Payne Frerichs New Office Above Citizens Bank
Marion county Chronicle notes Payne and Frerich establish a new office with front rooms over Citizens National Bank. The item also lists local business moves, real estate activity by Jelsma, and visits by residents including Strickland, Anderson, Hoogenakker, and others, highlighting community commerce and upcoming library benefit plans.
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Dra
Payne & French
Citizens National ‘Bank
Drs. Payne & Frerich
Citizens National Bank
Making Yeast From Potatoes For Starter
The recipe explains making yeast using potatoes flour sugar and salt. Grate potatoes into a bowl with the dry ingredients add boiling water and stir rapidly. Cook in a double boiler one minute then dissolve a yeast cake in lukewarm water. Let froth, then jar two thirds full and let cool before storage.
The Professor and the Post Office Robber
A village youth recalls a crush on Susan Jones and a jealous chase of a Professor Swift who tutors writing and singing. After a spate of robberies including a postoffice break in, the narrator tracks the culprit to a woolen mill, aids the constable, and the professor is captured, tried, and sentenced to seven years.
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McClure, Phillipa
Susan
Professor Swift
Harpernville
An Old Beauty Recipe for Oatmeal Skin Preparation
A home beauty remedy mixes fine oats, boiling water, rosewater and glycerin to form a skin lotion. Cook oats in water, strain, boil again, add rosewater and glycerin, then perfume if desired. Bottle and shake before use to prevent roughness.
Salt Rising Bread and Cold Cream Recipe Extracts
Instructions describe making Salt Rising Bread batter overnight using corn meal sugar milk and warm water, then baking into leaves with flour for structure. Also outlines Cold Cream with almond oil wax spermaceti violet water warmed and melted, then poured into jars to cool.
Creole Toast Recipe Featured As Lost Bread Dish
A New Orleans favorite known as lost bread, Creole Toast uses eggs sugar milk salt and pepper beaten together, bread dipped in the mixture, fried in bacon fat, and served hot. This simple dish highlights home cooking and pantry staples.
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New Orleans
Ginger cookies from stale bread and handy home tips
A collection of kitchen and household tips includes making soft ginger cookies from stale bread soaked in water then flour and shortening. adding salt to soaking water for prints. stove polish with powdered alum. lemon jelly to spread between cake layers. drying feathers with salts over a flame.
Curious Legend of Haidarabad Monkeys and Stone Walls
A city legend in Haidarabad explains the stone heaps by saying monkeys from beyond the Himalayas laid heavy blocks to build a bridge toward Ceylon but abandoned the work near Haidarabad leaving the stones behind Long Lived Snails. In Africa in 1858 shells from hot desert spots revived to reveal living snails the next day after soaking.
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Neal Schippers
Prairie City
Pella
Mr. Reavers
Chris van Ginkle
Des Moines
Haidarabad
India
Himalayas
Ceylon
Two Sunsets In One Day At Leek England
The town of Leek in Staffordshire experiences two sunsets in a single day due to a high western mountain. After dusk falls and lamps are lit, an hour or two later the sun reappears in the east through an opening, delivering a rare atmospheric spectacle.
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Leek
Staffordshire
England
Public Square Maintenance Bids Sought for Summer 2006
The committee on public buildings and grounds invites bids to keep the grass short and the public Square orderly for summer 2006. Bids due by Wednesday April 25 at 6 p.m. The committee may reject any or all bids. H. F. Johnson, Chairman.
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H. F. Johnson
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Dina
Kor
Pitina
COLES
Chronicle of Week
Des ‘Moines
Marion County
Strickland
Agency City
Iowa
Jelsma
Fairmount
Mitchellville
Newton
QO. O. Anderson
J. O. Mitten
Cameron
Missouri
H. J. Hoogenakker
Richland
Henry
the Clarion
R. A. Awtry
South Side
G. G. Gaass
Oskaloosa
N. J. Gesman
Sherman Williams
A. D. Versteeg
Care Buerkens Mfg. Co
Pella, Iowa
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