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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1911
Page
6
Tourists in motor cars now speed through Valley Forge Philadelphia pa past Washingtons headquarters and replica log huts. The route highlights the fortifications river views and relics while the quiet memorials and old schoolhouse echo the Revolution era days.
Mrs Frances Held of Danbury Connecticut dropped a roll of $1500 in bills while traveling to Los Angeles. The money was found in a stocking at Albuquerque and returned at Winslow after an agent wired for a search. The stockings were mailed back to her. Canada Ahead of Uncle Sam shows Dominion Express companies with large capitalization paying dividends while railways could handle express business without them.
At Lincoln Park, the 14th sacred calf of Romeo and Juliet debuts after 14 years at the zoo. Hundreds visit the zebu pen as Cy DeVry notes the zoo ships a two year old to Milwaukee and rivals in lion and lioness births. Zebus, native to India, are pampered and revered, used as beasts of burden and can travel 30 to 40 miles daily.
M B Hubbell found a horseshoe 18 inches in diameter pine tree in Milton Indiana. The iron item was placed around the sapling long ago and later buried as the tree grew.
The general’s quip on a Jew trying to best a Chinaman frames his world tour reaction. It notes the Jew has gained less foothold in China than elsewhere.
Illinois lawmakers allocate 5000 dollars to create a state park at Old Fort Chartres near Prairie du Rocher. The once mighty fort built 1718 saw English and French rule, later abandoned, with only the powder magazine wells and wall outlines remaining for preservation as a park under state care.
Jacob B. Seitz of Lockwood Ohio hatched 42 chicks from eggs saved after his hens disappeared. He spent 18 days caring for the nest with his wife providing food and tobacco, then kept the eggs warm in a cellar nest for three days to raise the brood.
In Shelton Northamptonshire a small elderly woman, Mrs Jane Morris, completes an assignment from Queen Mary to produce Bedfordshire pillow lace for coronation garments. The work is precise, taking a full day to weave 184 bobbins per design and yielding a five inch wide piece. The exact payment remains unknown.
In Hammond Indiana Frank Nelson of Lowell Bank gave Frank Coorse an old silver watch. The watch ran when Coorse ran and he made $2 by selling it to a jeweler after paying 15 cents to make it tick. He bought a sick horse traded for an old buggy with two extra wheels. He exchanged the wheels for a road cart body and fitted the buggy wheels to it. The body of the buggy was traded for a harness set. A farmer traded him a blind broncho which later ran away. Another farmer paid $50 for the broncho believing it a spirited colt after Coorse cried over the loss. Nelson now challenges Coorse to a trade match.
The Y M C A reports 8 340 associations with 897 000 members worldwide, up 300 groups this year. American branches own about 60 million of 77 million dollars in property, with 2 900 of 35 000 salaried officers. Germany leads with 2 300 associations and 128 000 members. the United States has 2 000 associations and 496 500 members. America also leads extension work abroad, spending 200 000 and employing 100 secretaries.
Practical kitchen tips on fruit salads marinated in French dressing, serving pastries, and making decorative nests with cream cheese eggs. Instructions cover nut grape salad with mayonnaise, boiled eggs variations, bread fingers, and nest plating. Cranberry cooking warns against boiling sugar with berries and gives a four minute boil after softening, plus water added at first cooking.
A practical breakfast dish using sheep kidneys and toast. Mince kidneys from a tin with curry powder water and salt, fry with onion in butter, then toss with the thickened sauce and serve hot on buttered toast. Much can be prepared the night before.
A compact three story crockery device stores two quarts of flour on the bottom a small salt sack in the middle and pepper on top. Under a foot and a half tall it fits corners or pantry hangs from a kitchen nut and comes in pink blue or brown.
A historical cooking note describes preparing fried salt pork by soaking in cold water or milk and water, or using boiling water for a quick method. Sliced pork is dried, floured, fried, then thickened with flour and fresh milk to create a white gravy.
A historical recipe describes making currant and oatmeal biscuits with half a pound of flour a quarter pound of fine oatmeal two heaping tablespoons brown sugar one gill milk two ounces currants and two tablespoons butter. Mix dry ingredients warm butter in milk add currants combine into a paste roll thin stamp shapes bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
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