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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1904
Page
4
A quirky assembly of kitchen tips and recipes outlines quick easy dishes. It notes ginger sherbet moth deterrents from Maine and sleeves made from stocking legs to protect gowns. Oyster cocktails with tomato ketchup Harvey’s sauce lemon juice paprika salsa and tabasco are prepared in claret glasses. Butterfish fried brown served with tartar sauce and boiled potato completes the menu.
The article describes baking bacon in a uniform thickness on a tin in the oven to keep lean tender and fat fully cooked, then proceeds to a sequence of old fashioned recipes. Waldorf sardine salad with vinegar, mackerel salad, maple sugar cake, rumbled eggs, egg cutlets, fricassee eggs, and home made bread are detailed with steps and garnishes. It ends with a simple syrup for puddings and tips on raisins.
Regional notes list social visits and church services across Monrovia Burmittsville and Yellow Springs with brief mentions of residents traveling to Ellicott City Frederick Sharpsburg Walkersville and Brookhill Church events and Sunday school elections and orders for services next Sunday. Several residents are named including Mr and Mrs Meyers O O Ausherman Mr James Lewis Mr Erik Tabler Rev Joseph Ucz Alva Arnold Maggie Koontz George Karn Dudley Wenst and Rev S M Hench among others.
A mix of notes on primate intelligence and domestic use limits, Paris surgeons using the cinematograph for teaching operations, argon production by Moisson and Rigan, air purification experiments yielding nitrogen with argon, and the link between meat consumption and appendicitis. M Lucas Championniere links high meat intake to higher appendicitis rates in England and America, with few cases among vegetarian native African soldiers. M Tourists demonstrates shadow photography of objects in a box to capture stellar shadows on glass.
Advertisements in The News reach business and public households with immediate value to employers and the unemployed, buyers and sellers, and every finder or loser. The paper urges wide awake readers to use its Want Ads to fill all needs.
W H Brown of Leesville was saved from presumed death by King's New Discovery for Consumption. He testifies of immediate relief from asthma and a complete cure. The ad claims numerous cures for consumption pneumonia bronchitis and grip with prices 50c and 1.00 and free trial bottles from A L Pearce, druggist.
The author argues that Christians should give to every beggar at least a penny, citing Matthew 5 42 and the Sermon on the Mount. He urges prompt charity without questioning the beggar's worth, urging gentle words and mercy to avert sin and despair.
A reader recounts a New York Tribune note about Bishop Potter at the Church of the Transfiguration. The writer praises charity and Christlike welcome to a poor man, comparing it to Jesus aiding the lost, and closes with praise from Brunswick Hotel Boston dated April 16 1904.
A reflective Frederick column recalls April’s fickle weather and looming May with garden plans church events and local pageantry. It notes Odd Fellows celebrations, millinery openings, fashion and flowers, while hinting at summer preparations, parades, commencements, and church reunions.
The notice previews next week with elections and an Elijah oratorio at the Woman’s College. School commissioners will be in session awaiting details as entertainment for Grace Heturmed is planned and May is greeted with welcome. Rosette of the peach remains familiar to Michigan fruit growers, though details are unclear.
Ohio farmers and truckers are learning about rosette disease in potatoes tomatoes and forcing house lettuce. A seed potato treatment with formalin solution before planting for two hours increases tuber size and reduces rosette infection according to Ohio experiment station recommendations.
In a Brookyln Life column fragment, Mrs Simple Newlywed asks for a gallon of midnight oil from a grocer, mishearing a phrase as Midnight of. The quip suggests a domestic joke about a mother-in-law’s admonition and a bungle in common household lore.
Aunt Jane asks about water hardness where they live. The niece notes the water is fairly hard and recalls splashing water on a lamp chimney, which shattered into pieces, highlighting domestic damage from a simple spill.
A classroom exchange features a pupil named Bright Boy responding to a teacher’s prompt with a joke about an elephant’s skin and the elephant air, highlighting a moment of humorous misdirection in a school setting.
George W. Poole of Carroll Street near Gamble's Mid testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured his lifelong backache and kidney trouble after trying multiple remedies. He bought at Clinton Main Drug Store on Market Street and reports rapid relief after a few doses. His mother also used them and was satisfied. Sold for 50 cents a box by FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Notice to bidders for the Rockwell Ronge dwelling on Bentz Street in this city. The brick house with four downstairs rooms and five rooms upstairs, plus a garret, is in first class condition and may be moved to an adjacent lot. Bids will be received for the dwelling above the stone foundation until noon.
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