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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
6
A foreign confection worth Yankee cooks praise mixes Spanish chestnuts with stewed prunes. Soak prunes overnight then boil chestnuts twenty minutes after slitting shells. Peel and shell, then stew with prunes and serve cool or cold as a dessert option.
A vintage recipe describes chopping and mixing seed tal raising and seeded furrants with shredded coconut, red cherries, sliced pineapple, dates, and citron. The mixture is placed in two glass bowls with maple syrup to form a topping for ice cream, intended to be worn over the cone.
Boil three or four medium sweet potatoes then pare and cut into nutmeg sized pieces. In a frying pan melt one half cup brown sugar with one quarter cup butter. Add potatoes and simmer on low heat until soft, shaking occasionally to prevent burning. Rich and delicious with game or poultry.
A scrambled recipe fragment lists ingredients sugar butter sour milk eggs soda and flour. It describes creaming butter and sugar, beating egg yolks and whites, and mixing with flour and soda to bake a cake serving with fresh fruit and sugar topping.
Soak six red chilies in boiling water until tender and blend pulp with the water. Cut two pounds steak into small pieces, brown in dripping pan, stir in flour and brown. Add the chili water, a little garlic and thyme and simmer until tender and the gravy is of good consistency.
A recipe mixing finely chopped boiled skam with hard boiled eggs and mustard. Fold in a white sauce made from boiled milk and flour, top with bread crumbs and small butter bits, then bake for thirty minutes.
Instructions say to use sage by steeping a tablespoon in half a cup of boiling water. The strained infusion is then stirred into poultry dressing to mask the disagreeable stems and leaves in the mix.
A cup of cold boiled rice pressed through a potato ricer with two beaten eggs, a pinch of salt. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat and fry light brown. Serve with maple syrup for breakfast or as a garnish for roast or steak at dinner.
Roast veal is chopped fine and stirred into a seasoned white cream sauce. Heat thoroughly and spoon onto browned toasted bread triangles. Finish with a small parsley garnish and serve promptly.
A recipe note describes grating six potatoes and mixing in one egg, a tablespoon of flour, and salt and pepper. The mixture is cooked like a pancake and served with fried items.
A fragmented list of household hacks covers roasting chestnuts with salt, salting pork late to retain juice, blanching and handling nuts, cleaning discolored china with whiting, turkey leg color, fresh eyes on poultry, rubber repairs with old glove leather, a fish sauce in egg shells, peanut cream with butter, mustard on peanut butter for dark bread, ammonia for cleaning white woodwork, and the imperfect claim that it washes better than other preparations.
A collage of notes covers hazards of temper and social change, early electric organs, and power projects. It reports on the first six masted barkentine built from the Columbia, lace imports from Calcutta, a New York store considering removing elevator mirrors, and a Butte Montana water power plan. Also noted are georgetown college, hemp products, spiders as barometers, morphine needle bans, women's suffrage in Holland, storm injuries near Washington PA, beer consumption, Medina lit by electricity, shampoo tips, Maine Central Railroad trials with electric headlights, and Mont Desert branch electrification.
A compact survey cites 13000 square miles of English coal fields and 23701 miles of British railways in 1907. It notes Brazilian cotton capital, Paraguayan yerba mate aims, a resilient bamboo lighthouse in Japan, Crookes predicts wheat shortfall by 1931, and the National Council of French Women backing women’s suffrage. Also mentions a pink rose sunlit to crimson, Miss Clara M. Howard’s London fellowship, a Parkid biglobosa sugar plant in Africa, Cromwell critique, Swaziland queen in regal rags, Lexington depot as old railway landmark, and Lourdes cure reports plus Napoleon’s Elba Bible.
Lorraine confronts Rourke about truth and love as Una plans a wedding. Miss Shefford arranges Lorraine's sea trip and a family crisis looms with Mrs Trenham's death at Hohve. Lorraine suspects Newley’s scheming while Una mourns and Mr Gaveston notes Rourke's arrival at Tohoe.
A missionary wife from Carthage Ohio reports that Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cleared her daughter’s severely encrusted scalp and cured milk crust on a baby’s head, calling Cuticura a blessing. The ad notes Potter Drug as sole proprietors and mentions Swiss telephone cost of about 7.50 annually.
An advertisement extols LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE and Garfield Tea as cures for colds and liver relief. It urges seeking signatures of RE W GROVE and promises world-wide use, noting a 25 cent price. The piece also mentions St Peters Church Rome housing 54 000, and invites readers to request samples from Garfield Tea Co Brooklyn NY.
A health column urges women to seek relief from backache urinary ills and headaches linked to kidney disease. It cites Mrs John F Wright of Mitchell South Dakota praising Deans Kidney Pills after a decade of suffering and temporary relief from doctors. The note includes various world facts and inventions.
A man named Vaman speaks of his wife’s health improving after using Grape-Nuts and cream, claiming she regained strength and became rosy and plump again. The letter promotes Postum Co. and cites The Road to Wellville as reading material, noting the letters are genuine and full of human interest.
Special Agent Carden reports on German fireless locomotives suited for yard work and switching. The machines require only one operator, lack a firebox, and run four to five hours from steam stored at a local power station. Officials say the boiler can limp back even at low pressure.
A humorous scene shows Mathilde the washerwoman directing Bridget the Irish girl in tailoring shirt waists. Mathilde explains that different body shapes require distinct cuts, noting tall, fat, and thin figures need varied collar and sleeve fits to achieve the best shirt waist for town customers.
Browne objects to paying a price beyond a song as Towne He proclaims willingness to part with his piece for a song, while Browne warns that offering a tune grants no right notes.
A conversational exchange from the Boston Tran script features quips about gendered labels and perceptions. The dialogue contrasts calling a man level headed with the insult flat head and notes reactions to such labels.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a sage philosopher noting nothing new under the sun while a timid union proceeds and a question about a baby appears, framed as a courtroom scene with a judge's presence.
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