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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
2
A collage of vignettes and wry observations on detectives fashion finance and vanity. It notes Frohne Garden Gould and Kingdon Gould in finance aging and retirement while lampooning societal norms. It mentions a pie fork divorce a July prophecy and rising cigarette prices amid global humor and travel.
Arrangements with government consent aim to publish a complete Tolstoi writings edition in Moscow. This follows the Russian revolution’s early years, when much of Tolstoi's work could not circulate in his homeland.
A New England college honors students with Phi Beta Kappa keys. nine of the recipients are women. The dean notes male ranks are solid, while a student quips that “the sharks for study were as among the girls,” illustrating shifting attitudes toward women’s studies.
The article argues for urgent reform of the army medical corps, noting that peace hides weak preparation. It warns that in war the army will fail to tend the sick and wounded if the medical department is not thoroughly trained and supplied, and calls for decisive changes now.
A busy clergyman stated he survives his demanding duties by breaking many of the moral rules taught in his youth. He cited a key rule about desire, noting its conflict with daily ministry pressures. The remark underscores the tension between personal impulse and religious duties within his vocation.
An observer criticizes altering the President's inauguration date for weather or display. He argues a sober Senate ceremony is fitting, with fasting and prayer, and warns against overemphasis on pomp. The piece contrasts old-fashioned maxims with modern economic and social duties for women.
The George Washington, largest German vessel afloat, arrives New York June 20. Its kitchen and provision spaces total 47 000 cubic feet with electric operated dumb waiters. It features cold storage, icehouses, bakery and confectionery rooms, scullery, and high capacity steam and electric cooking equipment to feed 4000 plus for a week.
The article discusses humane ewe lamb adoption techniques including tying a dead lamb’s skin over the substitute, using a dog to trigger maternal instinct, and confining the ewe between hurdles to encourage bonding. It also covers frost protection for orchards using oil burning pipes, favored in South Texas, with California and Florida contrasts and practical protection frequency.
The speaker labels a girl surrounded by many admirers as the most worthless person on earth, questioning who ever understood who ran against George Washington. The remark contrasts social behavior with historical political knowledge.
A hog loader is described as built from two pine boards six inches wide and nine feet long. They are fastened by three cross-pieces to fit between the wagon box sides. A floor rests on the cross-pieces and short lath strips prevent hogs from slipping through.
The text explains the upper end notched sides for Bt fastening, with two staples on each side securing the rack to the wagon box. The illustration shows the rack’s construction details.
The Department of Agriculture recommends a hog cholera treatment using wood charcoal sulfur sodium chloride sodium bicarbonate sodium hyposulphite sodaum specaca antimony sulphide mixed and given at one large tablespoonful per 200 pounds of hog weight daily.
The Bureau of Entomology concentrates on injurious insects with the sole aim of discovering remedial methods and disseminating them to the public. Every effort is directed toward practical results and public benefit.
A conservative estimate places U S annual economic loss from injurious insects at 700 million dollars, covering agriculture and property while excluding disease-related productivity declines. The article then stresses that heifer care before freshening shapes calf prospects and lifelong dairy performance, advocating rest periods and condition-based feeding using corn meal, alfalfa hay, and oats to build vigor before parturition.
A device for winding barbed wire improves on an old barrel. The reel is mounted on a cart built from old buggy wheels with short shafts. A man pulls the cart while a boy steadies the reel to keep it aligned.
Guidance on safely winding wire on a reel suggests pushing at a steady pace to match the incoming wire. A crank on the reel aids the process, ensuring smooth operation and reducing tangles or slack during winding. The note appears in a farms and home column.
Denver Field and Farm notes sheep eat weeds and waste materials other stock reject and tidy fence rows. A herd of a hundred could graze eighty acres with little cost while returning nearly all eaten as fertilizer. The old proverb claims sheep foot is golden as they enrich soil.
A North Missouri farmer sought ten dollars after his razorback was killed by a train. He wrote a humorous letter to the claim agent begging payment. The reply declined the claim and mockingly marked the hog’s grave with a line about a foolish swine.
Agricultural explorer N B Hanson returned from travels through Russia Siberia Central Asia Turkestan and Northern Africa with over 300 seed and plant lots for experimental use. He found two new alfalfa varieties surviving in Siberia where temperatures drop below freezing. The Department of Agriculture will test the new plant in several Northwestern States.
Chop cold meat with onion or celery as you prefer. Cook with water or gravy, salt, and pepper. Make a rich puff paste and line a dish. Add the hash and some gravy. When serving, cut a round hole in the center of the cover, pour in the remaining gravy, and replace the piece.
A historical cooking note describes beating an egg with sugar and milk then adding grated nutmeg salt baking powder and flour to form doughnuts rolled and fried in salt water. It also details potato dumplings: grated potato pulp soaked in water drained and mixed with flour, pepper salt onions. rolled into apple sized dumplings boiled until they rise.
Four eggs yolks beaten with eight tablespoons powdered sugar. Stew half a pound dates until tender, add a touch of lemon and fold into the yolk mixture. Beat four egg whites and fold in with orange peel. Bake slowly and serve with vanilla sauce. Elizabeth Gregg, Columbia, Pa.
Instructions describe making orange rice balls by cooking one cup rice in salted water fifteen minutes, cooling, peeling five seedless oranges, spreading rice on dumplings, rolling each orange in sugar, tying and boiling the balls for an hour, turning them onto a dish and sprinkling with sugar, served with sweetened cream.
A recipe describes baking large apples filled with washed dates, sugar, lemon juice, butter, and hot water until soft. It suggests variations with figs or stewed plums and notes a moderate oven for the bake.
Select large fat oysters. Free them from shells, drain and dry on towel. Dip in melted butter, then in cracker crumbs seasoned with salt and paprika. Broil on a wire gridiron over a quick fire until the juice flows. Serve at once.
Instructions describe mulled cider heated to boiling, sweetened, thickened to creamlike consistency, with milk-moistened flour to prevent lumps, then reheated and served. Sliced apples are layered with sugar, baked covered ten minutes, uncover ten minutes, and served as a compote with meat.
Instructions describe a mixed preparation: a soft dough from sour cream soda water egg white and flour baked in a quick oven, plus a sugar syrup scented with vanilla to form walnut-topped confections. The process yields two distinct recipes in one passage.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a debate about making paper from cornstalks. The lines mention printing difficulties and a wish to improve fodder usage, with a brief exchange between persons referenced as Owsile and a speaker. The source lacks clear names or a cohesive event.
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