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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1912
Page
2
The excerpt presents anecdotes about John Wesley and General Oglethorpe, including Wesley’s retort about forgiveness, travels in Cornwall, and journal mentions of Michael Fenwick. It notes Wesley urging earnest preaching, avoiding loudness, and requesting reproach if he swears during a long stagecoach journey with a profane officer.
A collection of quips on luck, love, politics, and self knowledge. Observations include the idea that success is luck and that familiarity affects self awareness, with jibes about age, marriage, and fashion, all in a light humorous tone.
A set of wry aphorisms on divorce, money, service, politics, fashion, and gender. The author muses that wealth, appearances, and bravado mislead, while life aboard an ocean voyage reveals true character. The piece playfully skewers social norms and human quirks with witty maxims.
A fragment recalls an owl remark about people who speak plainly and honestly. It hints at a belief that speaking one's mind is more common than claimed, suggesting a critique of coded or evasive speech.
A historical guide to beefsteak pudding and variants, including a beefsteak and kidney pudding. It details preparation steps, ingredients, and cooking times, plus a Yorkshire style veal pie and English potato soups. Also mentions beef dishes favored by readers and a breakfast VAnglaise with breaded sausages.
A tomato salad masterclass outlines essential steps for best flavor: keep ingredients icy cold, skin tomatoes carefully, and marinate before use. Directions include blanching hints, slicing in sections, and serving on lettuce with varied fillings from peas to shrimp, ham, and anchovies.
Wash and quarter young carrots then boil ten minutes. Toss in butter with flour salt pepper sugar and stock for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, cool slightly. Beat two egg yolks into cream and stir in, cook gently until thickened without boiling. Serve hot with minced parsley.
Instructions describe boiling rice and forming dumplings with butter sugar eggs and spices, served with a custard sauce. Also covers rice pudding with wine raisins currants citron and cream baked in moderate heat. A rice meringue dish uses milk egg yolks sugar nutmeg and optional lemon or vanilla then baked and topped with browned meringue.
The article shares two practical dishes. Potato Eggs-Roast uses baked potatoes mashed with butter salt and pepper and egg whites then filled into potato skins and browned. Gingerbread combines treacle butter flour sugar ginger mixed spice and soda formed into a batter and baked in a shallow tin.
A Victorian style recipe yields six deviled oysters per skewer. Oysters are parboiled, wrapped in bacon brushed with English mustard and Worcestershire, then broiled to a brown finish. Served on toast with lemon and parsley butter.
A fragmented recipe lists ingredients for doughnuts: a cup of sugar, mashed potatoes, flour, half cup, butter, and a teaspoon. The text is incomplete but indicates a traditional doughnut mix.
Household tip outlines simple care for exterior paint such as window sashes doors and railings. Wash with tepid water and a touch of parafin, then apply a home made furniture polish and rub to preserve beauty and life. For severely worn paint oxalic acid wash is suggested though strenuous.
Four small eggplants boil until tender then halve and scoop out interiors. Mix with one egg minced bacon chopped shrimp salt pepper and bread crumbs plus butter. fill skins and bake until brown.
Fragments describe mixing canned corn eggs melted butter salt cayenne pepper baking powder and flour to make a batter. Instructions appear incomplete with several typos and a note about wake a drop that is. Likely part of a larger clipping for a corn batter preparation.
The report covers receipts and disbursements by the Town Treasurer for April 1 1911 to March 31 1912 across funds including General Fund Improvement Fund Water Works Fund and City Bond Fund. It itemizes balances transfers warrants paid and outstanding debts with amounts tied to Ray Adsit Co county treasurer and local officials Moses Mummert and A Fraser among others.
The report shows receipts from county treasurer water rent gas rent fines and licenses and transfers from grading and improvement funds. It lists outstanding warrants water bonds and indebtedness as of April 1 1912 and notes a potential shortage if unpaid. Balance and transactions through April 6 1912 are itemized.
Hilda Gellert daughter of Mr and Mrs Theo Gellert died in a peculiar accident at a school three miles east of town yesterday afternoon. While returning from school with Miss Grace Winters and other children, she climbed through a broken east window using cement blocks to enter the building. the window frame fell, injuring her fatally. Albert and Anton Holengren of Gaiva found her and transported her to J P Adams’ home nearby where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.
The report lists pupils not absent or tardy for the month ending March 29 across rooms I and III and the high school. Names include Lewis Daniele Arie DeVries Ernest Baumann Arleen Dingman Effie Bischel Hazel Holmes Wendell Dawson Wayne Mahoney Irwin Stutz Celestine Dawson Muriel Welch Ruth Paulson Hazel Waddell William Tuttle Helen Carlberg Margaret Eddy Theressa DeVries Wesley Nelson Percy Clover Ronald Rice Clara Paulson Pearl Hines Charles Everett Raymond Nelson Garland Mahoney Helmer Baumann Howard Deyloff Lewis Miller Willie Johns Ruth Rice Lois Neville Bertha Tuttle Paul Rice Maurice Eddy Cathryn Stutz Hazel Lamm George Puffett Stella Wieland Opal Paulson Rosalie Garber George Nelson Dewey Deyloff Donald Johns Delia Paulson Eurella Waddell Mamie Miller Claire Stutz Corneal Clover Bertha Overing Ivens Striker Agnes Russell Walter Bischel Martha Bischel Doris Baumann Ruth ONeal Glen Parker Clyde Mummert Byron Sweet Felicia Hines Opal Green Ray Parrott Laurene Rice Read Mahoney Cora Clover Elsie Nelson Glenn Nelson Ella Baumann Leland Dawson Opal Overing John Rosenbrook Harry Crepps Oran Parrott Walter Peterson Lucile Green Reginald Maltby Manley Dawson Grace Johns Herbert Will Harry Miller Inez Coombs Lola Stutz Mildred Puffett Edith Russell Neil Whitney Floyd Clymens Fayette Bailey John Mummert Florence Russell Lawrence Butterfield.
A humorous dialogue depicts a suitor trying to charm Angelena’s father Mr Oldman. The exchange clarifies property lines with references to a grove, a stone wall, a creek, and a State Road. Angelena’s father rejects the match.
The poem depicts a careless jay who delays a life insurance and a will. He dies before the morrow, leaving a widow to toil to raise their children. Lawyers seize the assets while the family struggles, warning that tomorrow can wreck many lives.
A young writer discusses the power of a pure minded girl to steer young men toward moral behavior. She argues many girls do not use their influence, while a few consciously guide peers to stay on the straight and narrow, hoping to shape conduct through example.
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