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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
6
A column of assorted opinions from Bloomington to Chicago notes on corn, diplomacy, politics, and transport. It references China’s rail aversion, growing automobile use in China, a Dutch women’s suffrage league, and a proposed London speed and noise curb for motor traffic.
The piece notes a large eastern paper dropping its comic supplement and cites a debate among papers on the value of such features. It mentions President Hadley speaking on public taste and newspaper offerings shaped by reader demand, plus a China dowager ruler and a Norwich art scholarship awarded to Miss Ruth H Northrop for clay sculptures of animals and figures.
A home note outlines practical advice from kitchen to furniture care. It covers Arabian coffee brewing for stronger flavor, safe storage in tins or jars, a lime and egg white cement for broken china, color stain removal, easy stopper removal, curtain rod substitutes, toothbrush longevity, and cleaning wicker furniture with hot water and soap.
A historical household recipe details making ginger beer by steeping ginger and sugar in water, activating with a yeast cake, then resting overnight. It also describes toasted bread dipped in hot milk with butter, salted, and served with a custard sauce thickened by carnstarch and eggs.
Peel three quarters of a pound of apples and simmer with a pinch of cinnamon a half pint water and two ounces sugar until pulpy. Rub through a sieve add a few drops of sap green or apple green then warm to use. It can be served cold with milk puddings.
Roil a large eggplant 20 minutes then cool cut in half and scoop out the flesh. Chop the flesh and mix with bread crumbs salt pepper and chopped nuts. Refill shells bake until brown, basting with a mix of butter and hot water. Serve in the shells.
Instructions describe preparing kippered herrings from a can by placing them on a platter, seasoning with pepper and lemon juice, brushing with butter, adding can liquor, heating, and serving with parsley and lemon garnish.
The Chinese empire will spend more than 4.2 million on burial rites for Emperor Kwang Hsu and the dowager empress, with lavish ceremonies at Pekin and a mixed modern traditional program. The dowager empress will be buried in spring after the mausoleum is prepared, and the throne orders further study of funeral observances to fit modern methods.
New York marriages among socially prominent persons are dropping, per the 1909 Social Register. The city shows a 20 percent decline from last year, with a roughly seven percent fall nationwide. Pittsburgh is an exception, showing 69.
In Morocco Indiana farmers adopt a simple oat incubator system. Stacked crates with burlap layers hold water to soak oats, which sprout into green fodder under artificial heat. One bucket of oats yields five bucketfuls of greens per day, reported by local poultry raisers as highly effective for winter feed.
The Constitution, former Cup defender built by the American Cup Defender association led by August Belmont, was sold to Edward S. Reiss & Co. and will be broken up for 25,000 dollars worth of metal and material. The yacht rests in New London Conn at the Thames Railway yard awaiting dismantling and transport to Broad Street.
George Sweet and Minnie Austin along with Guy Stearns and Sadie Austin wed after a midnight ride from Lyman county to Oacoma. The sisters, daughters of Azariah Austin, accepted the dare to marry the grooms cousins, with Rev. N H May conducting the ceremony once licenses were secured following a long wait.
A speaker criticizes prejudice against Jews and the silence of media on Jewish contributions. He cites figures like Mendeleev, Michelson, Guggenheim, Belasco, Warfield, Straus, Sulzberger, Hollander, Schechter, and Loeb to argue Jews excel in science, finance, arts, and public service, urging recognition beyond stereotypes.
The piece muses on light from ancient epochs reaching Earth and the vast scale of the cosmos. It suggests many universes may exist beyond ours, separated by empty space and potentially invisible from one another, with humanity appearing as a tiny ant heap in the vast cosmic history.
The article notes a rise in specialized thefts with burglars targeting specific items. A New York optician firm was robbed of glass eyes and small valuables, while other shops lost glass eyes in October. Communion cups and jewel-studded chalices are also cited as recurring theft targets, including a notable case in New Jersey.
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