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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
3
A dated recipe collection describes Iced dishes using buttermilk, fruit juices, and sugar, including Raspberry Ice, Rice With Raspberry Sauce, Raspberry Whip, Raspberry Bavarian Cream, and Angel Food With Berries. Instructions cover fruit prep, crushing, sugaring, gelatin, molds, chilling, and serving with fresh berries or jam.
A reader explains reducing heat in meals during hot weather by favoring salads and light dishes. Emphasis on starch, fat, and sugar reduction, replacement with vegetables and lean proteins such as eggs cheese fish and beans. Roquefort salad and cheese jelly salad described with dressing and molds. Fruit salads suggested with nuts and tomato caps.
Historic home dessert ideas include banana split with pineapple and almonds, Walnut Delight custard with walnuts and vanilla, Marshmallow Glace with cocoa syrup, Chartreuse of Jelly from gelatin within cake, and coconut custards with grated orange peel. Recipes are described in period tone with simple steps.
A period style recipe note outlines light supper options including St Regis Salad, Fruit and Pepper Salad, Olive and Celery Sandwiches, Poppy Seed Salad, and a tart apple onion topping. Instructional details cover ingredients such as sweetbreads, celery, almonds, grapes, peppers, olives, lettuce, and dressings, with serving ideas and portions.
On farms lacking springs or running water a concrete water tank provides a reliable supply. The guide covers mix ratios of cement sand and gravel, form construction, reinforcement with woven wire fencing, and tips to prevent cracking and facilitate removal of forms. It lists materials for a six foot 400 gallon tank and notes round forms are stronger with less concrete.
Frank Kleinheinz outlines two key tips for beginners in sheep farming in a bulletin from the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. He advises using a purebred vigorous ram and starting with a small flock, noting that ewes from western ranges can be paired with purebred meat breeds. Early crossbreeding has shown strong results at the station and other farms, and a well-managed small flock can quickly grow into a profitable, larger operation. Copies are available from the College of Agriculture in Madison.
On farms alfalfa hay should be protected from rain to preserve value. Well-cured hay gains price and stays saleable. on the farm it retains nutritive value when sheltered. Cheap storage can be built with 20 foot poles and a pitched corrugated roof, walls only up to five to seven feet high.
During the summer, examine young trees to guide growth. Thin excess limbs to the required number and remove limbs crossing the center. Pinch back strongest limbs to balance the framework and coax side limbs to spread. For upright varieties, plough back worn tips to encourage outward growth and a spreading form.
The article describes baling timothy hay in the field as advantageous and increasingly common. It notes that cut at the right stage and thoroughly cured, timothy hay can be baled and stored in a closed barn the same day. It advises timing when bloom has fallen and few heads turning yellow, with proper curing conditions and minimal rank weeds to enable quick drying and storage.
Enoch Chase in Larned Kansas reports finding a broken snake joint in a log dugout. The snake pieces separated and rejoined in a bucket, each segment advancing as a head whistled. The final split group then scattered as an automobile approached, sending the pieces fleeing into tall grass.
An elderly man in gray silk and suede buys a 50 cent cigar at an uptown hotel counter. He uses a yellow back to stub and light the flame, leaves a gas lighter on the counter, and the bellboys watch as the burning paper is discarded. A bystander jokes the man may be a moving picture actor, noting the paper could be redeemed by Uncle Sam.
In Waterbury Connecticut nine year old Andrew Yankauskas and his eight year old sister Mary reenacted the fairy tale Babes in the Wood. They wandered five days after straying from home while fishing, surviving on wild berries and sleeping under trees until a policeman located them near Lakewood Park.
Mrs. D. Butler aged sixty and Peter J. Dobbs aged sixty eight in New York have remarried after a separation of 33 years. They had each remarried previously, and their former spouses have since died.
A Durand Wisconsin and Blackstone Massachusetts testimonies praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief during the Change of Life and age related symptoms. Advert blurb warns middle aged women to heed warning symptoms as backaches headaches and dizziness.
Mr Dustin Stax explains that mesmerists once began by fixing a shivin substance before the eyes and notes many men lose ordinary ideas when shown a silver dollar. The exchange questions whether anyone can be hypnotized.
A ship's officer teases an elderly passenger on her first voyage by noting eight bells in the watch while she wonders aloud if the watch below strikes as loudly as the ship's bells. The exchange captures lively aboard chatter during a calm sea crossing.
A courtroom exchange recalls a spectator’s distracting attire as a judge suggests suppressing unnecessary noises. The remark centers on a green and white striped sweater worn by a blonde in the next foursome and is cited as a case of obtrusive fashion drawing attention during proceedings.
In a humorous exchange, a group jokes that their landlady reads the war news closely and worries about meat rationing. The line implies a dormitory or boardinghouse setting with residents chuckling over weekly meat-card schedules and wartime shortages.
Tommy returns from fifteenth month in the trenches and jokes with Jimmy about the gas works smelling lovely. London Sketch notes most charity contributors are caught in the act, capturing wartime social irony.
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