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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
6
In leisure moments young girls craft two popular bedspreads from twine or monk's cloth. Twine spreads use small squares or diamonds sewn into strips or kept as individual pieces, offering light crochet work and quick, stylish results. Monk's cloth spreads are rough embroidered, elegant with duny lace patterns, suited to a young girl's room.
Chop two pounds lean beef and a pound fat bacon. mix with pepper salt nutmeg lemon rind and juice parsley or onion or both. Bind with two eggs. wrap in buttered paper, cover with flour and water paste, bake two hours, then crust.
Cream a half cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar. Add one egg yolk, then milk and two cupfuls of sifted flour with baking powder. Flavor with vanilla. Bake and ice with a sugar meringue then chocolate ganache. Add nuts if desired.
A simple muffin recipe uses three cups whole wheat flour one cup rye meal one egg half cup sugar quarter cup melted butter one teaspoon baking soda two teaspoons cream of tartar and enough milk to form a batter. Bake in muffin pans until done.
Unpeeled beets boiled till tender are scraped and chopped, rubbed through a sieve and used as a cream of spinach style soup. Notes it is pretty and good to serve.
Cream half cup butter with half cup granulated sugar and half cup honey and cream. Stir in two eggs and beat until creamy. Add one pint flour sifted with baking powder and caraway seeds. Bake in a greased shallow pan at moderate oven about twenty five minutes.
Farmers and financial friends seek land earnings in a high price era. A 100 acre farm can support 100 hogs 20 cows and more with a $3000 income and $1500 expenses plus $500 wages. diversification into hogs poultry beans onions improves profit while single crop corn or wheat risks poverty.
An Ohio Farmer correspondent asks what a ton of good corn silage is worth in the silo. Values vary with corn content, generally $2.50 to $3 per ton in recent years, higher if grain rich, guiding owners to price silage by the corn it contains.
Mr. G C Given explains non legume nitrogen fixing bacteria and their role when soil remains rich in humus. Moisture and aeration are important for these bacteria as they supply substantial nitrogen to soils, even when not associated with clover and peas.
A Ohio feeder notes good silage with alfalfa and clover hay can feed an 800 pound steer through winter on 400 pounds of silage and 5 pounds of hay daily at $2.50 silage and $5 hay per ton. Total monthly cost averages $1.80 and 4 cents per pound gain at 35 to 50 pounds monthly. Cattle are ready to graze as grass rises and can finish for midsummer markets if not crowded.
The article explains a lime application method by placing material in piles two rods apart in all directions. Each pile is later spread with a shovel to cover an area of about one rod around the pile, totaling four square rods per pile.
Chicago police arrest Robert Frank Holloway after he admits to a spree of bank robberies and multiple killings across the Americas. He claims $54,000 stash in a downtown hotel and details Panama City and Montreal heists, with aliases and a violent past.
The article reports Elroy Kent, deemed insane, hanged at the Windsor state prison. Witnesses describe the rope breaking, Kent’s body swinging for twenty seven minutes, and authorities attempting to suppress the news amid protest.
Historical guidance from Good Housekeeping Magazine details making a soap solution by dissolving laundry soap in hot water for immediate use or storage. It covers whitening with white soap, starch preparation, cooking starch with optional additives, and iron temperature, noting thinner starch with water and avoiding over stiff starched fabrics.
Pare and quarter quinces and simmer in clear water until tender. Drain and bake with sugar, using the cooking liquor. Steam one hour, then cool in a covered bowl. Reboil syrup and pour over fruit. chill and serve cold.
A recipe for Jerusalem artichoke soup using lean bacon or ham celery turnip onion and six artichokes. Cook bacon and vegetables until smooth, strain, then add boiling milk and season with salt and cayenne. Serve with a square of leavened bread.
Practical hints cover salt adjustment in tomato soup using brown sugar or raw potato, linen repair by machine, mackerel cooking in a baking pan with salt pork, removing fishy odors with ammonia, singeing fowls with alcohol, and washing colored cottons with bran or starch water in cheesecloth for gentle laundering.
A recipe describes a two part orange shortcake. It lists flour baking powder Walt butter and milk, then divides the batter to form layers. Oranges peeled seeded sliced with sugar are added between the baked layers and served immediately.
A short passage describes dogs barking relentlessly from dawn, chasing away sleep for a tired household and a person named Old Rover. The animals bark all day, disrupting the morning routine.
In a remarkable turn at Ithaca the 1905 game between Cornell and Columbia shifted after halftime. A dog named Bill, a white bulldog mascot, inspired the team as he survived burns from a heated poker and led Columbia to a 12 to 6 victory after an initial deficit.
A child forms a ring while another stands outside with a branch. The outside player drops the branch behind a player while calling that player’s flower name. The runner chases around the ring to occupy the vacant spot. the other player remains outside. For errors or misses, forfeits are paid at game end.
Aurt May-Johnny jokes about molasses stained clothes and a quarrel with his mother over fun and new outfits. The exchange reveals a playful family moment about clothing and permission.
A mother chastises her daughter Marie for dirty hands and recalls family shame. Marie replies she doubts her own hands but suspects her grandma once faced the same judgment.
A mother recalls instructing Bobby to let his sister have her pick of apples. Bobby confirms he told her she could have the little one or none, so the sister chose the little one.
A young boy named Harold observes a regiment marching by headed by a band. He asks his mother what is the use of soldiers that do not make music. The scene blends childlike curiosity with a quiet wartime mood.
A child named Bobby asks his mother why people have mouth stretchers during one evening at the supper table. The playful line hints at a family moment and curiosity about a curious object or practice.
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