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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1915
Page
7
A reflective piece on quarrels between newlyweds. It argues miscommunication fuels spats over affection and money, urging couples to avoid conflict with restraint and mutual support. It highlights gender roles and financial dependency, noting wives seek fair allowances and emotional steadiness.
A letter to Miss Libbey contrasts the life of a stenographer paid well and praised at work with a wife's struggle to manage home finances. The writer wonders why stenographers are treated as angels while wives face daily hardship and unpaid demands.
A wartime column extols the role of sweethearts for soldiers, arguing letters and love sustain men through lonely duties and battles. It asserts romantic encouragement steadies soldiers, benefits their post service years, and praises both regular army men and their hometown sweethearts.
A stylish woman hurried to the theater box office with a handful of cardboard scraps representing a reserved orchestra seat for a matinee. She had torn up the envelope after placing the note in it, but the clerk let her in. She rejoins a companion with a preserved ticket and exclaims the mix up was forgiven.
A vivid, concise portrait of a small, graceful African woman on a road. The observer notes her perfect dark skin, elegant limbs, nervous pride, and elaborately styled hair. She wears a leaf bandage with a crimson strap and a distinctive back bustle, described as glossy dried grass and horsehair.
The article describes a method to milk a snake. A leather loop on a stick slips over the snake’s head while a second person holds forceps containing cotton. The snake bites the cotton to release venom, which is then washed in glycerin to obtain venom for serum production.
A man who lives rightly holds power in his silence. The saying contrasts silent integrity with the louder impact of speaking, noting that true character resonates like sweet music when touched, even inadvertently.
A practical rundown lists serving amounts for various dishes and quantities for a crowd. It covers bouillon creamed chicken chicken croquettes ham and tongue ice cream strawberries sandwiches biscuits and rolls butter fish timbales fruit salad sweetbreads and sides plus seasonings and garnishes.
Homely recipes describe Fish Hash With Bacon Venison saddle with onions and spices for a gamy roast Danish stuffing for turkey with prunes apples and crumbs and a orange marmalade icing. The collection guides practical steps for hashing frying larding roasting stuffing and icing.
A Pacific white fish described as the turkey of the seas is served in various recipes. Suggestions include fried flat cakes with rice, a cabbage and green pepper salad with mayonnaise, and a fish omelet. Also offered are tunny on toast with a cream sauce, and lemon butter sauce for finishing.
Reports describe a horn phono graph element with a metal globe and wooden bell. A power tractor allows opposite wheel directions for tight turning. Centenary of trousers celebrated by a London tailor. Rhode Island inventor patents almost tire-sized flexible rings to curb mud splash. Philippines officials import blight proof Java coffee seeds. A gas wall radiator mirrors hot air heaters for small rooms.
Chestnut stuffing with boiled chestnuts mashed and mixed with bread crumbs shortening poultry dressing raisins and spices to fill poultry. Southern apple pone combines tart apples milk Indian meal salt molasses suet and baking. Soft molasses cookies use molasses sour milk butter flour ginger soda and egg baked on tin sheets. Apple sandwich layers rice or bread crumbs apples currant jelly lemon rind sugar and fruit juice baked with a meringue.
Report notes that the vermiform appendix of oxen slaughtered at the Prague abbatoir is processed into gold beaters skin, a material widely used in aeroplane construction.
Older atlas traditions split North and South America into two continents while modern references favor a single American continent. Australasia is often listed as the fifth continent to include numerous islands.
Sixteen children in western Montana travel to school on skis from October to June. The deep snow sometimes covers telegraph wires along the route. Willows stuck in the snow mark the trail to and from the school.
A brief comic line from the Chicago Tribune features Celie telling Uncle Jack he cannot join their game, claiming he is scalped already while they play Indian. The remark underscores playful, child centered dialogue.
A household guide urges practical use of summer fruits and shellfish as meat costs rise. It suggests canning beans peaches pears and berries, offers oyster based sauces and cocktails, and details a three cocktail yield with precise ingredients.
A homemaker guide explains sewing a linen corn cover to keep corn hot and tasty. It suggests a square heavy linen case with cut-out corners, a buttonhole edge, an outer flap with a wreath of eyelets, petals, and the word Corn embroidered. Similar covers suit toast rolls or hot biscuits.
Cream butter and sugar then beat in egg yolks and more sugar. Stir in sour milk vanilla melted chocolate and soda. Fold in stiff egg whites and flour to form a soft dough. Roll cut braid and fry until golden brown in hot fat.
