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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
6
A Washington Star quip features Farmer Countasses musing on predicting weather. He jokes foretelling comes by imagining the undesired forecast and then prophesying it, a playful take on meteorology.
In a humorous Chicago Tribune vignette two men gasped after a hot dash to settle a dinner bill. Pnoo declares victory by a hair as Ardup explains the aim was who would pay. Flo, owner of the restaurant, was close behind in the crowd as the scene ends.
An advertisement claims permanent cure for St Vitus dance and other conditions with Dr Juno's Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a free trial bottle and treatise from Dr. RH Eline at 61 Arch Street, Philadelphia. The text also mentions a red outward robe from the convent of St Agnes near Porto Tia.
A Look Ahead recalls Queen Alexandra at a spring mansion house fete in London. A flower maid, smiling as the queen paused, kissed her, prompting the astonished mother to gasp Molly explains she did it to tell grandchildren about the moment.
A new product called Mapleine, a vegetable extract from Seattle, mimics maple sugar and is praised for healthful qualities. Housewives can create maple syrup by dissolving sugar in water with Mapleine drops. Crescent Manufacturing Company offers a free Mapleine Dainties booklet with recipes on request.
Edith protests to her mother that she did not insult Mr. Midlage by calling him an old man. She maintains she used the respectful phrase an old gentleman and denies impoliteness in the exchange.
An elderly bachelor tells Miss Jessie he wishes to be twenty years younger. She replies that even then his advances would be too young for her. He takes the hint, and she agrees a romance may follow.
An ad from Hoyt Camlicar Co of Portland Oregon touts Kasparilla as a broad tonic for digestive derangements. It claims to stimulate the system and improve appetite while easing sour stomach foul breath and constipation with a refund offered if unsatisfied.
A rustic guide credits an Idaho man with inventing a jar opener based on pliers to grip tops, reducing slips and cuts. It then discusses wheat price trends and their impact on poultry and egg economics, detailing experiments that compute annual feed costs, egg yields, and profitability for Leghorn hens under varying grain prices and breeds.
Melt butter with onion and sour apple, stir in flour to a brown paste. Add milk and hot water with glaze melted in. Boil then add chopped nuts, lemon juice and salt to finish.
Two parts apple and one part rhubarb cook until tender. Rub through colander. Oven set butter cooks with less splatter. Sweeten with sugar and cinnamon. For grape butter use two parts seeded grapes and one part apple run through colander. Apple enhances grape flavor.
A simple historical chocolate cake method mixes sugar butter milk eggs and flour with baking powder. Melt half a chocolate cake piece on the stove, whisk in one yolk, then fold into hot batter and bake in a shallow tin. Top with boiled icing.
A concise historical recipe for German Kuchalupf describes combining butter sugar salt lemon rind and yeast dissolved in lukewarm water with flour and cornstarch. Mix for half an hour then bake in a form with a central tube and allow to rise until visible. Optional raisins may be added.
Soak leftover cake in milk then mix with two beaten eggs and sugar. Add flavoring and a few raisins or currants or citron. Bake until brown and serve with cream.
A historic recipe lists ingredients for spiced cherries: nine pounds of fruit, four pounds of sugar, one pint of cider vinegar, and small amounts of cinnamon bark and whole cloves. Boil the syrup, add fruit, simmer until skins break, then reduce the syrup and pour hot over the fruit.
This note describes using cold boiled corn from a prior meal as an entree with green peppers. Wash and seed the peppers, boil twenty minutes, chop fine, mix with corn, and heat in butter with salt and pepper.
Pare and boil potatoes in salted water then drain and press. Fold in butter and cooked tomatoes pressed through a sieve. Moisten as needed and serve in a separate dish or atop the fish.
Directions describe making a rich milk rice pudding weighing ten quarts with two tablespoons of rice twelve of sugar a pinch of salt and two beaten eggs. Bake stirring until soft and creamy, cool, pack in a pail, place in a larger pail with ice between, and let stand three hours.
An agricultural bulletin outlines how to tell edible Agaricus campestris from deadly Amanita phalloides. It describes physical traits of the edible mushroom and notes the poison’s white stem, volva, and odor, with region-specific guidance for gardeners in Washington and Oregon on berry and fruit crop plantings.
An appeal notes Truth and Quality as essential to informed living and promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a preferred laxative. It claims the product cleanses and relieves internal organs, with no debility or after effects, and is approved by physicians. It warns to buy the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
Assayer and chemist Hovard E Durton of Leadville Colorado lists specimen prices for metals including gold silver lead zinc copper and cyanide tests. Prices shown include 1 dollar for gold and silver 60 cents for zinc or copper and 1 dollar for cyanide tests. Nailing envelopes and full price details available on application references Carbonate National Bank.
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