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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
5
Miss Evelyn Walsh and Edward McLean plan a fall wedding while Ma Thilde Townsend Katherine Elkins and Isabel May face marriages to foreign nobles. The social circle that defined Washington society this season is poised to fade as engagements loom and summer plans unfold.
The article recounts how President Andrew Jackson selected the site for the United States Treasury building in 1833, striking the ground with his walking stick at the juncture of Pennsylvania Avenue and the White Lot. Construction began in 1838 under architect Robert Mills and completed in August 1839. The planned repairs will render the building in solid granite quarried mainly in Maine and New Hampshire.
Miss Anna Cammack, daughter of the late millionaire florist John Cammack, declares she will not contest his will. She continues her post office clerk duties at 660 a year, with 60 000 in trust for life and remainder to his wife Elizabeth and a minor son. The millionaire left most of his estate to his wife and son. Anna is the only other direct heir.
SRECTOR NORTH prepares for the thirteenth census with authority to be enacted. About 70 000 workers will tally 90 000 000 people in the United States and territories and conduct agriculture and industry censuses. The Philippine census is excluded, as in 1908, due to cost concerns.
A Harpers Bazaar recipe collection features Green Gooseberry Pudding with eggs butter and breadcrumbs, Mushrooms Stewed in Cream with white sauce and croutons, a Mushroom Sauce, another Mushroom Stew sauce, a Creole Brown Chicken Fricassee, and a novel Roast Flounders preparation with onions parsley and butter gravy.
Untouched hard boiled eggs can be sliced and dressed with mayonnaise. Fried eggs may be chopped with potatoes and formed into potato balls. Poached eggs are reheated then run through a ricer to add to salads. Riced boiled or fried eggs mix with finely chopped meat to form croquettes. Using yolk only can enrich apple sauce. A broken egg kept covered with water in the refrigerator lasts several days.
A simple cherry pudding method uses two tablespoons butter and flour, milk poured gradually then boiled, mixed with bread crumbs lemon rind sugar vanilla and cherries plus eggs. Bake in a greased mold with cherries at the bottom and steam two hours under buttered paper.
The article advises changing bed linen on the day you sweep bedrooms to keep dust from spreading. It suggests drawing soiled sheets over the fresh bed, then removing and shaking them outside before trashing. It also includes a recipe for nut candy using alrup sugar and vinegar, plus directions to spread over nuts in tins.
The piece argues American plays thrive when scenes and characters are local and American. It cites Chicago successes and titles like The Witching Hour The Great Divide The Man from Home The Rose of the Rancho Father and the Boys Artie and Her Own Way as examples of Americans triumphing on home ground while foreign settings or marriages hindered others.
Eight men who were jilted by a Chicago girl have formed a club. Grat itude has strange ways of manifesting itself.
John Mason of The Witching Hour studio disputes actor marriages to actresses. He argues a union of two artists harms careers and domestic life, noting conflicts over co stars and touring. He credits a rare, indefinable stage quality to greatness beyond technique.
Frazee, a young theater manager, purchases The Flower of the Ranch and plans a road tour next autumn. Anglin opens an Australian tour at Her Majesty's Sydney in The Thief with instant success. Modjeska forwards The Right Man to Jules Murray, a Sanford Tead comedy set around a California earthquake.
Lime or lemon squash is a refreshing summer drink made with lime juice soda and ice. Iced chocolate is cooled hot chocolate served in tall glasses with ice cream and sugar. sangaree pineapple wine and orange wine are also described with steps to mix and bottle.
A Civil War era flag sewn by Union prisoners at Libby Prison is now exhibited at Thomas G. Stevenson post 26 G A R in Roxbury. Timothy Regan led covert efforts using collected cloth from fellow prisoners, reassembling the flag after decades and recounting the tale on his deathbed. Post members L. A. Fillebrown and Chaplain F F Follanabee stand before the display.
Practical kitchen notes cover proper potato boiling, ice tea caution, and a recipe for Bachelor's Pudding. Key points include washing potatoes, pre-soaking to remove impurities, boiling with minimal water, and avoiding peeling. Tea should be fresh and strained, with thin glasses, lemon, and ice. The pudding recipe lists suet, raisins, sugar, flour, crumbs, baking powder, spices, an egg, brown sugar, and steam time.
Instructions describe steaming fruit cake on bricks inside a boiler with a covered tin setup for even moisture and no crust, including a three hour steam then one half hour bake, plus a fruit cake recipe with currants citron nutmeg eggs milk butter saleratus and flour. Also notes a plain cake variations with egg white glaze, grated coconut and meringue topping with candied cherry.
A cruising fleet correspondent recalls a rain soaked evening below the equator when a ship’s band played the Star Spangled Banner. Heat drove crew to bare chests before the signal to play, as all hands dressed again to preserve self respect and discipline.
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