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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1910
Page
8
A New York inventor designs a bird game akin to fish pond. Cardboard birds such as robins and sparrows stand in slots with numbers. Hinged wings drop to horizontal when looped, allowing the figure to be lifted by one wing end.
A tale of an Indian who finds a quarter-dollar dropped by his neighbor after returning tobacco. He explains two voices in his heart, a good and a bad man, arguing over whether to keep or return the money. The good man wins, and he returns the found money to its owner.
A playful activity named The Railroad assigns each child a train part such as rails whistle steam or conductor. An adult reads a short story invoking each role. when named, children act out their part. The tale ends with a dramatic collision and a final burst of laughter.
A playful old item presents questions and answers: a boy who eats many apples is called a conundrum. An eavesdropper is described as the icicle. The trade where profit comes only from perseverance is billposting.
Poetic fragment describes a figure named wootdcock permitting merry fiddlers to perform on his bill as a gesture of goodwill. The lines suggest a playful scene with music and public display. No clear event or location is stated.
A feature on the fireless cooker explains its kept heat method inspired by refrigeration. From hay boxes to modern insulated stainless vessels, it preserves juices, tenderizes cheaper cuts, and lets cereals and desserts cook while the kitchen stays cool.
A pencil and paper initials game is outlined where players write Ruth Pitman’s initials R P. Questions are read to yield answers starting with R or P. The process repeats as papers pass, producing amusing and surprising phrases like remarkably patient or raspberry pudding.
A yachtsman docks at Y and must reach L between the clubhouse 900 yards north and L a mile away. He can row 4 mph or walk 5 mph. Find optimal landing point L along the shore to minimize travel time to the station while ensuring he catches the ten minute train.
A home style Lima beans dish uses two pounds of beans soaked with half a teaspoon baking powder, salt, pepper and mustard, two tablespoons olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, half a can tomatoes, one tablespoon chili peppers, half a bay leaf and half the can of water. Cook slowly stirring occasionally. add lean salt pork or ham after boiling begins. the dish is a meal in itself.
Using 1900 data, the New York Mail forecasts 1910 school population at 14,000,000 with 4,266,202 aged five to nine and 6,453,394 aged nine to fourteen. About 12 percent are 15 to 17 and five percent are 18 or older. White children exceed 90 percent. The school army is praised as a national asset.
A simple walnut wafer recipe combining brown sugar walnuts flour soda cream of tartar and salt with two eggs. Mix beaten eggs sugar and sifted flour with soda and cream of tartar then fold in walnuts. Drop spoonfuls on buttered pans and bake until brown. Remove promptly from pans.
Advice to use double layers of drilling or canvas, wet thoroughly, wrap butter in cloth, place on a dish in a cool spot, and rewet the cloth daily to maintain fresh firm butter.
Take slices of fresh ham and place in a dish. Cover with milk and let it stand for an hour or more. Salt settles to the bottom leaving the ham sweet with the right amount of salt for a delicious result.
Slice cold roast beef and spread one side with butter then mustard. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place in a frying pan, add a tablespoon of vinegar and cook until the beef curls.
Article urges readers eyeing land in Central Canada to act now as crop prospects look strongest in years. Immigration to the region surges, railways expand, and land prices rise. government agents offer maps and guidance for homesteading and purchase. An aside jokes about a cat with a bright red ribbon.
The snippet touts Cuticura remedies claiming cure for decades of facial skin humor and pimples with testimonials from H P Keyes in Boston and W J Sadlier in Philadelphia. It also includes a Shaw quote and assorted lines about Painkiller and soothing syrups.
Conquesta quotes a first summer girl bragging she was engaged to men whose names she did not know. A second summer girl counters that she engaged herself last season to a stranger who wig wagged his proposal from a passing yacht.
Keen observers predict a land boom in Wantland Colorado a new town at the center of the Little Snake River Valley with 60000 acres to be irrigated by a major project Land is offered by the State of Colorado at 60 cents per acre with 35 dollars per acre for water rights payable in ten years Sugar factories flour mills and canneries are eyed among possible industries Routt County Colonization Company offers full information 1734 Welton Street Denver Colorado The rest of the note covers a dinner remark by Champ Clark about trusts and anti crust law reflecting a separate aside.
A nurse describes healing an operated leg with Resinol after four weeks of twice daily use. She reports success on children’s facial eruptions and other ointment needs. The testimonial is by Mrs Isadore E Cameron of Augusta Maine.
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