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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
3
A vintage kitchen cabinet design is described with an upper cupboard left side showing a stationary flour sifter and a door back daily reminder disc listing needed articles. It includes a pan of utensils, spice jars, and a rolling top that serves as a bake board, with drawers and brackets for lids and spoons.
Useful remedies and DIY hints cover cleaning techniques ear care and kitchen prep. Suggestions include using sandpaper for stains heating with Jamaica ginger for ear discomfort salt water for matting and alum for tarnished silver as well as making celery seasonings at home with celery weed salt and a grinder.
A practical tip explains that a hot iron greatly facilitates turning hems making folds for piping fattening seams and other details. It encourages beginners not to doubt themselves, asserting that practice will lead to mastery and better results.
Fabrics once thought seasonal now serve year round. Satin and lace suit both evening and reception gowns, while thin goods fit hot weather. Dressmakers warn of repetition as the same fabrics span many months.
A faded baking entry describes Sour Cream Cookies with shortening sour cream brown sugar and soda to create soft dough, plus Hot Apple Cake layering sliced apples with sugar nutmeg and a cream butter mixture baked hot and served warm. The text preserves early 20th century kitchen measurements and methods.
A scrambled recipe fragment describes queen cakes with butter sugar eggs currants and lemon rind, plus stray instructions about battering tins and baking times. The text devolves into garbled lines about wafers vanilla salt milk flour and a stray warning about polling and danger.
Instructions describe at home methods for creating smelling salts using carbonate of ammonia and perfume. Steps include mixing one part perfume with eight parts carbonate, placing in a wide mouthed bottle, and moistening with ammonia as the sponge dries to sustain strength.
Tips focus on reviving failing houseplants through careful watering increases. Soapy water is suggested to control soil issues and improve plant health.
A historical survey of casino superstitions at Monte Carlo, highlighting the Wandering Jew legend linked to Good Friday reopening and the first elderly entrant’s bet outcome. The piece then transitions to musings on love, attachment, and longing, referencing Goethe as it reflects on devotion and restraint.
George Jodan faces Sidney Harlan over Vera and a bank stake of eight thousand dollars. A bluff, a lakefront farm, and a land deal drive Harlan to buy the tract before a factory plant reshapes the area. A real estate agent reveals the broader plan and Jordan's bluff collapses as Harlan gains control.
In the game three bowls are set, one with water, one with soapy water, and one empty. Players blindfolded are guided to a bowl to touch. touching clear water predicts marriage, soapy water predicts a widowed future, and the empty bowl predicts never marrying. A flour pan buries trade pictures for occupation clues, and players spoon out bits to learn futures.
In tropical regions natives use a clever trap described by a traveler. Boaters remove boots, coat the bottoms with gin, then retreat. Monkeys descend and try the boots, which stick to their feet, preventing climbing and allowing capture of the clever imitators.
A clipping party variation involves children and others selecting wrapped gifts by cutting strings tied to cards across a room. Players are blindfolded one at a time and use scissors to clip a ladle from the string while avoiding accidental heat from the tying process.
The New York Sun notes that submarine boats used by the navy frighten large and small fish away from familiar fishing grounds. Fishermen complain they cannot fish where these submarines frequent, fearing the vast appetite of the submarines and the danger to small fish.
Fragmentary text references streets and houses in a Wakeaday setting with odd spellings. Mentions Brother Tom, tally, and children. Source material is garbled and difficult to fully interpret, but hints at a local scene or column tone from the New York Tribune era.
The puzzle answer lists presidents in order with repeats: Beer enmon, Buchanin, Monroe, Monroe, Jackson, Jackson, Grant, Grant, John's son, Johson. It appears to be a garbled Ge nealogy of names for a wordplay quiz.
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