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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1912
Page
3
Voile remains a staple for summer wear with durable, light fabric options. Silk voile suits evening styles while wool and cotton voile expand versatility, including grenadines and crepons. The fabric blends with satin for depth, and heavier voiles suit short street gowns for spring and summer. Stripes are fashionable.
Use leftover mashed potatoes and roast from a previous dinner. Beat the potatoes with lightly whipped egg white, mix in sliced meat, minced celery onion parsley and optional Spanish red pepper. Season with salt and pepper, moisten with roast juices, top with potato, brush with egg, bake until browned. For best flavor, heat cold meat gently an hour before assembling.
A household tip explains making whitewash more durable by adding alum to each bucket and a pint of milk per bucket. This fix aims to prevent rubbing off and can extend the finish to five or six years.
To remove marble stains make a paste of fuller’s earth and powdered pipe clay mixed with strong soap lye. Apply thickly to the marble and press with a warm iron until dry. Let stand briefly then wash with water. Repeat if needed. The same method removes smoke discoloration from hard materials.
A historical cooking note describes making an old fashioned raisin pie with sour cream sugar and eggs baked between crusts. It also details cheese fritters and a hot Pumpkin Chips combination with apples cheese egg and lemon ginger and sugar.
This snippet offers practical household guidance: cleaning copper with lemon juice and hot water, judging beef quality by color and fat, restoring flat tasting boiled water by rapid pouring between pitchers, using cotton waste for cleaning and dusting, and removing candle grease with blotting paper, alcohol, and heat.
Linen belts and hand wrought buckles enhance spring ensembles. Belts match gown color with occasional white buckle decorations, creating coordinated, washable looks.
A simple sandwich filling blends peanut butter into cream cheese for a creamy spread on brown bread. Salt and paprika enhance the flavor, making a quick savory addition to sandwiches.
The article explains how Turkish customs used natural signs to tell time. It notes clocks were luxury in Turkey years ago, with cats eyes as a makeshift clock and the sun as a regulator. The pupil shape changes through the day offering a rough time cue.
A Washington Herald recounts Franklin observing a cheerful bystander among a crowd building a house in Philadelphia. The worker credits his constant happiness to his wife’s daily kindness and welcoming smiles. He says kindness at home breeds peace and prevents unkindness.
Municipal authorities establish free markets in Montevideo to curb the high cost of living by fixing food prices. The move creates government guided markets where staple foods are priced by the city.
The piece explains that superstition links luck to the number seven and to horseshoes. It notes people nail a horseshoe over doors for luck, emphasizes the seven nail holes as the key, and mentions the Bible's prominence of seven as a sacred number.
Photo shows children fed at a free distribution station in Lawrence Massachusetts where textile mill workers struck. As wages halt during strikes dependents seek aid from others and some children are moved to temporary homes in other cities while Lawrence unrest unfolds.
A short guide describes a prank where a volunteer closes eyes and crosses fingers. A pencil touches the fingertip tips and the person often insists two pencils touch his fingers. The snippet ends with a riddle-like line about what a man first sets him higher in his garden.
St Louis Globe Democrat reports cowboys soothe skittish steers by singing hymns. A cowboy circles the herd and keeps singing until all cattle lie down and sleep, after which the tired singer rests.
Miss Carrie Williams, a young telegraph operator at Stapleton, is discharged for being a woman by division superintendent Charles Morton. A nearby disaster near the Big Blue river prompts her to defend the line’s safety, and Morton's view shifts after she proves her competence. Six weeks later the superintendent steps down and she gains a higher posting.
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