28 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
1
A brief sketch from Popular Mechanics describes a closet to hold pot covers. The sides are cut as shown with angled shelves nailed between them. No dimensions are given due to varying space and cover sizes. The back uses vertical thin boards and the front may use a curtain or paneled door.
A recipe for chicken with dumplings instructs to use a three to four pound chicken and basic pantry ingredients. It covers cutting the chicken, simmering in water with onion, thickening gravy with flour and butter, then finishing by dropping dough morsels into the gravy and letting them cook briefly before serving.
A historic recipe details mince pie ingredients and method using boiled beef raisins suet cranberries citrus peel sultanas currants and fruit juices. It specifies mixing quantities with spice and sugar then cooking the fruit base before adding meat and cranberries and resting before serving.
A home recipe excerpt explains creaming hot mashed potatoes with mustard egg butter cream milk then vinegar salt and frothing. Garnish with parsley pickles onions. Also provides boiled dressing using sugar mustard cornstarch salt yolks cream vinegar and olive oil, cooked until thickened.
A recipe for molasses doughnuts using sour milk and spices, plus a long simmered Apple Ginger preserve made from sour apples, brown sugar, lemon, ginger, and water. It notes keeping for weeks and serving with goose or pork, and includes baked Hamburg Steak with onion, ham burg, eggs, and gravy.
A recipe fragment lists mix of dairy molasses rye flour gra te common tea salt and water. It instructs combining two cupfuls of sweet milk one cupful of New Orleans molasses one cupful of rye flour one cupful of gra te one cupful of common flour one teaspoon of salt and steam.
A collage of brief comic exchanges and quips from newspapers. It opens with a beggar tale about pity and wealth, moves to a lunch counter banter over eggs, and includes a professor, wooer, poets, and a father judging a son’s work ethic.
A cartoonish quarrel centers on honoring Mr. Smith with an honorarium as villagers clash over usefulness. A farmer’s wife quips about an ax feeding appetite, while Meandering Mike jokes about gas food rather than physical culture, reflecting humorous era dialogue.
A string of quirky quips and jokes from various papers, including lines about turkey donations to widows and married men influencing votes, a cook and a town, a hobo and a renter, and a Chinese revolution joke. Includes a reference to Adirondack guides, a playful note about Santa Claus and a winter scene.
A party game shows players as weathercocks in a central line. The wind calls compass points to force turns to opposite directions, with variable sways, and storms or tempests spinning thrice. Missteps cost a forfeited trinket to be redeemed by a later stunt.
An article explains how the ermine changes to stoat in summer with reddish brown and yellow fur, noting its value for royal robes and a tale of catching it. It also offers a simple alphabet play activity and two gymnastic games for children, Cat and Mouse and related variations.
Brief from Philadelphia Ledger listing playful letter riddles and word transformations. Clues prompt readers to consider how changing letters shifts meanings from danger to beauty, with examples like turning a mile into a smile and other pairings.
A small Florence makes her first country visit and hears a male bray for the first time. She exclaims that the horse has the whooping cough, calling it a rare disease in playful astonishment.
A playful verse about a doll who is bad and good, with rhyming antics and playful mischief. It describes a wig that won t stay, tricks, and constant observation by Shela as days rain and pour. The contrast shows a careful, straight doll tending to her toes and wig while under constant scrutiny.
Chicago Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker accuses Cubs president Charles Murphy of stalling on a Reds manager job claim after earlier assurances. He laments losing the chance to lead Cincinnati and notes Herrmann’s selection of Hank O Day. Also questions Stovall’s future with the American League clubs already naming managers for 1912. Olympic bets, motorboat cup talk, and a humorous cartoon caption close the page.
Mr. Swift, head of Swift & Company since 1908, presides over the Chicago based packing house founded by his father Gustavus F. Swift. A Massachusetts native born fifty years ago on Cape Cod, he guides the firm’s extensive operations from Chicago and participates in sports and cultural clubs.
Nathan J. Cartmell once Pennsylvanian sprint champion returns from racing abroad since June and will take charge of the track squad at the University of North Carolina shortly after the new year.
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