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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1914
Page
8
A colonial style\nuthor offers ways to reuse jelly in drinks, desserts, pies, tarts, and toppings. Recipes include lemon juice water with jelly, jelly and cream desserts, jelly fritters and doughnuts, and jelly based puddings with pineapple and gelatine.
Simple dessert ideas using fruit filled oblong baskets, with orange peel handles and whipped cream. Pineapple rice with milk and butter flavors, then decorated with sliced pineapple. Strawberry omelet combines fresh strawberries sugar and cream, cooked to a creamy texture and served with berries and butter. Various fruit sauces and toppings suggested to vary taste.
A fragment explains why parrots stay in tropical forests rather than moving northward. It suggests the birds respond to unsuitable conditions and cites a misinformed view about pies and robins.
Reading from a fragmentary note, the speaker contrasts seekers of crookedness and straight paths, hinting at a global quest for truth or deceit. The phrase implies a judgment about perception and morality across different peoples.
A dated collection shares an Apple Sauce Cake recipe with sugar shortening egg yolk buttermilk and spices, plus Pepper Salad and Raisin Bread methods. Also includes a Pork dish with vegetables and molasses, and a moral quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Fresh Ding cherries are highlighted for preservation into a winter conserve by soaking pitted fruit in cider vinegar overnight. The next day drain, mix with sugar, jar, and seal with cloth and plate to keep indefinitely. Also suggests breakfast serving ideas using pitted cherries with garnishes.
A reflection on how small acts like a smile can trigger unseen healing effects. The quote suggests Christianity aims to enrich lives by fitting people with compassion and goodwill.
A fragment quotes Frances Garside noting a mother tends to sick children and a sick father, asking who cares for the mother when she herself is ill. The line highlights maternal devotion and shared family burden under strain.
Article argues farmers should raise uniform, quality feeders locally to avoid acclimation failures with purchased stock. It advises maintaining cattle herds, raising high quality feeding animals, and selling off grass when prices are favorable. Emphasizes alfalfa clover corn stover and a liberal grain ration, plus careful market timing.
Practical guidance on hog care emphasizes balanced feed with grass and grain, healthy breeding stock, clean water, disinfectants, and humane treatment. It warns against overfeeding grain and feeding harmful substances like mud or dust, and notes the value of quicklime in water barrels and regular hog-waterer cleaning.
A farmer argues for sheep on weed filled fields noting they eat weeds and fatten well with minimal restraint. He favors sheep with heavy shipping lambs over fleece value, suggests starting with market ewes due to cost, and warns that thoroughbreds are rare for ordinary farmers. Fresh butter is best.
The practice of driving teams through cold water to wash filth from their feet and legs is dangerous and causes illnesses. Warm or overheated teams should not be placed in cold air. exercise first, then blanket, warm stable, and wipe dry after blankets come off. Steam exposed to rain should be rubbed dry to avoid chills and fevers. Provide noon rest, and in the evening groom and clean legs, bellies, and feet to relieve mud and filth.
Jerome S. McWade delivered an after dinner toast at Duluth humorously recalling the line in The Ladies. He quipped about travels and loneliness of men in town and then told a doctor joke about a patient who blames gardening for his ailment, with the punchline about a roof gardens.
A Chicago Sunday Examiner vignette shows a mother soothing a frightened child during a thunderstorm. The boy retorts that her calm talk mirrors the dentist visit last week when his tooth was pulled, highlighting skepticism toward routine assurances.
Two men watch a stranger circling a lamp post then speak. Crawford questions the man’s odd behavior while Crabshaw recalls past judgments on public intoxication or a possible new dance, per the judge’s remark.
A witty exchange questions why Rounder pays slowly blaming his fest nature in a clipped, playful banter. The brief humor highlights character and timing rather than a broader event.
A fragment describes a cook capable in many dishes yet unable to replicate a specific Indian Corn technique, where the corn is rolled and toasted to a crisp brown wafer thin flakes. The scene hints at a culinary moment comparing skill levels.
Recognized artist Charles R. Knight cites animal life as his main focus and sketches at zoos in several cities. He recounts an encounter in Washington where a man and his companion react to a deer drawing, remarking on the zoo’s many habitats.
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