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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
7
W. D. Foster argues Washington farmers must abandon old practices and adopt dairy focused strategies. He cites alfalfa and clover feeding, silos, and sailing crops as superior to pasture, urges proper barn design, disciplined milking, and selection of pure bred sires to build a profitable dairy operation.
A historical instruction for raised muffins describes sealing milk to luke warm, dissolving one compressed yeast cake, adding salt and flour, beating, and resting about two hours. Then whisk yolks, fold in whites, rest thirty minutes, and bake in greased muffin rings or gem pans.
Professor Thornber answers a reader about prune timing to balance wood versus fruit. He notes summer pruning in June to curb wood growth and boost fruit buds, and recommends early spring or winter pruning for young trees to foster root development. He advises removing suckers after grafting, tolerating a few around grafts for hardening, and suggests grass in orchards to check growth. He warns against fertilizer use, allows a small potash addition, and lists suitable apples for the region including Gravenstein and Rhode Island Greening.
A farmer near Larane asked about common sorrel. Professor Beattie said it is not extremely serious but can damage crops. If sorrel chokes crops, land lacks plant food. improve soil by growing alfalfa or clover and plowing under to add humus. West-side soils are worn. farmers lime soil to boost available nutrients.
A vintage celery salad provides a brief method using one boiled egg one raw egg one tablespoon salad oil one teaspoon white sugar a saltspoon salt a pepper pinch four tablespoons vinegar and one teaspoon mustard. Cut celery into half inch pieces and season promptly before vinegar dulls crispness.
A vintage recipe for Molasses Cake uses one cup molasses one half cup brown sugar and shortening creamed together with the sugar and molasses two eggs a teaspoon baking soda dissolved in sour milk and a teaspoon ginger two cups flour baked in a greased shallow sheet pan in a slow oven
Choose large uniform potatoes and bake. Cut off the tops and scoop out the insides. Mash with hot milk and grated cheese, season with salt and pepper, and mix well. Refill skins, replace tops, and bake until hot through.
A humorous exchange contrasts tea boiling lore with marriage dynamics. A mother jokes that two hours suffices to “bite” tea for strength, while a wife’s employment is revealed as a joke about her “working him” to quit. The fragment reflects light social banter from the New York Journal.
A Paris brought headpiece called the King Edward hat arrives as an up-to-date male lid. Built like a flower pot lid in style and blocked to resemble a paver’s helmet, it uses the same black derby material with a buckle clasp instead of a bow. Several Paris arrivals wore it after the king’s visit.
A Chicago Tribune note recalls a summer trip up north where the girls faced a tough mile long walk to mail their picture postcards, illustrating the small burdens of leisure travel.
A caller complains the society editor misquoted a weekend trip to Wisconsin. He accuses the paper of printing the trip as weak kneed, prompting a correction dispute over the characterization.
A Chicago News quip pairs a discussion of powerful explosives with a jokey exchange about two prima donnas in one opera company. The remark links danger and theater drama in a compact, period-tone line.
A Chicago Tribune account describes rescuing a fat woman from a burning dime museum using two strong derricks she cried out in relief and then hysterics after escaping the flames.
In a Chicago Tribune item a reader quotes a Thunderbolt remark that called the speaker’s intellect Websterian. The editor responds with a playful lobsterian compliment, reflecting the paper’s humorous exchange.
A brief quip recounts Mr. Fairbanks asking about buttermilk use and replying that drinking a gallon daily would go unnoticed by the papers, illustrating satirical humor from the Philadelphia Press.
A humorous exchange shows a housewife explaining travel dirt on a man named Wareham Long. He insists the grime is just dirt and can be washed off, while she notes the stain as a misperception.
A Philadelphia Press feature recounts a quarrel over alleged borrowing in a contemporary comedy. A friend quotes critic Crittick praising passages as Congreve worthy, prompting a witty exchange about whether the compliment exposes craft or threat to the author’s originality.
A Paris Revue note recounts the extraordinary musical sensitivity of spiders. It mentions Pellisson's spider as consoling the unfortunate prisoner before perishing when crushed by a jailer. Gretry cites a favorite spider that descended to the piano, while Rubinsfeld observed a spider attend three Brussels recitals.
A fable style scene shows the winning tortoise warning the speedy hare that confidence may end badly. An old tortoise cautions the boastful rival about speed turning into folly. The passage also mentions Mrs Winslow's Boothing Byrup as a teething remedy for mothers.
The federal labor bureau reports about 40 large urban centers now provide public baths. Boston leads with 23 baths including 10 beaches 12 floating baths and one pool. Greater New York follows with 20 Philadelphia with 15 baths.
A haughty passenger tells the Conductor she always gets off at Goethe street. The conductor politely replies that many people likewise fail at that location, touching his cap as he issues the reminder. The exchange captures a small streetcar moment in Chicago.
A historical advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure at one hundred dollars per bottle. The notice asserts F J Cheney is trusted and capable to fulfill a stated remedy purchase, mentioning the firm and wholesale hall.
A Washington Star exchange notes a coolness between Count Fucash and his wife’s relatives amid allegations of atrocious conduct. It quotes that he did not beat his wife but did defeat his father in law financially by several hundred thousand. The item frames a society rumor with sharp insinuations about domestic conflicts.
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