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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
3
Miggs and the crew discuss ship overhauls and insurance schemes, revealing how profits come from risky crewmate safety. Von Baumser then drops a bomb about Ezra Girdlestone's impending marriage to a ward of Eckermann’s, possibly Miss Harston, shocking Tom.
Tom Dimsdale storms from the bar to London seeking Miss Hareston and Mr Girdlestone after learning they vanished to the country with Ezra. A maid says they have left no address and will not return, leaving Tom shaken and determined to uncover the truth.
Rebecca eavesdrops as Ezra Girdlestone reveals plans to move Miss Harstop and her party to Bedsworth Hampshire. He orders Rebecca to relocate the household and manage the new estate while he stays behind with the household staff to run the business. Rebecca fears the outcome and weighs her own fate.
In Ecclestoun Square Ezra pressures Rebecca Taylforth to become Miss Harston’s companion at Bedsworth while concealing his hatred for Kate Harston. Rebecca agrees to travel next day, hoping for future gain as Tom Dimsdale confronts his own broken engagement and a hidden danger to his future.
A belligerent father confronts a young man who enters the parlor and objects to kissing his daughter. The suitor apologizes, saying he wishes to show appreciation for her beauty, and kisses are the only things he can presently offer.
A cautionary note on schemes that quickly fail after you invest money, told as a father's warning about fraud or bad investments and the risk to his son.
A Wyoming inventor creates a tool to pull wick through lamp burner tubes. The device features a finger grip on one end and prongs on the other to seize the wick. In use, the pronged end is inserted into the burner tube, the wick attached, and a pull on the handle draws the wick into the tube for easy threading.
A historical cooking note describes mixing graham flour Indian meal sour milk melted butter salt and sugar with eggs and baking soda dissolved in boiling water. The batter is beaten, poured into a greased Turk's head tin and baked until a straw comes clean from the loaf’s center.
Soak the ham overnight in cold water if needed. When ready to cook cover with fresh cold water and heat slowly to boiling. Simmer until tender then cool in the cooking liquid. Peel skin and bone, fill cavity with stuffing, tie securely, dust fat with sugar, bake one hour in a hot oven. Serve hot or cold.
A recipe describes melting one quarter pound chocolate one and a half pounds brown sugar quarter pound butter and milk or cream. Boil twenty minutes then pour on buttered dishes and cut into squares while still warm. Add half a teaspoon vanilla after removing from heat and test by dropping a little in cold water.
A historical recipe describes melting one pound of resin with two ounces of tallow, adding pine sawdust while hot, spreading to about one inch on sawdust-covered boards, cooling, then breaking into inch square pieces. Each piece easily ignites with a match and burns with a strong blaze to light wood.
A recipe describes how to make chocolate blanc mange by heating one pint of milk, adding grated chocolate or cocoa, and sugar. It thickens with cornstarch moistened in cold milk, then sets in a mold and cools, served with cream.
The recipe instructs roasting three pounds of meat in butter until brown, then adding hot water and salt. Within an hour of serving mix vinegar sweetened with sugar with raisins and cloves, cook, then strain and thicken the gravy with cornstarch before serving.
A quart can of tomatoes with onion, salt, bay leaf, mace and water or stock is simmered to boiling, butter rubbed with flour is stirred in, then the mix is pressed and re heated. Serve with croutons.
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