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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
3
A nostalgic verse from the Washington Star recalls a mother soothing a child with calm words Sonny never mind. The speaker laments age and distance seeking maternal comfort and memory through the familiar refrain, a motif of care and reassurance.
Mrs Larch and neighbors cheerfully welcomed Harrison, a well-off bachelor, to Arabia Cottage. He entertained hopes of marrying Isabel Evesmore, but a mysterious note and his sudden disappearance reveal the suitor vanished after last night’s ball, leaving Miss Evesmore’s prospects in doubt.
An Ohio justice of the peace, sought for a legal question, replies with witty reluctance. He notes his time is valuable due to corn cutting, politics, and bass fishing, asking for a dollar to stimulate a reply after paying a lawyer two dollars for a simple answer.
A Baltimore American fragment recalls a remark about a husband claiming strength to quell a riot at a political meeting, while at home he is described as too weak to handle a carpet. The piece also notes that Lisay-men are always willing to work.
Instructions describe a simple air shaft ventilation system for small farm buildings and advise on growing black raspberries. It covers shaft construction, placement, wiring nets to exclude animals, and seasonal use. It also discusses soil, drainage, fertilization, exposure, and propagation by tip layering with pruning guidance.
A vintage gardening tip suggests viessing cucumbers on tar rels old sugar barrel halves. Saw barrels in two to make planters twelve feet apart, drive a center strike, fill with manure, plant four hills of cucumbers inside each barrel and build a letter ll trellis from laths. Vines run over barrels for an attractive setup, with best yields if vines are soaked during dry spells.
Instructions describe making a filing jaw for a two piece boards setup using a Cress-Cet saw. It covers cutting boards, shaping with a billy edge, placing six inch hinges, marking hinge thickness, attaching hinges to both boards, adding legs from 2x4s, bracing with a cross strip, mounting the jaw, and tightening by pulling on legs to secure the saw for filing.
The item combines a garden roller with a marker feature. Bore holes eight inches apart lengthwise and insert components to mark rows as the roller operates. This attachment likely aids in simple planting alignment and seed row creation.
The guide describes making pins from a roller and marker to mark garden rows by driving pins into holes beside rope ends. Use more than one row of holes to vary spacing and tack strips lengthwise along the roller to mark planting positions.
The article advises bees need clean drinking water and explains hives can be opened for inspection without disturbing the colony. It notes honey price ranges 12 to 20 cents per pound and a good hive yields about 75 pounds annually, offering strong first season returns. It cites 1900 US beekeeping capital at $10,186,000 and honey crop proceeds of $6,665,000, a 65 percent return on investment.
The Bureau of Plant Industry conducts extensive seed tests this spring amid reports of adulteration. Special focus is on alfalfa seed for fodder, with many seeds examined for purity while germination testing receives less attention. Farmers can and should engage more in seed germination checks.
Recent gains in traction engines and gang plows are transforming soil breaking on large western farms. Some setups plow and harrow in one pass. A drill can be hitched behind the barrow to seed a grain crop overnight after a barren field is cleared in the morning.
Boil and drain a quarter pound of macaroni about twenty minutes. Line a pie dish with half, layer tomatoes two eggs onions cheese and seasonings, add mushrooms or mashed potato, mix a tomato liquor sauce with flour mustard and ketchup, pour over, top with breadcrumbs and remaining macaroni, bake an hour.
Three large potatoes are boiled five minutes then simmered in boiling water with onion celery or celery seed and bay leaf. The potatoes are pressed through a colander, milk is added, butter and flour are cooked in, seasoned and sieved then reheated and served.
Take a large haddock wash dry remove fins and tail keep head. Prepare stuffing from two ounces suet two tablespoons bread crumbs one dessert spoon parsley or mixed herbs one egg salt pepper. Mix, pack into fish sew slit. Place in greased tin baste with egg or silk. Sprinkle breadcrumbs bake three quarters of an hour in a moderate oven, basting occasionally.
Step by step home baking directions describe mixing salt and flour to form a dough, beating, and first rise in a warm place. Then mix lukewarm milk with salt and flour to a stiff batter, combine with the risen dough, knead, and form loaves to rise again before baking.
A traditional preparation combines butter and sugar creamed with cold water and stiff egg whites. Fold in sifted flour with baking powder and generous amounts of crystallized cherries and chopped almonds. Flavor with rose water and bake in a leaf tin, then frost.
A historical recipe fragment describes mixing one part flour with baking powder and salt, rubbing in lard, adding cold water to form a stiff dough, and rolling out for a two part crust. Butter bits are placed on the paste before final shaping.
Enamel ware cleans easily with pumice stone. Butter on a spout prevents cream drips from a pitcher. A candle can burn all night if salt is added to the wick. Store candles six to eight weeks for brighter, slower burn. Glycerine removes old stains from linen then cold soap suds finish cleaning. Use old curtain starch to cover curtain holes before ironing. Ream orange juice with a Temon reamer over a glass tumbler for a breakfast punch cup.
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