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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
3
A collage of anecdotes from Goshen Daily Democrat touches on gym goers shoveling snow, catfish at night, congressional costs, Chinese education limits, and jokes about Raisuli, poets, diamonds, and Paris trees. Also notes on marriage licenses, French roads, and urban myths, all with satirical bite.
Instructions for making a classic two crust pie shell with pastry flour shortening a salt and baking powder mix. Details cover chilling ingredients rolling shaping lining the pan trimming edges sealing edges and venting with slashes then baking in a moderate oven.
Instructions for preserving apples with sugar and lemon peel, including cooking time and finishing syrup, plus ornament ideas with a preserved gage and blanched almonds. Also presents a non temperance mince pie recipe using meat, apples, suet, raisins, spices, coffee, jelly, and citrus with bottled liquor and vinegar for tartness, to be scalded and jarred.
A government commission recommends Congress allow negotiations for state purchase of coal lands and surface lands in the Indian Territory. It advocates bonds up to 10 million dollars, with ballot submission at the next general election, to acquire coal and land to lower prices and boost domestic coal supply.
Guthrie Oklahoma plan to acquire 450000 acres of Choctaw and Chickasaw coal and asphalt lands will be recommended by the commission named by the constitutional convention. The lands have been withdrawn from sale by Congress and tribal governments act without congressional sanction.
Lewis Sadler, a miser and hermit in Youngstown area, starved himself to insanity. His farm near New Buffalo was auctioned after his chattels sold, revealing $2,175 in gold hidden in jars. The rest of the supposed $25,000 fortune remains buried and unfound as Sadler rests in Massillon State Hospital.
Wang Bang of Chinatown showcases long pointy fingernails painted with tiny portraits of China. Each nail holds a delicate India ink scene and his largest thumbnail bears a self portrait. The artist says the portraits may last a lifetime and he travels daily to paint in new neighborhoods.
An annual bureau of vital statistics report shows 552 divorces granted in 1907 in South Dakota, 320 to nonresidents. The article notes average costs of residency, lawyer and court fees, and estimates state income from divorces over the past decade, with merchants and hotels catering to divorce-seekers.
An old-time column critiques the term kitchen minded as a reproach for women absorbed in home life. It notes varying interests, asks who defines the right balance, and mentions George Enot who favors a clean kitchen. A recipe for cabbage bake follows with butter flour milk egg and bread crumbs.
The king of England placed an order with a New York tobacco broker for 600 cigars to be shipped from Havana for Easter. The cost nears the prior royal bill of 3,000 dollars for 1,000 cigars, with careful selection of Vuelta Abajo tobacco, eight inch length and one inch diameter, two selectors passing every leaf, and gold leaf names on each cigar. The workmen earned 85 cents per cigar.
The writing discusses icing that can stiffen if not removed at the right moment and may be reheated briefly on the stove. It suggests setting the dish on an asbestos mat and stirring until the icing looks properly set.
Workmen on a C. W. Blakeslee & Son trolley project between Woodbury and Waterbury discovery a missing temporary trestle in a Middlebury swamp. Tracks and heavy timbers vanished with ten thousand cubic feet of fill dumped there also gone, leaving trees leaning as if to fall.
The author argues children should leave the home for education, starting with babygarten to expose babies to others and broaden ethics beyond family. Such schooling would teach that society’s ethics surpass individual or parental norms and give mothers chance to grow as well.
The speaker argues that acting demands thorough planning of every detail from tone to gesture and that inspiration plays a minor role. He compares acting to building a house, insisting on methodical forethought and control of emotion rather than raw display or disguising personality.
The article ponders future ability to view the human soul with new light from discovery such as X rays. It imagines the soul appearing in the eyes, transforming faces, and foresees a time when the faithful soul shines with heavenly beauty as the embryo spirit grows toward Christ.
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