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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
9
Cleanliness in caring for an icebox is emphasized. Regularly wash the box with strong ammonia water twice a week, remove all food, scrub shelves, and keep the door closed. Use boiling water to flush drains, avoid wooden dishes, and store butter and milk separately. A charcoal tip and avoiding uncovered vegetables help prevent odors.
A historic kitchen note explains soaking split peas overnight with water then simmering for at least three hours. The peas swell dramatically, then are mashed, salted, and buttered. The strained pulp is thinned with water as needed and served with croutons or toasted bread fingers.
A practical recipe for delicate salad decor using cream cheese or Neufchatel as a base. Hollow a tablespoon, fill with celery mixed with mayonnaise, top with cheese, and shape into an egg form. Serve on lettuce leaves with thin celery slices for best texture.
Beat four eggs lightly with whites and yolks. Stir in four tablespoons cream, a teaspoon salt and paprika or white pepper. Butter a hot pan, pour in eggs, lift center to let uncooked mix flow under. Continue until soft and creamy, drain onto hot plate and fold to serve.
A vintage chocolate sauce method combines one cup milk with two tablespoons grated chocolate three tablespoons sugar one teaspoon cornstatell and one teaspoon vanilla. Mix dry ingredients add milk to form paste heat remaining milk, stir in paste until thickened, add flavor, then cool and reheat occasionally as it thickens.
A damaged note lists a beet salad mix with beet and cabbage ingredients, horseradish, vinegar, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Instructions are incomplete but indicate covering with vinegar and storage guidance. The fragmentary text preserves basic ingredient names and amounts for a simple preserve or relish.
To remove color from a faded cotton dress boil it in a tartar water solution. This method aims to achieve a perfect white dress look by bleaching during the boiling process.
The American minister reports work has begun on a 9 mile connecting line from Trep Arboles to Piedra Sole, near the border city Rivera. Engineer Juan Storm, with a force of 600, expects completion in about a year. The line will serve Fray Bento and Paysandu, aid Rivera province, and boost Uruguayan trade and port status.
An inventive device demonstrates turning a locomotive into a vacuum cleaning system. It uses a suction chamber linked to the injector valve, a steam trap to condensate water, a partially water-filled dust collector, plus hoses and suction tips, illustrating a portable cleaning plant.
The passage explains a dust collection setup where injector and suction hose connect to a dust collector under a live steam area. Opening the injector valve creates a vacuum, drawing dirt into the collector and water traps it. Air exits through a steam trap to the atmosphere, enabling possible back-up cleaning by repositioning the locomotive to reach multiple cars.
A new automatic block signal on an Interurban line west of Cleveland uses a single 25 watt tungsten lamp and a relay to heat the mechanism, powered from the trolley with a small high speed motor driving the unit. The heat and resistance from the lamp prevent ice buildup on lenses and gears, solving cold weather operation problems.
Sun Yat Sen recounts efforts to capture him by the former Chinese government, estimating rewards totaled 700000 reels worth about 1 million dollars. He notes relief funds funded political aims abroad, denying a mercenary stereotype of Chinese people and citing a Philadelphia laundryman who gave his life savings.
A fragmentary exchange features Mr. Filbgilt denying a clause about smoking in a marriage vow. The dialogue hints at a domestic quarrel over tobacco and a wife's promise, presented in a clipped, period newspaper style with garbled quotation marks.
In 1911 railroads adopted a safety first movement with committees across ten divisions and three shops. About 1.65 million railroad employees face one in eight injury risk. monthly division checks and central reviews push for corrective action with report cards and photographic bulletins to stress careful work practices.
Surveys near Log Vacas Mexico assess a proposed Rio Grande bridge to connect Vacas with Del Rio. The joint project by National Railways of Mexico and Kansas City Mexico and Orient would create a new international railway route between the United States and Mexico. Mexico’s line would run 75 miles from Alli ndes to Los Vacas. KC Mexico and Orient is building its branch from San Angelo to Del Rio and will connect with the Southern Pacific there.
In early railroading engines were handled by one crew who learned their quirks and took pride in them. Modern practice assigns engines to routes, so crews may not see the same engine twice weekly and miss forming attachments. A veteran railroad man recalls infancy days when crews were their own masters and had latitude guiding trains.
The article notes that true strength, relative to body size, lies with insects. It contrasts human lifting ability with beetles, explaining a beetle can carry about 600 times its weight. It imagines a man under a box unable to move it, highlighting insect power in a compact comparison.
Quoted maxim from A T Stew park urging investment in advertising as essential to business success. The line stresses that one dollar spent on business should be matched by one dollar for promotion to ensure growth.
A concise aphorism asserts that to love mankind one should not demand too much from them, attributed to Jeremy Bentham.
A New York Times article from March 23 1912 notes eight shiploads of European immigrants bound for Canada and signs of an outward movement due to labor troubles. It cites a Canadian budget surplus of 39000000 and rail and canal credits of 28000000, plus calls for fifty thousand workers. It also recounts a Goethals anecdote about cadets and a proposed laughing gas substitute for police coercion.
An assortment of vintage ads tout Castoria for infants and children claiming 30 years of use and signature, Cole’s Cacbolisalve for burns and skin relief, and a postcard note about arriving safely. It mocks distant fights and hints at a stubborn borrower, with scattered typographic errors throughout.
A Yolnister of a deacon asks why the peer drives and the pall are struck. The deacon explains Gatun marks the largest dam he knows, and he notes the biggest dam in sight as the reason for the exclamation.
A quirky clipped exchange on coping with drink described as a bad evil, paired with a whimsical tip about guarding health during spring. Mentions German silver nine alloy and a curious garbled phrase about a person or place, reflecting a fragmented OCR style.
Readers report dramatic recoveries after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. Mrs Dama Betbune of Sikeston Missouri describes relief from seven years of pain and weakness, regaining mobility and independence. Mrs Charles Moonu of Murrayville Illinois also credits the remedy with avoiding surgery and restoring health.
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