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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1909
Page
3
A collage of anecdotes and curiosities spans literary figures, military wit, social reformers, and entertainers. From Stevenson and Arnold to Palmerston and Artemus Ward, the pieces mix humor and human insight with notes on scenes in public life and nature’s oddities.
The article explains teeth are not bones but dentine cement and enamel with enamel being the hardest substance. It notes teeth reveal much about an animal history diet and life from fossils to modern beings. It highlights elephants snails and sharks as examples of dental variety and function.
A discussion on the burdens and benefits of abundant opportunities and the risks of superficiality in city life. It argues that excessive reading without deep thinking leads to a shallow, undisciplined mind and stresses persistent, deliberate self-improvement for lasting success drawing on Orison Swett Marden quotes.
A writer argues bald eagles can carry weight proportionate to their size, citing a male nine and a quarter pounds and a female twelve pounds, comparing with hawks and horned owls. He notes an eagle easily lifting a twenty pound skidding weight and records a specimen weighing 119 pounds with a skid.
The Journal of Education notes that women’s small, derided tasks like knitting and darning keep mental balance, likening them to a clock pendulum. It argues men smoke while women knit or dust, praising these soothing arts and urging interest in teaching men these crafts.
In a brief social column, Shortleigh draws notice for paying particular attention to Miss Riche, while Joie comments this marks the first time he has shown such care, as reported by Ga veston News.
A wry observation suggests the surprise party reveals that the wealthier a man is, the more he endures abuse and the less he cares about being surprised. The quote highlights cynicism about money and attention in social events.
Soldiers in Berlin built a pontoon bridge across the Spree in forty minutes. A storm door design costs at least 2400 dollars. St Lawrence rapids to be bridged. channel widened. A New Orleans coffin remained sound after 107 years. An ice cream freezer promises labor saving by glass can. CO2 cylinders in coal bunkers claim to prevent spontaneous combustion. Rubber plantations expand in India. leather belts made 150 feet long from 300 hides. Delaware bay harbor lighthouse foundation set by concrete blocks. Public opinion splits an outsider jury between Draper and Prouty. Pea nut Bill Haggins memorial in Ponca City cemetery. Bishop Foss resigns. Bishop Wilson succeeds. India hosts 150 languages, courts struggle with interpreters. Arab filial piety noted. unpaid debts honored after death. Some fish and reptiles allegedly never sleep. Melbourne Parliament House costs a million, not yet finished. Suffrage convention hears socialist appeal. Egypt crocodile hunt described vividly. A boy asks for his father in a Tribune building vestibule. father appears after search.
To one egg well beaten add one cup sweet milk. Mix and sift three level tablespoons sugar one teaspoon soda two of cream of tartar two cups flour and a little salt. Stir in two thirds cup boiled and sifted squash. Add butter the size of an egg. Beat well and bake in gem pans half an hour.
Cook one cup of rice in two quarts of slightly salted water. Drain and keep hot. Mix with a tablespoon of butter and half a cup of grated cheese plus a dash of cayenne. Parmesan or other flavorful cheese may be used. Serve hot.
A simple recipe for a coffee cake combines suet butter and lard with sugar water milk and yeast. The dough is heated and risen twice then flavored with nutmeg lemon and cinnamon and finished with butter and sugar.
A recipe outlines grating two ounces of sharp cheese with two tablespoons of butter, salt, nutmeg, pepper, and half a glass of cooking wine. Stir until melted, beat in five eggs, bake in a hot oven until set, and serve with croutons of bread or toasted rice.
A cider cake uses two cups sweet cider and six ounces butter. It combines a cup of granulated sugar, a pound dried currants and half a grated nutmeg with a teaspoon cinnamon. Four eggs ten ounces flour and a tablespoon soda complete the batter.
Cream butter and sugar, beat in yolks to thick lemon color, whip whites to stiff peaks, add mace and brandy, beat five minutes, bake in a slow oven.
A palatable luncheon recipe uses English muffins split and buttered, the centers scooped, and filled with a poached egg. For extra richness, add a touch of cream dressing and season well, then serve piping hot.
