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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
3
A persuasive call urges immediate, united community action to fight houseflies before warm weather multiplies their numbers. Citizens are urged to join, provide open manure piles and refuse screens, and resist passivity to prevent disease and infestation.
Chicago health authorities report a citywide drive last summer led by the Clean Chicago federation including the health department stores clubs physicians and the board of education. Women played a pivotal role in promoting fly extermination and household awareness, aiming to extend the initiative to surrounding communities.
A list of tested kitchen dishes including Egg Noodles With Anchovies with butter onion parsley wine and noodles. Egg Noodle Sweet Souffle a milk egg yolk and white mixture baked in a water bath. Vermicelli Sweet Custard milk sugar eggs vanilla baked in a water bath. Macaroni Soup with tomatoes and cream. Soup Spanish With Rings a meat bean onion garlic peppers lemon and rings in a peppery broth.
Beat double cream with lemon juice and salt until firm. Cook two apples in sugar syrup with cloves or cinnamon, chill. Chop maraschino cherries and nuts. Wash lettuce heads, plate with an apple center. Mix cherries into the cream and pour over apples.
A dated recipe instructs using one pound sugar per pound rhubarb, layering pieces, overnight soaking, morning liquid boil for 30 minutes, readding rhubarb to simmer ten minutes without stirring. Sterilize jars in boiling water, fill while hot, invert to cool, store dark. Strawberries may be preserved similarly with less sugar.
To launder fringed cloths press care with starch. Fold each cloth in four like a handkerchief and fold fringe inward. Gather fringe, dip the middle into starch, then dry shake and comb. The fringe will fall softly and look nearly new.
A simple mixed fruit filling combines one cupful seeded raisins and one cupful raw cranberries, chopped. Add one third cupful water and two thirds of a cupful sugar with a heaping teaspoonful flour, mix with sugar, and bake between two crusts.
Cut up turnip and salt with water with an onion till tender. Drain water, mash turnip and onion to a wether, add butter and a little pepper. Serve hot.
Western Mining and Oil News reports higher metal prices with spot figures for spelter copper lead and bar silver. It notes tungsten booms in Rollinsville and Boulder county labor shifts, ore shipments from Breckenridge to Denver, and a flurry of mining deals including the Crise Bracken group sale and a major silver mine strike near Caribou.
New Mexico’s total gross mineral production for 1915 reached 23 million dollars per revised State Tax Commission figures. Mike Wolf and associates accelerate construction of a new concentrator west of Magdalena. Oll exploration across districts with no prior tents is now nearly assured for the year. On March 31 Chino Copper Company paid a dividend of 1.26 dollars per share totaling 1,087,475 dollars.
The Midwest expands its Casper plant while numerous oil leases are signed at Douglas Wyoming. Coal output reached 6,874,167 tons last year. A new $30,000 oil firm forms in Casper. J. C. Platt and H. W. Larkin report a rich gold strike in the encampment district. Amalgamated Development Corp of New York to open the Madel mine near Sheridan after two years closed, also active in oil. A flow of oil was struck in the Stubbs and Lamb claim at Matuna at 860 feet, cased off, drill seeks deeper strata.
The Nebraska State Journal warns that opening a 4000 acre North Platte tract signals the end of free land distribution. It argues land hunger will drive internal settlement as prices rise and land speculation grows, urging forethought on addressing internal social pressures. The piece notes Canada offers 160 acre free grants and cheaper Western Canada lands, highlighting higher crop values and rising U.S. land prices.
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