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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1914
Page
6
Fragmented OCR text records a midweek local board meeting, social notices, and Market Report snippets from Lawrence. Names like Mr. Austin Flor and Charles Bydlaminer appear amid community events, school affairs, and a brief Associates Press Market Report.
A dated notice in the Washington Post signals a special Baldwine meeting to discuss community matters. It names Samant Washington Post See Ta Aey and lists officials such as KIC DWENS and the Poetry Order of SX. Crowdpet, with a time set for Wednesday, April 8th at 2340 pay.
Lawrence citizens weigh Holmes past life for gubernatorial style and leadership. Biography notes his Lincoln birth neighborhood, early jobs, and bank founding in Linn county. His management of the North East division and Farmers Life Assurance firm is cited as proving readiness for Lawrence duties.
Instructions on ironing handkerchiefs and small linens emphasize drying on both sides, precise folding to display names on top folds, pressing straight along hems, and shaping corners. Tips cover damp linen polishing, preventing gloss on wrong sides, removing blisters with a wet rag, avoiding over-drying cotton or muslin, and caution with prints and embroidery to avoid color damage.
A family in Silver Street Colchester England escaped a blaze when a burst soda bottle on a shelf near an oak beam under a bedtoot exploded, awakening occupants in the early hours. A loud report and smoky rooms followed as water pouring from the bottle helped quench the fire.
A garbled excerpt lists household hacks and odd tips including mattresses stored in cold weather, preserving creams with vaseline, and cleaning with soda. It references improvised methods for food and dish handling, plus crude instructions about utensils and laundry. The fragment reflects a chaotic mix of impractical, unsafe guidance with stray phrases about embroidery and market use.
A garbled reminiscence describes ripping fabric into a square for a holder and stitching it into a strip to hold roasting pans. The speaker notes a wireless contributor role and mentions reducing quarters, boiling supplies, and saving dish towels while referencing a magazine context.
A rustic recipe describes melting butter and flour to form a smooth cream, seasoning with salt and pepper, toasts sliced bread on a hot platter, roasts twenty five oysters in shells until they open, then coats toast with an oyster Tidger sauce, places oysters atop, adds the cream mixture, and serves immediately.
A homey cookie recipe uses one drop brown sugar one cup molasses one cup butter and lard mixed one teaspoon salt one tablespoon soda dissolved in hot water two tablespoons vinegar one tablespoon ginger flour to make a medium stiff dough chill overnight roll to a quarter inch thickness yields about four dozen. Editors invite readers to try them.
A simple home method to prevent rust involves packing the kettle with potato parings, adding water, and boiling for an hour. Empty, wash with hot water, dry, and rub with lard, repeating two or three times for a lasting kettle.
Recipe style instruction describes assembling orange and pineapple desserts including orange pineapple layers with sugar, maraschino, and a gelatin orange mold. Also outlines orange pinches like orange charlotte mock desserts and a marmalade style orange jelly, with steps for whipping cream or custard and serving in cups or glasses.
Recipe instructions describe making a chocolate bread pudding with cold milk bread crumbs and sweetened chocolate in a double boiler, then folding in egg yolks and butter, baking until firm, topping with a meringue and powdered sugar, and serving cool. The text lists steps and measurements, including butter, vanilla, and salt, with bake times and temperatures.
A compact instruction describes a multi layer left over pie. Start with cooked meat in a red baking dish, sprinkle crumbs, add spaghetti or macaroni tomato sauce, repeat layers, finish with crumbs and top with gravy and butter, then bake brown in a moderate oven.
Soak two cups of dried beans overnight then boil until tender in salted water. Drain press through a sieve and mix with butter lemon juice or Tarragon vinegar salt and pepper and enough stock. Serve with roast lamb. Also boil chicken parts in water until tender and season lightly. Sausages With Tomatoes: fry sliced tomatoes with onions and season then place among sausages and serve hot. A fragment notes good people are supposed to be happy and to be a true friend.
A fragment of a recipe describes cooking butter and bacon, adding peas, boiling until tender, then stirring in cream and egg yolk with salt and pepper. The text is incomplete and lacks full steps or measurements.
Fragments describe grating three large apples with rind and juice of a lemon, adding sugar, beating eggs, mixing thoroughly, and baking between two crusts. The text is incomplete but outlines a basic apple lemon pie preparation.
WW. F. secretary of the American Record Lion urged hog raising as a primary enterprise not a sideline. He said breeders should select stock buyers want, keep neat, informative stationery, and study market demand. He cautioned against hog bubbles, stressed thorough animal knowledge for sales, and linked success to good breeding, care, feed, and judgment in selection.
Southdown sheep, a popular hornless mutton breed, features gray brown face and legs with a blocky body. Rams reach 175 to 200 pounds when fat, ewes 125 to 156, and fleece yields six to seven pounds of medium texture wool. The breed yields high quality mutton, often twins or triplets, and fast growing lambs. Originating in Sussex England, the name derives from the South Downs heathlands.
The agriculture department notes pork production rests on continuous pasturing and crop feeding. Winter grazing options are scarce and costly, with corn and crops like rye wheat and barley favored for hogs on well drained land with manure.
A fragment discusses a profitable side line: sheep farming fits farm operations with minimal attention during sowing haying cultivating or harvesting. It notes sheep require care only during peak farming periods when extra help is needed.
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