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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1913
Page
9
An advertisement claims a "strictly harmless remedy" for bedwetting and frequent urination. The G.H. RowanDrug Co. of Chicago offers a free sample by mail with 50 cents for packaging, urging readers to share with neighbors and family.
A Good Housekeeping list presents peanut hash rolls macaroni and peanuts and a date and peanut pudding. It describes making peanut butter mixtures with potatoes onions and milk to form hash and a baked peanut crumb dish and notes the tasty pairing of dates with peanuts.
A recipe fragment outlines tomatoes with sugar onion parsley bay leaf and bread crumbs milk and butter. The method: seasonings removed, sieve mixture, cook tomatoes, add soda, blend smooth, reheat milk and bread, combine and pour over butter salt pepper, serve with crackers.
A historic cooking note outlines simmering half inch beef dice in a double boiler for two to three hours with water pepper and a small piece of butter. It advises removing rind and tough bits then cooking until juice is extracted and thickened, serving over meat or in a beef pie with crust.
A recipe describes making onion soup using a Spanish onion, water, milk, and butter. Simmer onions with salt pepper and water, then strain into milk warmed with butter and flour to thicken. Return onions to the pot and reheat before serving.
Simple home recipe describes mixing flour salt baking powder fat and milk or water to form a stiff batter. Work briefly, fill pans, bake in a hot oven about twenty to thirty minutes.
A North Columbus Dispatch item recounts a wife and daughter leaving for a week’s vacation, a husband trying to lose a kitten, and an old cat remaining with the lone kitten. Upon the family’s return both cat and kitten reappeared, continuing as household members.
A Boston railroader recounts how President Mellen of the New Haven system kept his humor despite distractions and a self aware joke about a Sunapee line brakeman. The tale highlights railroading life and conductor guidance with regional names and station calls.
The Glasgow gas and electricity departments stage exhibitions to cut furnace and range smoke. The electricity side features a fully electric restaurant showing cooking, cleaning, heating and lighting by electric power. The gas side uses a gas equipped house for cooking, heating and lighting with incandescent gas burners. The corporation loans gas cookers free to citizens, having lent 37,000 since March 1, and demand for gas fires remains high, causing delays.
In a fragmentary account from Popular Magazine, Louis Trosky, a notable Ohio influencer, visits Washington and dines with John R McLean. The tale hints at political leverage, expensive tapestries, and a shadowy financial windfall used to influence hangings as Trosky laments a secret sorrow during a fraught trip.
A fragment from Candis Louisiana recounts a dinner party where a witty guest, known for smoking, hoped the ladies would indulge his habit. The candles burned low as the hostess observed the smoking candle and asked if he would pause to eat.
A feature on parsley noting its rich aroma and flavor for sauces, the plant’s striking green hue when paired with tomato and egg yolk, and its rock-plant heritage tied to St. Peter. The piece links parsley to color harmony and culinary presentation.
A recipe for sausage cakes uses pork and beef, with onion, sausage herbs or sage, salt, paprika or pepper, egg yolk, and flour. Mix thoroughly, form round cakes about the size of a dollar, coat with flour, and fry in lard or butter.
A historical recipe for Turkish nougat lists almonds raisins figs cherries pineapple and nuts. It instructs blanching toast almonds hickory nuts and walnuts, cutting fruit, boiling sugar with water and cream to a soft ball, cooling then beating to a cream, melting and folding in fruit and nuts with vanilla.
A recipe describes soaking bread crumbs in cold milk, adding eggs, salt, and pepper, and cooking into two omelets or one large. Butter is melted, the mixture is cooked, folded with chopped ham, and inverted onto a warm platter. Garnish with parsley.
A step by step recipe describes preparing a salmon and peas lunch. Salmon is boiled, drained and plated centered on a platter. Peas surround the salmon with hot cream sauce poured over. Cream sauce uses cream or milk heated to boil, thickened with cornstarch, seasoned with salt pepper and butter.
Recipe fragment describes mixing sugar and water with cream of tartar then forming a ball and adding butter vanilla almond or lemon extract, nuts and candied cherries. mentions cooling, cutting into cubes or squares as texture sets.
Analysis states the rationale for state aid in road funding. It argues that highway improvements benefit farmers, market towns, rail transport, and overall state revenues. The piece emphasizes that roads unite regions, raise property values, and boost national prosperity through shared costs.
An article critiques President Wilson and cabinet choices including Secretary of War Garrison. It argues the U S Army is underprepared with a mobile force under 35 000 and warns that sending young men to learn by fire wastes lives and money. It references lessons from the Spanish American War.
John Deve of Goldwin Michigan claims twelve years of skin ailment and $400 in doctor bills were ended by Bucklen’s Amica Salve. The ad promises quick and permanent relief for burns bruises and other skin conditions. Sold at City Drug Store Taubeneck & Davison for 25 cents.
An annual town meeting notice sets April first at 2 PM in Marshall Illinois for Precincts 1 City Hall 2 Sullivan shoe shop 3 Pixley Harlan's Livery barn. Voters will choose a Moderator elect a Supervisor three Justices of the Peace three constables one Highway Commissioner and Pound Masters. A five year tax levy to fund rock roads including Fox road Marshall and Darwin road Chicago road Hukill road and township lines will be proposed with polls open 7 AM to 8 PM.
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