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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
7
The piece argues against tariff cuts, asserting imports won’t proportionally boost exports and warning of wage declines in foreign mills. It cites ten years of the Dingley tariff showing surplus, strong exports, and growing national prosperity, urging continued protection.
The piece criticizes a new German agreement as a dangerous shift away from the Dingley tariff, arguing it opens the door to undervaluation and foreign competition. It cites alleged government influence on tariff appraisal, press commentary from the New York Journal of Commerce and New York papers, and claims the State Department will revise schedules downward.
A Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association cites concerns that proposed German concessions undercut the value basis for duties and could undermine Congress’s authority. The piece questions when the President can override Dingley provisions and hints at possible future congressional action.
A Worhkingmen deputation reports German laborers are more prosperous and content under the tariff than ever, while Black bread is brown and preferred. The account notes dissatisfaction among Charmin brethren and a contrast with British workers.
A gigantic negro confined in the brick wall of Tone California kicked a hole through the wall and escaped last night.
A detailed description of a dehorning chute design addressing horns fused at maturity. The manual covers hinged rear doors for size adjustment, a sturdy frame, a trough, rope mechanics to position the animal, and safe release after procedure. It also includes notes on spray timing and Bordeaux mixtures for apple trees.
A 2 year old heifer fresh in milk sells for more than a faded steer and costs less to produce. Cross a pure sire on mixed stock to yield offspring strong in useful traits. Neighborhood cooperatives should supply fairly bred cows with shared breeds to extend service life. Avoid deep dead furrow and plow strategy to keep land smooth.
A Nebraska experiment station bulletin outlines spraying guidance from last year. It advises Bergeaux mixture after cluster buds open but before individual flower buds. It also recommends Bordeaux with arsenate of lead or paris green soon after blossoms fall.
A writer extols small gardens as sources of pleasure and profit. Even limiting to half an acre, a garden can supply a family from early spring to year end with onions peas carrots tomatoes corn and more. Early crops like strawberries can begin in April or May for next spring bearing.
The guide describes a method to remove a wagon box using a tall upright pole set in the ground. Two wires from near the top pull the platform, a rope runs from the pole to pulleys at the wagon front, then to a windlass at the rear. The box remains attached to the rope to stay upright in high winds.
Families keeping a single cow should seek the best animal available. More labor is needed per cow than per herd, and a cow should yield milk for ten months with butter fat under four percent. Superior richness is secondary to reliability, and paying a high price for a quality cow is profitable for calf rearing.
Railroads consider new methods to handle expanding sheep traffic in the northwest. A suggested relief is the use of triple-decked cars to accommodate animals during transit.
Step by step to pickle milch herring with onions lemon peppers bay leaves and mustard seed. Soak wash remove heads and scales lay in jars with layers of fish and vegetables and a sugar vinegar sauce until covered. Ready in four to five days and can keep long term.
The text describes removing meat from soup, chopping it, making a white sauce with butter flour and milk, cooling, adding meat and seasonings, beating an egg with water, forming cylinders, coating with cracker crumbs, dipping in eggs, rolling again in crumbs, and frying in deep fat to serve. It outlines a method for meat paste cylinders served hot.
Drain the liquor from one pint of oysters. Heat one cup of cream with butter and flour, salt, paprika. Cook three minutes, add lemon juice, then oysters. Cook until edges curl. Serve at once.
Simmer a fowl until tender then dice. Skim fat from the cold liquid. Fry two sliced onions in the fat, add five diced potatoes, then the chicken pieces. Stir in the liquor, season with salt and pepper, and optional tomatoes. Cook together thirty minutes.
A seasoned 3 pound round steak is baked in a dry pan for 30 minutes, then topped with raw onion slices. After 45 minutes more a layer of sliced tomatoes is added, continuing until tender. The dish finishes with grated cheese and a gravy made from pan liquor.
Lift together four cupfuls of white flour one cupful of white sugar three rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt. Add a cupful of chopped hickory nut meats one cupful of sweet milk and one well beaten egg. Mix well butter two bread tins put in the mixture let it stand for twenty minutes then bake from thirty to fifty minutes.
