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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
6
A historic guide advises cooling and nourishing salads for hot weather. It promotes light, appetizing French-dressed mixes with fruits vegetables and cheese, includes tomato asparagus cucumber and green pepper blends, hard boiled eggs with anchovy paste, and fruit salads with cream cheese and berries.
A collection of kitchen notes detailing a Mustard Pickle recipe with cauliflowers cucumbers onions peppers and a brine process, plus a Burnt Sugar Cake method using flour sugar milk eggs butter and baking powder with a sugar burn technique. Also includes a simple filling recipe using sugar milk butter and simmered milk.
To one pint of flour add one teaspoonful of baking powder and mix in one cupful of butter or lard, then wet with cold water. Roll thin and cut into tart cups. Fill with filling consisting of one cupful sugar, juice of one lemon, one egg, and a walnut sized piece of butter melted. Beat well and use one tablespoonful for each tart.
Pick and slice tomatoes and arrange in a salad dish. Make a dressing of oil white wine pepper and salt and stir in some parmesan. Pour over the tomatoes and stand on ice for 15 minutes before serving.
A recipe outlines lining a shallow pan with buttered paper and greasing sides. Beat three eggs with powdered sugar till light, then fold in salt water flour and baking powder plus melted butter. Bake twelve minutes, fill with warmed jelly, roll tightly, and dust with powdered sugar while still warm.
The piece notes blue and white china in daily use from breakfast to afternoon tea. German Delft designs on breakfast pieces and gin toast racks appear in bedrooms while blue and white Japanese dragon pattern sets accompany tea service with plates cups saucers sugar bowl and clock for guest timing.
Get perfectly ripened currants stem wash and drain. Cook juice with sugar and cinnamon then strain. Thicken with rice flour, cook ten minutes, cool and chill. Serve with cream.
Recipe notes describe making teen cakes from one egg one cup sugar sour cream soda baking powder flour to salt. Bake in gem pans then assemble with a thin syrup, cornstarch, lemon or vanilla flavor. Filling uses seven tablespoons milk and one cup sugar cooked seven minutes.
Recipe details twelve sliced tomatoes and a yolk dressing of hard boiled eggs butter vinegar sugar mustard salt cayenne and heat to a boil. Mix rub whip and heat then spoon over broiled tomatoes for service.
The article advises grease the pan with lard and cold water before adding cereal to prevent sticking. The heated cereal forms a thin scale that is easily removed, making kettle cleaning easier for housewives.
One quart milk and half loaf bread soaked well with two well beaten eggs. Add half cup chopped nuts raisins currants sugar citron or chopped apples and a pinch of salt. Grease a pudding dish and bake two hours. This simple dessert reflects early home cooking and resourceful leftovers usage.
One cup butter two cups sugar five eggs two and one half cups flour one teaspoon soda whites of eggs beaten separately bake in patty tins and finish with a light bake for a tender cake.
A Georg ia Augustah cop, posing as Thomas J. Foater, flashed a badge and mingled with officers at 14th Street and Broadway. Officers searched him and found $60 in socks and a shoe, plus a return ticket, before locking him up on intoxication charges.
In Boston, Mayor Fitzgerald and officials including Daniel J. McDonald and Andrew R. Kelley visited Suffolk School for Boys on Rainesford Island. After inspecting facilities, they staged a cow milking contest. the mayor won, but bets were voided as the other cows were dry. The event featured playful banter and a Dixie song performance.
Samuel Williams of East St. Louis fights with himself in a comic mix up at a police station. He had demanded the arrest of Samuel Williams for disturbing the peace after a street assault, only to realize the charges applied to himself. He was released after the error was clear.
Eighty naval recruits from Lake Bluff training station carried $20 bills on a Chicago and Milwaukee car bound for home. Conductor John Hall collected fares in small bills but the crowd rapidly drained the paymaster’s supply, forcing a bank run to change twenties into smaller notes. The episode interrupted the recruits seven day furlough before they reported aboard their ships.
A St Nicholas excerpt explains that dreams serve to shield sleep by transforming discomforts into a coherent fantasy. Disturbances such as sounds, digestive issues, or an awkward position trigger mental activity, but the dream’s surreal backdrop or snowy landscape keeps the sleeper unconscious and undisturbed for the next day.
Cleaning a rusty rifle is described with methods using coal oil to soak the bore for an hour, followed by tow wrapped on the ramrod, repeated pushing, and a stiff brush on a ramrod to loosen rust. It advises dry tow passes, thorough wiping, and oiling metal parts after cleaning to prevent future rust.
A Universalist Leader warns rural schools push emigration to cities. Teachers imitate city curricula, ignoring country life needs, guiding youths toward urban futures and away from farming communities.
Australian born writer and longtime Peking correspondent for The Times, Dr George Ernest Morrison, has been named financial adviser to the Chinese president. He has faced German opposition who called him an enemy of Germany. Morrison survived a spear attack in New Guinea in 1883 and had the spearhead removed in Edinburgh. His notable work includes An Australian in China.
A terse exchange about how to scuttle both a house and a houseboat. Father and son discuss starting points and agree that scuttling would begin with the house, then the boat at the bottom. The dialogue plays on nautical and nautical disaster imagery.
The Christian Herald notes Bolivia plans a July 4 celebration style opening of a new railway from La Paz to Arica on the Pacific. It calls Bolivia an imprisoned country for lack of coast and highlights its vast plateau home to millions at high altitude.
Divers excavating a Hull England farm unearthed hundreds of black bog oak trunks buried for over a century. The pieces were buried to darken and increase value, now found under newer trees with explosives used to loosen the compact burial. The oak’s value is believed substantial.
A Pekin letter recalls Charles M. Schwab provoking anger among foreign residents by tipping a rickshaw cooler ten times the fare. The author notes crowds and police were needed to calm disturbances as Schwab moved about the Chinese capital.
The text contrasts Franklin era advice with a later version about thriving by the plow. It notes a shift from holding to both holding and driving as a spring seat is mentioned.
A missionary reports opium price increases due to government suppression of poppy farming. He notes rolls used for suicide have less opium and more leather waste, driving up the cost and limiting access to lethal doses. He cites ten cents per death allowance and scarce availability.
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