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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
2
When the Emperor of Austria visited Bucharest the municipal authorities presented him with a superbly chased tray dish and salt cellar of solid gold valued at £5,000. The service was used at his reception Brathgestaibsay station.
An annual naval report notes unarmored SiGe Coseae and sixteen iron and wooden cruisers among other vessels, with three torpedo boats and fifteen under contract. A separate Indo China expedition describes the Moi people with prehensile tails, tree climbing, and an explorer’s capture, including details of their huts, trade, and funerary customs.
London to New York Journal reports Paul d Enjoy describes an actual tribe of man apes near Annam. Moirace individuals have tails over a foot long, erect stance, tree climbing feet, and a complex speech. The explorer details social tail-based hierarchy, gendered traits, and social division amid wild savages with humanoid features.
A Century magazine article summarizes fashion among two Livingston cousins in New York society. It notes simple, empire influenced gowns in white India muslin, short skirts, and crimson driving dresses with fur trims. It contrasts modest home wear with occasional velvet bonnets and ostrich plumes reflecting era customs. It also cites an anecdote about a Sicily island library with one book and a comic resolution to order a second copy from Penzance.
A Ruralville prominent citizen recalls the town’s shift to elect a woman mayor and governance. Since then the village has born a woman preacher, two women doctors, a woman lawyer, many young lady elocutionists, and a growing female brass band amid concerns about declining morals and ragged conditions.
Washington readers recall Ian MacLaren style humor as a wandering angel visits a hospital bed. An elderly patient, coaxed to sing, requests instead a debate and quips that he would not mind an argument. The brief tale underscores the era’s fondness for lively discussion.
A recipe note from Good Housekeeping describes making a rich molasses cake. It specifies lard and brown sugar, black molasses, salt, cinnamon, two eggs, lemon extract, milk, four cups of flour, and a leveled teaspoon of soda. Sweet or sour milk is acceptable with the batter.
A New York driven recipe details beating egg whites with cream of tartar until frothy and stiff, folding in sugar and pastry flour, adding flavor, piping into small tins, then baking slowly. Finish with a light dusting of powdered sugar after twenty minutes.
The New York Journal advises washing the fish then rubbing with vinegar to prevent skin breakage. Use gridiron tongs to turn, flour the fish, and rub hot bars with fresh suet. For small delicately sized fish fold in buttered paper or dust with flour, and keep the fire bright and clear without stirring. A pinch of salt over the fire helps control smoke.
A detailed home recipe for genuine New England succotash soup. It lists ingredients including water corn beans pork salt and pepper and provides step by step cooking instructions boiling cobs scraping kernels removing hulls adding beans and pork simmering until tender and serving from a tureen. Cranberry beans preferred though lima beans workable with less richness.
A basket stirs dust on clothespins and soils clothes. Yard wide cheese cloth dusters, neatly hemmed, are best. Bluing in rinse water does not whiten. it masks dirt. Letting clothes hang dry or in wind harms wear and the pocketbook. A clothespin bag of bed ticking with a front slit is easier to use. A bed ticking apron with a large bottom pocket is superior.
A compendium of brief items notes aviation and world fairs with Buenos Ayres planned as a World’s Fair site. Buffalo’s population claim and a Mexican mine fire kill ten miners. California exports heavy freight to Europe while Texas corn faces infestations. Utah natives form a Hawaii born colony. Capital investment rises in West Virginia and Bismarck warns the Pope. The oldest world resident is 121 in Hungary. Cotton, honey, celery crops and Montana fires underscored. Treasury surplus tops 70 million. iron workers strike in South Wales. European wage movements noted. Japan plans a Tokio industry exhibit. Bermuda onion glut hurts farmers. Morgantown oil strike opens vast territory. A Rich mond Texas riot leaves deaths and injuries. Faroe Islands myth about seals. Iceland spar magnetic rotation noted. Nevada cloudburst forms a lake. 8 to 10 thousand workers risk window glass dispute. Brown Sequard elixir trials fail. Great Britain unions approche 1.5k members. 1888 profits and allocations listed. Paris Exhibition admissions reach over 10 million by July 31. a record day peaks at 228 thousand. A west England widow earns by cat-killing trade. a Rockford voice loss incident follows. Birthdays traced to Pharaoh. Codex B to be issued in facsimile. Johns town relief funds misdistribution criticized. Three Black men die in a furnace under religious visions in Alabama. A new rubber coagulation process enables Indians to convert milk surge to solid rubber on-site.
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