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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
6
The article offers broad advice on farm management including feeding bees with surplus honey, mixing syrup for hives, soil humus for water retention, and breeding practices. It stresses scientific farming, careful animal care, cautious winter feeding, improving pastures, and using equipment like separators and traps nests while noting specific tips for cows horses pigs sheep ducks and hens.
In Mount Lebanon Bienville Parish a Civil War era medicine lab well became a trap for animals. A goose strayed near the old well and vanished. A hawk then dived in, retrieved a white toad and a snake, and the goose reemerged with a snake in its beak. The owner killed the snake and hawk, and saved the goose. The hawk measured about five feet from tip to wing tip.
A Philadelphia drugstore clerk phoned a newspaper for ads and flirted with a soft voiced caller. He sent candy weekly and finally visited the newspaper office to meet the voice, paying 6.75 dollars for sweets. The encounter reveals a lighthearted tale of a clerk’s persistent, playful pursuit.
A suburban husband in the city helps his wife shop for a shirtwaist. When asked color and size, he says it does not matter because he will have to return tomorrow to exchange it. The anecdote is attributed to Ladies’ Home Journal.
A vintage recipe lists Webster Pudding using 1 cup molasses 1 cup mill 1/2 cup melted butter 1/2 cup brandy or wine 1 tsp soda 1 tsp cinnamon cloves nutmeg 1 lb currants and a pinch of salt. Mix to a soft pound cake batter and steam or boil two hours. Serve with hard or wine sauce. Use half the recipe for a small family and save leftovers for steaming again.
Judge Horner warned Burlington county liquor licensees that full license privileges require serving the traveling public at reasonable hours. He warned licenses may be revoked without remonstrance if the law’s intent isn’t fulfilled. Also reported is the Hopewell woman Harriet Morrell’s suicide by cistern, and millville tax decisions on water and gas plants.
In Trenton a Greek Catholic priest nearly died as Guylia Toth was executed by electric chair. The priest held a metal crucifix to the condemned man’s lips during the litany and nearly conducted electricity into himself. Toth murdered his wife last September and attempted suicide before arrest.
TRY THESE ON COOK Corn Oysters Is New Dish That Makes an Agreeable Change Chicken Souffle and Potato Croquettes in Latest Style. Corn Oysters half of a can of corn put through a chopper and mixed with two beaten eggs two tablespoonfuls of milk one tablespoonful of melted butter a high seasoning of salt and pepper one teaspoonful of baking powder and sufficient flour to make a thick batter. This is dropped by small spoonfuls in a pan containing little hot fat and fried brown. Chicken Souffle One cup cold cooked chicken three eggs one tablespoon chopped parsley three tablespoons each butter and flour one and one half cups stock or milk salt pepper and grated lemon rind. Make foundation sauce by blending butter and flour then adding stock or milk stirring until boils. Cook two minutes season and cool. Add yolks of eggs meat parsley and lemon rind and last of stiffly beaten whites. Bake in steady oven forty minutes and serve with a mushroom sauce. Potato Croquettés Two cups cold mashed potatoes two eggs beaten to froth two tablespoons cream one tablespoon chopped parsley one teaspoon onion juice two teaspoons melted butter one teaspoon salt a grating of nutmeg and a dash of cayenne. Beat eggs lightly add to potatoes then add other ingredients mix and form into croquettes shaped like cylinders. Roll in beaten egg then in bread crumbs fry in hot fat until a light golden brown color.
Illinois experiment station researchers studied how extractives leach into water from meat during boiling. They note piece size and pre soaking affect flavor loss and that searing or plunging into boiling water reduces extraction.
Flora Hamilton, a Scotch Irish educated cook from a wealthy New York family, becomes White House cook in charge of all cooking and winter dinners. Amelia Howard resigned due to illness and Martha Peterson also left to marry policeman James Mulvey in the executive offices.
A recipe instructs to mix one pint cooked salmon with lemon juice vinegar salt pepper capers and French dressing. Chill two to three hours before serving. Prepare crisp lettuce by washing and layering leaves, then top with salmon and capers for serving.
A neighborhood favorite recipe uses four cups flour four teaspoons baking powder half teaspoon salt two tablespoons sugar and a little over a pint of sweet milk. Mix form into a loaf and bake in a moderate oven until well done and brown on top.
One half pound of turkey meat left from slicing fried crisp then poured over five well beaten eggs with half cup milk and a pinch of salt. Scramble in a hot skillet until firm and serve on drowned crackers.
Women suffering from any illness are urged to contact Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. All letters are answered by women and confidences kept private. Readers are invited to request Lydia E. Pinkham’s 80 page Text Book free by mail today.
A passenger note from Harper's Weekly recounts a professor sneezing and an absent minded error. He held a baby and, misunderstanding the cry, offered a pepper pot instead of a rattle. The scene ends with amused visitors and remarks on his forgetfulness.
A summer boarder and a farmer’s wife trade quips about hens. The boarder wonders whether to say a sitting or setting hen, while the wife jokes that when a hen cackles the question is whether she is saying something or merely lying.
The Chronic Grumbler laments life as disappointment while the Cheerful Idiot offers cheer. A man recalls receiving fifty dollars for a newspaper photo claiming cure by Bunk's pills and faces relatives asking why he won’t work now that he is cured.
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