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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
2
A compact set of kitchen and home tips aimed at efficient, everyday chores. The note covers practical tricks for cleaning, cooking, and organization, reflecting mid century domestic guidance with a focus on ease and quick results.
The kitchen trowel, once crafted by ancient masons for pyramid building, is now modified for domestic tasks. Its shape suits turning eggs omelets croquettes and other items while a dropped blade helps rotate foods with ease.
A vintage recipe lists butter and powdered sugar creamed, then milk and egg whites folded in with cream of tartar and soda. It describes a pineapple syrup glaze, lemon juice, and a whipped egg white icing to frost a shortcake, with pineapple bits folded into the icing for moisture and texture.
Two dozen large green peppers are hulled and brined to extract seeds. After brining for a day, peppers soak in water overnight, then are packed with vinegar and a spice mix. A white cabbage, lightly seasoned, is finely chopped and used to stuff the peppers. The filled peppers are placed in a stone jar and covered with spiced hot vinegar.
Chill bananas and remove skins leaving skins intact. Top vanilla ice cream with fruit syrup or maple sugar sauce, add Maraschino cherries or nuts, and plate beside or around the ice cream as appropriate. This serves one person.
A historical cooking note describes making a beef stew from roasted or boiled scraps. Chop about two cupfuls of leftovers, place in a stewpan, fill about half with water, add a heaping tablespoon of butter and some salt.
Combine pepper and simmer half an hour then slow stew another half hour. Add a half cup rich milk and flour water to make a thick gravy like chicken gravy. Slice white and brown bread, butter, layer boiled tongue Gruyere and cheese, repeat, press under weight for three hours, then slice. Sub rye bread if desired.
A quirky, fragmented high school era guide blends sewing tricks with kitchen how tos. Instructions suggest pinning a new skirt to an old, then tips on boiling vegetables to keep color, silver cleaning, and several old fashioned meat and pastry recipes. The piece mixes domestic crafts with step by step cooking notes and casual household advice.
In this odd poem the goose frog cat and dog join a church visit, hear the choir and mimic animal sounds. The verger turns them away, and the animals depart with scraps of something left behind.
The bluejay is a striking bird with bluish back crest wings and a long tail with white markings. It is curious and loud, loops through treetops, inspects nests, teases owls, and begins nesting season with a single bird forming a sturdy, loose nest of twigs string paper and grass in a shrub or fork of a tree.
A child asks a fountain how long it will play. The fountain replies it works all day yet finds play in its spray. The child rejects fun in work, while the fountain argues playing and working share the gay life, inviting reflection on labor and joy.
The Champion Speller Laura Robinson, twelve, of Blackwell, Okla., won the state spelling bee at Chickasha after a long contest with delegates from almost every county. The event lasted from afternoon into the next morning with a final victory for the Blackwell contestant. Also noted is a description of a new animal, the cantehill, introduced as a deer like creature from Australia, appearing in the circus.
An unusual historical snowfall in Switverland brought black snow caused by thousands of tiny insects. The Switvers were not astonished, as they had seen black snow before and recognized the insects as the source of the darkness obscuring the snow.
Tolbn Pierpont Morgan, prominent New York and London art patron, financier, and promoter of industrial combinations, may testify before the House committee on the giver trust. Morgan travels in Europe for art collecting and to meet King George of England. he was invited to Westminster, a rare honor for a private American citizen. John W. Gates, before the Stanley committee, claimed Morgan engineered the steel trust and planned the Tennessee Coal and Iron coup. Morgan, aged forty four, remains active and mentally sharp. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he studied at Gaston and Gottingen and joined Drexel, Morgan & Co. in the 1850s, shaping America’s leading private bank.
The text notes Mrs Taft's restrained public role due to illness and doctors advise. It mentions William Howard Taft marrying Melan Herron in Cincinnati on June 19 1886, identifying Herron as daughter of a Cincinnati businessman. It describes Mrs Taft as medium height with dignified carriage and interest in literature and art.
A newsboy taunts Booker T. Washington after a powerful oration at a railway station. The boy proclaims the speech worth a cent, while Washington dismisses the remark as lacking value, sparking a brief exchange.
Alvan Hart, on picket duty near Ise and a tense meeting with a local girl, returns to find her later as his wife. The two narrate a chance confrontation, confess shared memory, and unite through marriage, with the wartime sting turning to domestic harmony. The couple’s bond grows as they raise a child and renew trust, ending in a quiet, affectionate partnership.
A fragmented reminiscence mixes quirks of names and family talk with stray lines about a circus, a boy named Wilia, a wish to shoot an air gun, Sunday school, and a fragmentary reference to a divorce and war. The voice hints at childhood scenes in St. Louis Post-Dispatch tone.
The text offers a muddled reminiscence where Booth Terkington speaks about past actresses and a tense scene. It mentions a heeding actress, weather, and a quoted line implying a performance line. The fragment hints at dramatic stakes and a reflective tone without clear events.
The fragmentary text hints at family conflict and mystery around a father learning of a lapse or loss. A mother figure is referenced and cryptic phrases imply a tense domestic situation. The piece mentions shoes, taste, and a mysterious Darlin grein Loget, all embedded in a distorted narrative flavor.
The Evidents quote Dobbleigh asking if Tom Billups is a man of domestic habits. Bunkerton confirms, stating that judging by his cigars he smokes, the figure is “AO” and suggests solid domestic character. This excerpt reflects 19th century social scrutiny in Harper’s Weekly.
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