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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1925
Page
7
A 1926 recipe column offers easy summer desserts and pantry ideas. It describes coconut pie with custard and dates, frozen desserts, fruit creams, whipped layers, and a simple pineapple salad with lettuce. It also adds an apple and blackberry jelly, peach marmalade, and preserved cherries plus a pepper relish. An inventory note suggests listing household goods.
Amoy China once the world’s leading tea port and a key Western trading post. The port’s decline began after Formosa was seized by Japan in 1895, cutting tea exports and shifting trade to Canton and other ports. Amoy remains a large city with a deep harbor and island geography, though travelers note dirt and sanitation issues.
Meat eaters seeking tough beef are reportedly misled by biases as tests run by the Agriculture Department show even the toughest beef is too tender for reliable chewing. Bureau of Standards experts used fiber resistance machines and plan to use more delicate tools to set new toughness standards for beef.
Amoy known as the Paradise of South China with a well planned settlement on Ko long su island. The port supports emigration to Singapore and East Indies, with about 75 000 natives sailing yearly and remittances exceeding 12 million dollars annually. Amoy’s harbor can accommodate the world s deepest draft vessels and hosted a Chinese government reception for a visiting U S fleet in 1908.
Mrs Frances H C Burnett prominent social leader and poet quits the Animal Rescue League after learning her dog Tinker Bell was seized and gassed. The district hosts three rival dog snatching groups. Burnett had served on the league's board.
Scotland Yard reports fewer offenses for forging money as high quality notes become harder to copy. A dedicated bureau works with paper ink and equipment dealers to track counterfeiters and act before they market their merchandise.
Veteran fishermen predict a warm-water year as cold-water mackerel leave the coast and bluefish and weakfish move inshore. Gulf Stream mixing with Arctic currents is cited as the cause, explaining seasonal shifts and past fish disappearances and redistributions along Atlantic shores.
John Hackett aged ninety nine, pioneer of the Coeur d'Alene mine district, has received notice of an inheritance totaling 3,000,000 dollars from his brother Pat Hackett who died at one hundred four in Venezuela. The information came to Kellogg Idaho.
A mixed list of crossword like clues across horizontal and vertical sections. The note ends with a teaser that the solution will appear in the next issue, indicating an ongoing puzzle feature.
This excerpt explains crossword mechanics with numbered definitions for horizontal and vertical words. It notes letters go only in white spaces, first letters marked by numbers, and words fill until a black square. Dictionary words are used except for proper names, with abbreviations and slang indicated.
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