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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
5
A reflective verse narrative describes gloom, a changing home, and a servant’s departure. It contrasts yesterday’s carefree ease with current hardship, and ends with a child’s bedtime routine interrupted by morning light. The piece evokes melancholy, domestic shifts, and a child’s perspective.
In early San Francisco a bold editor named Darrell dispenses with a brutal Wolf after the gangster threatens two young printers. Wolf is disarmed, taunted, and forced to retreat down stairs, with the crowd cheering the boy’s courage. Wolf later dies in Sacramento. Darrell becomes a respected Nevada city gentleman.
A cropped mosaic of quirky quotes shows Miss Miami Brown asking about loose feet, a man in bed awaiting a doctor as his wife guards his valuables, a wife wondering why a man lavishes love on her, and social quips about a metallic voice and iron jaw.
The article offers serving ideas for mutton with currant jelly and turnips cut and filled with green peas. It provides a rice ball garnish for soup made from cold boiled rice, egg, salt, cayenne, and flour, plus a whipped cream serving tip for fruit with a light foaming addition.
A bookkeeper reflects on saving by skipping small luxuries. He saves 50 cents from meals and later from a gold water to fund a watch, then shifts to other savings goals. The quote illustrates frugal living growing from small sacrifices into larger investments.
The shopkeeper methodically shows blankets to a prospective buyer who carefully surveys the shop rather than buying. The woman suggests she is there to meet a friend, while the clerk jokes about rechecking items as she gazes around.
Scald two cups street milk in a double boiler then stir in two cups very dry sponge cake crumbs. Add butter sugar and flour mixed with cold milk, then beaten yolks. Fold in raisins or currants with vanilla and lightly fold in beaten egg whites. Bake in a buttered mold half an hour. Serve hot with sauce. A meringue top improves appearance.
A simple sugar taffy method combines four cups granulated sugar with a scant tablespoon molasses two tablespoons vinegar and enough water to moisten. Add a walnut sized piece of butter and a teaspoon vanilla after boiling stops. Test with water for soft lump. Do not stir during boiling.
A simple method uses one can of salmon broken into flakes with salt and pepper. Mix with half a cup of drawn butter, fill small cups with the mixture, cover with bread crumbs, top each with a pat of butter, and brown in the oven.
A belt described as fancy frilled silk elastic interwoven with tinsel threads resembles a garter. It fastens beneath a rosette of velvet chenille or silk and is decorated with a small buckle, suggesting its real purpose.
Jesse Powell of Emporia Kansas says his wife baked 191025 hot biscuits in 35 years and he ate more than half. He credits Burdock Blood Bitters with health and claims a cure for sores from the remedy. Mrs Chas Hutton of Berville Michigan is noted in the text.
Special low round trip tickets to California offered by Southern Pacific on the Ogden and Sunset routes. From Chicago the fare is 30 dollars, from St. Louis Memphis and New Orleans 27.50, from Omaha Kansas City 20, with similar reductions from other eastern points. Reserve via W G Weay at 28 Clark Street.
A glossary noting common misnomers such as cayenne pepper from capsicum, Jerusalem artichokes not from Jerusalem, turkeys native to America, camel hair brushes from squirrels, German silver as an alloy from China, Dutch clocks, cork legs from cork, Irish stews as English, Turkish baths from Russia, and Cleopatra's needle dating before Cleopatra.
Prices paid by shippers for poultry produce include turkey hens at 8c per lb, young toms 7c, young chickens 7c, hens 7c, cocks 4c, ducks 7c, geese 5c per lb. Cheese lists New York full creams 13c, domestic Swiss 1f, brick 14c, limburger 13c. Butter choice roll 11 43c per lb, egges 11 12e per dozen, wool categories with varying prices, hides and tallow values for green salted and greases and tallow by grade.
The document lists wholesale prices for candies and nuts including sticks, mixed varieties, and sun brand shelled nuts. numerous fruits such as peaches by standard and seconds, along with California and Eastern standards. vegetables and other items like oysters, lobsters, and various canned goods. coal, coke, alcohol, oils, and chemicals with unit prices and per ton or per bushel rates. Names of brands, places, and commodities are scattered throughout, reflecting a broad market catalog.
Bulk oysters Best Baltimore or Stand ards a gallon 1.00 best Baltimore selects a gallon 1.40 New York counts 100 New York culls 10Q 70c Clue points tin shells 100 Tic Oysters New York counts a can 33c J. S. F. Co selects a can 32c F. selects 10c extra selects 28c J. S. F. Co stand ard 2 can 2c F. brand a can 22c C. a. a can 18c R. a can lic. Lake fish Boneless herring a lb 8c dressed herring a lb 6c white fish a lb 4c trout a lb 4c No 1 pickerel a Ip Stac No 2 pickerel or blues 7c black bass a lb 15c crappies a lb 6c sunfish or perch a lb 5c catfish a lb 10c buffalo dressed a lb 6c red snapper a lb 8c Tk Hoc Clams Little Necks to 100 Lobsters Selling at 25a a Ib Frog legs 1 60 62.00 peg dozen Shrimps A gallon 1.38
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