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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
6
A wallet opens to reveal fifty pounds and a journal by Arthur Glendenning, detailing a secret hidden room and decades of mistaken death. Reginald’s plot, imprisonment, and family intrigue emerge as neighbors are summoned for verification and possible asylum.
The diary entry recounts a prisoner detailing a brutal abduction by Reginald and Antoine Duval, the murder threat against Fitzroy, and a two day confinement in a cave at Demon's Wood. He describes binding, torture, an iron shelf panel, and his solitary vigil, while another page shows evolving madness and glimpses of release through a timely stranger.
In a dramatic confession from a cave in Demon's Wood the captive writes that he is Sir Arthur Glendenning and formerly Rev Edwin C Stiles. He recalls escaping prison, wandering with a knife and a wallet of pages, and adopting clerical clothes to sell his books while seeking freedom. He fears recapture, suffers fever and weakness, and foresees death.
Sir Fitzroy Glendenning is cleared of the crime as Sir Arthur Glendenning is found dead in the upper room. Dr. Elfenstein contemplates returning to New York with his employer and freeing his heart to wed the beloved girl who may have aided the crime. He vows to confront her for answers.
A simple breadlike recipe explains Johnny Cakes made from one cup Indian meal, salt, butter, boiling water, and milk or water. The batter is set briefly, then cooked in a greased gridle until browned on both sides, yielding six cakes with milk giving best browning.
Instructions describe making blackberry jelly by slow cooking berries into juice, measuring juice, adding a pound of sugar per pint of juice, heating in open oven, skimming scum, boiling twenty minutes, dissolving sugar, bringing to boil, and filling jars. Strawberry jelly may be made by this recipe.
Mix one quart milk with two cups Indian meal and three cups flour. Add two teaspoonfuls cream of tar tar one teaspoon salt. Beat three eggs separate whites and yolks. Add yolks to batter then a tablespoon butter or lard and two tablespoons sugar. Fold in stiff whites and a teaspoon soda dissolved in boiling water. Bake in a buttered tin for about 30 minutes. More sugar can be added if desired.
Two gallons chopped cabbage and green tomatoes with onions, mustard, mustard seed, pepper, allspice, cloves, brown sugar, celery seed, turmeric, and cider vinegar. Boil all in a kettle until well cooked.
Sweetbread and celery salad is prepared like chicken salad using shredded parboiled sweetbreads. Mix with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce leaves with a garnish of green pepper strips or rings. Green pepper is preferred for taste over red peppers.
A simple biscuit method uses one quart flour two teaspoons baking powder two ounces butter two eggs half a pint milk two teaspoons sugar and a pinch of salt. Mix make a soft dough roll cut biscuits bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
Peel and cut rhubarb into inch pieces then boil briefly and drain. Cool, line a pastry crust, fill with rhubarb and sugar, add top crust with slits, and bake in a quick oven.
Prepare young beets by cooking, then scrape and slice. Pack into clean jars, heat and fill with boiling vinegar seasoned with salt pepper and a touch of sugar. Seal, invert jars and store in a cool dark place.
A reader asks for the term for someone who signs another person’s name to a check. The piece notes penalties of ten years in prison and references Piso’s Cure as a long standing remedy priced at 25 cents, sold by druggists for forty years.
A violinist invited to a family dinner encounters persistent demands for music from many relatives. He performs three times and, after the third encore, pleads with the host to reveal how he sells flour in the wheat pit and asks if he may help roll the barrel, in a humorous exchange.
A young man muses that old fashioned kissing games are out of style while a pretty girl retorts that any game can be a kissing game if kisses are supplied. The exchange unfolds in a light hearted, humorous tone.
First Lieut Rudolph E Sniper of the Fourteenth Cavalry is noted as the youngest officer in the U S Army. Lieut Ernest I Peek is described as the tallest at six feet four inches.
An old advertisement offers a free tree sample of Allen's Foot-Ease from Olmsted Le Roy N Y. It claims to cure tweating hot swollen aching feet and makes new or tight shoes easy. It sells for 26 cents and warns against substitutes.
A light exchange suggests the landlady of a boarding house fails to meet customer needs, prompting questions about her management and care for tenants.
Scald a pint of milk in a double boiler then stir in a cup of grated cocoanut. Cool, whisk in five eggs and a teaspoon essence of bitter almond. Bake in a deep dish until set and serve with sweetened whipped cream.
Instructions describe cutting apples into pieces and simmering with water until marmalade forms. Then add syrup lemon juice and extra water, chill and freeze to make a frozen apple water ice.
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