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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1910
Page
8
A fragmented humor piece from a 19th or early 20th century page pokes fun at paper lore and social quirks. Characters named Benham Yorkins Young Mra and Charley discuss prohibitionist taggers, travel fares, and foolish male behavior while a chairman mediates. The text includes dialogue fragments, satirical lines, and signature quips about oratory and parental duties.
Chicago hosted the Knights Templar triennial conclave with a 60 000 strong parade and 42 bands. The week opened August 7 with divine service and featured grand processions along Michigan Boulevard from Thirty-First to State and La Salle streets, under arches, festoons, and colossal electric displays. Police and medical stations safeguarded crowds as attendees swarmed hotels, churches, and venues, while grand master Willan Bromwell Mellah led the event in Chicago’s ornate Tem plar Way and Grant Park showcase.
The article highlights a city event featuring a display of electric lights. Key figures include John D. Cleveland, Arthur Macarthur, and W. Frank Pierce, with noted visitors such as The Right Honorable Marl of Weston and Lord Athlumney. Other prominent attendees from Wagland, Wales, Mugland, Canada, and Canada’s priory are listed among the grand officers and officials.
A dated tutorial on cake making stresses essential ingredients and precise measuring. It contrasts old fashioned thrift and modern practice, notes common baking flaws like bodden centers and sticky surfaces, and lists several sponge and molasses sponge cake recipes with step by step instructions.
At night mix dough for light bread and let it rise. In the morning portion dough for biscuits, roll to a quarter inch, heat lard in a skillet, fry until puffed and brown with hollow centers. Serve hot and split to spread butter inside. Do not cut open.
Directions describe making Scotch oat cakes for summer breakfasts. Grind meal fine, mix with galt, add cold water to form a dough, roll quickly into a quarter-inch thick circle, cut into four cakes and bake slowly about twenty minutes on an iron grid dle. Do not turn, but tonat after they are cooked.
A historic recipe describes making a macaroni sauce with minced onion and garlic sautéed in butter, then Molsten, water from boiled macaroni, and beet extract. Four dried mushrooms are added after soaking and cooking for five minutes before serving over macaroni or polenta.
The recipe advises mixing one cupful of ground or grated bread crumbs with every cup of veal meat to form a loaf. It claims the loaf will be bold rather than heavy, cheaper, healthier, and tastier overall.
Fragmentary OCR text describes making an orange filling with grated rind lemon juice cornstarch salt sugar and water. It mentions cooking until thick and references taste notes but is heavily garbled and incomplete. No clear date or author, but points to a kitchen instructions item.
A compact guide describes using a cloth to rub away thick grime. It mentions applying a substance, exposing to sun, and drying to achieve a clean finish.
A mother uses a tale to teach a child about inappropriate language as a guest at a hotel, and a frantic night clerk named Ferguson recalls a comical room key exchange involving a visiting guest dressed oddly. The scene blends nursery wisdom with a sleepy misdirected tale set in a late hour hotel corridor.
Fragmentary dialogue notes a claim about Castorlia as a safe infant remedy and references a signer. The scene includes a teacher and children discussing phrasing and approval, with a focus on proper wording in a classroom exchange.
The text presents repeated phrases about Bea fe bourses wind cola and Soom boule. A quoted line notes that the supply of talk always exceeds the demand, highlighting a humorous or paradoxical observation.
A testimonial from Mrs. Joan G. Sano of Minneapolis extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing female health issues. She reports pain relief and full recovery within three months and urges others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham for confidential help.
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