07 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
1
A vintage advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a gentle natural liver and bowel cleanser. It promises relief from constipation without griping or nausea, urging readers to ask their druggist for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna and to look for California Fig Syrup Company on the label.
Borinefield, March 7. More than 50,000 Chicago women are receiving a salary of $5 or less per week, reports to Acting Governor Barrett O'Hara by investigators of the senate white slave commission. The acting governor says many live in furnished rooms and are underfed, often two meals daily of 10 or 15 cents. He notes reliance on cast-off garments and recalls orders to employers to bring payrolls for sworn testimony.
Mrs. Catherine Godfrey, a young widow, was found dead in her New York flat. Police attribute the murder to gangsters. Mrs. Levi Z. Lester, widow of a former Chicago merchant, died at her Washington home of apoplexy. Edgar E. Clark of Iowa was named chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, succeeding Franklin K. Lane.
A compact collection of old style bread recipes describing nut bread and variants baked in small pans or cans. Directions cover sifting flour with baking powder and salt, beating eggs with milk, forming a stiff batter, and baking with staged heat. Includes substitutions and rye additions for sandwich bread.
A 1912 bread recipe describes mixing 144 cups white flour 134 cups graham 34 cup chopped nuts or raisins 114 cups sweet mills then sift flour baking powder salt and sugar three times add graham and nuts, stir to a stiff batter with milk and bake as nut bread. It notes the bread is good for those avoiding white bread or meats and ends with Next Thursday.
Guidance on bread making emphasizes ready materials and proper steps. It notes three key ingredients flour salt and baking powder, thorough mixing, slow baking, and using a covered pan to keep the crust soft. KC Baking Powder is praised for long sustained leavening and gradual rise.
Dry ingredients sifted, egg beaten with milk and melted butter, then combined into a stiff batter. Turn into a biscuit pan, bake in a moderate oven, brush with melted butter, top with sugar and ground cinnamon.
A fragmented instruction describes mixing 11 cup wheat flour with 2 cups corn meal and additives then combining beaten egg with milk and melted fat to form a smooth dough. The batter is baked in a moderate oven after resting the mixture.
President Wilson carried out routine presidential duties in Washington. He met his cabinet, received congratulations from foreign rulers, discussed the administration's legislative program with lawmakers, and declined patronage questions pending his official family’s guidance. House leaders urged him to press for tariff legislation and two appropriation bills at the April 1 special session.
Polk County reports show bills to place all public service corporations under a state commission with rate setting powers. Hearing features objections from telephone, telegraph, water, gas, and railroad interests alongside Iowa city representatives. Senate also moves on woman voting bill and referendum amendment. News notes include Davenport elevators sold, a Palo Alto farmer fatal fire, Rippey adding machine theft, a brakeman killed in Iowa, and a Michigan manslaughter verdict for a Battle Creek case.
Chicago on March 7 Franklin Mac Veagh former secretary of the treasury may be subpoenaed by a special grand jury. The panel sworn by Judge Landis investigates alleged oleo margarine frauds involving a $1,200,000 scheme reduced to $101,100. Investigators seek why he allowed a low tax assessment instead of court action.
Women prominent in national affairs and suffrage councils testified before senate committees about affronts and harassment during last Monday's suffrage parade. They described crowded, harassed progress as police and crowds showed little effort to stop the incidents, with Rear Admiral Van Reypen and George F. Bowerman of the Carnegie Library testifying on police conduct.
The Interstate Farm and Industrial congress opened in St Joseph Missouri with Dr A Ross Hill president of the University of Missouri delivering the address Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri were represented Governor Morehead of Nebraska was elected vice president A F Gabloway of Clarinda Iowa spoke and Mrs Cora Well Mouse Bullard of Tonganoxi Kansas planned to discuss improving the farmer s wife lot
Paris reports the cabinet has submitted a three year military service bill to parliament with a ministry declaration pledging support for France and European peace. Exceptions allow youths from families with six or more children to serve two years. In Washington a life sized bronze bust of James Wilson marks his sixteen years as agriculture secretary upon retirement.
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