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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
3
A mid nineteenth century domestic essay urges joy for children, self control, and charity. It stresses freedom within safety, praise over faultfinding, and modeling virtue. It extols country pride, neatness, and resilience against naysayers as keys to moral growth and success.
A collection of agricultural notes describes cow digestion and grain feeding with roughage to ensure thorough chewing. It covers cranberry harvesting machinery reducing labor and improving yields, barb wire injuries to horses and goats with treatment tips, and a rant on weed control stressing wartime-like vigilance against pest plants.
The article argues that cutting expenses must come from increasing yields, not acres. It urges better farming through farm management to reduce costs, stressing that the nation needs farms to feed itself and that fitness and preparation are essential for successful farming. It highlights the shift from pioneer methods to modern efficiency and notes Gunner of Mississippi praising the value of a good cow.
A discussion on butter production shows a 200 pound cow yielding 200 pounds of butter at costs of 39 and 12.59, vs a 490 pound cow valued at 400, with net profit of 15 after interest. It notes feed costs and milk output offset, and uses tree-planting as a memory metaphor for permanence.
A collection of faded recipe tips for crumb cake and custard cake. The text lists flour sugar and spice proportions, methods for crumb dough, sour milk and baking soda, and optional raisins or currants. It references a local newspaper origin and includes scattered notes on custard cake, walnuts, dates, whipped cream, and cake assembly.
This passage lists diverse fruit cake and eggless cake recipes from housewives, noting a Warding against molasses in fruit cake receipts. It provides ingredients and steps for several versions, including sugar, butter, sour milk, eggs, spices, raisins, currants, and flour, with variations for butterless and eggless cakes.
A fragmented OCR item from a Statesman page hints at department ads and subscriptions with vague deadlines. It mentions a draft newsletter, a Bettie Stace mon, and a request to insert an ad, with a note about subscribers and a 13 day or 24 date reference amid garbled lines.
Boiler and engine in the little red millar corner Hanover and Exchange street offered for sale by F. A. Schuart Co. Oliece. Inquiries may be directed to Mar shall, Mich.
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