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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1907
Page
4
The narrator contends with a locked room mystery at Carney Croft and a secret note about his love Florence Carney. A library sighting reveals a familiar figure. a suspected practical joke sparks anger and confusion. He reads letters from Carney and notes the Jarvis case postponed, clarifying nothing about the note’s origin.
In a private office MacArdel meets the narrator over a mystery note found on his bed in a haunted house. The two friends debate love, social constraints, and a promise to marry, while a joking wager frames the tense disclosure. They plan to investigate the note’s author as they explore.
TI greets a figure in a chair with surprise and humor. The pair exchange quips about ghosts and apologies as Mac Arden offers a cigar, revealing a tense yet cordial tone between old acquaintances.
Step by step method to dissolve gum Arabic in water and sugar, heat to honey-like thickness, color and flavor as desired, form thin drops in starch with indentations, use wooden buttons to create multiple drops, pour into molds, dry in warm place, then coat with granulated sugar.
When hanging gowns do not hang them with the outside facing out and use a white muslin bag or white covering to protect delicate colors. Ensure the cover hangs from the hook not the dress to prevent creases and drag.
The piece extols freshly brewed tea within 15 minutes, requires water at first boil with a five minute maximum, favors Ceylon or other black blends, and notes a hot teapot improves flavor while cheap brown earthenware outperforms silver for better tea.
Remember to wash all good pocket handkerchiefs by themselves. Soak them overnight in cold water then wash in hot water with white soap. Rinse in cold water, squeeze the water out rub with soap and boil 20 minutes with borax. Rinse again wash any spots and iron before dry to keep color and wear.
The text describes lemon marmalade making with six pounds of lemons and nine pounds sugar, detailing peeling, paring, boiling, and canning. It also notes onions as a nervine food, claiming onions strengthen the nervous system and improve complexion, with onion bite from sulfur compounds.
A recipe describes a delicate cheese flavor for spaghetti by using a cream sauce and serving it in a cheese shell. A roux of two tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter to a pint of milk is simmered with the already cooked spaghetti for ten to fifteen minutes, then baked briefly in the oven.
A recipe notes prettily prepared luncheon oranges by removing pulp from the top, peeling the edge in points, and mixing the pulp with shredded coconut and sugar. Add a teaspoon of sherry or creme de menthe, top with more coconut, and garnish with a sprig of dark green leaves.
A roundup of general interest items from Iowa including the destruction of a laundry in Iowa Falls with a $6000 loss, indictments for liquor nuisance in Atlantic, state spending and fundraising figures for Des Moines, a Mason City skull fracture, fires that killed children in Mystic, and cornerstone ceremonies for Sacred Heart church in Rockwell. Additional notes cover a shooting death in Taylor county, a farmer’s suicide near Turin, various local officials' salaries and appointments, railroad accidents in Council Bluffs, corporate legal changes for trusts, fruit crop notes in Des Moines, a large literary work edition from Eldorado, a bank shortage in Seymour, and social pledges by girls of Afton regarding conduct and propriety.
Readers praise Peruna for catarrh relief with letters from Miss Dora Hayden of Washington D C and Mrs N P Bawtter of Pittsburg Kansas. Both describe spring catarrh improvement, noting better health, sleep, and appetite after starting the medicine.
English writer W H Mallock criticized a new socialism definition at a New York dinner. He quoted a joke about a young Oxford student testing the police and law, noting the humor as a reflection on political concepts.
A mother recalls her infant’s severe sores and failing treatments before using Cure Itch Soap and Ointment, which reportedly cleared the child’s skin. The note, from Akron, Ohio, accompanies assorted health and trade notices from the period.
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