idea of Manila paper, noting real sources like cogon grass bamboo and hemp waste. It highlights Japan’s extensive paper use from walls to umbrellas and clothing, and estimates hemp waste trading at $25 a ton in the U.S. market. It also details Mitsumata’s role in supplying paper for legal documents and diplomas.
A housekeeper wary of waste shares economical ideas. Peapod soup and peapod salad are prepared from fresh pods, sealed with milk, onion, salt, pepper, and thickened with butter and flour. A sour milk dressing, onion soup, and a clever egg shell reuse for jelly offer extra thrift.
Melt butter and flour in a pan then whisk in milk until thick. Add chopped eggs parsley onion and seasoning. Shape, coat in egg and cracker crumbs, fry light brown. Mix raw beef with grated potato salt and pepper, form cakes, brown, then cover to finish. A beaten egg may be added. Most appetizing and inexpensive.
A compact recipe details steamed brown bread using sour milk molasses sugar and baking soda with white flour graham flour and salt. It suggests adding raisins and steams for about one and a half hours or bakes for three quarters of an hour for a dense loaf.
A practical home recipe describes removing seeds from green peppers and blanching them in boiling water for five minutes. Fill with ground meat or creamed mixture, top with cracker crumbs, bake for about twenty minutes while keeping the pan moist with hot water and light seasoning to prevent sticking.
A concise note describes making potato salad with diced potatoes and chopped vegetables. Use one small cucumber, half a green pepper, all diced and combined to create a crisp, tasty dish suitable for simple gatherings.
A fragmented OCR item mentions Ofcover Midlay and Masia Sheet with telephones and a reference to Atlantic. The readable text is sparse and unclear on dates or actions.
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