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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
7
Gertrude Dormond proposes a ready maid to order and travels to the city to hire one. Aisha Anna, a poised colored waitress, arrives and flawlessly serves Mrs. Caulkington's luncheon, impressing the guest with faultless service and sparking relief about maid shortages.
A New York bank case recounts a stranger told to sign with his left hand. He did so poorly the first time, then replicated the signature with his left hand a month later, fooling the clerk into paying the claim. The man quips that others are the fools.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent describes a wind driven motor using a vertical axis and four hinged vanes with canvas sails. Variations include rope and pulley restraints, and a chain and sprocket drive to convert wind to rotary motion for pumping water or powering machinery. The piece also covers purebred rams, farm well placement, and home garden and poultry emphasis.
Prof H W Conn finds electricity and ozone from storms do not sour milk. bacteria warm weather before storms likely cause souring. An Ohio farmer reports rye cover crop killed soil germs and yielded clear potato crops after plowing under rye. four years of practice supports the method.
Wood utensils absorb flavors and cannot stay fresh. Wash boards, trays, mortars, and mashers with hot soapsuds, rinse, wipe, and air dry in sun if possible. Do not hot dry wet wood as it warps or cracks. Soak bowls used for fish or meat briefly in hot soda water to prevent flavor transfer. Odors resist simple washing.
A historic collection presents a cherry bavarian cream recipe with gelatine, cream, sugar, vanilla and candied cherries soaked in sherry. It adds lemon uses for stain removal and tooth cleansing, then offers curry oysters, French rolls, barley soup, Alabama beaten biscuit, a dainty crab salad, and eggs cooked at low heat per Good Housekeeping.
German Sauce uses four eggs four tablespoons sugar lemon juice to taste beat whites and yolks separately add sugar to each mix each separately then fold whites into yolks flavor with lemon juice serve with cakes or puddings Graham Griddle Cakes mix sour milk soda salt graham flour to a thick batter bake then rest briefly before serving Orange Fritters batter sweet milk eggs baking powder flour dip orange slices and fry in hot lard
A compilation of local tragedies and events across Indiana reports child burns in Rising Sun a measles disruption in Greenfork school closings deaths at Anderson Earl Park and Fairmount accidents near Windfall and Cowan a Hartford City plant closure and spate of robberies. It notes Carnegie funding for a library in Elkhart with city site and funds commitments and a temperance push in North Manchester. Also covered are pension hurdles for a Cowan widow a gash injuries to farmers and a profit-sharing shift at Terre Haute Gazette plus agricultural outlook and plumbers association actions with patent, and new Indiana inventors.
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