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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1915
Page
3
A vintage recipe fragment describes creamy creamed toast with cheese sauce and variants. Creamed chicken uses cream and parsley with potatoes served around the dish. Covered Eyes creates a baked ham and breadcrumb crust with an egg in the center. Hot cheese sandwiches combine snappy cheese with egg, mustard, Worcestershire, and bacon on bread rounds, served with a green salad.
A vintage guide urges preserving old linens for medical use such as bandages and sterilized gauze. It notes older bed and table linens are superior to new for sickroom needs, and suggests storage, disinfection, and proper handling of bandages and improvised dressings. It also mentions using old gloves for improvised winter vent interlinings sewn in Paris.
A historical guide outlines honey and baked bean sandwiches with buttered bread and tomato sauces, plus deviled ham and sweet fillings like fudges and maple creams. It notes cheese fillings with wafer-thin slices, and popular additions such as nuts, raisins, meat, chicken, and vegetable fillings for sandwiches.
Instructions describe sewing fastener parts to the tops of two stockings so wearers can snap them together. Claims no washing interference and no need for clothes bins when hung to dry. Also notes stockings stay together during wear. Then mentions fresh beets as nutritious with butter dressing or oil and vinegar. Pickled beets praised as an appetizer and common table favorite.
Kenton, a struggling writer in a crowded tenement, pens a crime story about a detective to be silenced. A violent plot note is found among his manuscript, leading to his arrest and a courtroom battle over circumstantial evidence. His release comes after a lawyer exposes the danger of the note, and the tale grants him literary fame.
Reading from a children's feature, the Baalbek temple in Syria shows three huge horizontal blocks in the western wall, each over sixty feet long and ten to thirteen feet thick, raised above the base by twenty three feet. A fourth massive stone lies in the quarry, seventy feet long and heavily worked, awaiting completion.
The mother zebra in Central Park New York adores her newborn as a human mother does. The public is shown a rare instance as the foal stands by while the mother nuzzles and pats it. This is the only zebra ever born in this country. Zebras originate from Africa and Asia and struggle to survive in unfamiliar climates.
A speaker in the hall loudly declares that if T had a mind to it could whip the whole crowd, insisting the whippy line on the top peg of the hateack could be used to teach them. The remark emphasizes boastful overconfidence among the group.
Malagasy fishermen spray the Inkesami streams with a poisonous substance that paralyzes fish causing them to surface. The fish are pulled from the water by hand and eaten without apparent harm. Local authorities have not yet addressed the practice publicly.
A Celtic tale explains daisies as the dove of newborn spirits sent to comfort grieving mothers. Malvina mourns her son until friends perform a song about a baby on a light cloud and a flower sown from his throw, becoming the daisy the flower of innocence.
Five-letter word with arithmetic wordplay where first minus fifth equals second, second plus one equals fourth, five times first plus five times fifth equals third, and the whole is funny. The solution is COINLE, a playful coin-themed pun forming a humorous term.
Representatives of 18,000,000 Christians in the United States will attend a North American church unity conference in Garden City for three days starting January 5. The call urges all Christian bodies with commissions to participate, with hoped input from Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders.
An overview from Pearson's Weekly explains three inch shrapnel shells hold 210 to 300 half inch bullets packed to the front. A precise time fuse determines explosion range, with shell velocity about a mile every four seconds. When bursting the bullets fly faster and create a cone of death over roughly thirty yards by 250 yards.
The origin of naval signaling traces back to medieval times with raised sails signaling letters, then 17th century ball and cone signals, and night lanterns. 18th century brought twelve flags, with signals for battle. Trafalgar era introduced light and flag signaling, leading to Sir Home Popham’s system and later semaphore by Chappe.
The piece debunks the belief that Jonas Hanway first popularized umbrellas and notes his probable era of use between 1730 and 1700. It mentions umbrellas dating back 2,000 to 5,000 years and references Nineveh reliefs showing slaves bearing umbrellas over kings, now in the British Museum.
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