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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
7
In a Cornwall tin mine a man engine uses a large walking beam to move miners between the shaft top and depths. A 12 foot lifting rod with paired platforms allows simultaneous ascent and descent on opposite sides, letting workers ride without colliding.
George A Haffa of Philadelphia claimed a brass box found 1½ miles from shore by Capt Horace Smith containing his mother Ida Haffa s ashes. He said the box could not sink when thrown into the sea and offered a $10 reward for its return. He stated the body was exhumed from a Philadelphia cemetery after five years and cremated last Tuesday. He plans to inter the ashes in Philadelphia.
Four year old Ruth Ward of Pikesville Kentucky is diagnosed with schro derma or hide bound a rare skin condition. Doctors say the disease tightens and hardens the skin but she remains able to play normally. She will be moved to a Louisville hospital for study and research due to its presumed incurable status and rarity in the United States.
At Mount Greenwood cemetery Bruce Merrick was laid to rest when his widow Mia gave birth to a son also named Bruce Merrick. Overcome with grief she insisted on attending the burial, nearly fainting as she reached the carriage and the newborn arrived before a doctor could be summoned. The widow was taken home by undertaker’s ambulance.
The article explains the imperial porphyry's rarity and arduous supply chain from Gebel Dukhan in the Egyptian desert to Rome. It details quarrying amid rugged hills, desert transport to Kench on the Nile, river and sea shipping, and the stone's disappearance after the seventh century.
A lifetime intake estimate says a seventy five year old would consume about 54 tons of solids and 63 tons of liquids. Bread totals around 76 tons with butter equaling 1.25 tons. bacon could stretch four miles. fish about five tons. eggs around 12 000. cheese over 400 pounds. Vegetables would form a three and a half mile long train. sugar about 10 000 pounds and salt 1 500 pounds. tobacco use would reach half a ton in pipes and about 60 000 cigars.
Cape Province agricultural department rents island nesting grounds in Saint Helena Bay and Saldanha Bay to private firms. Egg collection from penguins and lapwings fuels a large industry with millions of eggs and over six thousand tons of guana sold as fertilizer.
The piece traces the top hat’s origins from Elizabethan cocked brim fashions to the French court’s three sided cockade. It notes the modern silk hat emerged in France, replacing the larger beaver hat, with only minor later changes to crown height and brim curl.
A so called dummy editor is described as a staff member who faces prison for publishing government unfriendly content while the real editor hides behind a renamed paper and keeps producing it.
Barney the gray and white goose, aged twenty years or more, roams the streets and docks of Whitehaven, Cumberland, England. The famous bird moves among the trains and seems to claim the town as his own in this busy colliery seaport.
The article explains varieties of rolls and buns come from one dough by shaping and trimming. It covers using compressed yeast, soaking overnight to reduce odor, adding sugar to wake fermentation, and keeping ingredients lukewarm with dough in a warm place. It advises level measurements and lightly sifted flour.
Instructions for Parker House rolls list ingredients: bread flour lard and butter salt compressed yeast sugar warm milk and water egg. Soak yeast overnight then dissolve. Mix sugar rub in shortening and galt into flour. Beat egg add to sponge stir with yeast and flour until bubbles then cover and let rise until doubled.
Have two and one half cupfuls of sifted flour on hand and stir into sponge gradually. Knead in remaining flour until dough is elastic, let rise until doubled. Roll to half inch thickness, cut rounds, brush with melted butter, score, and place on greased tins. Allow to proof 30 to 40 minutes, bake hot to crust, then finish with butter.
Method outlines shaping dough into small smooth balls on a greased tin, brushing with milk before baking and after. To keep soft overnight, place rolls touching so they run together. cool without separating, then break apart when ready to use for soft flaky rolls.
Set the dough well apart and brush with melted butter before baking. Sprinkle poppy seeds over the tops for a fragrant crust.
Instructions describe rolling dough to one half inch thick, buttering, sprinkling walnuts, and lightly rolling. Cut into one by three inch pieces, space on greased tins, let rise twenty minutes, bake in moderate heat.
Sifted flour lard and butter sugar form the sponge for Parker House rolls. Currants and extra flour are stirred into the mixture for the second mixing. The text lists quantities for flour lard sugar and currants and mentions step one and method.
The passage describes mixing dough with flour, letting it rise in a covered pan, shaping into balls, placing in greased tins, and rising again for about 30 minutes. It then bakes at moderate heat until golden and finishes with a thin icing of confectioners sugar and boiling water.
The article offers simple guidance for warm corn bread and muffins served with breakfast or lunch. It emphasizes hot ovens and iron gem pans, flour measured level with a half pint cup, and thorough beating of eggs for best results.
A recipe for Golden Corn Bread combines corn meal flour baking powder sugar eggs milk and melted butter with lard. Dry ingredients are mixed then eggs are beaten in a liquid mixture before adding shortening and baking in a hot oven until golden and a toothpick comes out clean.
The recipe uses currant bun dough to make cinnamon buns. Roll into a thin sheet, brush with melted butter, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon, roll firmly, cut into one inch rounds, bake on greased pans after 30 minutes proof. Buns may be iced or dusted with confectioners sugar after baking.
Sift dry ingredients, beat eggs with milk, stir in melted butter, then flour. Fill greased muffin tins to half full and bake in a hot oven until browned and a toothpick comes out clean.
The recipe uses milk and salt mixed lightly into sifted flour then beaten with an egg to create bubbles. Hot greased muffin cups are filled two thirds and baked in a very hot oven. Puffs expand from the eggs, need high heat, then gradual cooling to dry centers and prevent soft shells.
Two cups whole wheat flour two teaspoons baking powder one cup cold milk and water. Do not sift flour. Mix dry ingredients, heat egg well, then add to liquid and heat into flour. Fill greased muffin pans two thirds full and bake briskly until a toothpick comes out clean.
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