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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
16
Sept 1 Efforts continue to resolve the situation in Italy caused by metal workers occupying plants in major industrial centers. The government remains neutral while most workers are said to be under extreme Socialist influence, with some workers moving toward self management and arbitration based ownership.
A nationwide railroad strike in Mexico City halted most divisions for eight hours yesterday. Provisional President De La Barra granted three of four demands. The Engineers and Tiremen's union won recognition with a 75 percent wage increase and a pledge to adjust pending disputes. Delegates’ expenses from the recent railway convention would be paid.
Pavel Nikolaeff, 14, one of about 100 Russian refugee children at Fort Wadsworth, was shot and killed while being instructed in an Army manual by a guard on duty. Four other boys and a Russian teacher witnessed the incident, which witnesses call accidental.
Sept 3 near Milan three peaceful but curious citizens wandered near the I A T Automobile company plant in Turin. They were captured by armed metal workers, brought inside, cross examined by a workmen's tribunal, and sentenced to work at furnaces stripped of clothes and housed in workmen's quarters. The furnace room held about 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
In Detroit today a new military order for World War II veterans was completed with adoption of a constitution and election of officers. The organization consolidates the American Officers of the Great War and other groups and is open to all commissioned men who served in the United States or allied armies in the World War. The constitution mirrors that of the American Legion.
LIVE NEWS FLASHES RAMSGATE Henry Sulivan of Lowell Massachusetts began from Dover to swim the English Channel but abandoned the effort at 1 25 in the afternoon. He was within two miles of the French coast when the decision was made.
Weekly meal listings include macaroni in ramekins, honey gingerbread, boiled halibut with oysters, and broiled halibut. Recipes describe milk, butter, flour, spices, and baking steps. The text mixes menu items with experimental notes on fish dishes and dessert ideas.
Old text lists meals and recipes with breakfast items like stewed prunes French toast and junket, lunch cucumbers stuffed with pearls, and dinner pork tenderloin and French endive. Also includes instructions for stuffed cucumbers junket cream rhubarb buckwheat pancakes and vegetable guidance with notes on taste and plating. Several garbled lines preserve names of dishes, ingredients, and steps.
A fragmentary set of baking instructions describes a bake featuring peaches and cheese with tapioca, eggs, sugar, and milk. The passage reads like a recipe card listing ingredients and steps such as mixing dry components, creaming yolk with milk, layering peaches, and baking in an oven for about twenty minutes, with varying terms and misspellings throughout.
A fragmented menu lists lunch items including baked beans, tomatoes, apple and coles salad, toasted crackers, black berries, coffee and tea. It mentions baked Virginia hams, sweet potatoes with brown sugar, spices, and a peach cup with raspberry sauce. Text is garbled but preserves notable foods and preparations.
The fragment lists breakfast items such as stewed prunes with lemon waifles shrup and coffee, followed by lunch items including corn a la Creole cucumber salted taked peaches and Lea, and dinner items smothered chicken mashed potatoes eggs custard and coffee. Names and portions are garbled.
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