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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1873
Page
4
The diary notes homemade recipes for fried cakes and biscuits with step by step quantities. It also covers bread line breakfast, oven timing, silver cleaning with potato water, and recipes for dried apple cake and black cake with detailed ingredient lists.
A dated 1873 letter from Home describes family life with Tom, Bruno, Hal, and other relatives. The writer notes Indian Summer weather, corn husking, a new wheat field, and daily routines including tea and school. Toys, pets, recipes, and reading habits reveal a domestic scene with affectionate details and humor.
A mother's calm search into a baby's fretfulness helps. Possible causes include tiredness thirst tight clothing or a waistband constriction. Describing one case a mother undressed her child to find immediate relief and instructing mothers to examine all possible reasons.
Detroit journals quote Henry Clews claiming extravagance by women causes hard times. The piece notes Mrs Podhammer spends 20 for a bonnet prompting husband to scold and spend 40 on dining, while Podhammer himself remains frugal except for his wife’s costly financial antics.
A rail of garments labeled for men youths boys children fat lean tall short cler gym doctors lawyers merchants mechanics farmers railroad men and many roles. The catalog promises outfits for church parties weddings business and everywhere under a broad, humorous banner.
The passage portrays John C Calhoun as a complex figure praised for intellect and private warmth yet misunderstood publicly as a cold formalist. It notes his genial private life, tact in conversation, and willingness to face critique, paralleling him with Jefferson in mind and contrasting him with Clay in demeanor and political reception.
The New York Herald reports about 40,000 city residents idle and seeking work to obtain food clothing coal and shelter. Laura Keere, famed New York actress born in England in 1830 and former Metropolitan Theatre proprietor, dies of consumption. American Cousin premiered by her. R M T Hunter of Virginia advocates government payments to emancipated slaves via a $400 million interest-free loan to former slave states to be reloaned to slave owners. Washington note says no Chief Justice likely from among Supreme Court justices, with Conkling seen as possible pick by some.
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