01 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
1
Mr Stubbs, shy boss, hides a gift box for Violet the stenographer on a quiet morning. The violet box sparks birthday intrigue, rumors, and a charming lunch confessing love. Violet reveals affection for Stubbs and a plan to marry, ending in a heartfelt proposal in a taxi.
In Vienna Frau Selma Kurz the opera singer hires Prof. Leopold Harvurtz the court painter to paint her portrait after a friend’s introduction. After 80 sittings the artist keeps the portrait and Kurz is given $400 by mistake, then the painter offers $80 for 40 sittings as payment.
Eben Drayton comments on the academy's new principal, saying he may be decent as a man but a poor teacher. He mocks the principal's ignorance about local geography and compass points, predicting trouble if trustees see his flaws. The quote appears in Youth's Companion.
The dialogue reveals Wigwag collecting a $20 debt from Borrowell, owed for ten years, highlighting a minor antique-related financial settlement between the two individuals. The brief exchange underscores a long-standing owed amount finally settled.
A new aerial gun designed by Lieut. Riley Scott aims to hurl explosive bombs from airplanes with automatic corrections for speed wind and altitude. Tests by Curtiss and Moisant showcase aiming aids a compass like sight and a stop watch determining plane speed. The device drops bombs instantly with no shock to the gun, promising a decisive future in aerial warfare.
London report notes Canon Jessopp invites young curates to obtain his vast stock of almost 20000 old sermons. He promises bundles of sermons useful to preachers, with a condition they read each sermon aloud twice before preaching it themselves.
Darien Connecticut resident Chester A Williams was fined 17 46 for opening a car muffler to push a bill up a hill. An itemized court statement lists charges including complaint grand juror warrant subpoena court officers fees bond copying record continuation and witness fees totaling the sum. Members of the American Automobile association are urged to compare Derien’s bill with their own muffler related costs.
A barefoot, sleeping young woman in Brooklyn wandered Nostrand avenue in the rain and mud between car tracks and the curb. Passengers on a street car stared as she was wrapped in coats and awakened. She identified herself as Sophie Michaels, 22, of 206 Lee Avenue. a policeman returned her home to shocked parents.
Denver reports the Casa Grande near Florence Ariz has been restored and braced with bricks, with a corrugated iron roof added to preserve the ancient structure. The 43 by 69 foot single building stood about 25 feet high, built of cajon molded clay, not adobe, and dates to the late mission era discovered by Father Kino in 1694.
A 100 pound Hubbard squash was brought to Winter by Roy Van Alstine from a farm in southern Sawyer County. The fruit measures twenty inches through the center and thirty inches long.
Berlin notes a growing interest in neckties as a sign of prosperity. A Teutonic clothing philosopher advises men to choose ties by personal taste, avoid female influences, select first class material, wear a different tie daily, ensure harmony with clothes, and tie carefully without a neck rope effect or pins.
Terre Haute Indiana reports a quirky tale as John Zenor of Rowling, Green received a love note written on an egg ten years ago. The message invited marriage and prompted a reply from a Brooklyn woman who now seeks to start a Cupid correspondence. Zenor plans to keep the egg letter in cold storage.
A collection of salad recipes including Alabama Salad with onions cucumbers sour cream and vinegar served on lettuce, Southern Potato Salad with potatoes onions salt and French dressing, and Southern Salad combining chicken potatoes onion celery peppers and mayonnaise over lettuce.
Practical household guidance covers avoiding salt with milk dishes and fish, whitening silk gloves with cool water and bluing, polishing marble with ammonia, and using borax in rinse water for laundry. It also suggests stirring milk into boiled fillings and using parf in oil to remove woodwork fingerprints.
A note from an exchange suggests adding a pinch of dry mustard to the butter used on ham sandwiches for a better flavor. It adds that dressing salad with corned beef hash improves taste, and stresses using tender meat and proper moisture for hash and custard. For custard, scald milk before mixing and baking to keep it smooth.
A recipe for orange custard tarts uses butter sugar egg yolks cream puff paste and orange zest and juice. Mix butter and sugar then yolks add orange rind and juice, cream, and combine, fill patty pans, bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
A recipe describes chopping cold mutton with red pickled cabbage or beet, seasoning with salt pepper oil and vinegar, adding chopped hard boiled egg, moistening with apple jelly and filling small molds. After firming turn out on a dish, garnish with stuffed olives lard rings eggs aspic jelly and nerve.
Pare and quarter six large apples core and place on the fire with water until softened. Stir in sugar lemon juice and rind beat in egg yolks then mix with apples. Bake in custard cups and serve with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry garnish.
The article advises preserving fresh butter by forming two or three pound rolls, wrapping them in fresh cloths, and storing them in a large jar of strong brine. Ensure the butter is fully covered with the brine to keep from early spring until September.
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