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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
6
A detailed historic recipe describes roasting a turkey with bread stuffing and giblet sauce. It covers clean prep, searing in a hot oven, periodic baste with water, and roasting a seven to nine pound bird for two hours. It includes gravy, dressing from liver and heart, and instructions for gland onions parsley pepper paprika seasoning. Also outlines boiled creamed potatoes and baked vegetable sides.
A historic confection guide details making sugar candy in a granite kettle with sugar glucose water and cream of tartar cooked to 280 degrees. Flavored with peppermint wintergreen or sassafras oil then split colored red. The red portion is pulled twisted and formed into canes or braids for baskets.
Chop figs with a little water and sugar until a thick paste forms. Roll fondant cream, sprinkle with chopped nuts, spread the fig paste when cold. Cover with another fondant sheet, press firmly, and when firm cut into short strips after about twenty four turns.
A Victorian guide describes table decorations using a doll dressed as Santa or an angel at the center, ribbons to parcels for guests, and greens around the room. It links the ancient Druid practice of bringing holly mistletoe and branches inside to ensure good luck during Yuletide celebrations.
The article lists simple recipes for homemade Christmas candies for children. It describes Barley Sugar Drops with leaf sugar egg white lemon juice and water and Golden Sirup Taffy with sugar sirup butter and vanilla. Both methods involve boiling mixtures cooling and cutting into shapes.
In 1681 Paris, M. Dufresnay wakes amid chaos as a disguised laundress arrives asking for 17 livres. A royal envoy and a prospective marriage mix with wit, gifts, and a plan to fix the shabby apartments. The king’s kinsman grants fortune, while romance threads through a festive misadventure.
A fragmentary Christmas prayer pleads for no hungry children and asks for guidance to understand and to speak kind words. It expresses weariness from toil and tears yet notes children retain simple hearts and urges returning them to paradise with gentleness and love.
Historic Sun tavern once stood near the water in Boston, run by Cogneau a Huguenot from Rochelle. It drew young crowds, its host’s daughters marrying notable men, including Col. William Palfrey, grandfather of writer John G. Palfrey. During the siege it was renamed the King's Arms, later restored as the Sun tavern and long used as a fish market.
In the Philippines American troops encountered Sulu women fighters during the final island clashes. The attackers fortified in a bowl shaped crater were captured after a rush. Bravery noted as women fought like men wearing long hair and turbans, challenging Mohammedan beliefs about gender and honor in battle.
The article cites Arthur Train noting many people neglect wills. It argues the will is essential and warns that without proper legal oversight heirs and executors may face problems. It emphasizes that signed documents with witnesses alone rarely secure the intended outcome.
Nellie asks to walk and her father carries her to the horse then closes the gate. The horse runs back to the stable and Nellie slips off smiling. She asserts I fought I preferred to walk.
The world’s greatest wireless station plans to communicate with North and South America as similar stations rise on this side of the Atlantic.
A small three foot high folding screen can be fitted with sewing pockets. It serves as a holder for newspapers books or sewing and tucks away neatly when not in use. When covered in chintz it blends into any room and is procureable at furniture stores.
The article explains that sensitivity to cold stems from overdelicate nerve centers regulating skin circulation. It advocates gradual exposure to cool, then cold baths to build resistance, as suggested by Popular Science Monthly.
The Turks and Caicos Islands form a Jamaica dependency though geographically they lie on the Bahamas chain. About 80 small islands cover 165 square miles with eight inhabited. Population around 8,000 with roughly 300 whites. Salt raking is the most important industry.
The article notes North American Indians rolled tobacco leaves into crude cigars and inspired early explorers. It also records that the Japanese long manufactured tobacco for pipes well before Europeans encountered the weed.
A brief London Ideas line portrays a benevolent old lady addressing a sailor. She suggests sharing a bit of chewing tobacco as they reflect on hard times.
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