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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
4
Denver dispatch reports $270000 in fines and summonses under federal Interstate law on free passes. Engineers and other workers face 16 hour work limits and claim railway management pressures push rule circumvention, with crews describing unsafe strain and potential penalties.
John R. Baker of Battle Creek Michigan claims his stomach trouble ended after using Chamberlain's Tablets. He suffered heartburn indigestion and liver complaint before relief and says thousands have been cured. Sold by all dealers.
A new Lower Austrian law replaces the old rules governing servants. It renames servants as employees, requires proper feeding by employers, bans gossip about family private affairs, and loosens the mistress’s duty to issue a character note in a discharge book. Girls may go out seven hours per fortnight. The mistress may blank the character entry.
Cut a French roll into thin slices and shape into rounds. Spread raspberry or currant jam on each slice and stack in a glass dish. Soak with sherry until absorbed. Garnish with blanched almond strips and pour custard around. Serves four or five.
A collection of dated kitchen instructions covers noodles dough for paste, calf’s brain dish, orange cream pudding, and mushroom macaroni. Steps include kneading dough, blanching, butter, eggs, cream, gelatin, orange juice, and spices, with serving suggestions.
A historical recipe describes boiling knuckle of veal or fowl with honeycomb and tripe. It details cleaning and parboiling the tripe, simmering with meat, and later forming potato blocks and suet balls. The stock is skimmed and flavored with chilies onions thyme salt and celery powder, then combined and boiled before serving.
Old fashioned apple tart recipe uses two quarts of apples cut in quarters with water. A crust from flour baking powder and salt is whetted with milk to form a rollable dough. The dish cooks on top then finishes in the oven and is inverted to reveal crust bottom with apples on top, served with lemon sauce.
A colonial kitchen note directs placing a meat bone in six oclock boil until eleven with about three quarts of water. Skim impurities, add six tomatoes three carrots one onion four Irish potatoes and season with salt pepper. Boil vegetables, thicken slightly with flour, and finish by returning to boil and adding parsley before serving.
Frogs legs shift from unpopular novelty to common diet item with millions killed yearly. Minnesota alone reports about six million frogs harvested to meet demand. Northwestern species prized for delicacy while southern bullfrogs reach large sizes and vary in taste.
In 1910 world rail mileage reached 640 158 miles with North America at 42 107 miles. The United States totaled 242 107 miles, nearly 38 percent of world total, surpassing Europe and Asia combined. Major gains occurred during 1880–1890 and 1900–1910.
Washington notes the Dancing Fifty a society group at the Playhouse club will stage a Christmas event on December 23. Miss Helen Taft Frank Hitchcock Alice Roosevelt Longworth and other celebrities attend as a Santa Claus delivers gifts. A tuxedoed dance follows the tree lighting with strict rules against the Turkey Trot Bunny Hug or Chicken Flip under penalty of losing a gift.
Subscriptions are available for the Weekly State Leader at $1.00 per year. Readers are invited to sign up for annual delivery and enjoy uninterrupted access to the paper’s regional news and features.
Department of the Interior notice to Lowell N. King contestee. Dora King files November 2, 1912 to cancel Homestead Serial No. 06722 for New Section 22 Township 15 North Range 62 West 6th Meridian alleging abandonment since April 15, 1912. Answer due within twenty days after the fourth publication with proof of service.
The railroad in Virginia unveils locomotives weighing 752000 pounds claimed as the world’s most powerful. They can pull five 60 ton loaded cars at ten miles an hour, marking a milestone in freight propulsion.
After four years of patient cross fertilizing by Mr. Mec Gredy of Portadown, Ireland, a new rose with flaming terra cotta to prawn pink petals debuted at the National Rose Society autumn show in London. Only about a dozen blooms exist, selling at 5.20 dollars each. stock comprises forty plants valued at 15 thousand dollars, with none to be sold before 1913.
Among the bequests in the will of Henry Seymour Trower of Burrey England with a gross estate value of 1,541,005 dollars is 60,000 dollars to form a Women s Aid Fund. The fund aids married or unmarried women with medical care and nursing to help rear their children. It will be administered by Mrs Caroline Huth Mrs Margaret Sameon Mrs Edith Weathered Mrs Sophia Allen and Frederick Morris secretary of the Marylebone branch of the Charity Organisation Society.
Legal notice outlines required proof of service for a contestant. It specifies written acknowledgment or sworn affidavit from delivery person, plus postmaster receipt. It requests the post office name for future notices and lists publication dates from December 12 to January 31, 1917.
A fragmented notice hints at fashion trends affecting a public celebration. The text suggests anticipation of appearance and style choices for a group via a forthcoming reveal.
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