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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
6
An American traveler recalls experiences in Yokohama and Tokyo aboard a Japanese train and hotel parlor wedding viewing. He notes language quirks, signs, trains, street vendors, and the contrast between Western influence and traditional life. Stories include war impressions, motherly sacrifice, humor about bounty jumpers, and the contrast of dress between men and women.
A detailed, step by step lemon custard pie recipe describing pre baking the crust, preparing a lemon filling with sugar butter lemon juice and eggs, cooking to thicken, and finishing with a meringue. Includes instructions for a cornstarch version and baking temperatures to set and brown the topping.
A set of scallop preparations includes stewed scallops in milk with mace and crackers, a scallop salad on lettuce with mayonnaise or boiled dressing, fried scallops in egg and cracker crumb, and baked scallops with crumbs. Uses pepper salt mace and lemon parsley garnish.
A simple baking guide uses five eggs separated with one cup sugar and sifted flour with one teaspoon of baking powder and anise seed. Bake in two shallow tins, cool, cut into one inch strips, toast until light brown on both sides, and serve. Good for invalids.
The recipe calls for one and a half pints of milk and half a teaspoonful of melted butter and lard stirred in. Sift four to proper consistency, beat yolks of three eggs with two tablespoonfuls of yeast, fold in beaten whites gently. Batter should be as runny as griddle cake batter to flow into the waffle irons.
Farmer letters from Charles McCormick and Thomas Sawatzky describe crop yields and prices in 1907 Western Canada. McCormick reports 100 acres at 90 cents per bushel and 20 acres oats at 35 cents, netting over 1600 dollars after expenses. Sawatzky claims 70 acres wheat at 22.60 per acre value with 1,750 bushels threshed, plus other crops and yields, noting general strong returns in the district.
A Washington Herald piece recounts a preacher from South Carolina named James Bider and a Black man who uses a forged receipt to explain possessing a melon at an odd hour. The anecdote is framed as a critique of police assumptions about African Americans and fruit theft.
Mrs M L Harris of Alton Kansas reports that after ineffective medical treatment a three part Cuticura regimen cured her baby’s eczema on the face. The testimony notes the child aged about two and a half years with no recurrence. The second item notes Emperor William welcoming sculptors Schott and Bogas as they promote a German sculpture exhibition in New York with $750,000 pledged.
A fragment discussing how essential knowledge on health happiness and right living supports modern homes. It emphasizes broad information as a foundation for welfare and well being in daily life.
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