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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1912
Page
6
Readable scraps capture a chaotic public exchange with humor and insults. A subscriber mocks a phone operator and legal talk threads through the piece as asides and clipped jokes. Names, places, and contexts blur in a collage of daily life banter.
A small boy leads another hungry boy to a mother and asks for food. The mother invites the hungry boy to the kitchen and Delia feeds him. The next day Edward’s mother confronts his teacher as Edward reveals he took the other boy’s lunch and must make amends.
A clipped exchange shows Winks questioned about his car and attitude, replying he does not care to express himself. The dialogue notes it is bad to be arrested for speeding and equally for profanity.
A dialogue reveals a man’s hopeful consent to marriage after learning the woman’s identity as a tape clerk at Scrimp & Co. He is pleased and accepts marriage when she reveals her status. The excerpt shifts to a Scotch gamekeeper answering a wary English visitor about wildlife with a dry remark about gorillas appearing infrequently.
A Saturday Evening Post item describes two Black men in Evansville Indiana examining a window display of computing scales. One explains how the scales work while the other jokes that Satan cannot be kept from tapping a scale, reflecting dated racial language.
Fragmentary dialogue pieces recount mishaps and insights. A passerby guessed misfortune stems from a social slip. opportunity knocking is framed as luck. A woman asks a maid to stay, viewing the speaker as a thorn to bear and endure.
A fragment shows a suffragette dilemma about voting preferences. The dialogue questions whether the subject will support Lea or a Democratic candidate, highlighting indecision and the challenge of aligning personal choice with party labels.
A fragmented dialogue humorously questions a new paper bag cooking trend in a delicates store. Mrs Crawford-Why and Mrs Crabshaw debate ease and practicality, wondering about oyster and shell road imagery as a metaphor for the effort involved.
Benjamin Holbrook proposes marriage to his top stenographer Miss Holmes after years of failed office romances. He declares the next confidential stenographer must be a man if she refuses, earning her panic and a hint of farewell as he admits love and plans.
Tips on designing sash curtains using cheese cloth lawn dimity or swiss cloth with plain hems and simple edgings. Plain lawn with stencilled figures and two inch hems creates refined looks. inexpensive lace insertions and lazy daisy stitches yield charming results for durable fabrics.
A retriever belonging to a local publican acts as a volunteer police dog. Each night the dog walks into the station with the night staff and starts patrol with a uniformed constable. The dog returns home after duty but is back at the station by evening to resume patrol.
The text cites Marc Klaw, a American theater manager, claiming the English are emotionally restrained like Brie cheese while noting they are warm at heart. It includes quotes about expectations and disappointment regarding social presence, reflecting humorous dialogue on cultural differences.
A desk recipe outlines making peanut loaf batter from bread crumbs soaked in milk with peanuts and egg, seasoned to taste. Bake about forty five minutes in moderate heat and serve with brown tomato sauce made from simmered tomatoes onion cloves bay leaf parsley mace butter and flour.
A coverless roaster uses moist heat from a gentle vapor to surround the roast and retain juices. The concave center collects drippings to create rich gravy finished directly in the roaster over a gas flame.
A fragmented recipe describes mixing flour with baking powder salt and sugar to form a shortcake batter. It instructs baking in a square pan, then slicing the cake and layering chopped peaches between halves. Finish with peach juice poured over and serve hot.
A vintage recipe describes mixing two unbeaten eggs with four tablespoons melted butter in a cup, adding milk and one teaspoon oil, then stirring in one cup flour one cup sugar and one teaspoon baking powder. Bake in float tin or two layers. Add nuts currants or citron for variation. Lemon cream sauce combines butter and sugar, egg white, lemon juice, and boiling water until smooth.
A fragment describes brown sugar as a staple to keep in the house for children's snacks. It suggests spreading thickly on buttered white bread and pressing slices together to form narrow sandwiches.
The text argues selecting chickens by marketability yields profit. Medium sized plump birds with yellow skin and legs sell best. Focus on laying strains from American breeds like Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes. Breed from hens with high monthly egg output and from productive sires. Maintain separate breeding pens, keep housing clean, and provide varied grain feed, bone, greens, and constant water.
A readable fragment notes hens that lay a good number of eggs and moderate sizes. It lists Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds Orpingtons Minorcas and some Leghorn strains as examples producing two ounce eggs on average.
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