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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1937
Page
9
If you are wise youll keep your cookie jar well filled these days for you never know when the picnic mood will seize the ferily and a ready made dessert is always a time saver and a great help. Surprise Cookies call for shortening sugar egg vanilla milk and flour with a raisin filling baked ten minutes in a moderate oven. The directions describe rolling chilling and cutting rounds with raisin filling and crimped edges for a biscuit style cookie.
Advertises a meat sale with assorted cuts and prices including boneless rib roast 25c lb, rump roast 18c lb, cube steaks 25c lb, fresh ground beef 15c lb, porterhouse 35c lb, lamb cuts 15c with several listings, pork loin roast 28c lb, spare ribs, lard, sausages, and country cured bacon. Includes quantities and specials for Saturday.
Recipe fragments for coconut macaroons and spice cookies. Instructions include mixing sweetened condensed milk with coconut, dropping on buttered pans, baking until pale brown, and spice cookie prep with flour, baking soda, ginger, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, sugar, and molasses. Also mentions grass growing method and seed germination study by John T. Cassidy at the U S Forest Service station in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A McAlester prison inmate at the state penitentiary, recently transferred from Le Flore County, did not know who the President of the United States was prompting a board inquiry. The memo attached to the case notes the inmate’s lack of basic civic knowledge as part of a wider examination.
In Imlay Nevada two explorers J Staggs and Clyde Taylor struck a new vein near Benito canyon reportedly assaying over $100 in gold per ton. They previously sold their Jumbo mine discovery to George Austin for $10,000 and later pursued other prospects in the Nevada desert. The tale notes the find’s potential as a small bonanza if ore values hold.
A city program teaches 25 children to mimic birds, meeting twice weekly to rehearse sparrows and pipings. Two professional whistlers are instructors guiding the class in bird song imitation.
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