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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
7
Directions for preparing dried fruit for stewing and jam. Soak fruit, make a nip, boil to syrup, then simmer until tender. Serve hot or cold as stewed fruit or use in tarts and pies. For jam, add one pound sugar per pound soaked fruit and adjust water. one pound dried fruit yields four pounds jam.
A vintage recipe instructs mixing one and two thirds cups pastry flour one cup cornmeal two scant teaspoons baking powder and a half teaspoon salt. Cream butter with sugar add beaten eggs and milk then beat until smooth. Fill muffin tins two thirds full and bake in a moderately hot oven.
The housekeeper uses cups, tumblers, pitchers, and other vessels as improvised receptacles for leftovers. Paper covers made from filter paper protect contents, are light and reusable, and can be folded to fit any tumbler or dish. Test potatoes by rubbing cut surfaces. if they stick, the potatoes are gad.
The piece advocates turning everyday tasks into exercises to lose weight and improve carriage. It suggests washing hands in the tub, reaching for hats without kneeling, brushing hair with firm wrist motion, and brisk market trips with long strides to transform household routines into healthful activity.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt discusses the “cold water habit” as a temperament that dampens pleasant moments. It portrays the ruinous effect of a skeptical, discouraging woman on mood and harmony, stressing mind and body health rely on social concord.
Advice on piano upkeep notes damp prevention and rust protection. It recommends a small bag of time inside the piano to catch dampness, a plant in winter with more frequent watering, daily key Wiping with a damp cloth, and camphor bags to keep moths from the felt.
A method using absorbent cotton pressed into a wire hairbrush removes dust. Lay cotton over the bristles and push to let the bristles pull dust into the cotton. A few thin strokes reveal the amount of dust collected, leaving the hair bright and soft. repeat nightly.
Mogadi in British East Africa hosts a vast soda lake hidden by a barrier of waterfowl and barren shore. A London Field visitor reports a surface shifting between frozen and thawed ice under extreme heat, with a pink water layer after rains. The lake holds about 200 million tons of soda, fed by surf and underground streams, and the supply renews as soda is removed. Natives harvest soda yearly with no noticeable depletion.
A traveling man finishing work in Tyrone Okla travels with friends to a night train to Liberal. He hurries to the depot, learns the bend is forty nine miles away and jokes about lighting for winter nights. The depot agent delivers a dry quip about his first trip and the long straight track spans seventy six miles.
The American Practitioner argues that self harm increases with education and civilization. It cites that alphabets and self murder spread together, noting Europe shows more crises in educated France and Germany than less educated Italy Rusela and Spain. It also claims head and stomach are easily infected when empty per Jean Paul Richter.
Hamp Tetlow and companions discuss a girl seen on Zlezny trail near Twin Star ranch. Bob Deering tracks a lost steer along Red Spider creek and encounters a mysterious, beautiful woman guarding a stray brand witness. She reveals a fugitive father and shared danger. Bob helps, delivering supplies and news that shifts the couple toward a hopeful future.
The Children’s Department hosts a Telegrams game where guests fill blank telegrams with initial letters to form messages. A recent party featured a bright participant writing May your voyage through life be always happy and free, with others offering playful lines about life and luck.
A fragmented puzzle passage asks about difficult ships in conquer and love without return, explores father child relation, and riddles about letters, alphabets, and beading. It presents obscured quotes and wordplay ambiguities, inviting interpretation of hidden meanings and connections.
Fragmentary OCR describes Romans using small paddle wheels attached to ships to measure revolutions and estimate distance sailed. It notes a similar concept to modern propeller based devices and suggests boats tracked rate of travel at sea.
A player challenges others with a wordplay puzzle where the diet letter of an object in the room is given. Teams must deduce the item from the clue and room context as the puzzle continues.
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