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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
2
This piece extols using a variety of fruits to adorn the Christmas dinner. It highlights acid fruits like oranges and pineapple for salads or sherbets and notes winter pears apples bananas grapes dates and figs as attractive centerpieces. It also suggests using preserved fruits in jams jellies or preserves and offers a pear and apple salad idea.
A recipe fragment describes arranging pear and apple slices with walnuts and figs in a dish. It suggests layering blanched walnuts, overlapped figs, minced almonds and apples, lemon slices, then a whipped cream cover dusted with sugar. White wine vinegar or lemon juice provides tang.
A list of foods appears including Bouillon Olives Caviar Canapes Fillets of Sole with Sauce Tartare Roast Suckling Pig Apple Croquettes Pickled Peaches Sweet Potatoes Baked Onions Beets Brussels Sprouts Lemon Ice Stuffed Tomato Salad Wafers Roquefort English Plum Pudding Nuts Coffee.
The article notes lobster suits Christmas colors through its red hue and suggests serving whole with holly sprigs. Creamed lobster, croquettes, or patties are options, but lobster salad tops popularity. Prepare thick mayonnaise, ice the lobster, and serve with garlic bread.
A historical recipe describes mixing boiled lobster meat with chopped hard boiled egg and celery, seasoned with salt pepper and mayonnaise into a salad bordered by crisp lettuce and lobster claws. It then details a curry sauce using onion butter flour curry powder cayenne stock and lobster meat ladled over boiled rice.
A narrator recalls a solitary Christmas Eve with a German toy tree that grows into a beanstalk of stories. He revisits favorites from A to Xerxes, Little Red Riding Hood, Noah’s ark, and Arabian Nights, then shifts to biblical scenes and the star over the poor roof. The piece ends with a prayer that the Christmas light endure.
Thousands attend a closing out sale of high grade wearables and home furnishings at J. Prank McDermond's Store Attica Indiana. Ill health forces retirement from business. The ad highlights cloaks waists sweaters suits skirts furs Christmas goods shoes dry goods furniture and more. Fred Thompson of Sheldon Illinois visited over Sunday. H. H. Glascock visited Covington on business.
The Circuit Court of Fountain County appoints and qualifies Lemuel Pithoud as Administrator of the estate of Eli sha Pithead, late of Fountain County, deceased. Bard estate is supposed to be solvent. Nebeker & Dice, Attorneys.
A. Longo Ratcliff is named as executor of the estate of William R. Ratcliff, deceased, in the probate proceeding numbered 45. The document designates Ratcliff as the estate’s administrator and outlines related probate actions to be undertaken.
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