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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
3
An advocating view that learning should serve knowledge to sharpen minds and broaden sympathies. The passage contrasts teaching as a quickener of intellect with expanding understanding through information, citing sensory images of candies, fruits, syrups, and exotic wines to evoke cultural richness.
A home cook’s notes list several desserts and a beef dish. Crisp dried beef in white sauce is suggested, then Apfelstrudel with thin pastry, apples or peaches, raisins, ginger snaps, almonds and butter. Raisin Cookies use butter sugar eggs raisins sour cream spices. Fruit Roll blends dates raisins and nuts for a dessert or cake wrap. Cherry Cake combines butter sugar eggs cream and canned cherries with spices and soda.
Alice Freeman Palmer urges daily mindfulness to notice, reflect, and remember beauty in ordinary moments. The concise reflection highlights purposeful attention, personal growth, and a timeless encouragement to cultivate gratitude through simple observations and actions.
Advice on Friday fish dishes for hotels and home cooks. Includes roasting fish in paper bags with tomatoes, frying sea perch with salt pork and onion, cornmeal coating, creamy fish croquettes with gelatine, Finnan haddie in milk with peppers, stuffed fillets baked with lemon and buttered paper, and garnishes like watercress lemon cucumber radish and parsley.
The earth is described as having a volume of 259,944,055,615 cubic miles and a mean global rainfall of thirty six inches. It notes the English language spreading rapidly and cites Clark on the earth’s equatorial semidiameter as 20,920,202 feet.
A cookbook style guide presents chocolate sauce and cocoa parfait followed by chocolate mousse as appealing dessert options. Instructions cover butter sugar cornstarch chocolate and vanilla for sauce, custard like cocoa parfait with cream, and a gelatin thickened mousse. all are chilled in ice and salt molds for serving.
A survey of baseball's top managers shows most still active players or recent veterans. Stallings and eight others have recent on field work, with McGraw, Jennings, Chance and Evers among those who moved between leagues or rose from storied clubs.
A collage of quotes and rumors about players and managers across leagues. Bert Shotton leads Browns in runs while James of the Braves headlines pitching talent. Meiji University invites Washingtons to Japan and Oscar Vitt remains unsold as Detroit seeks alternatives.
A Milwaukee Sentinel column argues baseball players earn far more than doctors lawyers and ministers. It notes players average six times a minister’s pay and more than many other professions, urging readers to rethink what constitutes value and fitness in society.
George L. Moreland, Pittsburgh statistician, argues that Doc Harry White of the Chicago White Sox established the world record for consecutive runless innings at 45, surpassing Chesbro of the Highlanders who had 42. White shut out Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit, New York and the Athletics in nine inning games in 1904.
Practical tips cover aluminum cookware care cooling methods for burnt foods how to rework baked dishes with grated cheese on mashed potatoes toasting blankets mattress care and tea making. Also includes guidance on storage washing eggs nuts and dates, lettuce handling, silk stitching, tenderizing steak with slow cooking and a creamed eggs recipe with butter flour cream eggs and tomatoes.
Jim Thorpe, the famed Indian athlete once prominent in baseball, has not been heard from since the season opened. He has been practicing the spitball and is confident in mastering it. The Giants plan to retain him, believing he may become a solid player with time.
Rochester manager Ganzel received a letter from injured outfielder Roland Barrows stating doctors fear no permanent damage to his left leg and he hopes to be back in harness by August 1.
In the polar regions one inhabitant per ten square miles is noted. A quarter of those born die before age six, and only half survive to age sixteen.
A study notes that about one in a hundred births reach age 65 and asserts Everest, or Deodhunga, as the highest mountain in the Himalayas at 29 002 feet.
A statistical note counts Pirates bats used in 26 seasons at 1,379,080 ounces. That converts to 86,192 pounds or 43 tons of wood, depending on the conversion. The discrepancy arises between 80,130 pounds and 86,192 pounds in the estimates.
The season brings many new first string catchers across the leagues. Ivy Wingo steps into Bresnahan’s St Louis role, Tom Clark fills Larry McLean’s Cincinnati job, Rariden takes Kling’s Boston duties, and Kelly with Simon handle Gibson’s Pittsburgh workload. In the American, Schalck starts for Chicago and Agnew replaces Stephens with Stovall. Otto Miller anchors Brooklyn, Henry and Ainsworth back Washington, Cady seizes Boston, and ONeill becomes Cleveland’s top catcher, signaling the arrival of the young receiver era.
Manager Griffith of the Washington baseball team expresses strong confidence in winning the American league flag this season. He notes a second place finish last year and argues improvement should secure the pennant barring accidents.
Former Tiger pitcher George Suggs, now with the Reds, was fined $10 for arriving ten minutes late at the park. Joe Tinker stated that time is valuable as he handed down the penalty.
Manager Stovall prepared the St. Louis Browns by commissioning models of each player’s preferred bat from a Louisville firm last fall. The bats were seasoned through the winter by Groundkeeper Schain, aiming to improve hitting performance.
A young boy and a nearby four year old girl often play together. When invited to come out Elizabeth asks him to join. The boy tells his mother he cannot come over for a bath and murmurs that the rest need not be said.
Sam Marcus of 905 Lowell Place Chicago New Jersey details a two year battle with burning itching and disfiguring eczema. He credits daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a five to six month cure and notes availability worldwide with free samples and the 32 page Skin Book from Cuticura Boston.
A Washington scientist and natural history student pinned a fine beetle with a diamond searspin to a library table hasty moment. The beetle escaped, flew toward a window with the pin glistening on its back, and vanished. Neither bug nor pin has been seen since.
An amusing streetcar vignette shows a tall woman struggling to reach a seat while twelve men sit unmoved. A small boy offers his seat and explains his gesture was practical not polite due to gum on the seat.
The New York Sun recalls Chief Justice Isaac Russell of the court of special sessions slipping on rain slick stone steps at city hall and being helped up. He says his honor remains intact though his spine seems jarred as a quip about his fall. A humorous proverb follows about job retention by doing the work.
A Chicago man claims Grape-Nuts cured years of poor digestion, coated tongue, and loss of appetite. After four packages he reports a restored stomach, appetite, and improved strength, saying it builds the body as well as the brain. The letter, attributed to Postum Co., is typical of reader testimonials in the era.
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