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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
6
In a playful mix of social quips and curiosities a Paris airfield on a rooftop, canal talks, suffrage nudges, and Kaiser musings appear alongside fashion notes. Commentators ponder war crime labels, letters for a two cent rate, and census like counts of French families with children.
A collection of fashionable recipes includes a floating island dessert with lemon and almond flavors and a custard surround. It also describes fancy parsley garnishes, decorative potato borders, rose tubes, and a novel stuffed big white onion dish baked or stewed with meat filling and gravy.
Instructions describe Shepherd's Pie with beef, gravy, mashed potatoes, milk, butter, and onion option baked thirty minutes. Pigeon Pie uses short crust, steak, birds feet, liver, parsley, ham, gravy, crust with holes, baked one and a half hours.
Mash floury potatoes until smooth then season with pepper and salt. Mix in fresh butter until moist. Shape into balls, roll in vermicelli crumbs or bread crumbs. Brush breaded balls with egg yolk if using bread crumbs and brown nicely. Serve around or on mashed potatoes not molded.
A vintage recipe fragment details baking a veal cutlet with bread crumb dressing and a square squash pie. It cites butter, onions, eggs, milk, sugar, nutmeg, and crust, with steps to bake covered then uncover to brown the cutlet and to firm the pie in a moderate oven.
C. E. Whitmore of Galveston Texas claims a unique military record as the only one footed man to serve in the United States Army and Revenue Cutter Service. A veteran of the Cavalry and Artillery, he won the title of champion bugler at West Point in 1900, blew the last bugle call McKinley heard, and endured injury from a cork foot after a shelling at Siboney.
Chicago fashionables wives of wealthy men are blamed for dog and cat dementia by Herbert A. Williams, a New York sociologist. He warned at the Woodlawn Woman's Literary club that fascination with pets surpasses concern for babies, citing dog and cat shows and a call to create homes for animals over helping deserted children.
Charles Aschenbach of Hamburg Pennsylvania experiments in turtle farming after finding 24 young snapping turtles while plowing potatoes. He raises them in a sand filled box, feeding milk and meat scraps. One turtle has died, and the others hide underground in dry weather and emerge in rain as neighbors watch closely.
Excavation for Thompson Meter Company on Bridge York and Tasman streets uncovers six vaults under sidewalks with brick and rubble walls. Old residents recall Civil War era moonshine days and hidden provisions in the vaults, one containing a dust-covered antique cask. A later note reports Charles Wiese's radish weighing 15.4 pounds at Canton Avenue Baltimore, dug to free space for laundry.
Fred Styers of Greensburg Indiana shipped three Columbia Wyandotte chickens to R W Hazell of Cape Town Africa. The three fowls sold for a total of 150 dollars.
The author argues that learning is a social, reproductive process, not mere drills. Children reproduce ideas by heart only when driven by inner desire to learn, not by coercive schooling. Teachers should enable good supervision and cooperation, treating schools as living communities rather than mere businesses.
A reflective piece argues civilization blends utility and beauty as progress grows. It contrasts past luxuries with current comforts like electric light and telephones, noting modern cities’ splendor derives from science and invention while ancient Greece and Rome offered mere grandeur without such comforts. Julia Ward Howe is cited on women’s evolving roles.
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