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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
5
The April 14 and 19, 1909 menus list Breakfast Lunch and Dinner items including grapefruit Farina with cream mushroom patties grilled sausages potato scones beef baked apples and more. Recipes detail making potato scones with mashed potatoes and flour and a corn meal molasses batter baked to perfection with coconut cream dessert.
A dated menu lists breakfast and dinner items for Thursday April 15 1909 with dishes such as Baked Bananas Cereal with Cream Eggs Bacon and Westmorland Soup. The text includes a three quart stock recipe with lentils and a Prune Souffle with method and bake time, plus serving suggestions and note on whipped cream.
Friday April 16 1909 offers a detailed meal plan including oranges cereal with cream baked liver buckwheat gems potato and beet salad cheese souffle and several desserts. The recipe section provides steps for a cheese sauce and a lemon tapioca apple bake with butter and jam fillings.
A list of prepared foods includes sliced bananas boiled rice and cream salt cod fish balls piccalilli corn meal muffins veal souffle lettuce salad pulled bread cocoa lemon jelly okra soup radishes baked stuffed beef heart french fried potatoes creamed carrots orange salad Spanish cream.
Dress and cook chicken with onion salt pork fat until brown and tender. Add strained tomatoes and okra and simmer another hour. Make lemon jelly with gelatine sugar lemon juice cinnamon cloves coriander and rinds. boil, cool, strain, mold, and set.
Reverend Zartman officiated the marriage of Ora Hume and Arthur Bailey at Grace Reformed Church parsonage with a small family gathering. A dinner party honored guests included Alfred Wannamaker and Gideon Bailey among others, recalling long friendships and shared hometowns. Later, Miss Lucy Leaman and Clyde Shook were married at Trinity M E church parsonage by Rev Herren, with a small group of friends present and plans for a Cincinnati trip.
The notice lists numerous weddings in rapid sequence. Nellie Liggett marries Charles S. McKee at the bride’s Columbia Avenue home with relatives and friends present. The couple will live in Allentown Pennsylvania. Other marriages include Hazel Elder and Pearl Johnston. Dollie Fry and Charles Brouwer. Lola Seidenneck and George Seidenneck. Agnes Hoch and Rolio Hoch. Agnes M Otten and William Blackburn. Gertrude Kelker and Walter Johnson. Myrtle Helvie and Lynne Snyder. Also noted are anniversary celebrations and social gatherings surrounding engaged couples and families.
Philadelphia police hold two colored youths Samuel Lewis and Hewitt Lawrence after they showed large sums of money and admitted involvement in the robbery of Rhoda Lovell the 80 year old gypsy queen. Detectives report $3010 found in a suspect’s cellar and a third boy believed to have fled to New York.
Mrs John Schafer aged sixteen was picked up by Patrolman Dickson on Columbia street near the Nickel Plate tracks. She is detained at police headquarters awaiting relatives from Chicago and possible transfer to the Home of the Good Shepherd in Indianapolis.
Walter Young Edward McCafferty and Edward King were scalded when they fell into a vat of boiling water at the New Albany Box and Basket factory. Young is expected to die while McCafferty and King are recovering. Also noted is the death of Mrs James Goff in Bluffton from tuberculosis.
Jacob Wilson Clark 69 longtime Fort Wayne railroad man died at his home 136 Montgomery Street after an extended illness. Known as Wils Clark he served recently as stationmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Fort Wayne and underwent surgery in January with initial improvement before decline.
Knox county Ohio born April 15 1840 Captain Clark devoted half a century to railroading with the Pennsylvania Company after serving as a Civil War volunteer. He began on the Mansfield to Sandusky line and rose from brakeman to train master before becoming Fort Wayne stationmaster in 1898.
Funeral services are planned Monday afternoon at the residence for a local man active in the Masonic fraternity. He is survived by his wife Mrs Susan Clark and two daughters Mrs Nellie Glass and Miss Maud Clark. The flag at Pennsylvania Station flew at half mast in his honor.
A man identified as Thomas Bates of Rushville, Ind., was found dead in a barn near Greenfield after an apparent self inflicted drug death. His death uncovered two families, one in Rushville and another in Orleans, where he had deserted his wife and three children years earlier. Bates had returned to Orleans a week before his death after twenty three years away. Bates' Rushville family will handle funeral arrangements. Also noted is Lloyd Cooney, eight, a Kosciusko county boy who spelled 1500 words with only one error in four hours while preparing for a contest.
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