07 Sep 1910
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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1910
Page
1
Two bachelors recount a reunion dinner where hometown cooking is praised and a waiter is called down to improve the fare. The tale blends nostalgia with humor as memories of mother’s jam and overcooked dishes clash with restaurant service. The dessert ends with a sharp jab at the porterhouse versus sole leather.
Mrs Locke’s nagging contrast sharply with her husband James Locke’s calm reaction after surviving a mid Atlantic steamer accident. A friend recalls the moment and James’s remark that the rest of his life will focus on explaining to Theodora why he chose that particular steamer amid many safe ones.
A writer in World's Work describes the massive labor of plowing five square miles with horses and a 12 inch plow. The piece compares distances, noting an army of plowmen would need to travel far, while recounting social banter on issues and Paris gossip in brief exchanges.
Frederick L. Neddermeyer owns a medieval violin crafted around 16523 by Gasparo Dulffo Prugcar of Brescia. The instrument, nicknamed the old man, bears St Paul’s carved head and Brescia inscriptions, and is valued for its monk era provenance and resonant mellow tone.
An aged brick two story structure on the Rennselaer side of the Hudson opposite Albany bears a bold tablet claiming it to be the oldest building in the United States, dated 1642. The ruinous manor house fort stands unoccupied, its history tied to fortifying expeditions against Fort Ticonderoga in 1758.
Abercrombie’s headquarters stood near the historic manor house of the seventeenth century. Army Surgeon R Shuckburg is credited with the popular song Yankee Doodle as the grounds and old building frame the scene. Gun holes dot the front, the weathered flag pole remains, and the substantial structure is a lasting relic of a tested national spirit likely to endure long past decay.
The largest whale caught by Japanese whalers arrived in New York and was consigned to the Museum of Natural History. The jawbones weigh about 110000 pounds and measure forty feet long. Transported from Moji, Japan, the whale was more than 200 feet in overall length with a thirty foot skull. The bones were moved from the steamship pier on a large truck pulled by twelve horses.
William A. Radford offers free advice on cement building for readers, stresses accuracy in blockwork, notes bad practice from block machinery sellers, and highlights durable, moisture proof concrete houses. He describes a sample eight inch block home with basement, furnace, kitchen, and two bedrooms, plus options for frame or cement stucco finishes.
Housekeepers skilled with meat cuts still stumble on selecting produce. For beginners, the key tests are weight and fragrance. Ripe fruit emits a fresh sweet odor, and weight matters for oranges grapefruits and melons. Spongy melons or cucumbers signal unripe or stale fruit. Muskmelons show a rough rind and yellowish dividing streaks.
A fragment of a poem reflects on scattering seeds and a dream of preservation. It contrasts a thousand years of fruit appearing in weeds that mar the land with a healthy harvest that endures in memory and soil.
In Parle the theory that a person’s soul is shown by the length, shape, inclination, and spacing of the teeth is promoted by certain dentists. The practice, labeled dental divination, is claimed to surpass palmistry and phrenology. It is linked to a demomacy seance and promises to reveal vanity, fickleness, avarice, egoism, nervousness, and untruthfulness through dental traits.
A stranger visited Mark Twain at his Bermuda home seeking the crystal core and aquarium but told she came to see him first. Twain replied in his dry drawl that she should see the attractions before judging, claiming he is more entertaining and that they are not shocking to him.
Practical guidance for turning dinner remnants into salads. Combines fruit with heavy dressings and cream, vegetable options like cold beans with onions, and a beet salad with olive oil vinegar and seasonings. Includes lettuce bed presentation and simple celery egg salad.
Advice to workers on staying alert and cheerful at work. Emphasizes politeness reliability humor and not feeling indispensable. Warns that gaps will appear if one departs and urges dependable conduct to improve quality and morale.
Recipe fragment describes thick cream sauce made with butter flour and milk. Stir in onion juice parsley and chopped hard boiled eggs. Cool then flour hands mold small cutlets, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve with further accompaniments.
Instructions describe selecting even cucumbers then slicing lengthwise without peeling to remove seeds. Fill shells with chopped tomato pieces, drain juice, place on lettuce leaves, drizzle with French dressing, and serve cold.
Melt two tablespoons of butter in a saucepan and sauté Bermuda onions until coated. Sprinkle two teaspoons each of salt and sugar. Cover with a cup of stock and simmer until tender, adding boiling water as needed. Serve with the sauce poured around the onions.
Capt. Casper H. Conrad Jr proposes tattooing inside the upper lip of Army remount horses as a permanent numeric mark. The system aims to prevent tampering, streamline selection, and cut costs by bypassing middlemen and contractor disputes in the remount program.
The United States plans to press Russia and Japan for formal recognition of the China railroad concession to an English American syndicate tied to the Chin Chow Ai gun line. Washington suspects a secret article in the Russia Japan accord to exclude other powers from Manchuria and will seek to uncover it. England’s waning enthusiasm may leave the U S to defend open access single handedly.
The United States will spearhead global action against promiscuous opium traffic at a September Hague conference. Nations to participate include Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Portugal, China, Siam, Persia, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and likely Turkey. The plan, guided by the Shanghai International Opium Commission, seeks international agreements and government supervision to restrict importation. The US, after regulating opium in the Philippines and unknown numbers of users, has pushed a broader effort. despite a 1909 ban on imports except medicinal, about 68,000 pounds of smoking opium still enters annually.
The suffrage movement gains attention in Washington as formerly timid supporters become open and influential. Prominent socialites and committees now press for votes, with many senators and representatives expressing sympathy and some backing the cause. Social tables discuss ballots openly as women leaders gain visibility.
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