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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
7
A practical guide outlines four main methods for potatoes boiling baking frying and mashing with tips for texture moisture and flavor. It shares recipes for potato omelet cheese baked potatoes jackets and a potato pudding with meat filling for varied family meals.
Wash an old blanket then cover both sides with cheese cloth. Tack at intervals to form bright yarn tufts and finish edges with yarn stitching. Creates a durable sanitary bed cover that is pretty and inexpensive as a summer throw.
Three heaping tablespoons cocoa two cups brown sugar one cup white sugar one cup milk simmer until a drop forms in water just before removing from heat add one tablespoon butter stir until creamy and pour into a buttered pan cool and cut into squares
Four crackers, one egg, one pint of milk, small piece of butter. Break crackers, soak in milk briefly, mix yolk with cracker milk and butter, flavor with vanilla and bake thirty minutes. Beat egg white with sugar and spread on top to brown.
Simple instructions for a beef broth base with rice and tomatoes. Cook beef to make broth then simmer two thirds cup rice in it. Add one can tomatoes, heat to boil, and adjust with pepper or water. Macaroni can substitute for rice.
A short local tip advises giving a child a bottle of honey warmed gently in a pan on a back stove and adding a few drops of pepper. The note claims the method is simple and harmless.
Advice on careful cooking not to rush meals and avoid injuries from dull tools. Emphasizes patient work, securing ladders with proper supports, and children watching fathers’ habits to set good examples.
The Housewives League Magazine asks how many housewives study labels on canned goods for adulteration notices and credits the pure food and drugs act. It questions awareness of sanitary codes, weights and measures, market roles, and agricultural department functions in the food supply.
To remove cooking odors, fill a bowl with steaming water and add a few drops of lavender oil. The oil is non poisonous and inexpensive, available at drug stores. Use a few drops to deodorize a large room, then remove the bowl after the oil evaporates.
Combine chopped ham cayenne butter and two eggs with hot mashed potatoes. Shape into croquettes, roll in crumbs, dip in beaten egg and crumbs again, fry until golden two minutes. Drain and serve.
A recipe instructs stirring a pint of flour into boiling water then beating in four eggs one by one. Add chopped ham three ounces curry powder and cayenne then fry spoonfuls in hot lard until golden brown and garnish with parsley for variety.
The recipe mixes three pounds hamburger steak with ten crackers and one can of tomatoes. Form into a loaf, top with flour dusting and thin pork strips, bake 1.5 to 2 hours, thicken gravy, and serve with potatoes.
Advice on treating fruit stains on linen. Apply pure glycerin to the stain and let it sit about one hour. Then wash the garment in warm soapy water, and repeat if needed.
A fragment describes a batter mixture with water butter cornstarch and eggs. The method instructs beating eggs into the mixture and baking in patty pans or small spoonfuls, yielding light puffed pastries.
The ghost of Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, is said to haunt an old farmhouse on the New Hackensack road between Red Oak Mills and New Hackensack. Three families fled in terror over four months as spectral footsteps, cellar moans, and a cold finger gesture frightened residents who reported the figure resembling Vassar.
German immigrant Charles Marie Weber founded Stockton California after arriving in America at 22. He secured land in the San Joaquin valley, protected settlers against Mexicans, was imprisoned, later aided by Commodore Stockton, and died in Stockton in 1881. He named the city after the American officer and laid out its early streets.
The rule holds that a participant who willingly enters a deadly combat cannot justify homicide unless he withdraws to end the original wrong. In Ex parte Colby the court ruled that armed combatants who anticipate serious injury or death and kill in the fight are guilty of murder and not eligible for bail.
A new method to manufacture artificial pearls uses gelatin treated with alkali phosphates to create iridescence. Glass beads serve as nuclei, dipped in warm gelatin, then coated on a gelatin plate with phosphate solution to diffuse through the bead. Formaldehyde vapors harden the gelatin, making the pearls insoluble.
A New York Times piece mocks a man who files frequent complaints to big firms and leaders. He records letters from executives, boasts of influence, and uses dissent to boost his social standing and autograph collection.
A traveler tours an estate with a landscape-obsessed owner who confines two boys in small greenhouses on opposite sides of the grounds. When asked, the host explains the first boy is jailed for theft, the second is his son, kept for symmetry. The tale appears in Everybody's Magazine.
A Berne letter to the Morning Post estimates 105 deaths in Alpine incidents from November 1, 1912, to November 1, 1913, with 56 injuries. Most fatalities were tourists or ramblers rather than true mountaineers. three guides died, one was injured, and four women and two others were killed or injured.
A sales manager’s vacation reveals excessive controls as staff submit requisitions on his desk. The head bookkeeper and cashier advance purchases and stamps, delaying reimbursement for months, illustrating the need to ease bottlenecks in routine procurement processes.
A witty exchange in Bratennahl reveals a fashionable club scene. A beauty claims her cousin Miss X impressed a man, who laughs about not recalling his dinner partner after recounting the Dashs dinner. The woman confirms she sat opposite him and was his partner.
In Tokyo new steel and stone buildings rise while feudal gates fade. Nellie Hall Clement describes Imperial Theatre and Dalmaru department store, with Japanese and foreign shopping customs blending as travelers adapt to modern East shopping, trains, and lunchrooms.
A Kansas City Star reader praises a generous neighbor who supports community leaders and praises honest, hardworking individuals while condemning sly critics who spread old or stolen praise. The piece contrasts open admiration with covert gossip in a town.
President Poincare received a delegation proposing by 1920 to erect a commemorative monument for the fiftieth year of the third French republic. The structure would stand beside the Arc de Triomphe in Place de La Defense, with a design of two Latin crosses forming a terrace.
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