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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1912
Page
7
Autumn brides anxious about selections are guided to practical fabrics. The article recommends serge whipcord or basket woven cloth for ready wear with durable options like corduroy for long vests. It favors long hair alpaca, striped fabrics in two tones, heavy blended dark fabrics, broadcloths and heavy pile upholsteries for coats.
A sewing guide explains needle length for proper stitches and even gaps. It covers marking hems, basting before final stitching, and creating neat buttonholes especially in sheer fabrics. The piece also notes a method for stringing beads with dental floss and securing ends cleanly.
On your baking day Four Leaf Clover Cake instructions suggest cutting a triangle from a square cake and smoothing edges for a leaf pattern, with green frosting and variants. Nut Bread mixes egg sugar milk walnuts salt baking powder and flour, rises in a buttered pan, bakes about forty minutes.
Corn meal and boiled rice mixture seasoned with salt and lard is scalded with boiling water. After cooling add sour milk soda and beaten eggs, then bake in gem tins for half an hour.
A recipe for floating island calls for whisked egg whites folded into currant and raspberry jelly, then thickened with more jelly. Serve on cream with layered color pyramids atop. The note adds that modern cooks adjust the method for current conditions.
A vivid description extols a Gheel facility where mentally deficient residents live in a humane, carefree setting. Guards are replaced by friendly caretakers who offer liberty, outdoor work, and recreation. The piece contrasts this humane approach with conventional patient care and cites an Atlantic writer calling it a humane asylum for sick minds.
A pendulum faces the vast task of measuring endless time through numbers sixty per minute and beyond. The clockmaker consoles it, stressing that steady single ticks suffice. The pendulum begins its work, progressing reliably, and it continues ticking cheerfully to this day.
A Somerville Journal snippet extols the virtue of self control urging a man to keep silence under strong provocation and to hold temper with cool restraint. The passage notes how appeals to wrath are resisted and temper remains firm despite stinging words. A Sanskrit reference mentions snake bite as a historical cure for consumption dating back 5,000 to 6,000 years.
In a moonlit charity masquerade tale, narrator Dick Courtenay guides Delight Darling toward love and family. Amid disguises, mistaken proposals, and a Quaker grandpa, revelations unfold in a garden conservatory where Delight discovers her future as Dick’s aunt and mother to his child, sealing a new life.
After the Battle of Wagram Napoleon, returning to his room, heard eerie sounds and burst in to face a cat lurking behind a tapestry. The emperor, sword drawn and terrified, was saved by a guard who subdued the harmless animal. The anecdote highlights Napoleon not only disliking cats but fearing them.
A short guide describes a strength test where two people press hands together then try to pull apart revealing surprising resilience. It also outlines a children’s game named Pull-A, involving chalk squares on a rug, dancing circles, and players stepping inside the square to be out until one remains.
A playful reprint of biblical wordplay about Noah and Ararat. The riddle set asks why they could not play cards in the ark and jokes about Noah’s patience with Ararat, noting the first money reference linked to Noah taking the green quack into the ark.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls an amusing test of animal affection in which a lion and a mouse interact through bars. The mouse flees, returns, and the lion pauses to observe before gently pinning the mouse. The mouse then bites the lion, prompting a frightened roar and the mouse's escape. The lion proves the braver of the two in fear.
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