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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
8
A bemused housewife accuses a grocer’s clerk of selling adulterated foods. The clerk responds with puns about near butter near lard near honey and near heaven as he ejects her from the prunes in this Judge cartoon style exchange.
A burglar pockets scattered jewelry awakening sleepers and demands diamond earbobs. The thief learns the dwelling belonged to Professor Presto the magician, who had replaced real earbobs with glass imitations, thwarting the crime.
A brief quip about puns and patience appears in a household vignette. Mr Potter tries to read aloud to his practical wife and struggles with a pun that lands as a simple autumn day closing. The anecdote reflects deadpan humor and social tone.
A person recalls receiving 100 dollars each birthday from their father since turning 21 and saving every cent. They ask, "How many thousand dollars have you got in the bank?" prompting a tense exchange about money saved and financial transparency.
A reader in the newspaper piece is reading a pamphlet about predigerated food while waiting for a breakfast. He asks no questions, then orders pork chops tomatoes and hot waffles. He is not frightened and simply seeks more food.
In a wartime voice a reader notes that war with Japan seems imminent and expresses alarm at rumors while another quips that they would switch magazines, highlighting homefront humor amid rising tensions.
In a lighthearted note, a couple discusses a rent increase, with the tenant expressing mixed feelings about the landlord’s decision while maintaining a hopeful tone about staying. The brief captures domestic humor and housing concerns.
Harri son Hawgood describes a planned invention to wear in the ear that would let a rider on a trolley or public conveyance travel without hearing neighboring conversations. Mrs Hawgood questions why one would not wish to hear others.
A humorous cartoon caption critiques clergy and women's suffrage. A minister debates with a woman about women voting, claiming it might turn them masculine, while the woman counters with a wry remark about clergy. The piece plays on gender and church roles in a lighthearted newspaper cartoon tone.
In Bullian’s private office Holmes and Watson await his return from lynch. Holmes notes the financier’s odd aversion to a plain man who owns a photo of his middle-aged wife on his desk, prompting questions about hidden relations.
A corporate president and the vice president discuss how far the company can push actions without risking arrest. The dialogue hints at questionable practices and a strain between amoral ambition and moral restraint, with one urging to quit big business for Sunday school.
A Western scene recalls two eow punchers in a scientific scrap at Bad Bucko's yesterday. An eastern tourist notes how cool the fighters stayed under pressure and jokes their funerals are not yet due.
In a terse exchange the Judge discloses hiring two maids from an intelligence office. Sububs counters with a restraint, noting one maid arrives Monday and the other a week later, predicting No. 1 will soon depart. The dialogue implies a limited, ordered approach to domestic staffing.
A theater crowd witnessed a head on collision between a lady exiting and an obtruding gas jet. Her elaborate coiffure was wrecked, the event blamed on a misplaced switch.
A brief, humorous exchange about checking a hat’s alignment ends with a breezy farewell. The dialogue plays on appearances and gendered remarks, delivering a light, period voice.
Discusses controlling oven temperature for different cakes loaf versus thin cakes. Describes checking rising, browning, and overall bake time quarters. Provides step by step methods for butter cake, fruit cake, and sponge cake mixtures to ensure light textures and avoid failures.
Turpentine removes tar from fabrics. To remove iron rust on white foods, moisten with cream of tartar and soak, simmer, rinse. Milk cleans linoleum. waxed or painted shelves ease cleaning. To clean a dirty bottle, mix slack coal with water, shake, rinse. Sweep carpets, dampen broom to refresh old fibers. Glass shelving and washable walls aid maintenance.
A simple recipe for strawberry puffs uses cream puff shells filled with crushed sweetened strawberries. Prepare a boiling mixture of water or milk, butter, then stir in flour and cook until smooth. Add eggs, beat, bake, and finish with a strawberry icing.
An expert in Pepper Fashion notes fickle trends at today’s table. Guests now flavor dishes with small pepper frames featuring Cayenne Nepaul Aji Hungarian paprika and Chile powder. The up to date person aims to be a pepper expert.
A simple recipe lists two and a half cups sugar and two cups molasses combined with one tablespoon each of ginger cloves and cinnamon. Boil then cool, stir in four eggs and one tablespoon soda, add flour to roll out the next day, bake in a moderate oven.
A plan uses a horizontal pipe with funnels hung across a room. Flies entering near the window are sucked into the funnel, while a bread and molasses bait on the table entices others toward the second funnel. Valves seal when the vacuum is off and traps are immersed to kill.
A humorous scene shows two figures chasing a fly through a home. They panic as furniture, dishes, and glass shatter in their frantic pursuit, ultimately leaving the room in disarray while the fly escapes.
This article outlines a domestic cleaning method using dusting sheets or cloths, damp tea leaves, and careful preparation. It recommends protective dress, clearing small items, dusting, covering furniture, removing rugs, and sweeping from corners to center to keep dust contained.
Prepare sprouts by removing outer leaves after soaking then place in a casserole with stock and butter. For a quart of sprouts use one cup stock and about one rounding tablespoon butter. Cook until tender, uncover, season, add butter if needed, and serve without sauce. Salt near the end. Cooking time ranges from ten to forty minutes more than stove cooking.
Clean and prepare vegetables such as potatoes onions turnips carrots peas and beans. Simmer with stock and sweet herbs until tender then mash. Stir in a paste of melted butter and flour, add beaten eggs with milk, reheat without boiling, and serve with buttered toast.
A vivid description of a St Louis sign reading Hellrung & Grimm dominates thoughts with a Dantean, Poe-like cadence. The author warns the ominous combination will linger, whisper, and clatter in the brain, comparing its effect to bells, dishpans, and eerie rhymes that tempt grim rhythm and dread.
A footpad assaults a late passerby and demands money or life. The Admitted victim explains he is an editor, prompting a gentlemanly thief to apologize and offer a nickel for streetcar fare home. Moral: in darkness even editors may resemble millionaires.
Two eggs beaten and folded into a cup with sweet cream. Rich milk may be used. Pour into a frying bowl add one cup sugar one fourth cup flour one teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt. Beat well and bake in a moderate oven.
A poorly dressed man laments to a salesman that his son, inspired by a rich neighbor’s boy, desires an automobile for the Fourth of July. The salesman responds with a practical alternative, suggesting a dollar’s worth of firecrackers, noting the doctor’s bill would be similar.
A compact recipe fragment lists ingredients for Harrison cake: two eggs, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, half cup tailk, half cup butter, one teaspoon soda, assorted spices, and two and a half cups flour. It reflects a traditional baked good from historical cookery.
A short dialogue shows Wilbur asking if contention means lying contentedly. The father replies that it does for some people, while applying arica to bruises from kitchen utensils, implying a rough domestic scene.
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