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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1916
Page
8
A local notice invites readers to submit tried recipes. Miss Baker shares a chocolate cake method in two parts with ingredients for a rich batter and an icing, recommending baking in layers and assembling with cooked icing.
A set of brief quotes from local residents. Rev. Jones urges attendance at Epworth League after Tuesday social for a successful meeting. J A Rumsey touts autos as safer than horses. Dave Schoonover endorses Hunt typewriting. George Baker compares Yucatan with Kiss me gum. Bob Gamble recalls his looks but notes a loving disposition.
A train load of tungsten ore passed through Keota on Wednesday. Harold Currie departed Sunday for Nebraska. Miss Franke Baker began clerical work at the Fox store on Monday.
W E Wise sold his half section one mile southwest of Keota at twenty five dollars an acre to apply on a farm nine miles northeast of Winterset Iowa. About seventy five attended a basket dinner and Children Day at Hightower schoolhouse last Sunday. Various residents and visitors from Denver Ghost Hill Grover Raymer Ft Lupton Billings Pawnee and Sterling appear in the notices.
The school garden movement has grown from a few city programs to a national policy with tens to hundreds of gardens, aided by the federal Bureau of Education and the Department of Agriculture. It is seen as essential to industrial efficiency and social stability, not just pedagogy.
The note urges harming urban vitality by forcing merchants to face street markets, opposing public works bonds, driving out contractors, and cutting profits for corporations and utilities. It calls for free camping grounds to bankrupt hotels and sending printing and dry goods purchases away, keeping foreign capital out.
Winter landscaping gains color from evergreens near homes. Home builders should plan grounds to use evergreen hedges and occasional evergreen trees breaking monotony and adding feathery lightness when foliage is scarce.
A claim describes a natural phenomenon where a fish can emit electrical shocks from its eyes. Critics dismiss it, noting women have long known how to use their eyes as a weapon in social satire.
A commentator notes that despite ups and downs among distinguished generals no case has emerged of a high private being recalled for inefficiency. The remark underscores rarity of recalling lower ranks for performance issues in contrast to veteran leaders.
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