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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
6
Goshen Daily Democrat lists publisher Jos A Beane as publisher in Goshen Indiana with no additional details. The fragmentary item references the Indiana newspaper's masthead and location.
A collage of remarks on gender, health, and politics including women’s ballots in England, smoking a medical fad, British imperial topics, housing crowds in Scotland, Panama Canal progress, and commentary on education, debt, work, and societal norms.
The article lists detailed cooking times for frying breaded chops croquettes doughnuts and various fish and potatoes. It also provides broiling times for bacon birds chicken chops small and thick fish liver squab steaks tripe and roasting times for beef duck mutton pork turkey and veal with weights and hours per pound.
Practical household notes on preserving books with lavender oil, preparing oats, using rugs instead of carpets, cooling celery, making stuffed olive balls with cream cheese, enhancing chicken salad with green pepper, starching pinafores with sugar, avoiding tinted water for stockings, and a potato ring dish from Harper's Bazar with reheated mashed potato, fowl and gravy garnished with parsley.
The passage describes warming peas and cabbage by buttering a mold, adding the food, topping with butter, covering, and baking until hot. It notes new potatoes are hard to reheat, suggest measuring before scraping, and if any remain, steaming them with a cloth cover instead of a saucepan lid.
A recipe lists ingredients and steps for a chocolate custard bake. Mix sugar with egg yolks, fold in bread crumbs and grated chocolate, add sweet milk with a pinch of salt and vanilla, bake twenty minutes, then top with beaten egg whites and sugar and return to brown.
Make a light dough by mixing and letting rise then fold in butter sugar raisins and cinnamon. Roll to half inch thick on a floured board then roll up and cut into inch thick slices. Bake in a moderate oven.
Instructions describe selecting seven pounds of grapes and preserving them in a jar with one quart vinegar and three pounds sugar. Add whole cloves and cinnamon sticks, cook the vinegar sugar and spices briefly, cool to just above lukewarm, then pour over the grapes without cooking them.
Edmund Heller of Riverside, a 27 year old State University museum biologist and big game expert, is chosen by President Roosevelt to accompany the hunting expedition to Africa for a year. The party will depart New York March 23 and travel to Naples, Mombasa, then through British and German East Africa, Uganda, the Nile to Khartoum and Cairo.
In Alton Missouri Point area Willow Ben Saw yer has cornered the coon dog market driving prices up to $100 per dog. The price had been $40 a week earlier as brokers expect further gains. Dogs are valued at $1.50 per coon with meat and skin priced equally. breeders anticipate substantial profits if the corner persists. Local buyers urge dog owners to bring their animals to Alton to sell while profits loom large.
In East Orange a 15 foot high fence is built by George H. Watson after his chef, formerly of Prospect Street, left for A Ward Brigham's home. Watson claims Brigham lured the cook. disputes between their families escalated to the silent protest of a tall fence surrounding Brigham's property to block the kitchen aromas.
Adelbert Poole, 72, a former England native now in New York, says he travels yearly from May to October, averaging 2,000 miles on foot to sharpen telegrapher razors along tower stations from Brooklyn to Niagara Falls. He carries cards from telegraphers and is known as Pop Poole. He seeks a position in the engine and boiler room at King County Hospital.
A full blooded Coeur d'Alene rider named Bart McNamane saved a dozen children at Spokane fair grounds when two delivery wagon horses bolted. He pursued, restrained the animals, and tied them to a post. Crowds poured over $40 into his saddle bags, which he spent on candy for the children.
In New York two intoxicated ladies smashed a plate glass window at W. W. St. John on Madison Avenue and Forty-second Street. The cost was 80 dollars. the judge fined each woman three dollars. A placard declared the incident as a public display of the battle between the women, with exhibitory items labeled Exhibit A Comb Exhibit B Part of a gown and Exhibit C Sky piece.
In Baltimore Maryland a fat rich piece of bologna sausage sparks a $5,000 damages suit. Little Charlotte Lanowits alleges ptomaine poisoning from eating the sausage on December 6. Judge Harlan and a jury hear the case with lawyers William C. Smith Vernon Cook and John Kump assisting the jury.
The author argues railways must be advanced with more tracks and faster systems using science to improve speed and efficiency. Government officials should prioritize wisdom over partisan debate and view railroads as enduring, civilizational agents supported by competent engineers.
The article argues life spans can be extended beyond current norms through addressing aging changes. It cites historical lifeexpectancy data and notes improvements from better sanitation and medical care while highlighting senile degenerative processes. It advocates massage, prescribed movements, exercise, and proper feeding as simple means to extend life for those around 50 and older.
An editorial decries fashion as a hinderance to natural child development. It argues parents and teachers set vanity examples and that stylish dress distracts children from important play and learning. It calls for banning self indulgent vanity in classrooms and emphasizes virtue and simple living.
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