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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
3
A Cincinnati inventor Patented a hammock cot that merges a bed and hammock features. The mattress can be raised at one end to form a head rest when used as a cot, or laid flat for a swinging hammock. Sides rise on three sides to create a wind shield.
Instructions for deviled tomatoes with a butter vinegar dressing and eggs. Also a cucumber onion green tomato and pepper pickle mix with vinegar sugar turmeric celery seed mustard flour, boiled to thick, cooled, and jarred for storage. Contains multiple steps and measurements for canning and serving.
A buttered enamel dish is filled with layered tart apples dusted with salt. A flour baking powder salt mix is cut with butter then beaten egg milk is stirred in. The batter covers the apples and bakes twenty five minutes in a hot oven. Invert to present apples on top and serve hot with butter and sugar or syrup.
A dated cooking note describes dressing chicken in salt water to draw blood then coating with flour and frying in hot lard until brown. It advises lifting the lid to add boiling water for tenderness and using remaining fat to make a gravy with flour salt and more water.
A historic recipe lists twelve sour apples one onion three peppers one red one cupful seeded raisins one pint cider vinegar half cup currant jelly five cupful sugar juice of four lemons one tablespoon ground ginger one quarter teaspoon ingenuity one tablespoon salt. Chop apples onion and peppers very fine add vinegar jelly simmer one hour stirring constantly. Store as canned fruit.
A kitchen note describes beef loaf mixed with crackers salt pepper and egg. Shape in a buttered tin bake with tomatoes and baste. The excerpt also includes a humorous dialogue about women and generalizations from a Hitch mond Times Dispatch snippet.
Dialogue notes a roadside event with Greene and Redd. They describe delays during a trip, multiple stops, and a concluding remark that Redd was towed home after the return journey.
Essie Janis of Paramount argues wartime social shifts erode class lines in England and boost film audiences. She notes war plays struggle, German films viewed as spies, and UK theaters thriving, especially in Scotland where tea and lower prices accompany cinema visits. She cites London darkness due to munition work and unions driving higher wages.
Miss Janis begins American engagement under Dil Lingham management. Her next photoplay at Paramount Theatres is twas Ever Thus, a romantic cycle written by herself. Earlier in England The Japrnces of Kitty drew large enthusiastic audiences.
Abstract of tax levies for 1915 in Jones County Iowa listing five mill rates for fire protection Monticelo Ciw agricultural levy Anamosa city street and district levies. County Auditor E J Hines certifies the figures as true and correct for different taxing districts.
A woman objects to being addressed as a dener by a conductor in a moving streetcar. She demands to exit, and the conductor begs her to wait until the car stops. She retorts sharply and the conductor apologizes, admitting even the best slip occasionally.
The Greek flag features nine blue and white stripes with a white cross on blue in the canton. The navy flag adds a golden crown at the cross center, while blue and white reflect Bavaria to honor the prince who became Greece’s king after independence from the Ottoman Empire.
By special execution from the Jones county Iowa district court a judgment in favor of John Brunthauer against M J King et al for 1915 debt plus costs is levied on Lot 447 C7 in Railroad Addition to Monticello. The property will be offered at public sale in front of the courthouse door on October 11 1915 at the hour of noon.
Public notice states Philip Brown is appointed executor of Mary Brown deceased by Jones County District Court Iowa. Creditors must file sworn claims with the District Court Clerk within legal time and debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa Iowa September 21 1915 Remley and Raney attorneys for the estate.
Public notice states that by unanimous stockholder vote the Douwick Dry Goods Co of Monticello Iowa has dissolved effective after publication. Dated Monticello September 22 115 J A Doutrick president C S Bidwell secretary A letter from Bob promotes Miller's Ton Pop hair tonic as a vegetable oil based remedy with claims of scalp benefits and economy.
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