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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
1
President Roosevelt appoints a five member commission to report on social conditions of farm life, aiming to attract youth to the countryside and improve farmer welfare with measures like rural savings banks, parcel post, and better rural schools. The piece links farming prosperity to human well being and national strength.
A new Waldorf-Astoria salad named Salad Astoria is described as more attractive and delicious. It layers romaine with orange, grapefruit, Bartlett pear, and pickled walnut, finished with red and green pepper ribbons and a French dressing. The dish is praised as simple and healthful for luncheon, per the New York Press.
Answers detail quantities for sugar extracts salt and fats in common recipes. The guide covers custards puddings sauces soups and vegetables with specifics for eggs milk baking powder and coffee oils. A recipe fragment for Lambs Tongue Spanish outlines peeling browning simmering and thickening with brown flour and notes on beef rib dish.
A chocolate glaze is made by heating yolk milk and shaved chocolate until thick. Butter is folded in then poured into a sugar flour batter with egg white milk clove soda and flour. Bake in a sheet and frost with a white icing using butter water vanilla and confectioners sugar to spread.
A homemaker describes saving apple skins and orange peels, simmering them in water, chopping fine, straining, and sweetening. The mix is stirred and cooked briefly, yielding a thick red spread for bread that children favor over butter due to the high apple content.
Spokane youth Lyle G. Cameron, a horseshoer, marries Edna West after a brief courtship sparked when she brought her horse to his shop for a shoe replacement. He plans a life with her, embracing luck symbols and a tandem partnership as they start their married life.
In Oklahoma City Oklahoma, a Prague bank balance revealed a $100 bill and a $10 bill missing. President B F Whitmore tore up baseboard and found a mouse bedded on the money. The rodent had dragged cash from the counter to its nest as a mother mouse had just bred six young.
Washington reports the commissary department has placed the Russian stewpot next to the colors in order of precedence for future campaigns. The wheeled pot with a firebox allows stew to cook during the march and be ready when soldiers reach camp, a practice already used in Manchuria.
Superior Court Judge Lennon denied Madison’s injunction to stop architect Mathews from designing for butcher De Courtieux a house near Madison’s own. Lennon ruled Mathews’ personal style in house design is livelihood and art, and restraining it would ruin his business.
To clean kid gloves rub them with spirits of turpentine on the hands and wash as you would your hands. Rub fingers and soiled parts well. stretch gloves and dry in a brisk wind after removal.
A dessert drink recipe describes placing a spoon of vanilla ice cream at the glass bottom, then filling with chilled iced coffee made with sugar and cream. Do not stir. Serve with a long-handled spoon.
Rebecca Tongue, 84, farms 160 acres north of Hillsboro, Oregon. She plants, hires two men, and runs the home while selling butter and eggs and veal to cover all labor. English immigrant in county for 48 years plans a new farmhouse after the old one burned. The farm is valued at about $100 per acre with a banked reserve.
Elliott Woods-Muai¢ Hia Chief Recreation-How He Spends His Days. Washington proclaims him busiest man in the capital, holding four offices and at least fifteen responsibilities. He directs capitol grounds and new buildings, oversees memorial and monument plans, installations of the underground railroad, and hearing arrangements for House members. He supervises heating and power projects, courthouse additions, and campus greenery, while managing daily schedules from dawn to late afternoon. He also composes music, plays piano and violin, and keeps wireless contact with naval stations for recreation.
Kansas City observer notes the Virginia Trailer owned by George W. Mac Caine of Jacksonville Missouri. It is a 1831 land craft with 5 feet 6 inch iron tires weighing over 400 pounds. Built in Lincoln County Kentucky by William McCanne to move a family of six across the west.
The Virginia Trailer, a fortified long wagon built by McCanne, carried six tons of freight from Kentucky to Missouri. Two yoke of oxen and a span of horses pulled it, with heavy iron work, a 16 foot bed, and 20 by 10 inch rear hubs. McCanne settled 600 acres in Missouri. the design echoed Army wagons from the war with Britain.
In Jonesboro Illinois a semi centennial celebration honored the Lincoln Douglas debate. About 10 000 people gathered at Union County Fair Grounds under the oak trees where the event occurred fifty years earlier. A 6000 pound limestone tablet dated September 15 1858 to 1908 marked the site and was unveiled by Miss Lilian Lanier. Judge Monroe C Crawford spoke presenting the tablet to the historical society of lands. Fifty attendees recalled the original debate from half a century ago. Caleb Watta of Lily Pad Pennsylvania raises frogs for the market with five cornmeal and files feed.
Mia J H Bennett of 69 Fountain St Gardiner Massachusetts says she suffered four months from back pain dizziness headaches and bladder inflammation before using Doats Kidney Pills. In three months she was completely cured and the trouble has not returned. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
In a wry line the speaker recalls not being named in an uncle’s will. The joke hinges on the irony that remembrance came with exclusion, implying the uncle favored withholding mention over inclusion.
J B Hennen of Milan Missouri reports twelve to fifteen years of itching and a painful breakout cured after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. He credits relief from leg swelling and a leg breakout after a bout with influenza and pneumonia. May 13 1907.
Dr. Caroline Hedger, a Chicago health department inspector, bought a cow to supply pure milk to malnourished infants in a crowded district. The project, aims to cut handling and deliver milk directly to 14 families, and is described as a great success by Hedger and supporters.
A Wisconsin woman reports eight years of Postum use three times daily helping her dyspepsia bloating and headaches after coffee left her unable to eat. She notes family improvements and urges readers to try Postum as a coffee substitute. The letter is from Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and references The Road to Wellville.
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