Saint Elizabeth Saint Elizabeth tale in the Redfern hall
A guest learns the tragic tale behind Saint Elizabeth a portrait at Redfern hall. Master Rupert's cold domination drives his wife to devotion and secrecy. When a priest visits, a fatal confession leads to a double tragedy as he shoots the priest and then dies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfern Hall
Saint Elizabeth
Redferns
Wilds
Sir Rupert
Redferks
Elizabeth
Father Chapelle
Hook
Hawkins
Dominic
Hat Tale From a Kansas War Diary Hunt
Comrade Thomas B. Murdock of the Ninth Kansas Cavalry recalls a 1862 hunting expedition near Medicine Bow. His unit used a mountain howitzer and stole ammunition to bag about 17,000 ducks, plus geese and trout, feeding a quartermaster tally and provisioning the fort. The tale links to his Eldorado Kan. Republican columns and battlefield memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Thomas B. Murdock
Ninth
Kansas Cavalry
Republican
Owen Wistar
Murdock
Fort Halleck
Medicine Bow River
Medicine Bow Mountain
Ben Holaday
Virginia Dale
North Platte River
Eagle
Kansag Cavalry
Small Stills for the Making of Alcohol
Readers ask about a small French distilling apparatus used for alcohol. The piece notes laws aimed at de natured alcohol tax relief, farm expectations of cheap on farm fuel, and the unlikely spread of small scale farming distilleries in the United States. It cites French devices and traveling distillers as common in France, but doubts the method’s practicality domestically for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Congress
New Yorker
Four Horse Evener: simple self-explanatory plow aid
A detailed guide explains building a four horse evener with a five foot four inch stick, two pulleys, strap iron braces, a short link chain, and drilled holes for double trees. Measurements include pulley centers at seven inches from the right end, holes for plow head delvis, and pulley spacing of twenty four inches, enabling one horse in furrow and three on unplowed land with no side draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dlevis
Apple Trees: Soil, Planting, and Care Guidelines
Apple trees thrive on fertile clayey loam or white oak soil on a southern slope. Choose hardy varieties, space trees 24 feet apart, and pack soil around roots. Cultivate regularly for years, rotate crops, and practice clean culture to deter pests and diseases. Prune low headed trees and shade trunks to prevent sun scald. After blossoms fall and three weeks later spray Paris green or Bordeaux mix to control moths and fungi.
Too Sudden Changes Bad For Hogs In Feed
The article warns against sudden feed changes for hogs as they cannot quickly adapt to new foods. It also stresses cleaning stalls thoroughly, avoiding dry bedding on filthy floors, and letting bedding dry after cleaning in the morning.
Savory Uses for Potato Water and Leftover Mash
The potato water from boiled potatoes is nutritious and should not be wasted. Use it to make a wholesome gravy when milk is scarce by thickening with flour and seasoning with salt and butter. For soup, mash a few potatoes and return them to the water, add onion celery salt or celery-boiled water, then cream or milk and butter for a nourishing meal.
Baked Oysters Recipe From Historic Lodge Menu
For every 25 oysters, use two tablespoons of cream, yolks from two eggs, one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour, one teaspoon chopped parsley, one teaspoon salt and red pepper to taste. Drain oysters, strain and return liquor to fire with butter and flour until smooth. Beat yolks, mix with cream, add to oyster liquor with chopped oysters, stir a minute, season, fill greased shells, top with fine crumbs and brown quickly. Esther oyster, ordinary scallop or oyster shells may be used.
Potato Chocolate Cake Recipe
A vintage recipe urges bold bakers to try a potato chocolate cake described as delicious and shelf stable. It lists butter sugar mashed potato hot milk flour eggs baking powder unsweetened chocolate cloves cinnamon and walnuts with steps to cream sugar and butter, mix in eggs and milk, fold in hot potato and melted chocolate, then bake in a moderate oven.
Bran Muffins From a Tea Table Delight
A new bran muffin recipe appears in this tea table section. It uses two cups fine bran one cup flour one and a half cups sour milk a quarter cup butter three tablespoons molasses and a teaspoon soda. Dry ingredients are mixed then moistened with creamed sour milk and molasses, heated vigorously baked in small tin rings and served hot with butter.
Time Savers in the Kitchen Tips for easy prep
Practical kitchen advice from paring knives to potato eyes and pineapple coring. Bend the knife point to remove eyes easily and bend spoon handles to improve basting. Run stale bread through a food chopper to clean it after chopping meat and raisins.
Doughnut Recipe From Historic Text Mixes Nutmeg and Sugar
Beat an egg light with sugar then add milk without stirring. Fold in grated nutmeg, salt, and baking powder, mixer in flour to form a rollable dough. Cut and fry in deep fat seasoned with salt to prevent grease absorption.
Quick Kitchen Tips From a Vintage Cookbook
Baked Peanuts instructions roast fresh peanuts with butter, then salt removal. Make Your Oleo mixes beef tallow and butter for frying. Cake with Toothpicks suggests testing bread with toothpicks. iron handle cool tip uses asbestos to prevent burns. aluminum ware cleaning with sour milk brightens surfaces.
Pension guidance for soldiers and heirs from 1908 column
Information for veterans and widows on pensions, including how to pursue settled claims, eligibility for minors, and the role of a special examiner. Illustrative Q A examples cover disability proof, divorced spouse rights, widow pensions, and switching to the 1908 act with conditions. Details cite routes to the commissioner of pensions, guardian requirements, and potential retroactive start dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Jones
Washington, D. C
New York
John M. D
Commissioner of Pensions
Widow’s pension eligibility under April 1908 act in Kansas
A reader asks why their 1904 widow’s pension claim filed under the 1890 act isn’t covered by the 1908 act. The answer: claims under June 27, 1890, aren’t transformed by the 1908 act. apply anew under April 19, 1908 if the soldier served 90 days in the Civil War and was honorably discharged, and was married to the widow before June 27, 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Susan K. A
Scranton
Martha O.D
Mary Jane T
Also Mentioned on This Page
Anna B. Patten
Shortstory Pub. Co
Mrs. Fairbanks
Hawking
Father Dominic
Rupert
Father Domieix
Seemaeene Ieee
Rv Errereer
E. M. Swain
Denver
Col
John L. P
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!