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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
4
A garbled historic recipe page describes roasting a turkey with giblet sauce and bread stuffing, detailing step by step preparation, basting, and timing. It includes giblet gravy, dressing from liver and heart, and instructions for gravy, potatoes, and a sugared bread crumb crust. The text imitates a practice of a full holiday meal with several dishes and timing cues.
Tainted recipe fragment describes mixing sugar water cream and tartar with peppermint and wintergreen flavors. It outlines dividing the dough, coloring part, and twisting red and white strands into canes or baakots with mentions of molds and shapes.
A garbled fragment describes fondant work for a confection and a quoted remark on a Christmas cigar referenced by a New York newspaper. It then shifts to a brief domestic scene with guests and family chatter. The piece ends noting the death of two Crimean veterans, including Gov John Bayer, who served in Sebastopol and lived ninety four years.
An article describes playful table decor ideas with a doll figure as a centerpiece. Gifts wrapped as mock presents hang from the doll and are tied to a Hay parcel with writing. Guests tease each other as parcels are opened, while care avoids offensive or provocative jokes. The setup can be adapted to any style.
The passage describes decorating with holly and mistletoe during Yule tide, tying sprigs into parcels and ribbons, and draping rooms. It ties modern Christmas decor to ancient Deufd worshipers who believed the tree spirits helped guard the household during winter.
A vintage recipe notes Christmas candies with Barney Sugar Drops. It lists leaf sugar water and egg, lemon juice, and boiling to candy stage. The instructions describe pouring into a buttered pan, cooling, and cutting into strips for children.
A quaint recipe describes making golden syrup taffy by melting sugar with water then syrup, stirring, adding butter and vanilla. The mixture is boiled and dropped into water to form brittle threads, cooled, and cut into squares for easy biting.
The text recalls a family scene of frugal Christmas preparations with a mother determined to keep buying for joy while the father sighs at depleted purse. It includes a note on stockings and a quip about honeybees in South America, plus a historical snippet on turnpikes and pikes used to collect tolls.
A collection of vintage holiday dishes including pineapple appetizer roast duck with potato filling and brown gravy tomato stars on lettuce and a light, old fashioned fruit cake. It details step by step prep for pineapple and onion dishes, sauce, and baked components, with notes on serving ideas and decorative touches.
A collage of festive recipes and notes on holiday hosting including Devonshire sandwiches with marmalade, orange marmalade instructions, Five o’clock teas, Sultana sticks, Russian tea, hot chocolate, whipped cream, Christmas plum pudding, and an oyster cocktail. Also tucked in are brief items on personal work in India, a critique of a poor Christmas, a shoe cleaner invention, and reflections on forethought.
Recipe card-style instructions for a Christmas dinner feast with detailed steps for cranberry orange appetizer chicken dish sweet potato Maryland style Neufchatel pear shapes and a roasted pig. Includes rough measurements, cooking times, oven steps, and plating notes with decorative cranberry eyes and an apple mouth.
A recipe fragment describes making sweet cider sherbet using cider, spices, brown sugar, and water boiled then frozen to a punchy, scoopable texture. It suggests serving in hollowed red apples with gravy made from drippings, flour, water, caramel, and seasoning, paired with goose or duckling, amid miscellaneous notes on rubber versus steel and the Lake Hemet dam project.
A traveler from Russia suggests a pure white Christmas tree using white trimmings to imitate snow. White paper stars large and eight inches wide, silver ornaments, white candies in simple wrappings, and asbestos snow wrap trunks to create a pearly effect.
A vintage guide describes trimming a Christmas tree with a star on top, glass icicles, silver chains, and strands of silver thread to create a snowy, twinkling look. It emphasizes symmetry, balance, and a peaceful festive glow. includes verses and seasonal observations.
H P Wolfe Ohio war savings committee director announces county chairmen to handle thrift and war saving stamps sales. Campaign mirrors Liberty Bond drive with local over the counter sales and minimal congressional funding. Ohio quota set at 106 million of 2 billion. must be saved by December. List of chairmen includes Adams to Wyandot across counties and cities. Additional items note expectation of record wheat yields for 23,000 wards and a court-martial for Austrian Private W B Fledderjohan for antiwar remarks and home leave conduct.
Ohio faces wartime demands with Major General Glenn guiding state services and a broad drive to back troops. Reports cover industrial commission actions on film censorship and child labor, health and old age insurance debates, and state aid plans. A sensational note tells of a woman charmer's arrest amid Prohibition tensions and a fatal shooting on an urban streetcar.
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