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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
3
A collage of quotes and cooking tips including poems by David Vedder and Pope, plus practical kitchen tricks. It merges culinary instructions for mayonnaise and dressings with several short aphorisms and a recipe style Oriental Dish. The fragment ends with a proverb about foes and friends.
Advice on reviving wilted greens with cold baths for crispness and similar parsley methods. Use coffee can for soaking, burn newspapers to clear range area, and discard crumbs for birds. Guidance on piano polish, celery slicing in bulk, potato dicing, delicate china packing, linen stacking, and using grape baskets for festive storage.
This clipping describes multiple salad ideas serving as meat substitutes. It details a roast mutton and cabbage mold with gelatin and tomato layers, Honolulu Salad with pineapple and cream cheese, a gelatin enriched mayonnaise dressing, and a potato dressing for fish. It also notes enhancements like celery, peppers, and sardine stuffed tomatoes.
A humorous dialogue sketches postwar fallout with lines about bookish agents and food price tensions. Characters joke about eggs at sixty cents a dozen and the social fallout of wartime restrictions. The piece ends with a quip about football offering hospital variety.
Reheat well separated rice in a double boiler with a splash of water or milk and serve with peaches and cream. Rice griddle cakes mix rice with eggs flour baking powder and salt, then bake on a hot griddle. Savory rice makes a tomato cheese onion and chili pepper sauce. Curried rice combines lamb, curry, onion juice, and broth, baked in escaloped form. Rice croquettes nest and fill with jelly or mix with meat to stretch portions.
Reggie notes a tug o war setup between married and single men aboard. The judge interrupts with a quip about seasickness and marital status. The exchange highlights playful taunts among crew.
In a Puck cartoon a wife questions extravagant gas lights while her husband laments the light must stay since the meter works. A second strip jests about war relief and wheat shortages with family banter surrounding wartime economy.
The chief of police asks a question about graft within the force. The captain replies that he asked the men and they deny any wrongdoing, stating there is nothing to the accusations.
Practical winter advice for farmers on equine care. A weekly bran mash and scalded oats aid driving horses, plus blanket handling and careful shoeing to reduce strain. Advises selling older stock, evaluating mares for foal failure, and training colts to road sights amid sleet and winter travel challenges.
A practical guide on keeping pigs healthy in winter. Emphasizes water with feed, soaking grains, clean housing, and pasture plans. Notes oats for sows after farrowing, feeding floors from waste materials, and reviving chilled pigs. Warns against overfeeding young pigs and rabbit damage to orchard trees.
Advice on winter farm chores and preparations for next summer. Focuses on poultry, hogs, pigs, horses, barn cleanliness, ventilation, worming, dipping tanks, manure spreading, and keeping fruit and vegetables from rot with regular checks. Emphasizes proactive maintenance to protect crops and livestock during cold weather.
The article urges improved farming through better crop rotation and more grazing land to boost soil health and profit from stock raising. It emphasizes modern soil management, farmer adaptation to current standards, and making winter the peak dairying period with careful alfalfa seed selection and regular feeding practices.
A discussion notes Canadian homesteaders who came from Scotland and Ontario to Alberta and Saskatchewan. It highlights land purchases, farming success, and the belief that free homesteads protect independence from capital control. The piece shifts to Ohio State University grain grading studies by agriculture seniors examining market distribution and grain quality.
An old advertisement promotes Jad Salts as a safe kidney remedy urging readers to drink water and take four ounces of salts daily to flush kidneys and relieve backache. The piece contrasts with claims of cheap efficacy and includes a cartoonish innuendo about local indignation and a snappy line about cold and creditors.
A young Marion and her neighbor Donald debate anarchists in a playful exchange. Donald claims anarchists want everything others have and never wash themselves. Marion concludes the anarchists are the “little boys growed up.”
An advertisement touts 1 000 000 acres of forest reserve land in Arkansas open for free homesteading under a special act. It promises healthy climate, ample water, and pasture for livestock eight months a year with no overflow lands. Contact A Alexander, Locating Engineer, Little Rock. Barney Knew. Barney O Keefe introduces a comic wedding mishap as he objectedly interrupts a church ceremony with drunken humor.
A Tribune editorial argues self accountability over avoidance noting that safety without responsibility is incomplete and urges addressing one’s own faults and beginning anew.
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