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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1912
Page
10
A London chef promotes paper bag cooking as economical and flavorful. The method saves gas and food cost, improves tenderness, and reduces waste. Instructions include duck roast, puff pastry, and a 1911 copyright note from Turgis & Walton Company.
Martha McCulloch Willlame offers a whimsical guide for hosting a paper bag cooking party for children. The plan details edible bag fillings, decorative bags, and a full menu including hot chocolate, chicken biscuits, sweet potato biscuits, mince turnovers, ice cream sandwich fillings, peanut brown bread sandwiches, cider cup, oyster patties, and fruit cups.
An analysis based on Scott Nearing’s book estimates that many American workers cannot sustain a normal standard of living on $900 annually for a family of five. He reports that three fourths of adult men earn less than $600 and nine tenths less than $800, with women faring worse. The study uses wage data from several states and includes Wisconsin and Illinois reports. A separate note from Roseburg, Oregon, tells of a woman who paid $3 after confessing she once lied to obtain free travel for a child, calling it conscience money.
A London Chronicle note describes a Chiswick bookshop recently changing hands and being modernized. Half the shop is now stationery while old books are cleared with no reasonable offer refused. The writer sought Pepys Diary, but the proprietor touts Lett's editions as superior and the exit is marked by shouts of Insurance coupon and Wages table.
A comic dialogue about a new graduate doctor asked to look after an office on vacation. The senior says the practice is fashionable and instructs to park patients and send them abroad. Also includes Basin Bottling Works ad copy for lithia water at $1.50 per case and a note about Warren Jones being out fishing, needing someone to cut bait.
Notary public notes and bills collected with prompt remittance. Deeds and conveyances drawn and executed. Agent of the Commercial Union Insurance London. The Pennsylvania Fire losses promptly adjusted and paid.
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