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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1899
Page
2
A garbled historical recipe fragment describes preparing a pork pie with pepper, leaf, and lard substituting butter. It mentions shaping the crust, sealing the edges, folding in egg, and baking about one hour and three quarters, though many words are unclear.
A recipe for a belled pudding using carrot breadcrumbs suet flour sultanas treacle and lemon peel steamed in a mould served with sweet cornflour sauce. Also a rich pound cake instruction creaming butter and sugar adding eggs and flour with sultanas currants and candied peel baked two to two and a half hours and cooled in the oven to soak. The cake keeps well for a long period.
Procure ripe tomatoes and prepare them for peeling. Slice thinly and arrange on a dish. Mix two tablespoons of oil with a dessert spoon of vinegar, pepper and salt. Pour over tomatoes. Just before serving, sprinkle with minced onion amounts as directed.
The text details cooking beef a la mode with cow heel and ox cheek, including browning, simmering two hours, and finishing with a vegetable garnish and gravy. It then gives a recipe for Indian Toast with spiced meat, butter, flour, and toasted bread. A third item covers roast duck with sage onions and creamed gravy served with green peas.
A breakfast relish describing cutting veal into two inch squares, seasoning with salt and pepper, dipping in beaten egg then chopped mushrooms, frying in butter until brown, and serving with a brown sauce poured over the squares.
A gentleman asks three questions to a gardener, surprising him with a quick reply. The exchange centers on why Alan was not born to a baby, reflecting a humorous misunderstanding and playful dialogue.
A garbled OCR snippet features quips on acting and advertising, a stray epitaph note, and scattered dialog lines. It mentions Mrs Brown and Miss Smith, a professor comment on English, and a funeral scenario with a duke’s procession, all presented in a jumbled, period newspaper voice.
The article traces Phil May from his early work in advertising and acting to his rise as a prolific London caricaturist. It notes his globe trotting, contributions to major journals, and sharp humor aimed at all social levels, especially the lower classes. His method includes vivid street studies and practical jokes, such as fooling editors and police with staged models. He settles in London, works intensely, and remains active across theatres and clubs.
Historical note on a bright nebula near Aguarhas observed by several astronomers from Herschel to Huggins. It describes its starlike appearance, a Saturnlike ring noted by Cosse and Lassell, and spectral evidence of a gaseous mass rich in nitrogen and hydrogen. Brunnen's parallax (1871–72) placed it far beyond the sun with a diameter vast beyond Earth, suggesting a nascent system undergoing condensation.
Fragmented excerpt discusses ethics through Jowett a witty exchange about a rack and a bad rack. It then cites London census figures showing overcrowding with 214828 in 56882 one room, 130234 in 54872 two room, 192849 in 34554 three room and 2467 in 949 four room tenements totaling about 20 percent of London’s population in overcrowded dwellings.
The piece argues that evening visits should end promptly to respect hosts and guests alike. Foregoing lengthy stays preserves conversation, reduces fatigue, and keeps social life pleasant, favoring brief, courteous departures over lingering beyond the hour.
In England warm beans with a larva cause the beans to dance for amusement. The beans are seeds from a shrub grown in Mexico and Jamaica and have sold for up to three guineas each. In Russia a Fair Women's Club thrives with luxurious surroundings, velvet carpets and rose lamps, where fashionable rituals and modern devices enhance a glamorous, mystic aesthetic.
A fragmented column blends a potato balls recipe with anecdotes and jokes. The recipe outlines mashing potatoes with pepper, salt and eggs, forming balls, breading, frying until golden. Interleaved are quips about tailoring, theft watch jokes, a church matter, and a note on censorship in Finland with press seizures.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips featuring Mrs Kelly and her children, temperance humor, a forward clerk, Florida fire tales, a nurse's annoyance, a hopeful mother, condolence letter jokes, Isaac selling coats, wedding housekeeping, and an umbrella maker’s grumble about parasols. The items parody social scenes with punchy one liners and regional character.
The Strand Magazine story recalls Bob Lowe joining the Treasury Bench and sharing odd moments with a minister. The narrator, newly seated among ministers, notes Lowe’s muddy boots and a hidden pocket concealing a brace of pheasants, then a chunk of bread for dinner on the bench. The anecdote mixes humor and political rite with vivid detail.
A garbled excerpt from a late 19th or early 20th century column presents disjointed quips about piano lessons lending a comic edge to daily life. The dialogue features quoted lines on honesty and mischief, including a remark about a dry laundry mishap and a running joke about unhappy marriages and advertising.
At the Bardinburgh Asylum annual meeting Dr Clouston described a rising form of brain disease with mental symptoms, general paralysis, noting its increase and deadly progression. He cited UK death estimates, regional case numbers, and a rising burden on patients, with alcoholism as a major contributing factor. A new thyroid-based treatment showed early promise, alongside photogram studies by Robertson and Middlemass demonstrating brain changes on screen.
A note on Lady Tennyson appearing as a composer in the Girl's Own Paper who set Lord Tennyson's Sweet and Low to music. A long overlooked letter from a New York shipping office is traced to a London latter office, revealing a forgotten correspondence and a curious identity thread.
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