Umbrella Theft Warns of Clever Stranger
A sharp witticism notes that a clever man can lift an umbrella and walk away as if it were his own, implying caution about opportunistic theft and the sly handling of everyday objects.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1916
Page
5
A sharp witticism notes that a clever man can lift an umbrella and walk away as if it were his own, implying caution about opportunistic theft and the sly handling of everyday objects.
In New York, December 12, a Domestic Relations court told Israel Sideman to choose between returning home to his wife or a spell in prison. Sideman, who owed $4 weekly as ordered, asked to take “the Island” instead, and magistrate Cornell granted the option. The exchange highlights a judge’s blunt humor as Sideman sought a nonpunitive route.
A homemaker crafts an attractive waste basket from a muff box by painting it black and applying transfer flower images. The article also offers recipes and home tips including a salmagunda salad mold, a Dover egg beater note, and a peach and apple dessert with almond layers. It ends with a skin care advertisement for Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment.
A historic recipe fragment describes making apricot jam from dried fruit with soaking and sugaring, plus an Apple Snow dessert. Apricots are soaked in boiling water, sweetened, then thickened into jam. Apple Snow combines sponge cakes with lemon juice, roasted apples, white sugar, egg whites, and lemon juice to create a frothy topping for the cake layers.
A short cooking note instructs adding three tablespoons of lemon juice to six tablespoons of Russian caviar for canapes.
Realty transfers list multiple deeds with prices and parcels. F E Delaney transfers to Mollie F for $1 in Reservation Addition to Pendleton. Emma Durkheimer et al transfer to Cunningham Sheep & Land Co for $41 500. Blanche Moorhouse to C P Bowman for $260. J M Ashton transfers to W E Owen for $3 500 and to F J Quinlan for $182. M J Carnes et al transfer to American National Bank for $2 600 in SE 1/40 section 18 township 6 north range 2? on Pendleton parcels.
Fragmentary text describes Hood’s Strengthening digestive organs for proper function. It references remedies and claims about digestion, but the readable portion lacks coherent context or dates. The line hints at a patent medicine tone typical of period newspaper ads.
Beets across the Loveland district are dug and piled, with topping and hauling remaining. Despite heavy snow and rain this season, growers expect no financial losses and anticipate a strong year. A new beet price of 4 dollars per ton was offered for next season, and the factory reports record or near-record acreage.
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