A simple filling recipe creams one tablespoon butter with one heaping cup confectioners sugar two teaspoons cocoa two teaspoons strong coffee and one teaspoon vanilla. Mix until smooth and spreadable add a little water if the mixture is too thick.
After boiling onions, remove the heart to let it slip out easily. This removes the odor causing portion and the raw green taste common to boiled onions, resulting in a milder, non aromatic onion preparation.
A recipe describes an artificial butter created by stirring coconut fat with salt and sugar at about 20 degrees Celsius, then cooling and kneading with milk containing lactic acid bacteria, egg yolk, and a coloring agent.
A brief recipe entry lists one pint milk one teaspoon soda two eggs and a pinch of salt. Mix to a firm consistency and drop from a spoon into boiling water using half rye flour and half Indian meal with molasses to sweeten.
A collection of domestic tips covers economical olive oil use, keeping pan surfaces soft, lime prevention with a clam shell, serving polished apples with oil, nutmeg prep from blossom end, reusing lemons with hot water, luncheon cloth styles, blanching almonds to loosen skins, small churn for sour cream butter, strong cake beating and tarnish removal with whiting, grease spill cleanup, and repairing loose knife handles with resin and brick dust.
The account from Mrs. Bompas recalls Bishop Bompas of Athabasca during a severe trek. He endured a twelve day delay on a raft and by canoe, subsisting on scarce fish and barley, with rescue finally delivered by the Hudson Bay Company supply of moose meat amid near zero temperatures.
Mrs Basset puzzled over a Latin motto on a doctor’s door and after a family debate realizes the word reads out when the glass door is held to the light. The household discovers the word means nothing deeper than the literal cue to move the door.
Captain Roald Amundsen writes about Eskimo dress in The North West Passage. Expedition members adapt to fringe but some remove it as frivolous. Scruples about meaning persist, and fringe is restored when deer skin anoraks curl and risk resembling neckties.
A mother plans a surprise party but only invites herself. Her five children ask to join as she hesitates. The youngest asks in bed where she is going and learns of the plan. After bidding the others good night, the child suggests bringing everyone for a bigger surprise.
In a humorous Success Magazine piece a Scot named Andy pleads with Nancy not to marry after his death. He suggests marrying John Clemmens, a kind man outside the kirk, to keep Nancy comfortable in heaven, sparking a wry heavenward compromise.
A brief dialogue showcases the Artist praising the head as fortune and the MModel wittily replying that an overconfident head could become a swollen fortune. Puck warns of a fall for those above their work.
A compact collection of blunt maxims from a Brooklyn era mentor praising self reliance. The speaker urges decisive action, warns against half measures, and links patience to success, while criticizing indecision and excessive penny pinching. He advises eschewing untested counsel and maintaining belief in personal success.
A Denver convention scene shows a Tammany delegate befriending a down on luck stranger. The man asked for twenty, received ten, and the exchange ends with a claim of fairness as both sides lose ten.
Quote notes a man must draw the line in modern work life. Staying ten minutes after hours may impress, while fifteen could raise suspicion of tampering with the books. The line lampoons office ethics in contemporary society.
A brief comic exchange shows a sick landlady scolding a boarder who has brought dinner. The boarder notes the coffee is vile and confirms the meal, while the landlady quips about what boarders will endure as the judge comments on the scene.
A displaced inmate reflects on ten years of confinement and a return to a home claimed to be comfortable, while noting the completion of a sentence in Modern Society.
A collage of short items covers postal rules in Russia, club memberships of J Pierpont Morgan and Chauncey Depew, a Georgia electric railroad venture, dietary claims by Dr J B Squire, Brazilian timber issues, a Zurich English ad, Rev Dr John DeForest’s Rising Sun honor in Japan, Frances Spire Porter’s scholarly and writing achievements, venison prices in Vermont, Kapurthala Maharajah and Anita Delgado, humane education benefits, Mme Johanna Gadski’s visiting cards, Lincoln family births and deaths, and St Marys parish vow to enforce prohibition.
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