Apple Orchard Plan Backfires at Benton Fair
Sara Payson schemes to hide apples for a county fair using three carts and grading by eye. A contract dispute with an apple buyer exposes the plan when barrels fill with apples and a negotiator arrives. The man ultimately pays for the apples and leaves, restoring family pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Payson
Ben
Billy
Anna
Sara
Julie
Cora
Betty
Nero
Bettykin
Father
Mrs. Payson
Billy Peters
Benton Township
Cera
Family Defies Cemented Tombstone Inscription in German Town
In Gera a family battles authorities over a tombstone reading We shall never see you again yet will always remember you. Police and church officials called it an open denial of immortality. Cementing over the words cost 1 mark 75 pfennigs and led to a lawsuit the family refused to pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Cora
Sara
Sarva
Julie
Wheeler’s
Billy
Forborne
Wheeler Meadows
Cora Payson
Youth
Germany
Gera
Joncoa Standard
Fruit Tapioca and Baked Apples Desserts
A collection of old time recipes describes Fruit Tapioca with apples, Steamer Fruit Pudding, Mixed Fruit Pudding, Apple Custards and a note on deception and alcohol. The instructions include soaking tapioca, baking apples, steaming a bread and fruit mold, and custard mixtures with eggs milk and sugar. It ends with a caution about rum and the thermometer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Euns
Diverse notes on extinct auk, eucalyptus growth and German industry
The excerpt surveys the extinct great auk with a London sale price of 2000 dollars and seventy preserved specimens. It notes damp sea water in the Dismal Swamp, juniper infusion used to guard sailors’ gin, and fast growing eucalyptus trees with tall specimen records. It also reports on Berlin arc welding and a Philadelphia comparison showing Solingen firms pressured by American saw mills.
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London
Berlin
Phildelphians
Godfrey L. Corden
Solingen
Germany
Thiladelphia
Preserving Salmason Ships Salmon at Sukbaken
The Japanese method to preserve abundant Sukbaken salmon is to salt them down and press into bales for storage.
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Sukbaken
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Irshall Parks
Ken Caime
Mrr. Payson
Jack Srow
Jonathans
Sle
Belzebub
Beily
Saya
Spooner’s
Sare
Farmers’ Bank
Cone
Asiobel
Alcoho
CEN ‘Industria
Cannes
France
Texas
Eagle Hotel
Center Square
New Oxford
Charley Hersh
The
Oxford
Pitt St
W. M. Depot
F. L. Fuesuman
S. S. Neely
Attorney-At-Law
Gettysburg
Star and Sentinel
Baltimore Street
Wm. McSherry, Jr
Attorney-At.law
Qettysburg
Adams County
Wilk
Sohn B. McPherson
Donald P. McPhersee
Attorneys-At-Law
Dettysburg, PA
Legad
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