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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1911
Page
7
A notional blueprint from Popular Mechanics describes a closet for holding pot covers. The sides are cut as shown with shelves angled between them and a back of vertical thin boards. The front may have a curtain or paneled door for access.
Three to four pound chicken cooked with salt pepper onions and milk. Cut into ten pieces simmer in water until tender. Thicken gravy with prepared flour and butter then beat eggs into milk. Drop dumpling dough by spoonfuls into gravy and boil until set.
A historic recipe card describes making mince pie without apples. It lists balied beef, seed raisins, suet, cranberries, citron peel, orange and lemon peel, suet, currants, citrus rind and pulp, fat, spices, citrus juice, and sugar. The method instructs simmering fruit mix then adding meat and berries, with a final boil and rest.
Creamed Potato Gallad uses eight potatoes cooked, mashed, and whipped with mustard, eggs, butter, cream, milk, vinegar, salt, and garnishes. served in a heated dish with parsley and pickles. Boiled Salad Dressing combines sugar mustard cornstarch salt with eggs and cream, then vinegar and whipped egg whites, thickened over heat and finished with olive oil.
A recipe collection describes Molasses Doughnuts with molasses sugar sour milk eggs and flour, plus Apple Ginger with apples brown sugar lemon juice and ginger. It includes playful snippets from Washington Herald and Buffalo Express, plus Alphabet Scamper Cat and Mouse games and a few letter riddles for children.
A collage of quips and witticisms from newspapers and periodicals. It includes humorous exchanges about money and luck in a rural setting, a tongue in cheek banker’s critique, a professor’s verbose eggs joke, a consumer exchange about poetry prices, a courting anecdote, and a Punch style joke about an honorarium. The items reflect social humor, character types, and dated diction typical of the era.
A fragment recalls a farmers wife quip and Meandering Mike replying about seeking food rather than culture. It mentions a political contest where a candidate claimed credit for distributing turkeys to widows while the rival won by giving turkeys to married voters, per a Kansas City reference.
A playful children’s game describes four room corners named like compass points with one player as the wind and the others as weathercocks. When the wind calls a corner they face the opposite, with “Variable” making them sway, and “Storm” or “Tempest” making them whirl. A misstep costs a small forfeit that funds a post game stunt.
A discussion of the ermine changing from white winter fur to reddish brown summer fur, known as the stoat, and why naturalists distinguish them. Notes the fur's value for court robes and the coronation era price surge, plus a quaint remark on trapping the creature by mud to avoid dirtying its white coat.
Chicago Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker laments being passed over for the Cincinnati Reds managerial post. He recalls stockholders and Frank Chance meeting with Charles Murphy, who stalled on the decision. Other notes discuss Stovall’s manager prospects, Olympic plans, and racing, with brief items on Swift & Co. leadership and Cartmell’s return to UNC track duties.
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