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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1912
Page
2
Notice states J C Nelson has sold hardware store to C E White and Son and all debts must be settled by September 1, 1912. Closes all business transactions at once.
W H McCullough announces he has taken the agency for Furnas Ice Cream with special low prices offered to church societies for festivals and similar events.
James E Watson accepts a temporary chairman role for the Republican State Convention on March 6 in Indianapolis. He will deliver a keynote speech outlining the party's Indiana campaign themes.
A columnist urges citizens to develop land and town, arguing that a prosperous town requires effort and labor. A poor farmer content with nature’s yield will miss growth and endure a diet of weeds as a consequence.
A columnist compares newspaper readers to hotel guests noting some complain loudly about content while many others are pleased. He argues readers should consider broader audience impact and accept editorial choices.
Master Robert Moore of R. R. 21 visited his grandparents Mr and Mrs R. S. Whitton from Friday to Monday. Mr and Mrs John Jamison of Knightstown and nephew Glen Datmner of Kokomo were guests Sunday. Mrs R. L. Hamilton visited her parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Jones at Muncie over Sunday.
An ad claims deafness from catarrh can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It asserts the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss, vows a $100 reward for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and promotes related products from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo.
A long list of social visits and travel across Indiana features Floyd Miner in Greenfield, Owen S Henley at Fairmount, and numerous families including Dalrymples, Plummers, Hill, and Edna Hill visiting Winona Lake, Tipton, and Louisville. Occasional trips to Carthage, Glenwood, Lewisville, and Indianapolis mark a busy period of hosting and visiting friends and relatives.
A vintage menu features Chicken Cream Sandwiches and Women's Club Sandwiches with celery stuffed cheese, creamed olives, and cress. Recipes include Fairy Puffs, Cocoa with optional egg white, Epicurean Dressing, and cream puffs, with precise steps for molds, chilling, and serving.
Wash celery and cut into inch lengths. Use outer stalks or white crisp pieces. Simmer in salted water until tender for about 45 minutes, rub through a colander, heat a quart of milk, thicken it, and proceed as for cream of spinach soup.
The recipe instructs adding two cups of granulated sugar to one cup of butter. Dissolve half a teaspoon of soda in half a pint of sweet milk, then mix in one teaspoon of rosewater and a few drops of cochineal. Gradually fold in one quart of sifted pastry flour. Bake in large pans in a moderate oven, then cut into squares while still hot and lift carefully.
A simple prune pudding recipe combines cooked prunes with sugar nuts milk butter baking powder crackers salt and vanilla. The mixture is baked in a buttered pan about twenty minutes and served hot for a quick dessert.
A teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine added to two gallons of warm water restores brightness to dust dulled carpets. After sweeping, wipe the surface with a cloth wrung in the solution, sweeping with and against the grain. This method also protects woolen carpets from moth damage.
A simple dessert method uses dry sponge cake or lady fingers as a base in a glass dish. Whip half a pint of cream until stiff, flavor with a small teaspoon of vanilla, and pile atop the base. Add a dab of currant or grape jelly on each serving if available.
A detailed guide on making a soap solution for laundry using bar soap dissolved in hot water. Includes boiling white clothes, handling yellowing with kerosene or paraffin, and cautions about starching with cooked and uncooked starch guidance.
Practical remedies and quick fixes for kitchen and laundry tasks. Ammonia in water removes fish scents from hands, brown sugar tempers salty tomato soup, raw potato softens saltiness, linen mending with under the presser foot, alcohol singes fowl, mackerel baked on cloth with salt and pork, bran preserves color, cheesecloth bag aids washing.
Mr and Mrs J W Ball were guests of Mr and Mrs Will King at Greenfield on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr King and family plan to move to their new Texas home about September 1.
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