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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1908
Page
2
A fragmented quote from newspapers notes the we eow aims at Mercury. The Philadelphia Press jokes that writing costs two cents postage, cheaper than travel. Black and White comments that friendship requires material equality for smooth exchange in this wicked world.
A Bayonne New Jersey police magistrate halves fines for most offenses as an economy measure. The Boston Transcript notes the move could keep business steady despite the concessions, except for violent offenders.
A mosaic of opinion pieces notes that the persecution of motorists shapes justice, emphasizes travel as vital, mocks narrow provincialism, and critiques farmers and merchants. It highlights sea ferries, fuel limits for ships, and explains Brazil’s stove market driven by tariffs and weather warmth needs.
New York Tribune argues that modern hosting imposes crushing costs on modest households. It laments prestige dinners, luxuries, and imported foods, urging simpler, genuine entertaining aligned with shared humanity and frugal elegance.
The Weekly Dispatch notes that a lady in a London theatre is a better behaved onlooker than a man. She watches intently unless a relative or friend appears in the piece, in which case she becomes a terror to others.
Mrs Back Bay Mercy scolds Bridget for breaking a 400 year old vase. Bridget retorts that if it was so old she can deduct it from her next week's wages. The Boston Transcript style vignette captures a domestic quarrel with humor.
A Washington Star recipe for Mint Crackers with Tea describes creaming one cup butter with three of sugar, adding three beaten eggs, four cupfuls milk, two teaspoons baking powder sifted with six cups flour, and a tablespoonful minced mint. Roll thin, cut into squares, bake in a hot oven to light brown.
Beat one egg white light but not stiff then fold in alternating cups of granulated sugar and grated tart apple. Continue beating twenty minutes to a white feathery mass. Use as filling between sponge cake layers, per New York Telegraph description.
Whip one pint sweet cream until stiff then fold in a half cup very strong sweetened coffee. Pack into a mold, cover with paraffin paper and mold lid, bury in ice and salt, cover with carpet and chill four hours. Serves six. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A 212 pound flounder filet is seasoned with salt pepper and onion juice. Half with mashed potato yolk egg butter salt, fold, crumb coat, dip in egg and crumbs, fry in fat, drain, insert macaroni, frill garnish with lemon and parsley. Serve with thick tomato sauce.
Cream together halves of butter and one and a half pounds sugar. Beat six egg yolks then fold in sour cream with dissolved soda, alternating with one and a half pounds flour. Fold in beaten egg whites, add one pound raisins one pound currants one half pound citron with flour, lemon juice and zest nutmeg mace. Bake two and a half hours in slow oven or steam then bake last hour.
Household hints cover cooking tips for custard from peach kernels and milk to polish for shoes and floors. The list advises on selecting grapefruits, cake icing, lace curtain care, moth prevention, dish protection, boiled icing test, shoe polishing, ecru curtains, candle use, candle end recycling, floor polish, peanut butter making, and grinding methods.
A New York firm reportedly secured a monopoly on sponge output from Yucatan. The breadth of this claim ties into global sourcing and trade dynamics affecting maritime commodities and regional markets.
Mary Brush of Davenport invents a boneless corset. Nine Oklahoma women visit New York to promote their state. John C Heckscher’s will leaves $100 to daughter wife of NY mayor. Dean Russell selects Mrs Durand to lead pure milk legislation effort. Miss Clare Russell wins final in Yonkers lawn tennis. Mrs Susie Halliday in Brooklyn cuts telecom wires to ward off repairers. Henriette Guizot, Mme de Witt, linked to Paris death news. Mary Proctor, famed American woman astronomer, begins five year world lecture tour. Miss Elizabeth Colton of East Hampton speaks forty languages. Lotta Rand of Lynn named deputy superintendent for the blind in Boston. Harriet Brand, longtime WCTU treasurer, dies in Evanston hospital.
Thomas F. Ryan tours Europe while Emperor William boasts nineteen autos in Berlin. Roosevelt appoints Cornel William L. Marshall chief of engineers. Henniker Heaton foresees penny a word cable service at a London dinner. The Emperor and Empress of Russia visit Cowes during yachting week. Sartoris becomes Guatemala secretary of legation. Sands leaves post. Knollys denies British king plans to quit horse racing. Glynn Vivian funds a world wide miners mission. Iowa judge Bishop dies suddenly in Waterloo. Humbert wins libel damages over Rochette swindle claim. two duels noted. Sweden seeks help finding Dr Sven Hedin in Tibet after a year missing.
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