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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
8
Table lists baking and cooking times for biscuits bread sponge cake thin cakes custards thick fish small whole fish gens mullins patiles pies potatoes pudding scalloped dishes with time ranges from 15 to 80 minutes and up to eight to ten hours for overall baking.
A reader’s fragment describes chopping pork and chicken with onion and ginger then frying in olive oil. A second mixture blends salad oil vinegar Worcestershire sauce and boiling water with cloves salt and pepper. The dish finishes with mush eg boiled briefly.
A historic recipe describes steaming gingerbread with flour sugar spices and currants. It lists measurements for flour soda cinnamon ginger caraway seeds and butter milk eggs and melted butter. The batter is steamed in a buttered mold for about two and a half hours.
A kitchen pointer lists six boiled potatoes two small onions and hard boiled eggs chopped coarsely. Dressing mixes vine ar butter mustard sugar cayenne two beaten eggs and vinegar then cooks until thickened.
Peel and separate four oranges into lobes then cut each lobe into three pieces. Blanch and dry, break into bits, and crush English walnuts to a tea cupful. Seed and bury Malaga grapes. Mix with lettuce, salt, and top with a mayonnaise dressing. Chill in ice before serving.
Heat a quart of oysters in their liquor until edges curl. In another vessel heat a quart of milk with a bit of baking soda stirred in. Melt a generous tablespoonful of butter, add the hot oysters and liquor, season with salt and pepper, and serve at once with oyster crackers.
Two cups Indian men in a basin with flour baking soda salt and sultana raisins. Beat one egg add molasses and buttermilk mix into dry ingredients and bake after rising. Then use rusk scraps sugar and butter to form dough rise bake with sugar cinnamon topping.
A jumbled excerpt offers tips on cooking methods and home care. It mentions frying radishes with beefsteak ham and mushrooms like mushrooms, extinguishing oil fires with flour and earth, old fried chicken with cream sauce and corn fritters, and cleaning guidance for doors, perfumes, hard water softening, stain removal with salt borax and borax, grease treatment with boiling soap, plus warnings about moisture and packing in outdated phrasing.
Dun's Review of Trade notes improvements across banks and manufacturing with stronger demand for Christmas wares and luxuries. Freight and grain movements increase as heavy materials and merchandise expand. Failures in the Chicago district fall to 41 with liabilities over 5000 at 13, from prior weeks.
Tetail and holiday trade show strength while wholesale and jobbing markets slow. Colder weather and year end stock-taking dampen expectations, especially in the South where low priced cotton retards demand. Best signals come from the Southwest, spring wheat, and Pacific Northwest. Industrial orders stay steady despite higher raw material costs. some idle machinery remains. Business failures in the United States reach 208 for the week ended December 10, down from prior weeks. Canada reports 60 failures, up from last week.
An itemized list shows live cattle hogs sheep and grain prices for markets including Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs hay and clover with ranges and no clear single event.
The Aerial Navigation Company formed to run an airship line between Boston and New York has loaned two acres in Boston for Station No 1 and secured landing rights on Commonwealth Avenue and the Lar vard Bridge. Capt Baldwin promises the first dirigible no later than May 1.
Eugene M Fosshag orders immediate construction of a 65 000 000 cotton mill in East Boston on sixty five acres fronting the Chelsea river. The plant will have 7 500 homes and 260 000 spindles and require 800 000 workers to operate making Boston a leading textile center in New England.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago, a major benefactor of Western colleges, announced after a tour of inspection that he will distribute $3,000,000 more, beginning near July. He has endowed a large number of small institutions, and the new funds will support their ongoing work.
Officers of the Chicago and Northwestern query on 24000 tons of steel for terminal tracks. Chicago and Northwestern orders 15 Atlantic locomotives 18 eight wheel and 25 ten wheel switch engines. AFL forms railway employer department to unite big unions. Rock Island under Harriman influence amid Kuba Loeb tied finance. Chicago and Ahem plans 80 locomotives. Rock Island buys 60. Minnesota denies depot at Slolman. Ann Arbor contracts 40 rail joints with Lackawanna. Brainerd tests creosoted blocks for depot paving as strike threats loom.
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin records October fire losses across the United States and Canada totaling 22 722 850 dollars. The report highlights a sharp rise in October losses compared with 1907 and notes 304 October fires each costing 10 000 dollars or more, with eighteen fires exceeding 200 000 dollars.
Professor Kennedey of Harvard argues modern sport values record over rival victory. The Cornell farm train for New York State College of Agriculture tours stations with lectures on local crops. A Ghent congress deems punishment ineffective for refractory children and urges psychic development. Harvard Library receives 11 587 volumes funded as Weld Memorial. Wesleyan elects Arnald Shanklin as president. A New York branch promotes Industrial Education to enable trade schools. Northwestern address cites college bred prisoners and prisons’ causes.
The Canal Commission details last fiscal year work toward the isthmian canal. Total costs reach 120 4408 with 43 050 workers on payroll and a death rate of 18.02 per thousand.
Isthmian Canal Commission reports progress on the Panama Canal with payrolls around 4 057 men and total appropriations of 120 001 405 58, noting military style but undisputed facts. It details lock and dam work, Gatun dam concerns, Sos Corosal dam site shifts, groundwater issues at Gatun, and 12 065 188 cubic yards removed in the Culebra cut. Sanitary conditions continue to improve.
The document surveys international labor activity from 1 500 000 French union members to 830 000 laundresses in France and details union counts in Santa Clara California. It notes Shanghai fishermen sons schooling, 1828 Workingmen's party emergence, Boston eight hour chorus for women, New York street paper vending laws, and 150 labor measures for California legislature. It covers wages cuts in England, employment bureaus in Alsace Lorraine, metal trades in Boston, California labor commissions abroad, Japanese emigrants to Brazil, and varied ratios of skilled to unskilled workers in German towns. It also mentions 1702 shoe workers union in Philadelphia and Boston union class in steam engineering, Spanish child labor limits, and Central Federated Union cooperation with Charity Organization Society to curb tuberculosis among craftsmen.
Congress activity centers on pension bills and the Brownsville affair. Senate considers omnibus claims and postal savings measures while House passes the legislative and executive appropriation bill. Debates highlight boundary lines, aliens protection, and district affairs.
Fire in Courratia Mu destroyed three blocks of property, leaving sixty five families homeless. Nearby incidents include a Delaware plant almost leveled by flames and a Brooklyn hotel death by suicide, with broader notes on a world record mile time and disputed press synopses from the era.
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