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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1912
Page
1
A man on an excursion steamer returning from Panama and Costa Rica recalled the four days there. The group marveled at the canal dredges walls of concrete and locks. they noted cheap duck suits, merchant independence and American club hospitality. The standout was a deck of playing cards with Panama scenes made in Ohio.
Mr Smelter Stokes. once the shipowner, is converting a battleship Wellington bought for 200000 into a residence in Connecticut. He has added a Suffolk Tudor manor, with half completed and the rest due in spring. The plan creates a striking freak house that could rival Westminster Abbey in future renovations.
The excerpt recounts journalist Frederic Guest Tomlin recalling an old office lockout and a missing office boy. The boy defends his lateness with a quip about his aunt or family and a hanging, illustrating a humorous but cautious exchange. The fragment preserves a period voice and a cryptic moral about responsibility and reputation.
A traditional steamed pudding blends figs and prunes with lemon, nutmeg, suet, brown sugar and bread crumbs. It uses two eggs and two cups of bread crumbs, steamed three hours in a greased mold and served with vanilla whipped cream. Guests decorate with brandy dipped sugar lumps to make a wish.
A historic Scots dish recipe describes cleaning haddock heads to remove the eyes and stuffing them with a mixture of oatmeal, haddock roes, butter, onion, parsley, pepper, salt, and milk. The heads are rolled in melted butter, crusted with crackers, sewn closed, and baked for about one hour in a moderate oven.
A fragmented notebook style text describes blanching almonds with hot water, cooling, and rubbing skins. It mentions melting chocolate, dipping items, and unclear steps, with several garbled phrases and stray names in the margins.
The article chronicles an Outlook interview with William Jennings Bryan in which he claims the tariff and railways drive trusts and price manipulation. It also notes the host’s challenge to Bryan’s broad assertions and his recurring emphasis on big financiers behind economic woes.
The anecdote recalls Representative Gibson of Tennessee whose voice failed during a tariff speech. The reactions in Congress turned to wit as colleagues shouted captions like trousers and breeches while the humor built until his voice returned and he pressed on.
A witty remark notes that a man who marries after careful thought sometimes wishes he had thought longer. The line suggests playful regret about choices made in love and timing.
The text notes how friendly rivals in business mingle at social events and contrasts sending colleagues away for a few days with the effect of delaying dramatic company actions.
An old testimonial ad asserts Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills, with a claim of 100 doses for catarrh, praising Re Cheney’s honesty and inviting readers to buy from druggists via a Toledo bank and national endorsement.
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