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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1910
Page
5
A brief kitchen hack describes bending a metal belt to create a spoon holder for kettles. The springy metal fits the kettle rim, allowing a spoon to drain back into the pot and the water to be added without removing the spoon.
A 19th century style home remedy describes weekly steam facial to soften pores followed by manual extraction of blackheads and pimples. It prescribes cleansing creams, toilet waters, and light powder for finished skin. Formulations include Disensing Cream with almonds wax orange flower water and zinc oxide and Pimple Cream with lanolin almonds sulphur and violet extract. Tollet Water uses Hider flower water and distilled water.
A historic recipe describes cutting pumpkin into large pieces, simmering, then mixing pulp with milk sugar ginger salt to create a pie filling. It advises pastry, topping with butter, and baking, with optional apple tart variations using sugar raisins and lemon tiles for flavor.
A fragment describes escaloped oysters with hot milk and cracker crumbs. Layer crackers and oysters, pour hot milk with melted butter, season with pepper, top with butter pieces, and bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
A garbled cooking fragment describes bacon dice, cheese on bread, oven baking, and a browned finish. It includes references to soda salt, cornmeal, graham, milk, molasses, and raising agents with unclear quantities and steps. The text ends with a note about baking in small cans.
Readable fragments describe a skin care preparation using fats oils and egg yolk with instructions to mix and apply. The text mentions oils, rose oil, jellies, beaten egg yolks, and butter, but many words are garbled making exact steps unclear.
A child learns about ants cleaning themselves and their daily routines while a guide describes Chalcedony Park near Holbrook and Corazo stations in Arizona. The vast petrified forest spans hundreds of miles with logs up to 150 feet long, showing kaleidoscopic interior colors and agate, jasper, topaz, and other stones.
A string of riddling quips and puns about dogs humans and animals, including jokes about a dog between a man and a boy, a dove's return to the ark, shamrocks in Ireland, good husbands like dough, and a partridge punchline. The fragmentary text mixes wordplay with light social observations from an old humorous page.
The text notes domestic cats reverting to semi wild state in the woods, becoming highly destructive to game such as pheasants partridges and rabbits. Climatic influences cause changes in fur length and habitat seeking dens in hollows. Cat behavior intensifies in summer with high kitten production and amplified sport game destruction.
A fragmented excerpt traces early batons in the 17th century and a German conductor's use of one to guide orchestras. It notes tensions over baton necessity and the shift of baton control from violinists to conductors, reflecting evolving conducting practice.
Poor, since the 'possbenda' only (one) crown. A garbled fragment questions how a speaker becomes bad and hints at violence yet preserves little factual detail.
Readable fragments describe riders and a teleconference contact related to a mother figure. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events, dates, or names. Further context is needed to form a precise summary.
A brisk roundup covers boxing contenders under new rules, football prospects for East and West, pro shows in Pittsburgh, and notable figures like Hyatt West Point and Johnny McGovern Milne. Also mentions Gil Hart, Langford standoff, Kaufman, and a Card Index for all major league players.
A provisional hockey match between Brattih ead French associations is planned for December in southern Fingland near London. Oxford and Cambridge are mentioned as possible venues with seating for about six hundred spectators and a twenty thousand language-related note linked to the event.
Whittemore spies a grieving deaf ward, Clara Van Cleve, at the seaside and later in society. He saves a woman from drowning, faces cold indifference, and learns the mystery of her identity and loneliness as their paths cross again at a gathering hosted by friends.
In South Carolina a brick colonial house once tied to Richard Granville hides a bronze bust and a sunlit eye motif. Colonel Elwood Granville, seeking a hidden vault, drilled ten feet into the cellar ceiling to uncover a long-buried clue tied to a slave-trade past and a mysterious inscription.
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