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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
2
A historical piece contrasts steamship efficiency gains from worker ingenuity with the harsh realities aboard. It details watch schedules, engine duties, and the demanding, often demeaning conditions faced by merchant marine engineers, highlighting discipline, training, and career ladders from junior to chief engineer.
A Housekeeper column offers gooseberry and rice puddings. Layer cooked rice with gooseberries and bake until tender, then serve with custard or cream. Also described is a gooseberry Charlotte with bread and butter base, brown sugar topping, and light syrup, baked and served with whipped cream.
Discolored bean pot storage tips and ways to reduce dust from a carpet sweeper. Advice on oven temperature after roasting, calico shrinkage when washing, and allowing extra fabric length. Pea preparation methods, ironing guidance for even hanging, and turkey prep with lemon to whiten flesh and improve tenderness.
A lively note on young spinach as a base for a poached egg dish. Cook spinach, drain, and mince then stew with butter. Beat six fresh eggs and fold into the spinach until thickened without boiling. Serve on toast. wash spinach well to remove sand and simmer gently about twenty minutes.
A simple historic bread method uses rye flour molasses salt shortening and boiling water. Dissolve a yeast cake in warm water then mix into cooled scalded liquid with rye and white flour. Let rise overnight and stir down in the morning before baking in tins.
Half a pound of rice is soaked until opening. Then drain and boil slowly with a quart of milk half a pound of long sugar and lemon peel. When the rice is boiled remove lemon peel and cool. Beat four eggs and stir in wineglass of orange flower water. Combine and pour into a flat dish and dust with cinnamon powder.
Fragmentary text describes handling asbestos cones for campfires and mentions baking apples potatoes and eggs. The readable lines suggest replacing certain materials with a safer option and securing the cone to vent open air campfire use. The passage is incomplete and lacks full context or attribution.
Recipe fragment lists ingredients like molasses water flour and soda with unclear quantities and notes. It appears as a damaged pasted cooking item from a historic page with scattered terms and measurements. The readable parts mention molasses flour and soda and a boars or broth fragment.
A young man in Newark asks for fish feathers as a dish. The waiter denies it, recalling no such item in New Jersey. He cites George M. Bowers in Washington for clarification and jokes that fish feathers are eaten with saltwater on their tails. The story closes with the hen leaving into the night.
A political worker in the old days sought a state legislature job as a door tender. After days of searching, he reported no door existed without plenty of door tenders. The legislator then offered to have a door cut for him.
A dialogue notes Slyker facing expulsion for gaining club membership by deceit and forged references. Hawkins in Illinois anticipates trial with a majority vote to remove him. He asserts friends will secure his victory and believes the process will be easy.
Fragmentary quote shows a woman claiming her husband objects to her joining more than five clubs and prefers jail to alimony. The dialogue includes calling him a pig-headed brute and mentions heavy club dues. Context suggests a domestic dispute or social column snippet.
Fragmentary text mentions a conductor and a station with unclear context. It references names Rex Beach and Mak Yee and discusses qualities. Content is highly garbled with incomplete phrases and asks about naming and landing.
A nostalgic recipe fragment outlines a lemon sponge cake with meringue and butter, detailing sugar, cornstarch, boiling water, lemon juice and zest, eggs, and flour with baking powder. It also notes a Spanish salad using canned pimentos, celery, olives, and mayonnaise on crisp lettuce.
A luncheon salad recipe combines orange banana apple pear figs celery and aged crumbling American cheese with hard boiled eggs. Mix with lemon juice olive oil mustard and salt, chill, serve on lettuce with bread and butter and chocolate for dessert.
Do you know not to use soda for enamel pans. A little salt or fine ash with a soft cloth removes stains and the pan should be rinsed with warm water. For coffee pots add a tablespoon of carbonate of soda to near full water and boil briefly then rinse well. Weekly care keeps pots fresh. Use several clean cloths and rinse after each washing. Soak flour and egg dishes in cold water before washing to ease cleaning. Hot water hardens mixtures making them hard to remove.
A divided dough method described uses warm water yeast and potatoes to prepare a yeast dough. After mixing with sugar salt and flour the dough is allowed to rise twice before shaping into loaves and baking.
A cryptic recipe fragment instructs to boil a cup of rice in salted water until dry and separate grains. It mentions currants washed and sprinkled with powdered sugar, and to pile the mix on a plate with glassé or whipped cream, served hot or cold.
A burglary erupts at a French count's mansion as two men flee a shattered window. One bears a stolen statuette. a bruised conductor ferries one man from a tram. The case unravels with birth certificates and papers mislaid, revealing a linked plot by Gasparin and a notorious pickpocket.
In Silverton area Texas Panhandle a Yale expedition led by Professor Richard S. Lull digs Prairie Dog Creek for fossils to shed light on the origin of modern horses. Finds from Plainview and other sites suggest extinct equines once roamed the plains, with some bones exceeding 30 feet in height and bones sent to the Smithsonian for study.
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