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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
10
A collection of prepared recipes using huckleberries including Huckleberry Tea Cake Steamed Huckleberry Pudding Huckleberry Rolls and Huckleberry Corn Muffins with detailed measurements and baking methods for a home kitchen audience.
The menu lists a three meal plan for Sunday including breakfast with iced melons cereal cream broiled spring chicken baked potatoes and coffee. Dinner features cream of tomato roast leg of lamb mint sauce mashed potatoes green peas tomatoes mayonnaise iced watermelon. Supper offers thinly sliced cold lamb whole wheat bread and butter fruit cake and Russian tea.
A fragmented menu shows a Monday meal with fruit breakfast cereal bacon toast coffee tea and a series of dishes including roast beef carrot soup browned potatoes cauliflower lettuce salad peach pie cheese wafers and minced lamb on toast. The item reads like a historic cafeteria or household menu with multiple courses and beverages.
Menu lists courses including berries liver and bacon julienne potatoes and roast beef with sides. Beverages feature coffee cocoa and fruit desserts offer berry pudding and cucumber salad with French dressing.
A fragment menu listing clam fritters and biscuits with Creamed Potatoes and tea. Reads like a midweek meal note with headings and abbreviations.
John Armstrong, a young Illinois lawyer, resists church outreach until a Baptist minister invites him to special meetings. The visit shifts Armstrong’s outlook as he contemplates attendance with a promised “bring a friend” push, while his doctor neighbor jokes about finances and church attendance.
Mrs Isiah Chiles returns from What Cheer and Keswick visit with relatives. A young son arrives at Mr Dawson’s Park Place home. Jessie Johnson travels to Andalusia aboard the Helen Blair for an extended stay. Mrs Johnson returns from Nestle bush Point with her shelling husband. Walter Grovey begins machinist training at Barry Manufacturing Co. Wm Lohr readies a six room home. Mrs Wm Felton and children depart for Sheboygan Wis. Earl Schuyler tours Cedar Rapids for business and pleasure. Mr Peck builds a house on First avenue near Monroe Park Place. Miss Cora Selman ill with asthma at Monroe Street home. Mrs Cloe Smith of Lime City visits Doty family. E W Vetter departs on business to Ohio and Indiana. Miss Bielefeld visits Chicago. Mr and Mrs Fletcher Steinhart of LeClaire Ia visiting Mrs Adam Hess on Brook Street. Elkins home on Smalley Avenue enlarged and remodeled. Ernest Elkins visits from Davenport. Mary Kane hosts Boston Store clerks for an evening of refreshments and entertainment. Mr and Mrs A S Wells leave for California with several stops en route. Their Park Avenue Front Street home occupied by Mr and Mrs W F Gray of Trenton Missouri. Mrs L L Guthrie and two grandsons plan two week visit to Erie relatives. Little son of Mr and Mrs Curtis W Strong recovering from malaria. Mrs Strong’s sister Mrs A A Eihl of Moline Sr visiting Riverview.
Henry Becke remains ill at East Second Street. Mrs. H. E. Parmelee attended the chautauqua in Columbus Junction on Thursday and met her daughter Mrs. Vail of Keota. they enjoyed the day. East Fourth Street is being graded, with major improvements. Charles Brenner enlarges his East Fifth Street house with a two story front and remodels. John Sherry and sister, formerly of near Fairport, stay with Jesse Brogan on East Fifth Street. Brogan has recovered from illness. Mrs. D. D. Doty improves mobility. Park Avenue grading and sidewalk work continue, signaling general repairs.
One way rate with two dollars extra for round trip tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of every month. Return limited to twenty one days from sale date. See Iowa Central ticket agents or contact A. B. Cutts G. P. & T. A. Minneapolis for information.
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