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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
11
A broker notes Strive listed properties with prices from $30 to $150 per acre. Locations include 165 acres with buildings near a town, 90 acres under the plow, 111 acres two miles from a town with buildings at $65, 76 acres near cultivation and timber on a good road, and 2 acres in West Union with a large house and city water at $2000 total.
This recipe describes preparing a roast pig with onions, butter, and a spiced skin, including stuffing, basting, and baking steps. It warns to avoid burning and to baste with butter or heating fat, and suggests a two-stage bake for tenderness. It also includes a Pork Fruit Cake recipe using pork, molasses, dried fruits, and spices with careful mixing and baking.
Instructions describe home remedies for croup using equal parts powdered alvo and sugar with repeated dosing, kerosene or turpentine on sugar, and cold water treatment. Also outlines a method to clarify fat by simmering fat with water, skimming, and reducing until fat is cooked out, then using clarified fat for baking.
Roast duck with dry bread and onions chopped fine mixed with salt pepper sage and celery seed moistened with warm water. Roast until brown and tender with butter and water for basting. Prepare chicken gravy with browned dour and bait feuion juice, serve hot.
A humorous verse fragment explores romantic doubt and longing, ending with a playful misreading of a shipowner’s map puzzle. The scene shifts to a northern seaport where a wealthy shipowner reads a captain’s letter about a fearful storm and asks where a place called Great Jeopardy lies, jokingly misplacing it on the map.
A newly arrived lieutenant, seeking a partner, is offered an Introduction to a girl who turns out to be the colonel’s daughter. She vows revenge after overhearing his remark. Later he retracts his refusal when presented to her, and she notes the burden of drawing a cart for a donkey. The tale mirrors other satirical snippets about nerve and social missteps in transit and on Broadway.
A satirical quip from the Washington Herald and the Baltimore Sun mocks consumer exchanges. A floorwalker says exchange is not required while a customer asks to swap a rose jar for a frying pan, highlighting petty office and service friction.
A traveler asks why glass cases with tools are on railroad cars and a facetious reply notes they are for emergencies. The snippet also includes brief exchanges about kissing in sleep and a humorous dinner invitation, drawing from multiple newspaper fragments.
A vintage confection note describes making walnut caramels using cof syrup brown sugar milk butter and chocolate. Cook to the soft ball stage then fold in chopped walnuts and pour into a buttered tin. Cool and cut into blocks for serving.
Three eggs well beaten a cup of sugar a tablespoon of cold water a cup of flour a teaspoon of baking powder and a teaspoon of either vanilla or lemon.
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A Baltimore American column questions the faith in real estate investment and contrasts cautious and eager attitudes, highlighting market sentiment and potential risks.
Hanns Toler plans a Europe tour visiting Germany and France with a probable stop in Australia. The noted long distance runner is praised as one of the world’s best, having won many races from the Atlantic side and last year winning the Powderhall Marathon in Edinburgh among a field of top European runners.
The New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association ran twenty four regattas last summer. Auckland led with 32 races and 4055 dollars in prizes, Canter with 55 races and 1945 dollars, Hawkes Bay 15 races and 550 dollars, Otago 35 races and 1220 dollars, Southland 28 races and 570 dollars, Wanganui 11 races and 1110 dollars, Wellington 10 races and 470 dollars, Marlborough and Nelson 179 races in total. Senior events were four, juniors twenty six, youths twenty six, showing strong development across the region. Pitcher Vean Gregg did better work than Beader of any other star in the league. Bender won seventeen games for the Athletics as Cleveland fell to sixth place by mid-September.
Experts predict the indoor swimming season will be the best in history with six clubs contending for national titles and potential Olympic trials looming. Stockholm meet entry cutoffs will force indoor results as the sole guide for Amateur Athletic Union selections. England bans kidney punch in boxing. future articles will bar the blow. A revived professional rowing scene may emerge with Eddie Durnan targeting BR Arnst for the world title as other developments unfold.
A Windfall Indiana family reports their son aged about ten began seizures four years earlier. After three doctors with no success, Dr Miles Restorative Nervine and Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills halted the fits for three years. The parent offers to answer letters with a stamped reply.
Dr Miles Nervine is advertised as a medicine for nervous diseases including fits spasms St Vitus dance convulsions and epilepsy. The claim states it relieves these maladies and promises a refund if the first bottle fails to help. End buyer contact Loyd and Sol Thys Sol? from Elkhart Indiana.
Ames Iowa. The barley plant suffers two smuts loose and covered. Loose smut overwinters inside the kernel, cannot be killed by formaldehyde. covered smut overwinters as a spore between berry and bull and can be killed by formalin. Distinguishing features include timing stages and color of smut masses, with formalin effectiveness noted for covered smut.
The article argues for prioritizing high yield and uniform barley grain to boost value per acre. It notes barley’s dual use for feed and brewing and stresses attention to kernel size color and consistency.
The writer argues against prejudice toward barley as hog feed citing its coarser hulls and suggesting corn wears out breeding power. California feed barley is noted as heavy yield. When cheap, barley should supplement or replace corn for breeding stock, and barley is encouraged where available despite being less valuable than corn for hogs.
George S. Green argues for two seed sources to meet rising demand for high grade grain. Breeding pure seed is slow and costly, while selecting and cleaning plump, well colored grain grown on clean farms can rapidly raise yields. The goal is clean, mature seed produced and distributed by seedsmen to improve county yields.
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