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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1913
Page
11
Plainspoken instructions describe preparing peas with various tweaks from shells to creamed sauces. It includes methods for boiling fresh or dried peas, making a butter base, and a scalloped pea and cheese bake. Also outlines a salmon and green pea dish with white sauce and cracker crumbs.
In Cheyenne guests honor Prof. Stark at a family dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Bristol and others. Pink lace and flowers decorate the table as memories of past days fill conversation, with plans to attend the State Federation of Women’s Clubs convention in Douglas.
The visiting list shows Prof. and Mrs. N. E. Stark and Thayer of Ft. Morgan Colo visiting relatives in the area. It notes several other travelers including Mr. and Mrs. Branson and Miss Mariel Branson from Des Moines Iowa, with plans for gatherings at local homes.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs opens a four day session in Douglas with speakers Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker and Dr. C. A. Duniway as Cheyenne attendees. Mystic Maze Club shifts meeting day. Sunshine Society's sewing tea supports two orphans, with 22 members aiding wardrobe projects and hosting a charity tea at Mrs. J. Ross Carpenter's home.
A garbled text presents scattered aphorisms about charity and virtue. It mentions giving water, removing obstacles, urging virtuous acts, and the idea that true wealth is the good one does. The dialogue ends with a question about what property remains after death, amid confusing wording.
Fragmentary report describes undefined visitors at a county location with no clear event or outcomes. No names or dates are clearly readable. Further text needed for concrete details.
The article notes a new knee length garter purse made of filigree silver as a tipping aid reflecting fashion’s shift. With no pockets in evening gowns and services throughout venues, women carry coins in this discreet knee purse to tip cloakroom attendants ushers and restaurant staff during evenings out.
A visitor asks Bobby if he expects to step into his father’s shoes one day. Bobby gloomily replies that nothing but his father’s worn-out clothes remain after mother learned to tailor them down for him.
Over 80 percent of Prussians earn less than $750 annually. A new German projectile for balloon warfare uses an electric spark on impact. Germany adopts wireless controlled time linking clocks across cities via a central clock system.
A minister recounts encountering a man on a Saturday evening muttering in a drunken ramble about being away from home, dinner, and threats of confronting someone named Murcer if meals are late, as reported by the New York Times.
Reverend W M Nelson officiated a 4 pm ceremony uniting Frank W Paul of Douglas Wyoming and Vernena Larr of Cheyenne. Parents D W Larr and W H Anthers attended. Vernena, a trained nurse, recently began work at a Douglas hospital. Bright prospects await the couple as they start life together in Douglas.
In a Hartford Post item a patient asks how to gain great weight. The doctor notes the subject is slim and proposes a long course of treatment and a $200 starting raise to begin work.
The speaker, a multimillionaire, laments trying to give away wealth while it continually returns. He writes large checks to wreck his bank balance, but friends and tides of fortune replenish bonds and stocks. Despite efforts to donate yearly, more wealth endlessly sprouts, confounding generosity.
Charles Studebaker of Washington Pa began a 4000 mile trek on foot pushing a cart carrying 806 pounds of luggage. He will travel via Cumberland Md Philadelphia York Road New Jersey New York Buffalo around the lakes to Booth Bend Ind Chicago and plans to return by November 1 accompanied by a fox terrier.
The 1881 English witchcraft case of the Fletchers, famed clairvoyants and mesmerists, involved inducing Mrs. Hart Davis to part with jewels worth £10,000 before fleeing to America. Mrs Fletcher was extradited. the husband escaped. She was sentenced to twelve months hard labor. The London Spectator notes evolving freight trends via smooth highways and motor transport reshaping goods movement.
The Gazetteer of the Surface Waters of California notes repeated pioneer names in streams and lakes. It lists Deadman ten streams, Dry Creek ten, Bear and Grizzly clusters, Coyote and Wildcat waters, and many other animals and saints amid a broad catalog of water bodies and fish names.
Mrs Cooke complains the cake lacks nuts and the servant Delia explains she could not crack nuts due to jaw pain from yesterday. The exchange ends with the mistress asking for more nuts in the next cake.
A poetic fragment describes a solitary wagon journey through a strange landscape. The narrator references surreal creatures and odd impressions, conveying a mood of isolation and absurd spectacle during the travel. It remains cryptic and imagery driven.
Reported plans seek to mobilize 4,000,000 Germans in Prussia while a new knee joint graft gains prominence. A ban on attorneys in Progen and a reform of army literacy show sweeping reforms. Berlin meat inspectors adopt moving picture cameras to study meat processes with enlarged organ lens imagery.
An excerpt depicts an attendant and director discussing patient baths and occupations. The attendant names one patient as a speculator and another as a seamstress, while the director directs the seamstress to the needle and orders a plunge. A wife questions cigars as a husband delays smoking until Tommy begins.
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