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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
6
Three cups sugar and two cups cold water with a pinch of cream of tartar are boiled to a putty like ball. Add beaten egg white and gum arabic dissolved in water, mix until cool. Use now or keep a month. Rewarm in hot water and beat to spread on cake.
A former secretary recalls wealthy New York women who cheat duties with false-bottomed trunks and worn patterns. They fashion approvals for goods to clone designs at low cost, while duping shopkeepers and saddling tradesmen with losses as fashion dictates.
A plan describes a long wire fodder rack with Bet posts six or eight feet high and two rows five feet apart. It explains framing, spike scantling, No 14 wire bracing, and topping with straw or roof boards. The section also covers simple hotbeds built from inch lumber frames sloped to front for easy manure pit use.
The guide suggests layering saree fabric with garden soil over a glass sash to create a seed bed. It notes heat buildup, seed sowing after warmth, and the need for ventilation water and protection with old bags or carpets at night during cold springs.
The United States Bureau of Labor compares output in barley and oats showing dramatic drops in hours needed with machinery. Seventy years ago barley required 911.94 hours for 100 bushels and oats 266 hours for 160 bushels. today 9.04 and 28.39 hours respectively. Farming shifts from drudgery to employment for the intelligent man.
Experts warn phosphorus supplies may run out within two years under current farming methods. Dean Waters calls for a new efficient system that preserves soil fertility while maintaining crop value. Also guidance on hedges trimming timing and techniques for evergreens and deciduous plants.
Experience warns against overuse of lime. 25 bushels per acre suffices on sandy soils and up to 75 bushels on heavy soils to correct soil acidity. Litmus tests can mislead due to soil chemicals producing similar color changes.
A new pole bean variety promises high yields for market gardeners in good or bad seasons. Pods are long and tender with decent size, good green or shelled when ripe. While quality was fair in a single season, the crop’s strong compatibility with early markets makes it worth general testing.
A correspondent details removing a stump using an inch auger to bore a hole, filling with oil of vitriol and sealing it, rotting the stump in six months. An Iowa farmer improved corn yields from 65 to 128 bushels per acre after selecting seed for eight acres, surpassing his usual 65 bushels on other fields.
To save meat chop fine any bits of meat chicken pork veal or other leftovers. Mix with chopped cold eggs add beaten eggs if needed pinch of salt and pepper plus milk and cracker crumbs. Shape into croquettes and fry in hot lard or make balls and fry in half butter half lard.
Soak a quart of beans overnight in cold water then two hours in warm water. Drain and simmer until tender. Place in a deep bake dish with salt pork in the center. Add the bean water, molasses, and French mustard. Bake covered at least six hours.
Instructions describe drawing squabs and removing heads and feet, splitting along the back, cleaning the bodies, laying open on a gridiron, broiling over clear fire while turning, then serving on buttered toast with butter, salt, and pepper.
Slice six red chillies and simmer in boiling water until tender. Scrape pulp into the water. Cut two pounds of steak, brown in butter, then stir in flour. Pour chili water back, season with garlic and thyme, and simmer until meat is tender and gravy thick.
Instructions describe mixing flour salt and baking powder with milk eggs and melted shortening. The batter is beaten, then portioned into greased muffin tins and baked in a hot oven.
Advice on bread storage suggests keeping bread in a closed tin box or in paper bags hung in the pantry. To use, brush off flour, wipe with a damp cloth, then bake about five minutes in a hot oven for freshness.
A note explains that thin glass resists cracking when exposed to boiling water by allowing heat to pass through quickly. Placing a teaspoon in a tumbler before pouring boiling water often prevents cracks, particularly when the water is added slowly.
A large car with four supposed city gentlemen stopped near Bridgton Maine to mock a gray haired farmer mowing by the roadside. The driver asked if he had lived there all his life, and the farmer replied he had not yet, before the car drove away.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railway announces a Seeing America First tour with round trip tickets to Pacific Coast points at 75 dollars from Chicago. Tickets are valid on fast limited trains daily June 1 to September 18 with stopovers and conveniences. The tourist movement to the Pacific Coast for the coming season is expected to grow significantly.
Martin Holts, an American ex-railroad conductor near Victoria Mexico, runs a parrot ranch hosting several thousand birds. He bred multilingual classes teaching English Spanish German and French, with educated parrots conversing for up to thirty minutes and selling birds to tourists and buyers in the Americas.
Mrs J W McLean of Dawson Yukon territory and former New London resident is visiting her daughter in Hartford. A ninety-eighter, she joined her brother Dr John R Hamilton and built a thriving business in Dawson including a restaurant and general store. She later acquired valuable claims and survived the 1899 fire, returning to the United States with husband John W McLean. Dawson winter population is about 3000, summer about 5000, with two-bit coins circulating.
The article claims Japanese people sustain themselves on vegetables and dried fish and argues this diet contributes to battlefield courage. It suggests vegetarians would be driven to heroism by their limited fare, framing the diet as a source of valor.
A fragment notes Col. Gunn dropped by last week and described an indistinct recollection of having taken a drink too much. The passage preserves terse dialogue with names and casual admission without further context.
A public exchange over coffee health risks cites one in three drinkers with chronic illness and promotes Postum Food Coffee as a safer alternative. The argument urges readers to test coffee by abstaining ten days and notes Postum and Grape-Nuts as pure products with proven formulas and health benefits.
Wash lemons in lukewarm water before grating. The fruit’s exterior may harbor tiny black specks, the eggs of an insect, revealed under a microscope.
Rinse pans with cold water before adding milk to prevent scorching. Use milk in mustard to prevent quick drying. Clean copper kettles with lemon and salt, rinse, polish. Pudding bags sewn from jeans grease well and are floured before use. If soup is oversalted, drop in a raw potato to absorb salt. To remove grease on matting, cover with French chalk, spray benzine, let it evaporate, then brush away chalk.
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