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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
9
Extensive agricultural notes emphasize seed corn testing, selective breeding, silage use, and poultry care. It covers calving, milk production, feed choices, and sanitation practices, urging careful record keeping, housing, and timely seed orders. It promotes Holstein Ayrshire and milking shorthorn breeds, Guernsey cream, and practical dairy herd management.
An old cabinet notebook outlines liquid foods for infants and the ill, plus methods for preparing beef essences, barley water, clam water, and diluted fruit juices. It also covers bread judging, kneading, and baking times to produce well-shaped, elastic loaves with balanced flavor and texture.
Care of milk products hinges on cleanliness and coolness. Clean milking, sterilized equipment, and rapid cooling keep milk sweet. air exposure and warmth invite bacteria. Butter quality suffers from overworking and long cream storage. wash butter milk and minimize handling to preserve grain and flavor.
A fragmentary cookbook column offers recipes including Relish with salt pork and potatoes, Ponhoss scrawple inspired dish, Egg Dainty with citrus gelatine and egg, Concord Cream dessert with grape color, and Waldorf style eggs on toast with mushroom garnish, reflecting old-fashioned home cooking.
Readers learn that no two cooks agree on beans method and flavoring. John Muir notes cooks seek a unique touch, with molasses, sugar, or pepper and even ash or soda to adjust sweetness and softness, while wine casks differ in effect. Many factors, from moon to season, influence the final beans.
Dispatches report Taft ordering rapid deployment to Texas and California to halt arms smuggling and crush the Mexican revolution. Analysts dispute aims with some saying the Diaz regime will fall, others predicting overt intervention. President Taft tours south as troops form a solid wall along the Rio Grande.
The Iowa House on Thursday refused to pass the Oregon primary bill over Governor Carroll's veto. The vote was 69 yeas and 37 nays, a constitutional two thirds majority required to override the veto, but it did not pass.
Three men described as Italian nobles were arrested in Paris on Thursday and charged with swindling Levin Hart, a young American, out of 520000. The alleged scheme involved promising investments and fake titles to induce the loss. Authorities say the case reflects a sophisticated international fraud ring.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe, gentle laxative for women and children, noting its cleansing and strengthening effects, cold and indigestion relief, and high popularity. It warns against imitations and directs buyers to purchase from the California Fig Syrup Co with the full name on every package, price 50 cents.
A country resident recalls a blood curdling screech owl omen. She avoids Christmas in the country after the owl’s first appearance and again when it returns. The coachman mentions an old rule as she packs for New York, shivering at the thought.
A German woman's rights advocate calls for compulsory domestic service for women to balance military conscription. She argues military drill has strengthened German manhood and questions why women cannot master kitchen tasks similarly. She warns that if Germany enforces a standing army, other nations may follow, noting the world needs cooks more than soldiers for survival.
The article notes tubercular disease spreading among Arabs and Syrians with fear and stigma. A new hospital for consumptives has been opened at Beyrout under Dr Mary P Wdy.
Music halls have declined little in recent years while some shift back to drama others mix drama with variety. Picture houses have expanded with new buildings and gains in cinema entertainment across London stages.
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