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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
3
Poem urges kind words as small acts with big effect. It describes how loving talk strengthens the weary, lights days in gloom, and helps hearts blossom. The speaker asks readers to tell loved ones they are valued and to share kindness along life’s journey.
In a Berlin letter Flossie reads of a blonde flirtation that unsettles her engagement to a German doctor. Miss Treadway reels with irony as Flossie and Tom’s romance unfolds, then a German trip is proposed to escape the tension and test loyalties.
The article discusses swine breeding for bacon focusing on Tamworths and practical farm choices, stressing that exclusive breed use may be costly and that farmers should choose breeds with solid market demand and efficient feed use. It also notes a farm economy where most Americans work on farms and farm products reach large values. It then covers heaves treatment for horses with medical cautions and feeding regimens, and ends with a brisk sale of well bred stock at public auctions, particularly beef breeds.
Practical notes discuss training saddle horses for farmers, then shift to green poultry feed, and finally outline tips for successful livestock stock sales. The piece emphasizes proper training, quality feed, and professional handling to maximize farm profits.
The article notes industrial progress in the United States with agriculture as a leading feature. It cites fixed capital in agriculture at about 20 billion dollars, four times the investment in manufactures, and states that more than half of the people are involved or affected by this expansion.
Practical guidance for winter farming includes whitewashing smooth barked trees, using a lantern for warmth, removing summer peach quince and apple barb from pruning, oiling harness to deter gnawing, mixing coal ashes salt and clay to seal stove cracks, preventing apple freezing, and keeping geese dry. It advises dry sheds, oats and corn rations, and rotating garden locations every two years to refresh soil with clover and manure.
A traditional pound cake method is outlined with one pound each of butter and flour, one pound powdered sugar, ten eggs, one gill brandy, and 44 teaspoons mace. Cream butter with sugar, whisk eggs until very light, fold in flour and spice, then bake in a moderate oven for about one hour and fifteen minutes.
Onions are peeled and boiled twice with salted water, then wrapped in squares of thick brown paper and baked in a hot oven. After removing wrappers the onions are served with a cream sauce flavored with chopped parsley.
Apricot pudding uses soaked tapioca stirred with apricot juice and sugar. Pour into a dish with apricot pieces, bake thirty minutes, and serve cold with cream or milk sauce.
Hourhound leaves are steeped in boiling water then strained. The infusion is poured over granulated sugar and vinegar and boiled without stirring. Skim off scum, test in cold water for brittleness, then pour into a buttered pan and mark into squares or irregular pieces while hot.
A recipe describes mixing Italian cheese with half a pound of pounded leaf sugar juice from three lemons two tablespoonfuls of white wine and a quart of cream beaten until thick. After twelve hours strain and turn out then varnish with flowers and let dry.
Article offers practical kitchen tips on cooking oysters including pan frying and draining, plus a collection of brief food hints. Topics cover custard timing, flavoring remedies, bread crumb uses, cleaning methods, stain removal, stopper lubrication, garnishing ideas, and egg decorations. Includes practical steps and cautions for home cooks.
Pat Garrett, longtime collector of customs at El Paso and friend of President Roosevelt, visited New York to attend a meeting of the government board of customs appraisers. The 6 foot 4 inch Texan, famed as slayer of Billy the Kid, toured the city and joked with a Cortlandt Street policeman about safety in the big metropolis.
Public testimonial claims over fifty thousand people cured by Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney and urinary issues. A Goshen Indiana retiree, Samuel J. Taylor, cites long suffering and crutch use before a lasting personal cure. Free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. 50 cents per box.
Mrs Parvenu boasts her husband is a model of neatness and taste in all things. She notes he is always seen attempting to scrape dirt from under his fingernails, whether in public or private, as a sign of his fastidiousness.
In a stream of varied anecdotes the text recalls Mrs. Austin's Pancakes and mentions Elias Boudinot as first president of the American Bible Society. It shifts to medical testimonials from Miss Alice Bailey in Atlanta praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for inflammation of the ovaries and relief after surgery was feared.
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