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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1899
Page
6
Quote from Hon. J. F. Shafroth arguing defeated incumbents face demoralization and temptations to accept bribes or abstain, enabling corp orate influence. It cites that much legislation attributed to corruption occurred during second sessions.
Ex President Harrison discusses how many letters reach the White House daily and how only the most important are read. He notes most requests seek money or aid for education mortgages churches and monuments, with some totaling $9 000 in a single day, yet most are unavailing.
Joseph B. Bishop, writing in Century, recounts the enduring myth of Jefferson riding to the capitol on horseback and entering the senate chamber unattended. He explains the true ceremony, notes Davis the English traveler’s fabrication, and cites Thorn ton’s dispatch and Henry Adams to bolster the factual account.
A manuscript excerpt recalls a man preferring the old sand box to modern blotting paper. He recalls sand poured from a sandbox to blot ink, noting letters remained sharp and uniform, with sand sometimes left inside envelopes, while modern blotting paper dulls ink and blurs lines.
A large policy holder was run over by a Brooklyn trolley car. He remained conscious for three minutes, noted the time as 12 exactly, and his weekly indemnity was paid immediately at noon without a lawsuit or contract. This tale from a major accident company president highlights the value of foresight.
A London Punch note counsels residents near dentists to avoid itinerant organ grinders who disturb quiet by staying away from the dentist's house, where a practitioner can stop or remove troublesome performers.
A Greenland paper claims the record for the longest name with Arrangagliotio Natinginnavnik Sysaraminas Sinik, highlighting a unique linguistic feat and local pride.
A brief quotation notes that ostentation is defined as the way others “show off” per Town and Country Journal.
The crew drifts at sea in a perilous, quiet evening as oarsmen labor under weary voices and a pale star rises. The narrator questions fate and life while the oiler and correspondent share the toil before the cook muses on pie.
A humorous New York San story recalls a circus boy and his 18 foot giraffe who fetch a baseball from a gutter. When a rainstorm alters the water flow the giraffe cannot find the ball, revealing the cause with a gentle, comic twist.
A New York Times item recounts a college president traveling to New York who meets a farmer from a New Hampshire hill village. The farmer, recognizing the president, declares he knows bunko sellers and moves away with his carpetbag after a tense exchange.
A Mississippi editor pleads delinquent subscribers to pay up and support the paper. He asks readers to send nickels and dimes to help stock the stockings, dresses for children, and general relief. The plea frames payments as feeding the printer and aiding town growth.
The Atlantic's Benjamin I Wheeler argues Constantinople could fall to Russia as Britain weighs its options. He notes naval sacrifices at Salonika to force the Dardanelles and says Suez redirects the struggle back to the eastern Mediterranean, with England needing Suez to protect India and Australia.
Gustav Kobbe's roundabout essay contrasts seafaring craft with compass use and notes that skilled helmsmen steer by signs and conditions, not by the instrument alone. The piece then shifts to a Sunday School lesson on Hosea inviting Israel and believers to turn to God and live by His grace.
It describes morning tiredness bad mouth taste and coated tongue as early signs of dyspepsia and liver disorders. The U S Army Navy Tablets are promoted as a quick remedy with a few doses claimed to improve weak or sour stomach and constipation. It instructs sending 10 cents for a package of 12 to a New York address.
Louis Rote extols the New England shore dinner as a cheap yet festive seaside treat that can be prepared at home. He outlines a complete menu including fish or clam chowder, steamed clams, bluefish with stuffing, fried perch, and batter fried clams, plus simple butter sauce and beverages.
Recipe describes combining water butter and flour to form paste then folding in eggs and currants. Form paste pipes into hot lard to fry until puffed, color evenly, and serve with powdered fur. Yield serves ten.
Butter a two-quart dish and layer bread with cinnamon nutmeg and raisins. Soak in milk overnight, drain excess milk add four eggs sugar and salt. Return bread, top with more milk, bake three hours in a moderate oven with cover initially.
Cut fruit into small pieces and boil gently with water until broken down. Strain juice, press to extract remaining liquid, then measure juice and add one pound of sugar per pint. Boil twenty minutes, skim, and dissolve heated sugar into the juice. Filter through hot cheesecloth, fill glasses, cool, and seal. Use best sugar, warn of cloudiness if over squeezed.
A simple omelet method uses scalded milk butter corn starch two eggs salt and pepper. Cook corn starch in butter, add milk, cool, fold in yolks then stiff whites, bake in hot pan, roll and slide to platter. Repeat with remaining mixture for a light, not heavy omelet when eaten promptly.
Mix flour and baking powder sugar and salt. Add milk and butter. Roll to half inch thick and bake fifteen minutes. Split spread with berries sugar stand, crush berries, rejoin top half and serve with whipped cream if desired.
Steam the rhubarb then drain and beat to pulp. Mix with one pint pulp one cup sugar one teaspoon flour and two eggs. Bake in one crust and cover with meringue.
A home cookable recipe mix shows roasting potatoes with beef for browning and tenderness. Also presents a Shredded Wheat Biscuit Jelly Apple Sandwich with Bromangelon, apples, and gelatine layers, plus optional fruit substitutions and serving notes from The Shredded Wheat Co. Worcester Massachusetts.
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