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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
3
Jove the man of nerve dares the untried path and builds a hut in a forest clearing. He seeks a simple life and liberty, spurning monarchs and wealth. The future years weave laurels for the pioneers of honest toil.
Nora Waring and her cousins endure a deadly India themed trap to claim a will’s fortune. Cobras spring from a carved box as Lal Singh frees them, and a letter reveals the test set by James Waring. Harold Waring survives after a staged peril, while George Vardon collapses with shame.
The population of the dependencies of France is 56,000,000.
An Iowa Homestead correspondent discusses a practical iron kettle stand built from a bent wagon tire ring welded to legs. The article promotes wooden leg placement to avoid sinking, riveted or welded joints, and notes a twelve inch leg height. It also ties sanitation, feeding roots, and proper housing to swine cholera prevention and claims the device enables on-farm water heating and lard rendering.
The article argues for concentrated cultivation on smaller plots to boost yields and efficiency, noting that doubling yield is possible by focusing on ten acres. It stresses crop rotation, manure use, and intensive culture, then shifts to animal feeding, milk production, and feed mixes, urging cost consideration and balanced rations. It includes notes on sheep handling and hog root crops as cholera prevention debates.
The article notes shredded corn stover is increasingly sold in markets where stock feed is bought. Farmers near markets can bale stover themselves if properly cured, preferably in the shock then finished in the barn. A market exists where hay shortages arise and care is needed to prevent sweating before baling.
Advice from Farm and Home discusses selecting breeding stock from early hatches and health, selling largest turkeys while retaining inferior stock for breeders, and moderate feeding for quality. It covers horse care including baths to prevent galled shoulders, fertility and price dynamics, seed corn storage, shed layout, manure science, soil conditions, crop planning, mulching potatoes, and straw pests.
The article describes a white cake with a rich middle layer to create a ribbon cake. It suggests dividing the batter into three parts, baking two 3-inch layers, and adding a third with raisins currants citron molasses brandy and spice before stacking and icing to form a large cake.
Wash one fourth pound tapioca in cold water then cook gently with enough water to two inches above it. If water dries add cold water gradually. When grains show tiny white particles add one pint fruit juice or syrup. Cool in a jelly bowl on ice and sweeten if needed.
Curried mushrooms mix veal or chicken with coarse chopped mushrooms and curry sauce, simmer five minutes, finish with lemon juice. Also sour milk gingerbread, cranberry sauce, hot potato salad with bacon, vanilla wafers, and steamed pudding with raisin notes. Chicago Daily News recipes.
Start biscuit dough rising the minute it enters the oven. Keep bread oven hot at first, then let heat drop. Do not add salt to soup until skimmed to avoid silencing scum. Grate nutmeg from the blossom end for ease. Do not soak fresh fish in water. Store fish cool, not on artificial ice.
Bristow reports years of postal graft and misused contracts but promises reform. He urges an appropriation for inspectors lookouts, tighter controls on contracts, and bonds for postal staff. Estimated 1904 to 1905 costs total about 13.5 million for rural deliveries and 47 million for city and rural service.
Fred Strube of Topeka Illinois was arrested in Macon Missouri by Chief James Woods. He confessed to murdering Miss Alice Henninger after a night of jealousy, detailing the crime near Taguna and the disposal of the body before fleeing to Missouri and returning to Illinois for imprisonment in Springfield.
Opinion fragments mock current affairs from beef prices to Panama policies. The author riffs on Smoot, rioters, green hair, cures for consumption, and a dim view of steel stocks and theatrical years in New York.
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