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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
5
Gerald Merrivale, an imagined Conservative candidate, navigates politics and romance in a splintered circle. He rekindles an old friendship with Alice Mansell, faces public scrutiny, and persuades his mother toward a possible marriage as he wins a parliamentary seat by a slim margin.
A downtown telephone booth scene unfolds as a jovial suitor misreads a connection and tries to woo Mrs. Williams, claiming he wants to be Lucey’s son in law. The moment ends with his buoyant claim of winning a prize and departure from the desk amid amused tension. Chicago Inter Ocean notes urban quirks and mockery.
A witty remark on aging romance appears, noting that an elderly man shows “fatherly interest” in a girl. The quip adds that if another man resembles him, he deems the lookalike too ugly to resemble him.
New York fashion notes describe extremely long skirts as still popular with no sign of change. Delicate touches like crinkled chiffon lace and kin dred fabrics float behind wearers. Shirtswaist dresses favor heavier materials and walking-length skirts with inverted backs and flounces. Empire gowns and albatross house gowns in turquoise and velvet trims are highlighted as current styles.
Fashion notes from 1901 describe gowns shifting toward accessory embellishments and empire line designs. Silk dresses show tailored finish softened by trimming, with taffeta and nun's veiling fabrics featuring decorative embroidery, Persian touches, and ornate buttons.
Tray tulle favors Darisian women for evening gowns. White Sik roses with black velvet leaves trim a white straw hat faced with black. Miroir silk parasols with inch-wide edge tucks and ivory handles appear in the season’s novelties. Colored pongee in blue and pink tones features as a delicate new fabric.
The article details gowns featuring ed foulard fabrics with lettuce green velvet piping and cream lace collars adorned with pink chiffon roses. It notes lettuce green silk petticoats beneath scalloped skirts, plus a red and white striped grenadine gown with white embroidery, a black velvet belt, and white silk bands. It mentions white wash silk striped garments for blouses or gowns and describes gold-embroidered veils, tinseled borders, gold spots, and various buckles including turquoise, enamel, and pearl styles.
A Binghamton man suffered severe hiccups with no relief from many remedies. A neighbor visited and provoked the patient by taunting him, claiming anger would end the hiccoughs. The plan worked as the man suddenly stopped coughing.
A compilation of U.S. court rulings covers issues from when judgments in other states block further actions to admissibility of a decedent’s contributory negligence, agency liability for telecommunication charges, ferry operators violating exclusive privileges, and presumptions in death cases. Notable precedents include Swedish American National Bank v Dickison Co, Georgia R&B Co v Fitzgerald, Brown v Cumberland Tel & Tel, Warren v Tanner, and Standard Life & Accident vs Thornton.
Reginald argues the word she for ships is not insulting while his sweetheart objects. The heated exchange turns on language and courtesy as a loco motive is humorously defended and questioned. The London Answers fragment captures playful domestic satire.
The passage notes that over 100 million Chinese people work in the tea trade and many tea raisers and merchants belong to secret societies. A clerk recalls a visitor as the biggest fool he ever met, remarking he would need to be very foolish to outdo him.
The speaker notes that undertakers rarely recommend medicines as cures and emphasizes skepticism about medical claims in such advice. The remark reflects prudence in evaluating remedies.
The excerpt advises simple cures and household tips. It covers bruises treated with vinegar and moist paper to reduce swelling and discoloration, sprouting seed potatoes cautioned with sulfur smoke, removing wagon grease with lard and hot washing, pineapple as a tea substitute, and a basic outline of tea time fare including butter dishes and afternoon refreshments.
The method halves fruit and removes pulp and pith, then dices and tops with a splash of mayonnaise. A sugar and water syrup with fruit juice or sherry or maraschino adds flavor, poured over fruit to chill. For variations pineapple or orange juice with lemon is suggested.
Instructions describe trimming Willet of Beef fillet, removing fat and veins, shaping, and seasoning with salt pepper and flour. The meat is covered with beef fat or kidney suet or salt pork, plus onion and hay leaf, then baked in a hot pan for about thirty minutes. Scraps removed and dish served with mushroom sauce poured around.
A recipe step by step: boil salsify in salted water, drain and scrapé, cut into rounds, butter individual dishes, crumb with bread, layer with salsify and cream sauce, add lemon juice and anchovy essence, top with crumbs and butter, bake until brown.
A companion recipe describes boiling calf liver until tender then slicing thinly. Each slice is rolled in bacon and fried until brown. After frying, onions are briefly sautéed in the fat and poured over the finished bacon wrapped liver.
A Dutch luncheon features many pleasing and novel ideas. Invitations may use Delft signs and an orange ribbon tied to a wooden shoe cap tally. Tiny pretzels on the ribbon score progress. Favors will match the theme and the luncheon will showcase Dutch dishes.
Instructions describe making a soft dough from brown sugar lard water and soda with salt and spice. Roll thin cut into rings bake quickly in a hot oven and finish with granulated sugar. Notes that eggs are scarce in winter making them a good alternative.
Recipe directions instruct measuring one cup flour and a saltspoon salt, beating one egg with one cup sweet milk, combining until smooth, adding to flour with two or three vigorous beatings, greasing gem molds, filling half full, and baking in a hot oven.
Instructions describe cooking half a pound macaroni until tender, cutting into two inch pieces, mixing with rich tomato sauce, lining tartlet moulds with paste, sprinkling parmesan, adding a paste cover, and baking ten to fifteen minutes until the paste is cooked, then unmolding when ready.
A kitchen scene notes the constant standing of a cook or maid while preparing fruit or vegetables and baking. A tall seat would let them work with the same freedom as standing, reducing fatigue.
A nineteenth century style recipe instructs: mash one half can corn with 14% pints milk and 144 tablespoonfuls butter, add flour, salt and pepper, cook in double boiler, add milk then cook fifteen minutes, stir in butter, thicken with flour, cook ten minutes more, strain and serve very hot.
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