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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1924
Page
7
A weekly meal plan lists daily breakfast and dinner items with desserts and suppers, followed by two recipes for Lemon Tart and Carrot Salad plus Spanish Potatoes. The notes include detailed ingredient lists and simple preparation steps for each dish.
An aphoristic reflection contrasts how rulers respond to power, noting that pride or humility reveal true character. It suggests that strength should temper ego and guide conduct toward restraint and responsibility.
A nostalgic Virginia kitchen guide surveys classic dishes and their methods. It presents Virginia Sweet Potato Pie with mashed potatoes, eggs, lemon, and milk baked in a flaky crust. Also described are Brunswick Stew with meat layers and long simmer, Roast Oysters served with butter, and Terrapin prepared with shell and meat simmered in cream and seasonings.
Basil King reflects on lifelong duty to dependents, insisting generosity creates mutual support. He recalls monthly provision from a benevolent faith, likening it to the widow of Sarepta’s barrel of meat and cruse of oil and arguing true giving returns.
The Detroit News notes Scots claim the Sunday school movement began with Christian workers in Scotland before Robert Raikes. It cites William Fox teaching the Bible in Clapton in 1678 and Morgan John Rhys organizing a Bible school at Cilfwawr in 1648, with Morgan Jones later in Elmhurst, L. L., in 1682 or 1690s, decades before Raikes.
A new central cooling system developed at the School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta promises a warm climate solution. It uses a forced air supply cooled by pipes in a refrigerating plant to maintain a cool room 20 to 30 degrees below outside heat. The cool room is cork insulated and air exchange with outside air shows no health risk, based on two years of experiments.
One of the world’s finest gem troves belongs to Indian collector Abdul Cafoor. The collection includes two enormous sapphires, an 8000 pearl bag, a large aquamarine, a $50000 cat’s eye set in diamonds, an 80 year pearl string, and plum-sized sapphires. The queen of Romania and the Norwegian royals have viewed it, with guards at all hours.
A new recruit at a rough camp nears a hostile space figure, nearly triggers a fatal end. His rescuers rush him to hospital where the man, waking en route, jokes I ain’t hit the ground yet, amid the blue sky and sway.
Popular Mechanics notes the canning industry surged as World War I drove orders for canned foods. It cites U S values from 1815 and 1914 and compares to today’s market surpassing 600 million dollars. Peaches and salmon lead as popular canned items.
The Russell Sage Foundation study reports that 10 to 12 percent of U.S. workers are out of work on average, with from 1,000,000 to 6,000,000 unemployed for weeks or months annually. It notes exploitation by fee charging employment bureaus and argues for public offices to replace private agencies to curb abuse and insecurity in work.
Clarence Makin and Ernest Jones reported bullfrogs growing large enough to swallow medium-sized fryers. They killed about 18 bullfrogs at John Gilbert's lake, and on dressing two of the frogs found chickens nearly the size of quail inside them.
Prominent New York socialite Mrs. Jas T Terry formerly Mary Van Wagenen ends marriage by alimony concerns. She explains that marrying Baron Francis Pius de Pills would jeopardize her alimony and Austrian law could disinherit her if the baron dies.
Frank Trigglant dreamt the $150 diamond hidden in a ring setting and learned an acquaintance possessed it. He confronted the man, who denied knowledge, then, after another dream, retrieved the jewel and kept silent about how he learned of the find.
Mexican sportsmen report a mass hunting of wintering ducks using vast armadas of shotguns. Regulations allow limited shotgun use from November to February, but landowners reap large shares of the harvest. Local Indians stack up to 200 barrels, firing at mobs of ducks feeding on shallow lakes, with as many as two thousand birds slain per discharge near Penon Viejo.
A playful aphorism contrasts maid service with child play spaces and apartment living. The speaker, Susie, suggests simpler, less work oriented arrangements. The tone implies casual domestic improvisation and light humor.
Mrs. George E. Motter Pillar of New Albany credits Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Medical Discovery with reversing a yearlong weakening illness after five bottles and two bottles respectively. She urges others to try the medicines sold at local stores.
An old medical promotion urges readers to seek Dr Carey Marshroot Prescription No 777 for kidney and bladder problems. It claims relief within a week with a money back guarantee and notes Dr Careys long history aiding patients, available from Carey Medical Laboratories in Elmira New York.
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