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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1915
Page
3
A homespun guide extols hot biscuits with butter honey or jam and debunks health myths. It offers a tested recipe for Eating Powder Biscuits with flour salt baking powder shortening and milk or water plus baking steps and tips on dough thickness and flour use.
An ad supporting firm advertising argues that consumers pay nothing extra for ads. Advertising lowers prices by enabling greater sales and sustaining low margins. Non adverting merchants may seek higher profits from fewer sales.
A crew of about 25 Purdue University specialists will devote Sept. 6week at the Indiana State Fair. They will assist Hoosier farmers with home problems and present reorganized exhibits on dairy demonstrations feeding stuffs and fertilizers. The event includes soil and crop improvement crop rotation drainage cultivation and pest control plus a state food display on weights measures sanitation and fraudulent drugs.
The Indiana State Fair harness meet runs Sept 6 to 10 with daily races including 2:28 trot 2:12 pace 2:16 trot and 2:20 pace for 3 year olds. Western Horseman stake races offer up to 8000 dollars. Entertainment includes Indianapolis Military Band and vaudeville acts Collier DeWalde Weber sisters and more.
The article lists officers and department heads on the State Board of Agriculture. Names include President Warren T. McCray of Kentland, Vice-president Charles Anthony of Muncie, Secretary-Treasurer Charles Downing of Indianapolis, and supervisors for admissions, grand stand, speed, horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, art, horticulture, agriculture, mechanical, concessions, coliseum, and amusements.
A recipe instructs to simmer one cup sugar butter and two and a half cups strawberries with two cups boiling water, then make a batter from flour baking powder salt an egg and milk. Drop eight portions into the syrup boil twenty minutes with lid on and serve hot with the sauce.
The recipe instructs to halve tomatoes lay them cut side up and top with chopped green peppers and onions. Moisten bread or cracker crumbs with melted butter then spread a layer over the tomato mixture and bake until browned.
In making a fruit cake, pour half the batter in the pan before adding the fruit, then the fruit will not be found all at the bottom of the cake, as in too often the way.
A Dublin electric lamp company asserts electricity is the safest cheapest and most artistic fluminant. The facts oppose all three claims according to Gag World.
The notice notes that several sites once used for worship and public gatherings such as Old Surrey Chapel in Blackfriars Road and Exeter Hall are repurposed or proposed for new functions. It mentions Rowland Hill as the chapel's first minister and lists other venues including the Priory Church at Chichester Trinity Congregational Chapel Hackney and a cricket pavilion.
Cy Perkins and Jim Brady, country outsiders, dine at a high class restaurant near the city after a state fair visit. The bill runs to nine dollars and sixty cents. Brady pays with a ten dollar bill and boasts of “taking the damage,” while Cy reveals he has fifteen dollars worth of silver spoons as punishment for the waiter's service.
A husky Irishman named Mike Hennessy wins respect after firing up 500 dock workers at 7 am with a bold pledge to beat any man in the gang. One rival challenges, but Hennessy retorts, then tells him to go to the office for his pay, vowing no man in the gang can beat him.
A short, humorous exchange shows a penniless husband worrying about family summer plans in Europe or a rural poorhouse. The boy James brags of saving a dollar and earns a dime from his father after promising a good report from his teacher.
In a light dialogue, a guest notes a woman’s wardrobe persists. The reply jokes that her outfit should last until she receives alimony. The briefquip hints at financial considerations in domestic affairs.
Edith did not attend school yesterday due to falling in the mud. Her mother asks for understanding and excuses Edith from the absence, urging kindness toward her child.
Practical advice for homemakers covering storage and cleaning tasks. Tips include using paper bags to cover pitchers, boiling new ironware, refreshing leftovers, watering houseplants in a bathtub, keeping the air dry with lime, stain removal methods, and improving kitchen equipment like pans and pudding tins. It also covers hair brushing, egg beater cleaning, celery tenderness, using butter as a mild salve, cooking spinach in bouillon, making brown sugar frosting, packing bottles, and mindful eating to avoid indigestion. It stresses a balanced life with exercise, reading, conversation, and companionship. It ends with piano care and general housekeeping philosophy.
Advice recommends rinsing heavy textiles with a garden hose to avoid wringing and wrinkles, and to dry nap without crushing. It suggests ammonia for bugs and endorses a near-middle sink with high tables for efficient laundry work, noting men over fifty acquire many wasteful habits.
A discussion of strange fears and nervous conditions describes emotional neurasthenics who fear water, crowds, or loneliness. It cites agoraphobia with Heraclius as example and an English view linking the fear to ancestral tree-dwelling safety instincts.
Paris doctors Loir and Legaucneux report vinegar plus water kills typhoid bacillus within an hour. A liter of water with twenty grams of vinegar can disinfect salad leaves and other vegetables after washing, reducing typhoid risk when vegetables are soaked about an hour and a quarter.
An Oregon man develops a clock driven feeder for poultry that releases feed every 1.5 hours and can supply 300 chickens the precise amount for 30 hours. Eight hinged cans drop feed when a revolving lever trips, powered by a clock spring, all sheltered by a hood to shield weather and deter hens from overfeeding.
Brander Matthews argues against overreliance on foreign terms noting chaufeur and garage as durable but urges full anglicization. He warns impurity from partial adoption and prefers English equivalents over mis en scene premiere zeitgeist or related imports.
A new electric sewing machine integrates the motor and uses a pedal operated brake on a drum to control speed. Release stops motor, partial pedal starts slowly, fully pressed runs at full speed. The needle sits straight ahead, reducing operator strain and power can be supplied from any light socket.
A new rotary stump cutter reduces stumps to uniform shavings. The device uses a cutter head with eight knives around a central point, cutting in a downward horizontal circle of thirty six inches diameter. A 30 horsepower traction engine powers the unit in this Popular Mechanics report.
A tradition of half raw sausages and ham among German classes prompts authorities to require pork inspection before sale. Some violators evade controls, with a peasant claiming an “accurate” pork test using a hungry pastor as the health gauge.
Smith counsels Jones to marry the poor young woman he loves, deeming it the heart’s duty. Jones agrees but asks for the wealthy widow’s address, aiming to chase two paths at once and create a comic ethical snag.
The United States Public Health Service issue a pamphlet titled Fighting Trim stressing personal effort as essential in the war against disease. It warns against complacency after victories over infectious illnesses and urges sanitation, hygiene, and health as patriotic duties to safeguard national well being.
A mission settlement worker discusses Roman history with water front youths. He asks if Nero was a good man and would the boys like to know him. Clancy finally answers, he never did nothing to me.
A rural girl visits a neighbor with a basket and asks for a dozen eggs to “put under a hen.” The neighbor is puzzled, not knowing the family has no hen. The girl explains they will borrow Mrs. Brown's hen to hatch the eggs.
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