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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1904
Page
8
A domestic scene unfolds with a spotless kitchen giving way to a chaotic rush as a tea company arrives. Dorothy, in a rumpled gown, battles spills, burned biscuits, muddy tracks, and a heaped parlor while guests await tea.
A collage of historic home recipes including baked beans with meat and yellow eyed pea variations, Indian pudding with ginger and nutmeg, pumpkin pie with dried crackers and spices, pie crust technique, and a gingerbread method using molasses sour cream and flour.
A garbled OCR fragment presents a vintage recipe section with instructions for meat pie and cookies. It lists steps for preparing crust and filling, mixing ingredients, and baking, interspersed with unclear phrases and misspellings. Names and places hint at Kassel and a German influence, but many terms are unreadable.
A fragment describes mixing sugar, sweet cream, flour and baking powder with lemon extract to bake two cakes. It mentions caramel or jelly filling as an option and includes improvised wording like ravon and Jeet weet. The text reflects a rough instruction segment for a dessert batter and two-cake assembly.
A fragment of a recipe lists ingredients for pumpkin pie including quarter pumpkin, rich milk, sugar, a teaspoon of wingers and allspice, salt, and two tablespoons of flour.
A listing describes a home remedy for snake bites using equal parts salt soda lard and turpentine, mixed and applied as treatment. The fragment reflects historical folk medicine practices common in past newspapers.
A legacy recipe piece describes cream biscuits and rolls with steps for quick baking. It notes melting butter, baking hot, and dipping tops in melted butter for crisp crusts. Yeast can be saved for rolls. dough can rise overnight or be baked for breakfast or supper. The text includes a Devil's Hoe cake with layered sugar and milk steps and a rough note on powdered sugar and butter mixtures.
An odd essay matches flowers to jobs and moods, noting clergyman’s Jack in the pulpit, lawyer Solomon’s seal, butcher’s butter and eggs, cook’s sweet peas and lobster plant, merchant’s ribbon grass, jeweler’s lady’s es drops, blacksmith’s horseshoe geranium, and sailor’s sea pink. It lists many more, including state flowers with blunders and corrupted names, ending with a mashed note on fruit and juice.
The Anderson County Teachers Association will meet at the public school building in Colony Kansas on Saturday February 1 1904 with music and lectures. Topics include Does higher education waft one for the common walks of life and advantages of county graduation with discussions led by professors and local educators. Patrons are invited and teachers urged to attend and participate to make it the best meeting of the year.
The article touts CAS CARETS as a preferred laxative aiding digestion, liver and bowels activity, claiming six million users and linking bowel health to overall well being. It suggests traditional dental practices vary and promotes a natural remedy approach.
Hon W A Johnson of Waversol stood as a pioneer lawyer in Garnett. He practiced in the old frame courthouse and later in the new court house. Colonel Johnson helped shape Anderson county history through long legal work and public service.
A brief note highlights a group from the famed Twentieth Kansas Regiment acknowledging notable service and reminiscences. It references Civil War era units and public memory of those soldiers, with emphasis on honor and historic connection to Kansas.
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