Soak lentils overnight then cook with minimal water until soft. Mash, mix with grated cheese salt paprika and bread crumbs to form a moldable roll. Bake in moderate oven till brown. Serve with tomato sauce. Variations include Parmesan onions green peppers or pimento. First cook lentils in a fireless cooker.
The article notes steaming squash in a meat roaster yields faster cooking and a drier richer result than stovetop steaming. Cut washed squash into three inch pieces without paring, add a few tablespoons water to prevent burning, cover and steam.
If a saucepan burns, fill with cold salted water and soak overnight. Next day warm slowly, bring to a boil and the burnt residue will loosen and rinse off easily.
Four ounces of rice with sifted flour sugar and seven egg whites folded with milk. Bake in a well buttered earthen dish until golden brown. Do not heap the mixture and serve when firm and browned.
To a quart of cranberries add half a pound or more of seeded dates and about half as much sugar as you would without the dates. Cook until soft.
A terse remark questions a man described as a philosopher who appears unfazed by others' gains. The dialogue underscores his indifference to possessions he does not desire.
A homemaker can save money by dyeing fabrics at home using a single dye suitable for silk cotton and wool. Proper prep and washing, cooling cotton in the dye bath, careful simmering for wool, longer boil for linen, and avoiding sun exposure prevent streaks and damage.
Wash and peel three medium white potatoes and two large onions. Slice and combine with two tomatoes or a cupful of canned tomatoes. Simmer in an agate kettle with two tablespoons rice and about a quart and a pint of cold water for one hour. Season with salt and pepper, add two tablespoons minced parsley and a cupful of rich gravy or two tablespoons beef extract. Stir, then add one tablespoon peanut butter and stew five minutes more. Serve hot with croutons or toast.
Soak olives in cold water for 30 minutes while browning a slice of onion in salad oil. Stir in two tablespoons flour, then add a pint of rich stock. Add stoned olives, salt and pepper, simmer 20 minutes. Finish with lemon juice, adjust thickness by flour.
Canning at home turns fruits and vegetables grown on the farm into a small business. It involves the whole family in producing crops and in the canning process. Boys and girls often show interest and gain habits of industry and thrift when given a chance to earn money.
The recipe instructs placing finger long gherkins in a tub of salt water heavy enough to float an egg. They should stand nine days. Then remove and harden in fresh cold water for several hours, and finally spread on a folded tablecloth to dry.
Two pounds stew beef mixed with one onion and one egg then formed into a loaf. Top with two slices fat pork and bake for thirty minutes. Season with salt and pepper for serving.
The note advises drying potatoes before baking and greasing to peel the skin thinly. It claims this preserves the potato’s most nourishing portion while improving the result.
Classic method for pumpkin pie using fresh or field pumpkins. Steps include selecting small sugar pumpkins, steaming six to eight hours, straining to remove liquid, and baking with eggs milk cream salt nutmeg mace ginger and sugar until firm and golden. Serve with American cheese.
Good Housekeeping Magazine advises economical home care from hanging and drying tools to reusing bags and scraps. It recommends dry bristles down for brushes, wire dishes for soap, cutting old tablecloths into hems, and using nonbreakable utensils and granite ware to prevent breakage.
Boil half a pound of macaroni in salted water for thirty minutes. Mix with half a pound of minced veal, butter flour milk and spices, then fold in the yolk of an egg. Combine with macaroni, cook briefly, shape into cutlets, bread and fry. Serve with broiled tomatoes as garnish.
Wash one pint of split peas and drain. Add an onion quartered with cloves, sprigs of parsley celery and a bay leaf. Simmer with ham bone or bacon rind for several hours until tender, press through a colander, season, heat, and serve with croutons.
Recipe fragment describes mixing cranberries with raisins sugar and boiling water. Thickened with cornstarch dissolved in cold water, then vanilla is added and cooled before filling a custard pie plate.
The piece contrasts how the savage clings to past customs and religions while the civilized pursues continuous progress. It argues imagination guides civilization whereas tradition cages the savage, shaping differing worldviews.
In the Climax dialogue a couple recall a prior motor outing that went wrong when they hit a man and fractured his skull. The danger escalated as the victim held a sharp knife which punctured their tire, adding a grim twist to the accident.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls a storyteller’s adventures with friends driving cars to prove speed. The quoted exchange highlights curiosity and youthful awe in early automotive feats and social bravado.
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