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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1913
Page
2
Boston students join a broader protest against long school years. Critics argue short sessions plus balanced leisure boost growth while outdated traditions stall progress. They note immigrant children work harder, graduates lag Germany by two years, and summer breaks waste time.
Sixty years ago wild pigeons swarmed skies and sold for five cents a dozen, praised as finest eating. After rapid disappearance blamed on cruelty, a reported breeding pair near Ansonia Pa sparked a $5 000 alive reward, drawing crowds but yielding no catch. The piece laments human cruelty and calls the extinct species a victim of man.
The text claims sleep results from a toxin in the blood produced by extended wakefulness. It mocks simple explanations and notes uneven distribution of sleep among people, calling into question obvious reasons behind sleep and urging no straightforward answer.
Application filed with the Buenos Ayres municipality seeks a 60 year concession to erect on city property a 1,173 foot Torre Rivadavia. The steel tower would resemble the Eiffel structure and include social venues cafes restaurants a library billiard rooms gymnasium a wireless telegraph station and a meteorological observatory. An immense electric clock is also contemplated.
A department store in St Paul has purchased one hundred thousand dollars of city improvement bonds and will sell them over its counters. Bonds will be sold to customers at cost with the expectation that buyers seeking trading stamps will be disappointed.
Report notes a sentiment called the rat extinction party and adopts Mexicoed as a new verb describing aggressive eradication actions. The coinage reflects a provocative stance on pest control and language evolution.
A New Jersey couple has married after a courtship lasting nearly fifty years. The couple emphasizes patience in love while noting the value of timely commitment. The occasion marks a rare, long awaited union celebrated after decades of companionship.
A compact craft item uses stiff cardboard cut into a shape, covered with silk remnants, and edged with a contrasting silk cord. It hangs from a wall or dressing table using a long cord loop, with elastic bands to hold papers in place via two side slits. The piece also serves to hold unused half sheets near a writing table.
A market report notes teacloth trends with plain borders and Irish crochet inserts. Hand embroidered centers on expensive hand woven linen feature heraldic lions and shamrock rose motifs. Typical cloth size is a yard and a quarter, with mercerized embroidery creating satiny effects. More elaborate deep ivory table linens and cushion covers appear, though some designs lack neatness yet remain in demand.
A contributor explains using library books on lettering to create monograms. She traces old letters onto tissue, marks through carbon onto linen, and overlaps thin letters to form decorative monograms for embroidery.
Households can dry clean Arabian lace curtains by spreading sheets on the floor, laying the curtains flat, and rubbing with a mix of two parts boiled cornmeal and one part salt. Hang outdoors for a couple of hours to restore color and cleanliness, helping them wear longer with regular care.
An extremely simple rubber novelty shaped as a bunch of violets protects gowns from moisture. Made of green rubberized silk with a green wire edge for shaping. Worn to prevent moisture intrusion, the bouquet can be attached to a corsage or other desired place.
Spring fashion favors white costumes with a touch of color. The color appears in borders, embroidery, girdles, collars, or decorative buttons. Some weaves mix bright yarns with white for a speckled effect.
Plain whipped cream desserts topped with nuts or fruit finish meals nicely. The guide describes mousses and parfaits frozen with ice and salt, parasail and ice cream variations, and recipes for maple, pistachio, and fruit ice creams with detailed steps and proportions.
A poetic fragment contrasts life among men and towns with a wild quiet where the soul can express itself freely. It envisions a remote landscape and the inner music that may not echo in another's mind.
From June through summer the piece extols boiling vegetables to preserve flavor. It offers methods for tender green onions, mixed vegetables with small potatoes, French style peas, and beets and carrots with butter, salt, pepper, and optional olive oil.
Recipes and preservation tips highlight the strawberry as the season’s star. Dishes include Strawberry Punch Strawberry Tapioca strawberry salad and strawberry ice cream with vanilla. It extols home canning and jam methods to stock fruit for winter.
The recipe guides combining cold cooked beef with minced onion and optional pork fat, seasoned with salt pepper sage thyme lemon juice and parsley. Bind with bread crumbs or rice and a beaten egg, form balls, fry in butter until brown, then drain and serve on napkin over a platter.
A vintage recipe for a cabbage and pepper salad uses one head of cabbage two green peppers and mayonnaise. Remove the cabbage center reserve the shell as a bowl shred the center soak in salted water for an hour seed peppers soak again wash shell and dry mix with dressing fill shell place on fringed napkin in a nest of shredded lettuce and serve.
A practical guide suggests using a large pine packing box with a lid hinge and filled cracks. Apply cedar oil from a druggist to all crevices and soak thoroughly, then line the inside with cambric. Dry, cover the exterior, and enjoy lasting moth deterrence from cedar oil and wood.
A vintage pudding recipe uses one pint milk two egg yolks two tablespoons coconut one tablespoon sugar and half cup crushed crackers baked half an hour. Frosting from two egg whites and half cup sugar is spread and browned briefly.
A custard pie with one cupful of chopped nuts added to the filling enhances flavor, offering a delightful variation from the standard plain pie.
A guide to composing garden salads including cucumber ribbons on lettuce with French dressing, pineapple and pecan stuffed tomatoes, marinated asparagus through pepper rings, a leaf-plate salad with mixed vegetables and apples, lemon jelly with stuffed figs, and Chiffonade Dressing recipes. Details include olive oil to vinegar ratios and seasoning tips.
A guide to fruit beverages and shakes to beat heat with Canton ginger punch Raspberry Shrub Ever Ready Lemonade and Chocolate Milk Shake. Steps include mixing ginger with sugar water lemon and orange juices for Canton punch and steeping raspberries with cider vinegar then sugar for shrub.
A talkative passenger boasts about his dog Reckles to fellow travelers for two hours. He claims Reckles can stand on hind legs, eats fees, and is a champion ratter who loves cats. A crusty passenger jokes that if a muzzle were refused, the owner would wear it himself.
A historical sentiment contrasts marrying a substantive partner with clinging to an ideal. The line emphasizes choosing practical companionship over unattainable or purely intellectual pursuits. It reflects social expectations surrounding marriage and gender roles of its era.
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