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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR reads of battles obsessions fiscal shifts and leaders. Mentions Venice Rivolia Paris Victoria Crimea Lincoln Patti Patience and other figures with dates from 1840 to 1960 and events across Europe Africa and the Americas including railways coronations and conflicts.
Instructions describe souring mileh herring and herring by washing, removing heads and scales from six, soaking overnight, and layering in a stone jar with onions lemon peppers bay leaves capers and mustard seed. A sweetened cream with sugar and white wine vinegar is poured over and the mix rests four to five days, then keeps long.
A bulletin from the Agricultural Department warns that U S residents use six times per person the wood per capita of Europe and the nation consumes over three times the annual growth of forests. It notes population rise driving more cutting, with Northeastern and Southern states near peak production and Washington leading in timber volume. government ownership accounts for one fifth of forest area and the average felled tree age is at least 1 year.
May Stannard Baker argues in American Magazine that the South faces a clash between the aspirational new black middle class and the lingering old order. He notes Northeners misjudge blacks who own homes and work independently and blacks misjudge whites based on the actions of the poorer white segment, warning of danger in the current situation.
Esther Carter of Newark Ohio fell into a canal while picking flowers and drowned. Gov Folk granted stay until June 97 for three condemned inmates in Missouri and Ohio murder cases. Plaintiff counsel files for accounting in the Mary Baker Eddy estate case in Concord New Hampshire with affidavits supporting charges.
The meat used in making soup has lost none of its nutritive qualities. Remove it and chop fine one solid pint. Make a thick white sauce with butter and flour, add milk, cool, then mix in meat and lemon juice. Beat an egg with water, form cylinders, bread with crackers, dip in egg, coat again, and fry until hot.
Drain a pint of oysters and simmer with cream butter salt paprika lemon juice and oysters until edges curl. Boil a fowl then dice. Fry onions and potatoes in chicken fat, add chicken liquor and diced chicken, simmer with pepper, salt, and optional tomatoes for about thirty minutes.
A recipe for 3 pounds of round steak seasoned with salt pepper and butter. Sear in pan with water, bake thirty minutes, top with raw onions, bake 45 minutes, add sliced tomatoes, cook until tender, sprinkle with grated cheese, brown, and serve with pan liquor gravy.
Lift together four cupfuls of white Heart one cupful of white sugar, three rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt. Add a cupful of chopped hickory nut meats, one cupful of sweet milk and one well heated egg. Mix well, butter two bread tins, put in the mixture, let it stand for twenty minutes, then bake from thirty to fifty minutes. Whip one pint of cream very stiff and dry and add to it one cupful of maple sirup and one tablespoonful of powdered sugar, Flavor with one-half teaspoonful of ignnon extract, beat well together, put in a covered mold, bind tightly with a strip of buttered paper and pack in ice and salt until time to serve. Serve in sherbet glasses.
Cut cold roast beef into inch blocks yielding two cupfuls. Stir brow n sauce three tablespoonfuls vinegar one and one half tablespoonfuls seeded raisins minced one and one half tablespoonfuls chopped gherkin. Add meat to boiling liquid, simmer five minutes and serve hot.
A study of new kitchen helpers notes large wooden and agave dish drainers priced up to $3.75. Designs feature a sloped corrugated surface directing water to a trough, with circular wire drainers including a center slot for utensils.
A historical recipe lists three cups brown sugar, 113 cups ald, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls soda dissolved in six tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, 144 cups currants, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon and nutmeg, half a teaspoon clove, a little salt. Mix stiff, roll about three eighths of an inch thick, cut in preferred shapes.
Dissolve one level teaspoon of soda in one cup of sour cream and one cup of molasses. Add one level teaspoon of ginger, one half level teaspoon of salt, and twenty one point five cups of flour. Bake in a shallow pan.
Readers learn salt bags can be repurposed into jelly bags and, when stitched together, become dish cloths or wash cloths. The note encourages saving used bags for household reuse and crafting.
A passenger steamer the Naomi of the Crosay Company burned on Lake Michigan during a Grand Haven to Milwaukee run. Five people perished including J. Me Thea Sol Detroit and four coal passers found in the forecastle. Rescue boats saved many others as the ship burned to the waterline and drifted into the harbor.
In Lexington, judge James Hargis was acquitted again of the murder charge in the Cockrill case after a trial lasting over two weeks. The proceedings involved more than fifty witnesses, with testimony challenging a conspiracy to kill Cockrill, Dr. B. D. Cox, and J. B. Marcum during the Breathitt county feud era.
Lena B. Reeves, 20, was shot and killed in Sayre Pennsylvania. It is unclear whether she took her own life or was murdered. Four Italians are in custody as investigations continue.
