Style in Sandwiches and Social Food Etiquette
Readers learn ideal sandwich forms round triangles and narrow oblongs with rolls as a novelty. Fillings range from meat and cheese to greens with mayonnaise, capers, and peppers. A second fragment shows Elder Harris debating horses with Brer Reuben, concluding the tenth commandment restrains covetous thoughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jace
Newburg
Elder Harris
Reuben
Elder
Harris
Chicago Tribune
Coffee Custard Without Eggs Reformulates Breakfast Flavor
Make a strong cup of coffee or use left over, strain into milk, heat in a double boiler with sugar corn starch salt and butter for twenty minutes. Remove from heat, add vanilla, pour into molds and chill. Serve with whipped cream. Cocoa can substitute coffee for flavor.
Milk Skin Prevention By Boiling Addition Method
A tip advises adding two tablespoonfuls of cold milk per pint at boiling to prevent a skin from forming on the surface. Stir briskly for a minute to absorb the skin and keep the milk from being impoverished.
Pate a Choux Basic Frying Method
A simple choux paste method using butter water flour salt and egg. Cook to form a ball, cool, fold in the egg, rest half an hour then drop small amounts into hot fat to fry crisp brown. Drain on paper and serve in clear soups.
To Wash Lace In Milk Soak Method
Old lace requires gentle handling avoid wringing. Soak lace in milk for twenty to twenty-five minutes to achieve a yellowish tint. Create suds with shaved soap and boiling water then squeeze lace in the water. Rinse in two or three waters and sweep it in the milk.
Fragmentary Goethe Quotation Shows Life Judgment Theme
A partial, OCR like line hints at Goethe on life and judgment, noting fault and opportunity. The readable fragment evokes the idea that judgment and chances define existence, suggesting a literary clipping rather than a full article.
Notable Advertisements and Text Fragments
An old OCR fragment references Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming gum relief and pain reduction. It interweaves a dubious proverb about prophets and a claim for Mrs Austin's Buckwheat Flour as a genuine old time product. The passage reads like a scattershot advertisement page with archaic phrasing and stray moral commentary.
Tough Luck For Both Fails to Move Rural Inquiry
A rural official says an investigation is needed while farmer Corntessel dismisses the effort, claiming investigations rarely alter personal biases or preferences. The exchange reflects skepticism toward official probes and the futility felt by locals.
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Farmer Corntessel
What Happened Fate and Opportunity in a Bazaar Tale
In Har per's Bazar a tale unfolds of fate and opportunity. Fate asks if you called, Opportunity answers yes, but she sent word by her servant that she wasn't in.
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Fate
Opportunity
Really Opened Their Eyes Parishioner's Remark
Rev Henry R. Rose recounts a Vermont parish tale where a young minister's grand sermons backfired on a praising old parishioner who claimed they were so enlightening that she finally learned what sin was. The anecdote, plus a political jab and a quip, appears in the Newark Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry R. Rose
Newark Star
Vermont
The Primitive Man and Jones’s Odd Dinner Etiquette
Comic exchange about Jones who talks loudly at the opera and dinner events. A stage hand removal of a table triggers his exclamation Super supe. At a meal Jones misreads a place setting and asks a waiter about the spoons. The anecdote closes noting he is rich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Opera House
Wealth Is Measured by What He Loves and Blesses
A reflective maxim from Carlyle asserts a man’s true wealth lies in the amount of things he loves and blesses and in how he is loved and blessed in return. The aphorism emphasizes inner riches over outward possessions and social status.
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Carlyle
Clean Food plant shows pure products in libel case
In Battle Creek, 25 workers testified under oath about factory cleanliness at the Grape-Nuts and Postum makers. Inspectors confirmed grain quality, sanitation, and that only advertised ingredients enter products while water comes from artesian wells.
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N. Y. Atty
Battle Creek
Geo. Haines
Edward Young
H. E. Burt
Attys
F. B. Martin
New Orleans
Postum Co
Horace Brown
Hach
Luther
Mayo
Company
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Brer
Sin
Pate
Choux
Goethe
Jenkins
Benedict
Cook
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Pres’t
Buffalo
N. Y
Swift
Swift & Company
Packers’ Ave
Chicago
Sinais
Putnam Faceless
Aster Cor el Wei
Green
Joakle
Coakley
Joakley
Catholic Standard and Times
Cicero
Quincy
Uliness
Australia
Labor
Ife
London Chronicle
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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