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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
6
Phoebe Gray presents a narrative about a horse named Le Sir Gal and the adventures surrounding him. The piece blends character sketches with scene sketches to evoke a playful, literary mood.
A fragmented tale follows Mary Alice Brown who wanders from home after a wash incident. She spends a night at Sam Thom’s farmhouse, meets Charley Thomas the cripple, and returns with Lana to visit the Brown family. The piece urges faith and duty as Mary Alice learns resilience.
Francis Willett arrives early with a fruit basket as the day unfolds. Children wander the orchard and dam area admiring Dick Brown’s walking, while Mary Alice fears Francis near the old mill. Francis urges fishing for shiners despite the danger as they watch the dam and mill from the bank.
In a perilous dam accident, Mary Alice crosses the perilous plank to reach Francis who is clinging to a fishing pole. She pulls him from the flume, enduring danger and cold to keep her friend from drowning.
Mary Alice faces schooling versus work as Mrs. Brown plans to support the family by earning. Mary Alice contemplates leaving school to help pay rent and keep the home, while Francis Willett and Charlie Thomas figures loom in her thoughts.
A disjointed dialogue fragment features Alice and a boy discussing making a picture of herself and doing something interesting. The scene mentions a mill pond, a fish, water splashes, and a duck or boy falling, with limited readable context.
The author muses on childhood memories of first crushes and romantic feelings from ages seven to thirteen. The piece reflects on gendered attractions and the lasting impression of those early affections.
A first person account from B. Mortae in the Atlantic describes advancing under a curtain of fire as dust and flames erupt around trenches. The bombardment shreds earth and equipment while shrapnel rains down and steel jackets whistle overhead. The scene conveys terror and endurance in close combat.
Dr Walter B Bloor argues obesity mainly stems from overfeeding and insufficient exercise. He notes worried individuals require more food and cites a scientist estimating a daily diet of milk butter meat and bread could raise weight by about twenty three pounds yearly.
Scientists report that fish have relatively large eyes compared with body length, about one-tenth of their length, while humans eyes are far smaller in proportion. The finding may help explain why fish appear to be near sighted.
The article discusses proposals to rename flying machines heavier than air with generic terms like Letgiev and credits Col Archibald Hopkins and Frank Warren Hackett with advancing the idea. It mentions Langley and Pierrepont and notes debates over commemorating the Langley name in aviation history.
Fragmentary OCR text presents unreadable phrases and names. No clear event or person identified to summarize. cannot determine a coherent news item from the provided fragment.
The clumsy text outlines a traditional yeast cake method for Apple Cake and German Coffee Cake with apples baked into the dough. It lists ingredients like apples, yeast, milk, flour, sugar, butter, eggs, salt, and cinnamon, plus steps for dissolving yeast, making a sponge, rising, shaping, filling pans, and baking times.
Recipe directions for Lemon Jelly Cake with layers and a lemon rind and juice filling. Includes ingredients sugar butter milk flour cream of tartar soda eggs and boiling water with steps for making the cake and thickened jelly filling.
Advice on using folded newspapers to protect surfaces when handling soiled pots and to prevent floor damage with rubber supports. Recommends draining sardine oil and turning out fish from the box to avoid mess.
A simple fruit salad recipe mixing one tart apple cubes four bananas sliced and half a package dates cut Small with a whipped cream dressing. The dressing uses one pint cream cayenne yolk of one egg beaten lemon juice to taste and two tablespoons sugar.
Beat two eggs with half a pound confectioners sugar then stir in half a pound ground cocozanut. Mix well and drop from a teaspoon onto a buttered pan. Bake ten minutes in a moderate oven.
A compact period recipe outlines English style forcemeat for turkey. It combines two ounces lean ham or bacon with one quarter pound suet, lemon rind, parsley and herbs, bread, two beaten eggs, salt pepper and spices.
Tommy and his sick friend Jack visit for tea as they play hide and seek. Tommy asks his father to hide him behind an arm chair and Jack, instead of searching, lies by the fire and declares he will wait until he sniffs.
An old newspaper ad touts Spearminto Tooth Paste as safe and pure with tartar prevention. It claims a unique non injurious formula free from alcohol soap coloring and grit. The item is sold in drug stores or by mail from Spearminto Co Chicago and urges consulting a dentist.
In a quaint exchange at the shop counter a boy named Lightwit asks about the folks and what he can do for the morning. The mother replies that his sister Janice must skip pie and pickles and go to bed after this, while requesting a nickel of crackers and two cents of milk.
A red faced woman visited a shop on Saturday night asking for a pennyworth of vegetables and everything she could get. She requested wrapping in paper tied with string. The shopkeeper calmly offered to fetch a bone from the butcher to complete her Sunday dinner.
In a brief St Louis patch from the Post-Dig column, Mr Bacon laments only two suits of clothes as Mrs Bacon notes the lack of change in attire. The fragment hints at modest means and daily life observations.
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