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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1913
Page
3
The text describes Parsnip Cakes with parboiled parsnips mashed and seasoned with pepper salt and fat then formed and fried. Lima Bean Salad lists ingredients including olive oil vinegar horseradish and peppers with pimentos. Jelly Whip instructions include gelatin soaking melting and folding with lemon juice macaroon bits and sherbet a garnish topping the dessert.
Mix three cupfuls of flour with salt in a basin. Melt butter with milk and whisk into a smooth paste with an egg yolk. Shape dough into a large disk, fill with chopped ham and veal seasoned with salt pepper and nutmeg, add a little stock, seal with a top pastry, brush with egg, bake in a moderate oven about one and a half hours.
The article counsels careful choice of Milady’s earrings to suit face shape and coloring. It warns long hanging earrings only for strong faces, favors fringed pendants for narrow faces, and notes colors must match hair and complexion. It advises pearls for youthful necks, blue gems for outfits, and advises vigorous beating of washed blankets to restore loft.
Sewing tips cover making cheap school handkerchiefs from sheer lawn or india, Vienna lace by peasant labor, securing ribbon with small lace buttons, a practical overall apron with wrist-length sleeves, and crocheted bedspreads in blocks that use carpet warp or coarse crochet cotton. It notes threading tape through buttons to secure durability.
Blue and yellow are the colonial colors with a blue bowl of yellow tulips and small blue dishes. Napkins folded into cocked hats, favors shaped as papier mache hatchets filled with candies or candied cherries. A ragged cherry tree stump with a hatchet serves as a bon bon box. Flags placed in almond bowls and olives. Ice cream served in hatchet form.
This home recipe describes making camphor soap by melting white soap bars with boiling water, then stirring in camphor and olive oil. The mixture is heated until nearly solid, beaten until thick, and poured into jars to harden.
Reports from Forest and Stream describe the moa, a twelve foot tall extinct bird of New Zealand. It stood among the largest known birds, with remains found in peat bogs and dunes. The creature resembled kiwis more than ostriches and likely disappeared about 500 years ago due to predation and lack of wings. A separate anecdote recalls a misidentified funeral procession in Cleveland, while a farmer notes unusually large corn in St Paul.
In Sandstone Overton waits out a 24 hour train delay. He attends the Cordon Stanley all star company at the Sandstone Opera House and, after a dull performance of As You Like It, discovers the lead actress is his former love Mabel. He proposes, she agrees to marry, and the marriage service is read at 11 o'clock that night. His manly pursuit ends with a bargain that the husband keeps to himself.
A clever method from the Children's Department shows how to learn a friend’s age and birthdate by having them write their birth day and month, perform simple arithmetic, and then disclose the final numbers. Subtract 615 to reveal the exact birth date and age.
A fragmentary verse recalls a child’s dream of immortality and patriotism as he gazes at Washington’s portrait. The speaker asks if the father of his country ever played as a boy, imagining shared childhood joys and the hope of bravery and truth before he dies.
A performer leaves the room and a confederate agrees with the audience to touch an article. The outside participant is recalled and questioned about touches. The key secret is to say the word that before the article touched instead of this, enabling the trick without obvious clues.
A historical note describes George Washington as six feet two inches tall and 175 pounds at age twenty eight with large limbs and strong musculature. At sixty five he remained straight and erect in carriage, with observers remarking he stayed notably upright.
A Harper's Bazar idea praises hanging a large United States map in the nursery to teach geography. A map of the state with counties and capitals aids family learning, encouraging frequent consultation with children and looking up unfamiliar towns in the news.
A set of light verse riddles contrasts bad cold with humiliation as a proud man sinks to his knees. A gambler is likened to a pugilist unable to win without somersaults, ivy to a stem winder on a tree, roads to corpses when mended, and cold cream to a chaperon keeping off the chaps.
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