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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1911
Page
7
The Imperial Council considered a proposition as nobles of the Mystic Shrine gathered for their annual convention. Last night the Shriner parade stretched over six miles with about 25 000 nobles marching through the streets.
In Skinner's Imperial boarding house at Douglas Sir William Meggs hovers over Violet Manvers after Ernest Burrows charms the guests. Meggs confesses misery while Burrows wins approving crowds before Meggs learns Burrows's origin from his blunt uncle Sanders aboard the afternoon steamer.
A chaotic comedy unfolds at a boarding house where Mr. Sanders pretends to be someone he is not. Confusion, mistaken identities, and a vow to separate guests fuel awkward tea and raucous banter ending with plans for strolls and a beer.
Trade notices describe woven wire field fence poultry wire and related wire netting trades. Public listings outline suppliers manufacturers and offered products with brief price ranges and contact references.
The C F P Sauer Company operates the largest flavoring extract factory in the South, with a history starting in 1887 in Richmond. It expanded from a small shop to multiple large buildings, now a four story reinforced concrete complex on Broad Street near Hermitage Road with 56,000 square feet of floor space and rail access. The firm has earned fourteen medals at major exhibitions, promoting Greater Richmond worldwide.
A simple bake mix using sour milk raisins sugar butter egg and spices. The recipe yields a two crust pie with nutmeg and cinnamon providing a warm aroma.
A historic dessert method lists ingredients: one pint scalded milk, yolks from two eggs, white of one egg, one cup sugar, two tablespoons cocoa, butter, plus cornstarch. Bake crust first then fill and frost with beaten sweetened egg white. Finish by browning the frosting.
A recipe instructs mixing three eggs two to three parts sugar and butter with milk and leavening to form batter. Bake in three tins with spices added to the third and assemble three layers with jelly or frosting and decorative dark leaf between light layers.
A recipe describes cooking a fowl until the meat separates from the bone. It instructs shredding the meat, preparing gelatin with cold water, boiling the fowl broth, and combining with onion paprika and salt. The mixture is pressed in an oiled bread pan and cooled overnight to slice thinly.
Cut cold mutton into thin pieces and season with salt and pepper. Layer in a baking dish with bread crumbs and gravy or tomato sauce, repeating until full. Top with raw potato slices, dot with butter, cover and bake forty five minutes then uncover and brown fifteen minutes.
Cream butter and sugar, alternate with milk and flour mixture, add almond extract and beaten egg whites, bake in a moderate oven. Frosting uses a sugar syrup folded into beaten egg white with almond extract for spreading.
A guide describes making a simple spiced raised bread toast. It suggests using a single loaf, sprinkling cinnamon and nutmeg through the dough for flavor, and toasting the resulting bread.
A brief note on making lemon sherbet with two quarts and milk a pint, lemon juice from four to five lemons, four cups of sugar, chilling the mix before adding lemon juice and freezing.
Stir together until smooth one tablespoon of oil or melted butter one teaspoon of mustard and tablespoons of sugar. Add four beaten eggs and beat well. Then add a pinch of vinegar and stir in one cup of milk. Place over boiling water and cook and stir until the consistency of boiled custard.
The Lorimer committee will resume investigations tomorrow and continue probing the Lorimer election for weeks. Officials anticipate the inquiry will not conclude before the current session ends.
Heavy rain swept through Elkins as four year old Grant Currence and his six year old sister wandered from home. The boy drowned before reaching help while the girl was saved. They are children of A D Currence of the city.
Old Richfellow pleads for mercy as Miss Pertleigh recounts a grim anecdote. A rich man, spurned by the woman he loved, reportedly left her in his will and then hanged himself, a chilling moral whispered in a moment of distress.
A poem printed in Harper’s Weekly speaks of seafaring longing for a Far-away Land. Sailors voyage over unnamed waters to wed a distant princess while memories of a Lotus-eating port tempt them to forget.
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