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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
4
The Maryville Tenn. Times argues the weekly country paper remains essential, reflecting local life, defending self government, and resisting metropolitan rivalries. It praises honest country editors, sees the press as independent and incorruptible, and notes growth through local enterprise and pride.
A 68 year old woman, Catherine Coombes, lived as a man for fifty years. Married at 15 as Catherine to Percival Coombes, she later wore male attire and worked as painter, decorator, docker, and printer. She lived with a woman for fourteen years in Huddersfield and shocked police four years ago by entering Westminster station dressed as a man.
Stuffed baked tomatoes use boiled corn cut from the ears and seasoned with fine breadcrumbs. Top with butter bits and finish in the oven. Pairs well with roast beef or beefsteak, making a seasonable side dish.
Pare and pit three peaches and mash fine. Add sugar and yolks of three eggs then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Turn into a pudding dish and bake quickly for fifteen minutes. Serve immediately.
A dozen peaches are peeled and baked in a pan with sugar flecked with butter and lemon juice. Bake half an hour in a hot oven. Serve with game or highly seasoned meat. A dusting of cayenne can be added for heat.
Instructions describe a cucumber relish with peppers salt onion horseradish vinegar suet molasses eggs flour and raisins, steamed in a mold. Also outlines tendered chuck steak with suet, diced vegetables and beef gravy, and a bacon and potato breakfast dish with parsley garnish.
Select small yellow tomatoes. Scald peel and weigh. Use three pounds sugar to six parts tomatoes. Layer tomatoes and sugar in preserving kettle cook slowly until sugar penetrates. Lift and spread to dry in sun, sprinkling with sugar. Pack in jars with sugar between layers and seal with glass as they dry.
A column offers simple remedies and care ideas for daily life. Tips include removing onion odor with celery, using borax in rinse water, protecting toys with water, crafting an ice jug from glass and tin, improving glass with starch and salt, soft hands treatment with salt, haircloth for mahogany, and choking chimney fires with sulfur.
An elderly Russian villager from Lot schka named Samsonoff, aged 95, claimed to have died twice and revived, with two separate incidents. He survived a shell fragment at Sebastopol and later, in 1879, sat up after burial preparations to demand a pipe, keeping certificates as proof of his deaths.
A remarkable birth in Cleveland of triplets to Mr and Mrs I Goldfaden. The three newborns weigh exactly eight pounds each, totaling 24 pounds. Two are boys and one is a girl.
An ad claims Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer cures fits after one day with two trial bottles. It includes testimonial blurbs for Piso’s Cure for Consumption and Khall's Catarrh Cure with a 100 reward offer. Also notes West & Truax and others as endorsers and Hall's Catarrh Cure details. A bizarre note describes a Ghent zoo elephant carcass turned into sausages weighing 3800 pounds. The piece closes with a quip about a preacher producing dead sermons.
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