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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1916
Page
5
A recipe fragment describes making doughnuts with beaten egg sugar salt melted lard sour milk soda cream of tartar nutmeg cinnamon and pastry flour. It then details lemon syrup with rind water lemon juice and egg white sugar and preserved ginger, plus a cheese tomato sauce with butter American cheese tomato liquor eggs and paprika served on toasted bread.
In Atlantic writer R M Crothers argues that true literary critique judges how a reader is affected by a book rather than simply scoring the text. He likens judging books to evaluating medicines by effect, urging readers to seek expert advice and avoid rushing to conclusions.
A description of advance models featuring taupe crape with colored irises in an oriental motif. Moleskin bands the peplum while a square fur shoulder cape is secured by long taupe georgette tie strings.
Laura Jean Libby shares daily reflections on heart topics. She notes there are many forms of love, but only one true way, which she calls rare, while counterfeit loves appear bright but fail to endure.
A columnist answers young women asking how love begins and when to wed. It advises that regular calls signal interest, that suitors should inform families, and that courtship should remain modest until a betrothal is accepted. It cautions against overt familiarity even after engagement.
A column presents letters about love and marriage expectations, questions on engagement, parental opinion, and advice for teens. It includes stories of a South American romance, a 15 or 16 year old seeking guidance, and a girl weighing business versus continued schooling.
In a nostalgic portrait the essay describes the parlor what not as a relic of ingrain carpets and wax flowers. It chronicles its place in 19th and early 20th century homes filled with family bric a brac and heirlooms while shaping memory and social meaning.
A wireless from H H Van Loan aboard the Monterey reports British warships off the Bahama islands seized a submarine owned by a moving picture company en route from New York to Miami. The craft was towed by a yacht off Abaco Island when captured and taken to Nassau where officials warned against moving it without permission. The American consul is notifying Washington to secure release of the submarine.
Charles Hamann of Patchogue New York reports a White Leghorn hen laid three eggs at once inside a single shell. The egg measures three and a quarter inches long and two and a quarter inches in diameter. Inside there are two yolks and abundant white matter plus another perfect egg. He plans to keep the double shell as a souvenir.
New York City's brief glimpse of European war hardship follows the Stephano survivors from Newport. Thirty one first class and twenty five second class passengers traveled with 29 women and 14 children aboard the Stephano when ordered by a German submarine to discharge. Mr and Mrs Richard Driscoll and their children Warren and Gordon were aboard. Mrs Driscoll and baby Gordon appear in a photograph.
A poem chronicles a boy with grand wishes chasing dragons and roles from drummer to captain. Despite a head full of dreams, he remains in his own shoes and the boy is still little, emphasizing self-acceptance.
The tent city at Lordship Park has fully disappeared after housing hundreds this summer and a few stragglers stayed until the cold snap. Most occupants reportedly moved to Bridport.
Hughey Dougherty the veteran minstrel has been moved to Kirkbrides Pennsylvania hospital for the insane after hotels refused him. He came from Los Angeles where he had lived since June, after supporters raised a fund to aid him in declining years and sent him there to be with his adopted daughter Mrs Evalina Buttman.
Rockland Maine October 12 On his 71st birthday Charles L She rendered seven cows in the morning delivered fifteen cans of milk hauled two loads of lime rock and milked seven cows at night.
The item listing notes a shipment of Dutch and French bubbs arriving, advertised by John Reck and Son.
Alice Hamilton praises Woodrow Wilson in a New Republic piece, arguing he kept the United States out of war after the Lusitania and Sussex incidents. She weighs Hughes on suffrage and other issues, concluding she will cast the first presidential vote for Wilson.
A humorous scene titled The Battle of Waterloo features Napoleon dismissing orders and insulting his generals. The generals mistake the location and deploy in a chaotic sprint toward retreat as the mess sharpens into comic disaster.
Miss A Eve lyn Newman of New York, a noted social worker and international delegate, declares she supports President Wilson for his emphasis on constructive peace and cooperation between labor and international affairs. She praises his vision of internationalism and his effort to unite labor and peaceful arbitration for lasting peace at home and abroad.
Port Royal Maryland October 12 United States marine corps officers in charge of recruit training here claim Americans are the best bomb and grenade throwers in the world. They credit baseball trained speed and accuracy for the nation's trench warfare fitness and note marines and recruits excel in throwing practice.
In Rochester New York on October 12 a herd of 31 Whitmore farm cows bolted from a Genesee river bank near Mount Morris. Several landed on a ledge 250 feet down and survived. the rest fell to the bottom and were killed or fatally injured. Cows on the ledge likely will be shot due to inability to hoist them up. A prior sheep flock near the same farm also leaped the bank and all died.
Dr F M Edwards promotes olive tablets as a gentle bowel and liver aid that purifies the blood and clears the system. The sugar coated tablets claim to replace calomel with no after effects and are priced at 25 cents per box.
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