09 Mar 1909
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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1909
Page
1
A reflective piece contrasts old and modern living through anecdotes on prize dishes, card-playing luck, and changes in food costs and habits. It surveys cookery books, shifts in tea and coffee access, and England versus America kitchen economies, ending with humorous blessings on kitchen tricks and frugal fare.
A humorous tale about Tim, newly prosperous and invited to a dinner, whose poor table manners annoy guests as he fails to keep peas on his knife. The vignette contrasts refined hosts with Tim's blunt appetite at a fashionable function. Also includes a recipe fragment for Potato Bisque using oysters, rice, stock, butter, eggs, cream, and optional white wine.
A recipe describes preparing a pineapple by cutting the base, hollowing the fruit, shredding the pulp, sugar coating it, and placing the top back on the shell. The fruit should be prepared just before serving, with the sugar reserved until the last minute.
An oriental cook living in Chicago who recently embraced Christianity created an ornate cake for a festival. In a display of zeal, he added a pink sugar device reading Prepare to meet thy God, a bold message on the confection during the event.
The note explains how to frost cake evenly when warm, with a two minute oven finish if uneven. It traces the name John ny cake to Journey cake, popular in pioneers for cornmeal based meals. A recipe uses soda, cream of tartar, sugar, egg, milk, cornmeal, flour and salt, baking about 20 minutes. It asks how much a quartern of flour weighs, answered as three and a half pounds.
The excerpt defines Samp as a corn-based dish borrowed from American aborigines, made from maize broken or bruised, boiled, and eaten with milk, presenting a midway form between hominy and mush.
A verse fragment shows Sue stirring batter while a Quaker grandmother notes the need for a husband to stir and a lull in love. The piece shifts to unrelated items about a London book on finances for women, a hollerette kitchen utensil, and a Bain-Marie used to keep foods hot.
The text explains the difference between bannocks and brose, noting brose is oatmeal stirred into boiling water, while bannocks are a baked oat cake. It also gives a tip on beef cooking to avoid toughness, advising gentle simmering after a light boil.
The article reports railroads expanding apprenticeships with compulsory night classes, three year curricula in arithmetic mechanics and drawing, and library support. Oregon Short Line and Cheyenne shops run programs with time credits speeding journeyman status. Apprentices earn wages during training and are gradually placed as brakemen or skilled mechanics, reflecting proven efficiency gains and long term labor quality.
Conductor George D. Porter of the Jersey Central rushed across tracks and a station platform with a dinner pall lantern cap and a red tin dickey box when a switch engine struck his legs. Providence supposedly intervened letting him leap to the platform unhurt, though his lunch was scattered as Porter and the engineer argued over the lost meal.
In a near disaster at Barnetby near Grimsby a light engine ran onto the main line ahead of the Great Central Continental boat express. Due to signal error both trains collided lightly with buffers smashed and no passengers injured.
The Great Western railroad of England runs three daily London to Exeter expresses covering 173 23 miles in three hours at just under 68 mph. A fourth nonstop service averages 56 1 3 mph. Trainloads back of the tender and expresses often reach four sixths ton.
Robert J. Zorge, Chicago board of trade member, unveiled a railroad safety device in New Durham New Jersey. Installed on block No 8 near Weehawken tunnel, the machine deploys torpedoes on the track when a following train closes in, using a wheel with twenty spokes and a three circuit system to trigger detonation and warn engineers.
On a fast Riviera Express between Chalon and Fontaines an enormous eagle attacked conductor Lecourt. The bird smashed a compartment window, mauled Lecourt until he knocked it down and tied it. Lecourt boasts the eagle’s six foot wingspan as a captive.
The Clover Bar bridge of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway features four all concrete piers in Canada, possibly the world’s largest. Two piers stand about 140 feet tall with the others seven feet shorter, and the 1,660 foot span reaches from abutment to abutment. Piers extend 40 feet below water, built in midwinter with heated housing and steam pipes to keep concrete warm until setting.
Reading from the car, a four mile Tara desert section shows patches of dry grass and thorny copses between Maberas and Voi. Wildlife includes gazelle herds of up to two hundred, plus rhinoceros, jackals, hyenas, leopards, and lions. Hunting licenses cost about 250 dollars and limits on numbers reduce the hunting pressure.
The Maine Central Railroad tests an electric headlight powered by a turbine driven generator atop the boiler. The note hints that mines furnish railroad freight, and asserts that over half the freight tonnage nationwide comes from mine products.
Jack Allerton stalks a burglar in Estelle Williams’s house after night patrols and a prankish chase ends with the would-be thief forced to flee. Estelle forgives the risk and Jack finally asks her to marry him, amid a witty interlude from the intruder.
Decoration worthily bestowed for the New Year included the name Louis Bozy a young Paris physician who lost an eye in the line of duty while assisting in an operation. He faced a choice to treat his eye or stay at his post and saved the operation. Fallieres said a physician wounded in duty is as honorable as a battlefield wound.
Illustrated visiting cards introduced in Munich last year under royal patronage have not gained popularity. A Berlin paper notes many converts, more elaborate designs appear on cards of lesser-known painters, while those with no standing also use conspicuous pasteboards. The plain modest card may be unsurpassed. Each card reflects the owner's character as much as the illustrated version.
A Lancet China correspondent reports Canton police issued 20 000 wooden licenses ten by eight by three fifths of an inch to opium smokers. Front lists name address and permitted daily quantity. back shows regulations. Users must display boards when buying opium. no concealment. Next year licenses will be two feet by one and a half.
A summary contrasts the loftiest mountain peak at five and a half miles with the deepest ocean depth of six miles, noting the vast vertical scales separating land and sea.
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