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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1928
Page
14
Dora Lee Howard of Cloverdale shares a vanilla angel cake recipe with precise measurements and a method including a hot oven start. Isabelle Gilson of Indianapolis provides a baked sweet potato dessert with pineapple, marshmallows and brown sugar. C Ferry of Indianapolis is listed with a mailing address.
Crawfordsville residents receive a self signed telegram announcing the birth of David Glasscock Jr weighing eight pounds. The message says mother and baby are fine and the family is at Bethesda hospital while the father works as an instructor in Indiana State at Terre Haute. The telegram notes the birthplace Springfield Ohio during the family’s travel.
Geneva Aug 24 war refugees estimated at 8,000,000 were settled on a self supporting basis by the League of Nations with aid from Greece. Russians, Greeks and Turks moved within Europe under a program to reunite home regions and resettle them.
H D Towers of Redwood City was arrested for racing a fast train to a railroad crossing in Burlingame California. An officer at the crossing signaled him to stop but he persisted and only avoided being struck by the train. Two people had been killed there recently in similar incidents.
In Coalville Leicestershire miners held a 200 yard race where a whippet with handicap finished second to a pigeon. The bird flew a straight course and stayed within eighteen inches of the ground as it crossed the winning post.
Readable recipe snippets list quantities methods and contributor names from a bake and cook section. Entries include Mrs Courtney Audrey Wilhite Hazel Withrow Lucile B Young Clarice Stone Mrs C C Kroger and others with Indianapolis addresses and varied dishes from beans to confections.
Cadlecote in Huntingdonshire is described as the quietest English village after the drowning death of its only child. Since the tragedy, the town's single street has lost its once cheerful sounds and the population stands at about thirty adults.
A recipe lists ingredients for a savory shrimp sauté: bacon sliced into half inch pieces, onion, green pepper, garlic, one pound fresh shrimp, cold water, and salt. Cook bacon slowly in a heavy skillet until fat renders, then proceed with the dish.
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