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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1912
Page
1
An essay contrasts human equilibration with avian senses noting that man relies on sight touch and semicircular canal feedback while birds depend on sight and equilibrium. It argues humans have high average senses but overuse of one can dull others and questions if equilibration has declined.
Fragmentary tale exposes political boasts and ironic quips about contracts and monuments. References Hatman admiring figure and Senator Sorghum debating favors. A Baltimore woman, Mise Lovlee Lester, is named to a committee to oversee currency destruction.
An analysis of syndicalism as a modern labor movement, contrasting unions with syndicates, detailing methods like direct action and sabotage, and noting international reach. It cites strikes in England and France, the use of saboteur tactics, and the movement’s anti militarist stance amid government crackdowns and army involvement.
The New York Sun reports that in Washington Idaho Wyoming Utah Colorado and California women will vote in the presidential contest this year. Republicans may employ women orators like Miss Anna Dickinson and Mrs Mary Elizabeth Lease to mobilize female voters while Democrats may follow suit as the women movement grows. The piece recalls Dickinson and Lease as premier examples of historic women orators and notes uncertainty about whether women will shift party balance.
A social guide on dining etiquette stresses choosing guests as carefully as choosing shoes. It warns against mixing incompatible personalities and seating by status, advising tact, brevity, and the ability to steer conversations away from controversy while encouraging wit and gaiety.
A family keeps a stout cardboard box lined with scented sachet powder to perfume small gifts and mementos. Each item placed inside for a day or two emerges delicately fragranced, saving effort and adding a pleasant habit all year.
A historical cooking note describes making a syrup by melting two teacups of sugar in a pan over heat, stirring until browned, then adding boiling water and boiling until thickened. It cools to a sirup like texture, can be flavored with vanilla or maple essence, and will not sugar unless boiled too long.
Two and a half pounds beef such as duck or round, three pounds beef drippings, one diced carrot, one sliced onion, one tablespoon flour, salt and pepper, one cup strained tomatoes, a bay leaf. Dredge meat with flour, brown in fat, then bake until tender in casserole. Serve with mashed or baked potatoes.
A historical recipe instructs to beat six egg yolks with six tablespoons sugar and one teaspoon cinnamon for thirty minutes, then fold in six stiffly beaten egg whites and six tablespoons flour. Bake in a moderate oven in a greased flat tin for a simple sheet cake.
Ground mustard is mixed with warm water to form a stiff paste. Vinegar sugar and salt are added, followed by beaten egg yolks. The bowl sits over boiling water as the mixture thickens, then a lump of butter the size of an egg is stirred in.
A milk batter is made with one quart warm milk butter the size of an egg one egg and a tablespoon sugar then flour to form a stiff batter. Lard muffin rings place in pan fill part full bake twenty minutes to half an hour with a teaspoon soda and two of cream of tartar. Oven timing varies by oven.
Instructions describe rinsing beans and peas in cold water then soaking briefly before boiling. Add boiling water to a vessel with the drained beans, allow water to come over the beans, and let cool to lukewarm before reboiling. Aim for tender texture with careful temperature steps.
A narrator describes John the rickshaw coolie as he ferries him along busy streets between sea and jungle. John’s endurance, humor, and loyalty emerge in scenes from Pettah crowds to hill roads, ending with a comic, blunt claim of bringing a “linhalee doctor” to cure the narrator.
A drinking party in New York features Harry Furniss praising modern humor as up to date and down to the minute. A story from Alfred I. Potts about a San Diego architect's office ends with a witty remark on ties and hometown Indianapolis.
A Finnish report finds eight times as many men as women harbor cancer on the Iip with stomach cancer about equally common in both genders. The Finnish Medical Society formed the cancer commission to study 313 physicians' cases, noting cancers are less frequent among higher social classes than in lower ones.
A puzzled American, long unused to English menus, asks a waiter to take his order as he admits not recognizing items by their plain names after years of using French. The waiter notes the bill of fare is printed in English.
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