To Me Fair Friend You Never Can Be Old
Poem excerpt urging reflection on beauty youth and blessings rather than misfortunes. Addresses a friend and recalls initial sight of beauty, urging appreciation of present gifts over past loss.
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
2
Poem excerpt urging reflection on beauty youth and blessings rather than misfortunes. Addresses a friend and recalls initial sight of beauty, urging appreciation of present gifts over past loss.
Practical guidance for repurposing cold roast beef into several dishes. Includes roast beef sandwiches with brown sauce and mustard butter, a beef pie with biscuits, and stuffed peppers with seasoned rice and beef, all served with brown sauce or broth.
A compact verse-like admonition quotes Thoreau on wasting time and eternity, warning that idleness drains life's coffers and incurs lasting loss. Reverend P. H. Strong credits the admonition to a moral duty against squandered moments.
Disis of hot soup is good appetiser as well as a refreshing and nourishing beginning of the meal. The text lists several soup preparations including lima bean soup with vegetables, curry flavored chicken stock soup, bone broth with split peas, and a salsify soup with crackers. Instructions mix boiling, simmering, straining, and thickening with flour and butter, plus seasoning with salt, pepper, curry powder, thyme, parsley, and lemon juice.
Frugal household guidance shows how to conserve crumbs and substitute them for flour in griddle cakes and puddings. Recipes include Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes with sour milk, Cheese Pudding with softened bread, and Bread Pudding with eggs, milk, corn syrup, jelly, and meringue. Encourages stuffing with crumbs to minimize waste.
A concise noting of Seneca on moral action, stating that doing good benefits the giver as well as the recipient. It emphasizes inner reward from consciousness of well-doing and the universal merit of benevolence.
Cooks dislike planning the first meal for its monotony yet offer dishes for mushroom centered breakfasts. Large firm mushrooms are broiled with butter lemon parsley sauce. mushrooms in butter with cream or milk on toast. fried eggplant. French toast with lemon peel. baked hash from veal and egg. ham toast with duchovy paste and mace. baked apples with honey and butter substitute seasoned and baked until tender.
Kansas faced a severe harvest labor shortage as 7 million acres of wheat needed picking. The union of federal, state, and city forces recruited about 48,471 workers, with 18,000 from federal labor offices and 7,000 town volunteers. Gov proclamations, highway committees, and railroad help coordinated transport from 105 counties to ensure grain was harvested.
The farmer gains personal and business advantages by engaging with the wider world beyond his fences. Active participation in community events and交流 with successful people broadens views and builds valuable connections. The benefits are valuable though not easily measured in dollars.
The piece contrasts thrifty farmers who winterize, repair, and shelter tools with shiftless ones who neglect fences and hinges. It praises proactive, market-aware farming and urges readers to start now to move from failure to success through prudent maintenance and planning.
For ten years a 500 acre Michigan farm failed to pay interest on capital. One year after radical changes were adopted the farm paid all operating costs and returned 5 percent on $60,000. Changes included four horse machinery, better dairy stock, the ello plan, and a foreman’s 10 percent of net income after expenses but before his share. The owners found that for each dollar the foreman received, they gained nine.
Instructions advise soaking seeds for a few hours before planting to aid germination in the fall garden. Lightly cover seeds, soak the ground, then cover with fine dry soil. A dust mulch helps retain moisture. Also recommends broadcasting manure over garden land abundantly.
Across Wyoming reports show over 800 influenza cases in Sheridan and 15 smallpox cases in Cheyenne. Oil production remains steady, with 1,400 barrels daily from Pilot Buttefield, and war savings stamps reach $123,538.70. Wounded in action is Cody’s Reuben A. Miller, and several influenza deaths occur including Mrs. Lottie H. Bennett near Marshall.
A dialogue reveals that a cook named Wilhelmina was given the name as the feminine form of Wilhelm rather than homage to Holland's queen. The speaker calls her the darndest autocrat observed in Birmingham society.
Italy records four million eight hundred thousand lemon trees yielding about one billion two hundred sixty million lemons annually. The figure highlights the scale of citrus farming and export potential in the region.
Mrs. Mis. David Horn of Route No. 1 Irwinton Wilkin son Co Ga says Peruna has been her tonic for eighteen years and credits it with curing stomach trouble. She recommends it for coughs colds grip influenza catarrh and related conditions. Thousands report help or recovery and Peruna is sold in tablet and liquid forms nationwide.
In Brown county Indiana county chairman William L Coffey appointed artist William Vawter as chief solicitor for the War Savings stamps drive. He walked two miles each morning to paint an elm tree scene but plans to finish the painting next summer when wild roses bloom again.
In a dated wartime style dialogue readers are urged to check Castoria bottles for the proper signature while a quip about the Hun and four fronts is exchanged, reflecting a mix of consumer reminder and publicity of the era.
An old advertisement urges gentle routine with Cuticura Ointment applied upon waking and retiring, washed off in five minutes with Cuticura Soap. Free samples offered by mail from Boston. Prices listed Soap 25 cents Ointment 25 and 50 cents. Also a playful caption about a frog in the throat joke and a light flirtatious line about a woman's dimple.
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