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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 31, 1918

Page

1

Clover Leaves and Savory Dishes For Kiddies Menu

A fragment lists home cooking ideas and recipes such as Clover Leaves cookies, Farina Date Pudding, Clam Pie, Oysters in Savory style, Baked Eggs, Sour Cream Omelet, Chicken on Ramekins, Mary Prickford Fried Chicken, Bean Scallop, Pot Cheese With Chives, and Fruit Salad. It includes brief culinary tips, ingredients, and serving hints from a vintage domestic column, aiming at mothers preparing meals for children.

Mary Prickford

Pancake Recipes with Varied Flavors and Dishes

A feature lists numerous pancake varieties and accompaniments including Apple flavored, Potato and Corn pancakes, layer cakes, and related side dishes. It details batter ratios, cooking methods, and serving suggestions. bonus notes include a diplomat quip about handling a collector.

Kitchen Scraps Good for Fowls Plan to Produce Eggs

Backyard flocks can use kitchen waste to supplement feed and reduce grain use as egg prices rise. Feed scraps like bread crumbs, vegetable tops, potato peels, and sour milk carefully, avoiding moldy or spoiled items. Grind scraps, scatter grain for foraging exercise, and include a dry mash of ground grains for balanced nutrition.

How to feed hens and break a broodiness in poultry

Neighbors can save kitchen waste to feed hens. A dry mash mix uses cornmeal, bran, middlings, beef scrap or fish scrap. add grit and shells and keep water available. For breaking broodiness, confine the hen to a small coop for three to twelve days, with ample water, until nesting urges subside.

Start Hennery Now to Help Egg Supply

Eggs range from 60 to 70 cents a dozen in many places. The piece urges town residents to become producers, noting six to eight hens can supply a family with eggs for several people. It cites Backyard Poultry Keeping, Farmers’ Bulletin 880, from the USDA, as guidance and offers to send it.

United States Department of Agriculture

Feeding table scraps to pigs instruction from old text

The passage describes grinding table scraps and mixing in corn meal or bran to form a crumbly mass. It suggests feeding the mixture at noon or night, either once or twice daily, via trough or board, and ensures all scraps are eaten clean. It mentions adding some grain to the scraps and considers a night feed as practical.

Dream ship voyage returns with $30,000 fortune for elderly captain

New Bedford's Captain Benjamin S. Cleveland, seventy, fulfilled a boyhood dream by reclaiming the old whaler Charles W. Morgan and sailing to Desolation Island. After an 15,000 mile voyage with 80 crew, the voyage yielded a cargo valued at about $30,000, bringing him back to New Bedford aboard the dream ship.

New Bedford Mass Charles W. Morgan Benjamin S. Cleveland Cleveland Walrhaven Cape Town Aturlen America West Indies

Shorter sentence frees Alabama gambler on habeas ruling

J I Bailey of Leighton was convicted for operating a gambling table and initially given six months in the penitentiary. The circuit court ordered his release after finding the trial judge erred by imposing a six month term when the law required at least one year.

Montgomery Ala J. I. Bailey Leighton Bailey

Most Valuable Book in Florence Museum Codex Amintinus

The Medico Laurentian museum in Florence Italy reportedly holds the Codex Amintinus hailed as the world’s most valuable book and possibly the oldest best Latin Bible manuscript. Scholars date its origin to the ninth century and believe English priests may have copied St Jerome’s translation from Greek and Hebrew sources.

Medico Laurentian Museum Florence Italy St. Jerome

Recipe for Gray Hair Dye Promises Natural Look

A home preparation combines water with Bay om, Barbo Compound, and glycerine to darken faded gray hair. Sold by druggists or mixed at home, it claims to color without scalp staining, stickiness, or rub-off. Fuller directions accompany each Barbo Compound box. Also a joke about a sentimental young woman and a man’s reply about betting losses.

Hall's Catarrh Medicine ad and health quips

An old newspaper snippet blends an ad for Hall's Catarrh Medicine promising blood cleansing to prevent colds, with miscellaneous quotes about weather, health products, and moral lines. Mentions F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and generic health advice.

Hall F. J. Cheney & Co Toleio Ohio

Bliggies in Hot Water and a Cold-Blooded Relief

A playful column quotes Bliggies in hot water and Miss Cayenne notes cold-blooded relief. It jests about a man across the pond and remarks that some men are born great yet slump afterward.

Miss Cayenne

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