Putting One Past the Post in the High Rollers Club
In Reno and San Francisco, Doc Floyd and partners chase a race fixing scheme led by Tom Camp. Hopkins and Tony the Tout plot to back a book, mislead Camp, and bet against his plan. Applejack loses due to weight cheating, exposing Camp’s setup and Floyd’s counter moves.
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John Irving
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Col. Powley
High Rollers Club
Reno, Ney
San Francisco
George Hopekins
Doc Floyd
Jack Cleland
Hopkins
Floyd
United States
New Orleans
Tony
Doctor
Old Tom Camp
Young Hopkins
Tom Camp
Bol
Faro
Sented Hopkins
Moya
Tony Ploy
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Tpon
Lemon Squeezer
Applejack
Lemon Squveger
Effert
Ployd
Mloyd
Lemon Squeazer
Doc
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Thomas Camp
Tony Jthe ‘Tout
Hank Harlin
Boak
Boas
Cahameed Huaeing
Pal
Hank
Achem
Wallon
B. W. Go Chapman
Household tips and advice from an old column
The excerpt cycles through domestic hints on ironing footwear and comfort, dishwashing, and kitchen setup, alongside brief verses and reflections. It praises the busy woman for organizing tasks in church and club settings, contrasting her efficiency with the leisure-driven woman.
German Honey Cake Recipe Steps
Instructions describe warming honey with sugar and butter then mixing in caraway seed and soda dissolved in water. Add flour to roll dough into a sheet, cut into squares, bake, and cut into small cakes when done.
Beet and Corn Pudding and Rice Timbales Recipe
A colonial era pantry notes beet and corn pudding layered with beef sauce and cheese, plus rice timbales in milk and parley butter mix. Cabbage with sour cream dressing is described, using cabbage, flour paste, sour cream, vinegar and butter for a heated sauce.
American Rarebit Recipe Card
Chop tomatoes into small pieces and put on ice. Beat sixty, season with salt and pepper. Pour in a small quantity of thick cream, turn into a baking dish, turning with a fork. When nearly cooked add the tomatoes and chopped green pepper. Serve on crackers.
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Walt
Papetka
Ginger Sherbet Raisined from Old Recipe Note
A vintage recipe describes making ginger sherbet by stirring sugar and water, cooling, adding strained juice from six lemons and two oranges, freezing, and folding in chopped Canton ginger with syrup. The mixture is repacked and allowed to ripen for two hours.
Cherries Pickled With Cider Vinegar Method
Instructions outline a cherry pickling process using cider vinegar. Cover washed cherries with vinegar overnight, drain and measure, add an equal measure of sugar, and let stand two days, stirring until sugar dissolves before canning.
Fried Smelts with Lemon Sauce Recipe
Instructional fragment describes cleaning and drying fish, portioning two per person, coating in flour with salt and pepper, brushing with beaten eggs, rolling in bread crumbs, frying in hot fat, and serving hot with lemon sauce. Includes procedural steps and serving suggestion.
Lemons Stuffed with Herb Butter for Smelts
A recipe instructs to cream six tablespoons butter, beat in juice from two small lemons and chopped parsley, fill lemon halves with the mixture after removing pulp, and place a stuffed lemon atop each smelt serving.
Fragmented Verse Fragments Question Found in Text
A garbled OCR snippet appears to pose a literary fragment about ascent and discontents. It includes stray phrases such as foundation and upward motion, but lacks coherent context, attribution, or complete sentences to identify a clear source or summarize a full event.
Peach Catsup Recipe Steps and Spices
Instructions describe peeling and quartering eight quarts of peaches then simmering parings in a pint of water for 30 minutes. Strain, return peaches to liquor, cook 30 minutes more, then add cider vinegar sugar and spices before simmering to thickend and sealing while hot.
Cracks and Cockroaches Pest Control Advice
The article urges sealing kitchen cracks to curb cockroach intrusion. It suggests filling gaps with melted paraffin and using scraps from jelly glasses melted and poured into cracks, especially around the ink, as a method.
Stuffed Tomato Salad Recipe Instructions
Cut a lid from stem end of ripe tomatoes, scoop out cores, rinse. Mix chopped cucumber, small green pepper and onion with mayonnaise. Fill tomatoes, replace lids, and chill thoroughly.
Pickled Nasturtium Seed Substitutes Capers
Instructions describe making pickled nasturtium seeds as caper substitutes. Soak green seeds in malt water for two days, then 24 hours in fresh water. Drain, fry briefly, then cover with boiling vinegar. After six weeks the seeds are ready to use.
Currant Sherbet Recipe Instructions
Currant sherbet combines two cupfuls of sugar and water, skimmed, cooled, with three cupfuls of oil juice and ten spoonfuls of gelatin dissolved in a quarter cup of warm water. Freeze until firm, then whisk in the stiffly beaten white of three eggs and three tablespoons of sugar when half frozen. Finish freezing and portion.
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