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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
8
In Chapter XV of Bwee Cooper, Wellmere wedding plans are interrupted as a peddler unveils a shocking claim casting doubt on Sarah. Lawton intervenes with a dramatic rescue, pistols drawn, and a violent escape from pursuers as clashes erupt around the Locusts cottage amid loyalties and secrets.
At Mr. Wharton’s, Dr Sitgreaves argues marriage is an institution to one wife as Wellmere reacts with disgust. Lawton questions English punishment for bigamy while Wellmere paces, the brokered ring passed to Sitgreaves signals a shift in the tense gathering.
In a dramatic struggle, Laston faced four assailants from the Skinners who closed in with no mercy. He summoned his great strength to resist as three of the gang overwhelmed him at once.
Fifty years ago New England farmers made their own shoes but machinery ended home manufacture. A factory employs 200 to 300 people and can produce 2000 to 2500 pairs daily. No worker makes a full shoe. separate roles handle soles uppers heels buttonholes hems and button sewing. A buttonhole machine makes about 5000 holes daily and a pair passes through more than fifty hands before completion.
A humorous exchange aboard a steamer chair features a young woman questioning seasickness and a young man bragging he has never been seasick. He adds a playful punchline noting he was shaken by six girls in one year.
A Chicago Record-Herald snippet quotes a wife describing not being apart from her husband for sixteen years and noting his weary look. It also repeats a garden tip urging two thirds soil and one third manure for rose beds, to be at least eighteen inches deep.
A St Louis inventor has merged a fork spoon knife and can opener into a single utensil. The device places the fork at one end and the spoon knife and can opener at the other, promising cost savings and less washing for households.
Directions describe making choux pastry with butter water and flour then folding in four eggs. Bake puffs on buttered pans for half an hour in a slow oven. Cool, slit, and fill with sweetened whipped cream using cream sugar and vanilla. yield eight puffs.
Thoroughly clean the giblets, boil them, then simmer slowly for ninety minutes. Cut giblets and beefsteak into regular pieces, coat with seasoned flour, mix with beef, and add well seasoned stock. Cover with a short pastry crust, pierce, decorate, and bake slowly for one hour.
A vintage cookie method describes combining powdered sugar butter lemon juice eggs and flour with soda and milk to form dough. Roll to a quarter inch thickness cut rounds bake brushed with egg milk and topped with chopped almonds for a delicate treat.
Heat one pint of milk and stir in three quarters of a cup of corn meal until thick and smooth. Add salt and a little butter then fold in the beaten yolks of four eggs followed by the stiffly beaten whites. Bake in a dish for twenty five minutes in a moderate oven and serve immediately.
A collection of practical notes on cooking and cleaning tasks. Tips include one pound maple sugar with cream and milk boiled into a confection with hickory nuts, boiling greens with soda, cleaning brushes in hot soda water and soft soap, blowing out candles upward, and linoleum care with milk polish. Also includes lemon handling, mutton shanks, removing medicine stains with sulfuric acid, warming lemons for juice, and speeding potato baking with salted water.
A poem by Paul Cook in the Birmingham Age Herald notes the purse’s power to sway kings and pirates, driving deeds for gold. It portrays the bag as a simple yet potent instrument shaping history and crime alike.
In Chicago a lighthearted exchange features Ella-Well remarking that marriage is rare, while Stella counters that it happens only every other day, captured in a New York Press retort.
A playful New York Times quip notes Baker’s knack for brassy status and social polish, asking which brass polish he uses to maintain such shine in public circles.
A girl consoles her crying brother Dick over his apple dispute as Bobbie notes he has taken two bites. Dick insists it is his apple, illustrating a domestic moment from Life with dialogue and a child’s dispute.
A Baltimore American snippet quotes a frightened intruder describing a woman peering from a front window as he approached. The brief line emphasizes a tense moment and the fear felt entering the scene.
A politician orders a reporter to show the interview report before publishing. The reporter insists the report was sent half an hour earlier, while the interview was still in progress, creating a time clash described in Life.
A Life Magazine quote offers cautions about marriage choices and a woman’s fear of becoming an old maid, contrasting social expectations with personal desires. The wry lines discuss traits to avoid in a husband and the pressure to marry.
A fragmentary dialogue notes odd lunch items and a humorously vague meal. The Somerville Journal quotes Mrs Wy kesleigh aiding three servants by playing bridge weekly and reclaiming their wages, illustrating social dynamics.
In the New York Sun a playful exchange underscores civic chatter about Cleopatra and a hatpin, with Bauer Becker remarking Great Scott and a cautionary note about meeting the famous accessory, reflecting light social humor of the era.
A fragment notes a cartoonish scene where a guest complains of a bug in soup and a landlord dismisses the worry as harmless. The accompanying reference asks which causes more trouble a burst tire or a water pipe, captioned by the Fliegende Blaetter and New York Sun.
A classroom dialogue shows a student Tommy Mucker avoiding his father’s full name. The teacher presses for details while the student jokes about revealing it only when sober, highlighting rural speech and vernacular humor.
The Boston Transcript quotes a joke where a guide in Rome shows travelers two skulls of St. Paul, one as a boy and one as a man, prompting a humorous exchange about the skulls and a dead boy.
Quote from the Washington Star records the explorer’s plan to start for the north pole in a flyin machine with a sharp line about veracity. The remark plays on the era’s adventurous tone and bold, optimistic travel aims.
A playful exchange shows a father guiding his son through literary names. The boy asks what Bernard Shaw and Henry James mean, and the father cautions he is not yet old enough to understand such things.
A Washington Star exchange notes Congress does great work and has developed some of our most capable lecturers, as Senator Sorghum affirms.
An advertisement touts Dr T Feliz Gouraud's Oriental Dream a cosmetic that supposedly gives a transparent complexion free from tan freckles or moth patches. It claims medical backing and widespread popularity with Ferro T Hopkins as sole proprietor at 37 Great Jones Street New York and distribution through druggists and dealers worldwide.
A Kansas man narrates a humorous tale about farmers overestimating harvests. An elderly Topeka hardware dealer feigns ignorance about his own farming while boasting of wheat, then reveals a practical storage method that leaves the boastful farmer impressed.
A domestic scene shows a family exchange with the husband arriving home before nightfall and instructing Maria not to stay up while reassuring that DH will be waiting inside the doorway for him.
A Salisbury woman reports swapping coffee for tea due to health concerns, then switching to Postum after dyspepsia worsened. She says Postum helped her regain weight and improve wellbeing, praising its healthful qualities and nourishment.
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