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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
20
Wartime kitchen notes from a 1921 Western Newspaper Union piece showcase simple fruit pastry and desserts. Recipes include Baked Apple Tart with flaky pastry, Chestnut Apple Amber pudding, Butteracotch Pudding, and Date Jelly, detailing ingredients, boiling and baking steps, and serving ideas.
A poetic meditation on manhood and the bond of humanity. The speaker rejects vile tales, defends a motherly toiling ethos, and asserts that men and boys are rooted in maternal love and shared humanity, despite temptations and corrupt spaces.
A compact historical note traces the term bogus to Borghese, via Borges and Tagus, describing how a counterfeit money scheme around 1825 corrupted currencies in the West and South. It explains linguistic shifts, mentions the Now Polish Dictionary citation, and notes late capitalization adoption around a century later.
An old era of home crafts reemerges as women turn to weaving for income. The piece notes the rise of small shops and private buyers paying premium for handwoven work, and advises on training, equipment, and joining crafts societies to find markets. It discusses loom cost and the importance of quality tools and dyes.
The piece notes how artists build reputations through societies, studios, and exchanges while cautioning against overpricing early work. It references Australia’s humor, often stifled by red tape, and critiques a government poster urging citizens to “Tell Your Country-Help Yourself,” whose reception shifted after public recognition of similar self-help behavior.
Dreaming of dogs signals varied meanings. A biting dog suggests overcoming enemies, barking or two fighting dogs foretell quarrels or jealousy, sleeping dogs promise acceptance, and a female dog with puppies hints at worries turning to relief. Playing with a dog warns against costly, frivolous spending while seeing a dog with Jemim underlines faithful friends who will stand by you.
The obituary extols Judge W T Yost as a towering, colorful Kentucky figure famed as the state’s biggest lawyer. It recounts his size, wit, and stories including a Louisville shoe blackening booth tale and a sharp exchange with Judge Polk Cannler in a Coffey murder case context.
A six to fifteenth year old heir apparent faces a pivotal future as marriage prospects stir debate. Peking insiders see potential benefit in wedding a Chinese lady to legitimize a constitutional monarchy, aligning dynastic rules with reform to dampen anti dynasty sentiment.
A pensive note on Conan Boyle’s tale of England facing German submarines and the gap between fiction and reality as Postdam orders meet actual wartime acts. The piece highlights telegraphy for photo dispatches as a near future breakthrough spurred by dreamers and prophets.
At Swangon bay British Columbia two divers nearly 100 feet below the sea hoisted the British flag on the Sunken ship Prince Rupert as it is salvaged. One diver bent the colors to the halyards while the other saluted and sent the anthem to the surface via helmet telephone. The feat tops many shipwrecks where colors fly and may mark the salvage company’s milestone.
A Belgian expert reports rich copper deposits in Shetland where Cornish miners work under Cornish engineers using modern machinery. Ore contains 12 to 16 percent copper being extracted amid market surplus.
Secretary Payne’s 1020 annual report urges Congress to firmly protect national parks and monuments from commercial water power and irrigation projects. He warns a six-foot Yellowstone Lake dam could set a dangerous precedent, risking timber, hot springs, scenery, and the wild West’s memory.
Secretary Houston fixes wartime treasury outlay at 24.01 billion dollars covering April 6, 1917, to June 30, 1919. A separate account lists 1.851 million spent for the American peace commission December 1, 1918, to December 4, 1920, with net payments and refunds detailed for travel, subsistence, salaries, hotel bills, and various missions abroad.
The Ways and Means Committee heard two Prohibition ideas from advocates and one from Rep Joseph Fordney of Michigan. Wayne Wheeler urged a 290 dollar per gallon tax and full bond stock liquidation, while John Kramer proposed concentrating liquor in select warehouses in Kentucky with heavy guards to curb theft. Fordney floated selling stored whisky to buyers to end government costs, suggesting a “one grand jag” to resolve the issue. Tilson of Connecticut opposed heavy enforcement in reluctant communities.
The War Department reportedly seeks bids for 300 new airplanes based on Army Aviation designs with an estimated 6 million dollars panel cost. Budgets for air service total 88 million, with min 5.26 million for experiments and 6 million for new gear, while Navy aviation seeks a bureau of naval aeronautics led by a rear admiral amid calls that the U.S. lags Europe.
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