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Newspaper
Belleville Republic
Location
Belleville, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1876
Page
4
A column offers recipes and methods for lemon pie filling, lemon ice cream without equipment, salad dressing, potato yeast, root beer, sour stock for soups, pur paste pastry, and general kitchen guidance. It provides steps, proportions, and cooking tips for practical home cooks.
An Indianapolis Journal item profiles George Fruits in Ripley Township Montgomery County near Crawfordsville. Born January 1763 in Baltimore to German immigrant parents, he never learned to read or write and spent youth in Maryland. He moved to Indiana in 1816, claims a farm deed naming John Quincy Adams as president, once stood 6'3" and 225 pounds, and has voted in every presidential election.
Five fishing vessels and 47 lives were lost in Gloucester fisheries this year. The clipping also notes graveyard burials, court cases, moral anecdotes, and a case of a child swallowing a needle discovered by a Benton doctor.
Massachusetts Senator and Natick official Morse, once a war veteran and lawyer, sank from public life into a gambling ruin. He drained town funds and his own assets, mortgaged his house, and vanished with debts to friends and family, leaving wife and two teenagers in distress as he heads toward California.
A Buffalo man finds his son in Boston after an 11 year search. The boy, placed with a boarding mistress, was adopted by another man and taken to Bath Missouri. Father and son met yesterday in Boston and plan a New York visit together for a fortnight.
The twelve year old Henrietta Sorhagen of 263 Norfolk Street Newark died of hydrophobia after a dog bite the previous Thursday. Other family members were bitten yet survived. doctors warn injuries may have lingered too long. A Detroit scene recalls a goat prank on a bystander as a separate vignette.
The article previews Gear B Grant’s Difference Engine and Calculating Machine, two public exhibitions in Chicago. The Difference Engine, five by eight feet and two tons, contains 15,000 parts and computes logarithms, sines, and roots with precision, costing about $10,000 to reach its present state. The Calculating Machine, small and portable, performs multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction with a touch of the finger.
The report details numerous women designed devices and crafts in the Women s Pavilion including a griddle greaser bath chair life saving mattress and desk with many practical items in use today. School of industrial art samples and needlework from Kensington and Montreal convents highlight international female artistry.
An American educator visits a Swedish school-house exhibit featuring Holy Land beads from the Mount of Olives, sandalwood boxes, and relics. Riflemen pose among olives and sandal trees while wearing varied regional garments, and a grim remark questions selling crosses. Vienna ovens are also noted as pretty pieces in the display.
The Missouri Headquarters serves as a rendezvous for visitors during the Centennial. The 50 by 32 foot building features a veranda and ascent tower, with a gentlemen’s lower floor and a ladies’ upper story. A visitor and donor register will track attendance while friends share social chats in this Missouri home.
A comic tale explains how Paddy Geohagan misinterprets a St. Nevis vendor’s brogue. Pat mistakes a Connaught accent for native speech and pieces together a mistaken identity as Judy panics, exclaiming about echoes of home in the tropical isle.
In Guagno Corsica on April 26 two men Poli and Leca were found dead from gunfire and exploding powder after a moonlit duel. Poli, the so called King of the Mountain, and Leca, once a zouave, quarreled over a woman and killed each other in a cabaret setting. Relatives obtained Catholic burial rights.
A commentary on facial expression noting how lips show temper and soul. The mouth reflects feelings more than eyes, conveying annoyance, kindness, fear, or joy through movement and shape, with affectations failing to hide true sentiment. Leigh Hunt influences the observed link between mouth and emotion.
A London Times reader asks if the Queen's new title Empress of India should appear in prayer books and how the government will handle two editions. The note recalls President Grant using a similar royal title at a Philadelphia dinner and omitting part of the description.
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