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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
5
A historical guide highlights three essentials for good salads dressing ingredients and proper combination. It notes chilling greens before mixing and various dressings and flavors such as maple sirup with malt vinegar. It also suggests using leftovers, nuts, and creative presentations like pineapple shell displays for salads.
A historical notice presents guidance on healthy eating, arguing that necessity teaches people to enjoy nourishing foods without fresh meat. It lists recipes for Egg Soup, Mixed Vegetable Soup, Almond Soup, Lemon Soup, and fruit soups, detailing ingredients and basic preparation to aid housewives in economical, wholesome meals.
Buttermilk is recommended to remove freckles and tan by washing the face and allowing it to dry. It also softens hands and improves complexion. A hot bath is cooler than a tepid one in hot weather. Flax seeds are advised for travel with an eye application for a cinder.
Guidance on dampening clothes for ironing with hot water or a whisk broom kept for the purpose. Sprinkling timing in hot weather, smoothing irons with sprig tips from spruce cedar or hemlock, and avoiding gum transfer. Methods to set colors using alum water or turpentine in water, and alternative salts. Crinkle cloth requires no ironing, as does crepe for dresses and waists.
Lift the flour holding the sieve high to aerate it. Bake baked pastries with baking powder immediately. Chill pastry after mixing for flakiness. Sprinkling cold water before baking aids tenderness. Apple pies need a hot start then slow finish. Use ice water to moisten, and mix briefly. A single pie with two crusts needs flour lard or butter salt and enough water to make a paste.
Classic method uses core and quartered tart apples cooked in a covered dish with sugar syrup. Peel optional for flavor. Sauce strained when tender. apples also suited to stewing with dates and raisins or baking with honey butter or nuts for a decorative dish.
Egg yolks offer multiple uses from angel food leftovers to salad dressing custards and cakes. Begin with careful slow cooking and use yolks in fillings for sandwiches or in delicate cakes with milk butter and seasonings.
Do not eat when fatigued or overheated and avoid bathing the body for an hour after meals. Do not eat excess sugar sweets or starchy foods. Do not be overbearing at mealtime. Do not eat between meals or forget to take a drink of cold water on retiring and first in the morning.
Lenore the green parrot owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDermott caused a comic scene as it rechristened itself Pat Lenore and eluded bath time dramas. The bird, wandering from Lenox Avenue to Manhattan baths, perched on a piano and alarmed several women before being recovered by the McDermotts.
Mayor W. A. Mages orders immediate dismissal of any employee found spooning over city telephones. The city spent about $12,000 in tolls last year on calls by both male and female workers. The ban covers all personal calls during work hours and lunch, with strict prohibition on nonbusiness use of city phones.
Five well dressed Italians from Detroit forced entry at Lemuel Kingsbury's rural Metamora area farmhouse, bound the elderly couple, looted silverware and goods, fled, and left Mrs Kingsbury in a frightened, serious condition after neighbors found them hours later. Ira Vanderlip reported the incident to the authorities.
Deputy Henderson pursues three robbers who are captured then escape. The four Italians later seize Mr and Mrs Kingsbury, taking a large sum including 35 dollars sewn in Mrs Kingsbury’s skirts. The men flee with the loot while others are recaptured in a swamp chase.
A. D. Coleman of Abilene Kansas reports to his brokers that Divine will orders him to ship hogs in two eighty foot double deck cars to the Kansas City stock yards. He previously sent six hogs in two forty foot cars and expects sixty five to seventy hogs per car. Coleman owns a 320 acre farm and rents labor for sixty cents a day, declining higher pay.
Miss Ila Renninger, a bookkeeper in Findlay Ohio, was napping when a large rat bit her left leg above the ankle. Medical attention was sought for the bite reported at the office.
Angela and Edwin navigate poverty and luxury after a pink pearl ring sparks pressure from Angela’s mother. A test of real life prompts Angela to embrace homemaking, garden work, and a simpler country life, culminating in Edwin reclaiming the pink pearl ring as a symbol of love and home.
Captain Louis Stodder of the Revenue Cutter Service sent the original Monitor logbook covering March 9 1862 to the Navy Department for preservation among its historic records. Stodder, who served aboard the Monitor, treasured the log and aged, sought secure long term custody in Brooklyn New York.
The article notes the Cowper Cowles process allows gold coated glass mirrors for auto reflectors improving light and fog penetration. It mentions a new quieter horn design replacing loud shrieks. A rhetorical aside questions why people study political economy as a tool for national improvement, likening it to studying law, to justify economic manipulation.
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