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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1924
Page
7
A 1924 kitchen feature lists a weekly menu with breakfast lunch and supper ideas. It includes detailed recipes for Corn and Tomato Soup and Sautéed Summer Squash and ends with poetic autumn imagery about gold skies and winter mists.
A recipe collection presents an Orange Layer Cake with orange filling and icing, plus a Three Layer Cake. It also includes Roquefort Appetizers and a Planked Steak dish with onions, tomatoes, and potato edges. The cake describes cream, egg whites, and citrus-based fillings. The steak uses a hot plank finish with mashed potato edging.
The Illinois College of Agriculture reports three years of porker trials testing five types. Intermediates outperformed others in carcass quality and feed efficiency, with large, growthy pigs showing the best overall balance of size fleshing and market versatility.
Dr. L B Card of the University of Illinois poultry division advises farmers to inspect muslin curtains in hop house openings. He says curtains should regulate temperature first and ventilation second, with strong cloth and no large holes. Sliding frames are preferred to hinged ones for better weather control.
The advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a trusted remedy for nervous dyspepsia sour stomach constipation indigestion torpid liver dizziness and related digestive issues. It claims fifty eight years of successful use in millions of households worldwide and affordability in 80 and 90 cent bottles.
A traveler reports that Japanese hotel managers have Europeanized many inns, leaving native guests puzzled by unfamiliar dishes. He notes Japanese diners sometimes eat ice cream with a knife or balk at unfamiliar vegetables, as hotels increasingly serve European or American fare.
An old advertisement touts Dr Drake's Glossco as a long trusted croup and cough remedy. It promises relief within 15 minutes without vomiting and urges parents to keep a bottle for children, noting a price of 60 cents per bottle.
An official of a circus at the san atorium took lively interest in Josephine, manager's five year old daughter, who was spellbound as tales of elephants, kangaroos, lions, tigers and bears thrilled her. She declared the stories exciting and then challenged the teller to prove he was truthful.
A reflective excerpt cites Emerson on the divine richness within each person and the unique genius of every individual. It questions reverence for saints and urges self-respect as the result of fate shaping a person to bridge vast moral divides.
Johns Hopkins associate professor Dr. A. H. Pfund has invented gold coated yellow glass goggles to shield eyes of furnace workers. The glass blocks heat and ultraviolet rays while allowing enough visible light for clear vision, as described in Popular Science Monthly.
A six year old boy named Claude ran indoors crying that the devil was in the machine. Police found an owl perched on the back seat, apparently placed there the night before when a car was left on a country road. The scene sparked memories of youth and romance.
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