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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
4
Local items report a successful stockyard sale with twenty five horses sold by auctioneer M Porter. The column notes visits by residents, church and bank news, road concerts, and a Colorado trip by J L Barton. It includes bank growth figures and a warning for early vehicle handling by horse owners amid growing transport trends.
A bank statement from the Marion Iowa bank shows assets including bonds and cash items and lists liabilities with capital stock undivided profits and deposits. J S Vanderzyl builds a large warehouse and granary near the freight depot replacing the old structure, with grain bins and a stock scale for improved farm and stock handling.
John Valkenburg, brother of A Valkenburg, died at his Summitville Iowa home on Friday August 23 at 71. Burial held Sunday August 25 at 2 p.m. Condolences extended to those mourning the loss of this loved one.
Charles M McClatchey died Sunday August 25 at his daughter Kate McCune's home in East Galesburg Illinois. Born June 8 1830 in Fayette County Pennsylvania he moved to Iowa in 1854 then to Pella in 1856 and ran a woolen mill. He was a Methodist Episcopal Church member and a Master Mason. Burial was in North Cemetery beside his wife with surviving children Fanny Lobberecht Kate McCune and Mary Brown.
A vintage column extols onions with medicinal uses and offers three recipes Onion Soup with egg yolk and stock Baked Spanish Onions stuffed with cheese and butter Onion Fritters with clam batter plus notes on embroidery thread length and textile tips, including dough and roll instructions and a marmalade aside.
Reading from a period page, instructions cover washing chamois gloves with soap and water, shaping while damp, and drying carefully without excessive friction. Also included are notes on serving a sauce ready pudding and a method to clean gold and silver lace with laundry soap and spirits of wine for tarnish.
Wash spinach and strip leaves from stems without bruising. Soak to freshen, then place dripping wet leaves in a porcelain pot with no added water. Surround with cold water in a larger vessel, cover to trap steam, and heat. Boil, stir lightly, then steam another half hour. Pack hot into jars and seal.
Wash three pounds young rhubarb and cut into two and a half inch pieces. Simmer three hours with three pounds oranges in cold water. Drain and cut oranges in four pieces. Place six pounds sugar with minimal water, boil, add fruit, simmer fifteen minutes, then jar and seal.
Peel three Spanish onions and hollow their centers. Bake until brown, cool, then fill with butter and seasonings. Slice sardines, arrange on onion quarters over a watercress bed, drizzle with curry mayo, and garnish with hard boiled eggs and chopped parsley and chervil. Curry optional.
The creation of the tribal epic Job is discussed as partly a communal work, with prologue epilogue and Elihu speech inserted after the original compose. The text argues these insertions may not be truly spurious, likening ancient unity to a wandering tradition rather than modern authorial singleism, noting Homeric unity may be collective and not the work of one man.
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