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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
6
Recipes for luncheon dishes including sweetbreads with mushrooms and cream sauce, chicken with Virginia ham and butter, ginseng seasoned chicken, and tomatoes stuffed with ripe olives. Includes steps for frying, baking, and serving with watercress nests and cheese sandwiches.
A guide to peach prep for conching and preserving with methods for Sweet Pickled Peaches Spiced Peaches and Peach Marmalade. Also covers canned peaches and preserved watermelon rind plus Tomato Honey Tomato Figs and flavors like Mocha Caramel Butter and almond lemon blends.
Quoted line by Charles Kingsley urges immediate kindness amid rush and sudden ends. It argues delaying kindness wastes value and questions the benefit of any act done a day late. Reflects timeless emphasis on prompt benevolence.
Rita Snyder, a sixteen year old stenographer in Savannah, stops a daylight office safe robbery by grappling with a masked assailant. She frees herself, alerts police, and the robber flees. The safe held only a few dollars. motive unclear. Snyder, supporting her mother and sister, is studying bookkeeping at a business college. Police lack leads on the attacker.
Sleep the collie dog saved master Henry Miller's life by diverting a charging bull that gored Jake Miller, 23, and Valentine Miller, 15, who remain seriously injured. Shep, bandaged with a splinted leg, is under veterinary care while the father drove the animal away with a pitchfork.
Emil H. Johnson, a substitute mail clerk, levered his quick mind to avoid a severe fate when his arm tangled in a conveyor. He jumped onto the moving belt, freed his arm, and after the line stopped, returned to work without harm.
A fragmentary tale recounts Pat lying near death as friends Clancy and McManigan visit his bedside. They find a jug and offer a final drink, Pat signaling gratitude but hinting caution as the scene closes in a rough, anecdotal tone.
A quirky reminiscence features Lord Kitchener admiring old china and a witty interviewer. The piece shifts to a street scene in Cairo where a Canadian mistaken as Australian prompts playful banter about a kangaroo feather in the hat. A church joke targets Bill Shumonus’s expected generosity and the empty plate gag.
A wife of a prominent national figure discusses marriage as stabilizing for men in public life. She favors a calm home to avoid friction, noting her duty is at home and home life should be happy and normal, while praising a wife’s role in smoothing a husband’s rough edges.
A child questions who owns the house, suspecting a partnership between mother and father. The mother coyly reveals the pact predates the child, remarking that a lazy man should marry to avoid self reliance and that a fool pays for many wise things.
In the Art Gallery a taunt about a newly rich friend leads to a sly remark. A companion recalls being with him in a corner saloon when the friend acquired the bust. The dialogue hints at social satire and a public display of wealth.
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