Whip one pint of cream until stiff, fold in a cup of maple sirup and a tablespoon of powdered sugar. Add half a teaspoon lemon extract, mix well, fill two covered molds, wrap with buttered paper, pack in ice and salt until serving in sherbet glasses.
Cut cold roast beef into inch blocks making two cupfuls. Heat one cup brown sauce with three tablespoons vinegar one and a half tablespoons chopped raisins and one and a half tablespoons chopped gherkin. When boiling add meat simmer five minutes and serve hot.
A range of dish drainers costs noted up to 3.75 each. Wood models include a railing and a corrugated sloping surface feeding into a small trough. Wire circular drainers feature a central recess for knives forks and spoons.
A recipe lists ingredients: three cups brown sugar, 112 cups lard, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls soda dissolved in 6 tablespoonfuls sweet milk, 114 cups currants, 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon and nutmeg, half teaspoon clove, a little salt. Mix stiff and roll 3/8 inch thick, cut in desired shapes.
Dissolve a level teaspoonful of soda in one cup of sour cream and one cup of molasses. Add one level teaspoon of ginger, half a level teaspoon of salt, and two and a half cups of flour. Bake in a shallow pan.
Readers note that salt bags can be saved and reused as jelly bags. When several are joined and sewn, they become effective dish cloths or wash cloths.
Maurice Zielechower of Chicago was robbed of 250 dollars a diamond scarfpin and a gold watch by two masked men between Dalton and West Hammond at 7 PM. They halted his horse with handkerchiefs over their faces, dragged him from the buggy and warned him to drive on. He could not describe the assailants.
The six year old son of farmer George Miller was choking after a corn kernel lodged in the windpipe. Parents raced to town then planned a Chicago specialist visit for possible operation. Despite urgent surgery, the child died ten minutes before reaching treatment but survived the procedure, with gamble on recovery after operation.
Indianapolis iron worker Charles Lewis shot and killed Anna Faton, his former Pennsylvania schoolmate, after she refused to reform her life. He then attempted suicide. Separately Fred Brinegar, 25, was beaten and robbed by a stranger who rode with him. Brinegar found unconscious with head wounds, his horse returning home.
Rev. L. N. Carpenter of Wabash Sunday dedicated his seven hundredth Christian church at Charles City Town, raising all indebtedness. No other living minister has dedicated so many churches. He has raised five millions to pay church debts.
Harry Toms shoots and kills his best friend Rastus Paul in New Paris claiming self defense. He says he did not realize the victim was Paul until after the confrontation. Police report ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting.
The article reports Brazil shutting saloons for the first time in many years on Sunday and ordering all public gambling resorts closed. Gamblers are warned to seek work or leave town.
Warren Roberts, 15, son of Thomas Roberts of Brandenburg Kentucky, visiting New Albany, was run over by a street car and fatally injured. Both legs were severed and an arm broken.
Mrs. John Kruger of Lowell dies after weeks of intense suffering from lockjaw caused by stepping on a rusty nail while cleaning a woodshed. She was 60 years old.
Mrs Alice Cooper Lawson was found guilty of second degree murder for killing her husband Charlie W Lawson in La Fayette and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Boys striking a match started a blaze at a gas well near Bedford. Fire damaged the derrick as the well, now at 1,100 feet, continues to throw stronger gas weekly.
Livansville street car conductors and motor men voted to strike after wage demands were refused. Authorities fear trouble as workers walkout looms.
George Pant of Evansville, 12, accidentally shot himself in the head with a Flebere rifle and died instantly. At Mrs. Cynthia Dedrick’s funeral in Wabesh, six pallbearers were her great grandchildren, first time all pallbearers were fully grown. Gary Chief Joseph Martin, in trousers and grim expression, pursued thieves who stole his uniform and other clothing, including from Solton's tailors, forcing a new suit for Village President Thomas E. Knotts after the raid.
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