Proverbial Cooking Advice From Miss Dods Lectures
The article offers culinary proverbs and practical tips on cooking techniques. It covers onion and potato digestibility, stove heat control, flour tests, checking fowl doneness, garnish choices, cream types, beating egg whites, egg tempering, soup dressing, sauce thickening, boiling eggs, tepid water for macaroni, egg yolk in crusts, reviving old potatoes, pudding molds, drying raisins, browning sugar, frying cutlets, bread dough temperatures, boiling potatoes, crust dough, and safe dumpling cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dods
Bees On The Wing In Flight From Hives To Cavities
John Burroughs recounts bee swarms leaving hives and traveling in a rotating, cloudlike mass centered on the queen. The swarms seek trees with cavities, choosing pine, hemlock, elm, birch, maple, or hickory, then settle in hollows or even unlikely places like a mouse-hole or an out-house cornice.
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Supernor
Sameon
John Burroughs
Scribner's
Free Gift Offer From Dr Wolfe for Respiratory Ailments
An 1879 advertisement promotes a free copy of Medical Common Sense for conditions like asthma catarrh bronchitis and sore throat. Readers send name address and two postage stamps with payment for the 144 page booklet and disclose illness. Dr N B Wolfe Cincinnati Ohio the author lists practice in throat and singing care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.B. Wolfe
Cincinnati
Ohio
Haunted memoir fragment prompts unresolved family fears
Fragmentary notes describe long running distress within a family tied to vague names and lingering detention concerns. The text hints at unresolved trauma and a sense of ongoing impact over years without clear resolution.
Shoemaker William Dawson and His Astronomy Obsession
In Indiana we meet William Dawson a poor shoemaker who built his own observatory and telescope. He supplied temperature and weather observations to the Smithsonian and the Weather Bureau for years despite limited means. He saved money for a Clark telescope eye pieces and brass fittings and built an observatory dome on his house.
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Dawson
Smithsonian
Meteorological Bureau of
Washington
Spiceland
William Dawson
Peeies
Aspense
Whittier
Keenan
Teuton
Stark County
Ohio
Cadix
Henry County
Ind
New Castle Rier
Society of Friends
Socwnige
Smithsonian Institute
Meteorologi Bureau
Bureau
Toatitute
Bureau of Meteorology
War Department
Alvan Clark & Ben
Cambridge
Mass
Dublin
Kingstown
Indianapolis Journal
Revolver Misidentification Sparks Question About Authorship
A revolver brand and a cryptic prompt 'who wrote that' prompted questions about authorship and intent. Police examined the scene for clues and potential motives.
Im Met Weather an ipimanse number of men suffer
A brief item notes a weather event causing numerous male workers to suffer. The report lists no specific names or places. The focus remains on the adverse conditions and the resulting impact on laborers.
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Boston
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New Jersey
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Westinghouse _ Air
Janney
Pittsbbugh
Harrisburg
Baturdal
Washngton
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F.R. Myers
Gen Past & Ticket Agt
OUR Lady OF Angels
Semdnary
Lyons, Iowa
Orce
Clendenin & Martin and Richards and Subrbeck
McCurdy & Co
Chircago, Si
Sanford
Jamaica
Jutietously Invested
Wall St. Jaye
Ailaine, Bown, & Co
Bunkers
Brot Street
GEO. T. Lewis & Menzies Co’s. Advertisement
Lewis
T. LeWis & Menzies Co
Mason & Evans, Anufacturers OF
Prussing
CC. McCurdy & CO
Sisters of Charity
Houarnt
Fulton and
Linten
Lyons
Lowa
Duigraday
Johnson
Aritiuargh
United States
Blossburg
Lackawana
Ade
Uy Hud
East Fourth Street
Davenport
Iowa
Moline Manufacturers
Dimock, , Gould & CO
Moline
Illinois
Moline Iron Works
DaFour
A. R. McBurney
Wells Street
Dedt
Kovarny
Hudson River
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