Kansas Supreme Court orders receivers for all breweries doing business in Kansas. The court holds the state may confiscate property tied to illegal activities amid Prohibition tensions. The Armheuser-Busch interest based in St Louis resists the receivership rule as it takes effect under prohibition law.
A bulletin from the Interstate Commerce Commission reports 3,965 rail accidents in the December quarter, with 1,450 train crew and passenger deaths and 19,514 injuries. Passenger fatalities totaled 180, four times the long term quarterly average since September 1904, surpassing earlier records in December 1903.
A compact roundup notes the Sultan of Turkey’s animal collection at Yildiz, Norway’s king as a Danish navy trainee for nine months, the Czar’s dislike of solo photos, Raisuli tracing lineage to Mulai Idris, Leopold of Brussels as Europe’s wealthiest real estate magnate, the German emperor’s note free speeches, Lord Cromer’s busy Egypt duties, and French ex premier Heavier securing 600000 of 1400000 for a new daily newspaper organ of the campaign.
Maurice Yidchower of Chicago reports two masked men stopped his buggy between Dalton and West Hammond Indiana at dark and robbed him of 250 dollars a diamond scarfpin and a gold watch. He was found faint at the Hammond police station an hour later.
The six year old son of farmer George Miller near Laporte choked on a corn kernel. A doctor advised immediate travel to Chicago for a possible operation after the kernel could not be removed. The mother, hatless from work, and the father rushed to the station as the train departed. The child was scarcely alive and died ten minutes before reaching Chicago. surgeons operated but the outcome remains uncertain.
Charles Lewis an iron worker from Pittsburg shot and killed Anna Eaton in a resort near Indianapolis after she refused to abandon her immoral life. He pleaded with her to return home, then shot her and attempted suicide. Police say Lewis had known the girl as a Pennsylvania schoolmate. In Bedford Fred Brinegar, 25, was attacked and robbed after allowing a stranger to ride with him. he walked his horse home, found the man unconscious in the buggy with head wounds, and missing $100 a watch and a jeweled pin.
Reverend Zev L L Carpenter of Wabash Sunday dedicated his seven hundredth Christian church at Charles City Iowa, raising all indebtedness. No other living minister has dedicated so many churches. He has raised five millions to pay church debts.
Harry Toms of New Paris shot and killed Rastus Paul after receiving an anonymous letter threatening harm. Toms says he believed he was in danger and did not realize the victim was his best friend until after the shooting.
For the first time in years Brazil closed saloons on Sunday and shut public gambling reports. Gamblers were warned to work or leave town, signaling a broad crackdown and new order in the region.
Warren Roberts aged 15, son of Thomas Roberts of Brandenburg Kentucky, visiting New Albany, was run over by a street car. He suffered fatal injuries with both legs severed and an arm broken.
Mrs John Kruger of Lowell dies at age 60 from lockjaw following injuries after stepping on a rusty nail while cleaning a woodshed. The illness and death occurred after weeks of intense suffering.
Mrs. Alice Cooper Lawson found guilty of second degree murder in Lafayette for killing her husband Charles W. Lawson and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Boys striking a match sparked a blaze at a gas well under boring near Bedford. The fire destroyed the derrick as the well deepened to 1,100 feet with gas growing stronger daily.
The street car conductors and motor men of Fransville demanded higher wages. Their demand was refused and the men voted to strike. Trouble is feared as the walkout looms.
George Paul, 12, of Evansville, shot Kinggelf in the head with a Flobert rifle and died instantly. Six of Cynthia Dedrick’s great grandchildren served as pallbearers at her funeral in Wabash, aged 94.
The Dun’s Review notes continued heavy bank payments and expanding commerce in Chicago. Prices rise across raw materials led by iron and steel, with improved weather boosting distributive operations. Breadstuffs demand abroad grows as wheat prices soar. bank clearings reach 287,754,845, up 26.4 percent from the prior year’s week. Failures in the district total 25 versus 19 last week.
New York reports show chill rain hurting retail sales and delaying reorders for summer wear while crop prospects improve slightly. Across regions, business failures rise to 184 for the week ending May 16, with Canada at 22. Wheat and corn exports for the week and year to date are detailed by Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
A compilation of current bid prices from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo for cattle hogs sheep and various grains. Pricing covers No 2 wheat corn oat rye hay butter eggs and clover seed with ranges by city and grade.
Three trans Atlantic liners docking in New York within 24 hours add about 3100 immigrants to the ongoing influx. A cable dispatch notes Carlos of Portugal will visit Ar his trip to Brazil early dune to a cable dispatch King gentina after next year from Lisbon. The Elks of the World, a Louisville Ky colored organization, has filed a petition to compel Secretary Mc Chesney to file their charter with the State Department.
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