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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1903
Page
11
A collection of plum based recipes including Plum Charlotte Russe Plum Pie Plum Pudding and Bread and Plum Pudding. Directions cover plum prep ingredients proportions and cooking steps with notes on peeling pitting and serving.
(several meals listed) Sunday Breakfast includes Seed Cherries and Broiled White Fish. Dinner features Roast Spring Chicken and Green Peppers. Supper offers Creamed Mushrooms and Fruit Salad. Monday shows Fruit and Cereal for breakfast and Cream of Onion Soup with Chicken Pie for dinner. Evening menus include Creamed Chicken and Hash Potatoes. Tuesday lists varied dishes including Fried Calf's Brains and Creamed Fish in Cucumber Cases.
The listing shows a Wednesday meal lineup with sliced bananas and bacon starters, followed by roasts and sides such as roast lamb with mashed potatoes and summer squash. Dessert features pineapple, cake, and marble cake, with tea and cocoa beverages.
Waterloo business leaders plan a large 30 by 250 foot tent near the amphitheater at Des Moines fair grounds from August 21 to 29 to showcase local manufacturing. The display will include farm implements, automobiles, overalls and the Twenty Century manure spreader. A trainload of goods will travel to the fair and a top band from Chicago and other cities will perform. The goal is to attract new factories to Waterloo and inspire other cities to follow the example.
Missed around Cone and his friends wish him success in his new occupation. Mrs. Jno Bowlby spent Wednesday with sister Mrs. Wm Maxwell south of Cone. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Wildriss on Tuesday July 28. Elmer Echelberger and family with Grandpa Echelberger and L M Cecil and wife visited D C McKee and family for Sunday dinner. Master tkme Abbott injured his foot by a pitchfork. W B Tompson of Muscatine was in the area Saturday for business. Allen McCurdy of Cone visited Muscatine on Wednesday.
The Iowa Central railway announces summer excursion rates from Elrick Junction for June 1 to September 30, 1903. To Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Colo. and return 24.25. Glenwood Springs, Colo. 26.25. Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah 37.25. and corresponding lower rates to Deadwood, Lead City, Hot Springs and Custer, S. D. Options include diverse routes and stopovers. For folders and rates contact A. B. Cutts in Minneapolis.
The Iowa Central Railway offers round trip excursion tickets for 46.55 to Portland Oregon Seattle Tacoma Victoria and Vancouver B C from August 1 to 14 with return by October 15 1963. Tickets permit stopovers in both directions and allow one-way routing each way. See agents or A B Cutts Minneapolis for details.
An Orono town column lists relatives and friends visiting from Denver Nichols Muscatine Iowa City Columbus Junction Letts Lone Tree and Columbus Junction. It notes a newborn daughter to Mr and Mrs Nyenhuis and Arthur Bebb changing jobs from store clerk to fireman on a rail division.
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