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Newspaper
Pendleton Times
Location
Pendleton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1922
Page
6
In a tense exchange a master asks about owning a companionable slave and hints at purchasing a person. A reply references knowledge of New Orleans as the scene shifts to a bold claim of someone becoming property within an hour. The fragment implies a racial power dynamic and imminent transfer.
A northern youth named Virgil Trace travels south seeking vengeance on the Mississippi river as period society features dancing revelry and gambling. He encounters the eccentric Lidbert Sabette who embodies she who presides over chance and temptation.
Virgil Drace plots revenge for his father Alfred Drace slain by guerrillas led by Stepho la Vitte. He buys liberty for his servant Liberty and reveals the plan to hang la Vitte, revealing a card linking the killer to the murder. The tale follows a riverboat world of gambling and loyalty as Drace seeks justice.
A fragment highlights a girl nicknamed the barbaric rose maid who captivated a man with a torch. The line evokes a melodrama tone and romantic peril amid a mysterious plot.
United States Department of Agriculture promotes better nourishment to ease headaches constipation irritability and other ailments. In Connecticut a pilot campaign urges adults and children to add milk and fibrous foods with recipes using cabbage soups creamed dishes and cabbage salads to boost vitamins and improve health.
Two USDA guidance points advise choosing tender cuts for broiling or roasting and using less tender cuts for stews soups and braised dishes. The text notes not overcooking tender cuts, long simmer times for tougher cuts, and methods for grinding or repurposing scraps into meals like Swiss steak and bone-based soups.
The office of home economics at the U S Department of Agriculture shares a classic furniture polish formula. Mix 1 pint linseed oil or turpentine with 1 cup vinegar and shake well in a bottle before each use. The recipe reflects a tested old practice for polishing wood surfaces.
When a car sits on soft ground with no support for the jack, remove the floor-board or toe-board and place it under the jack to create a stable resting surface on the mud.
A fragrant filing combines chopped figs and walnuts with boiling water and sugar, thickened by flour and brightened with lemon juice, yielding a versatile spread or dessert component.
A congressional representative from a southern district sought a spare statue from the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds in Washington to honor local WW I soldiers. The officer explained there were no extra statues available for loan or distribution to the town.
W H Whaten of the Los Angeles division supervises a new sprinkler apparatus attached under the water tender to spray water on track as trains pass. Trials on Southern Pacific lines between Indio and Patton Springs show promising results with plans to equip passenger locomotives in desert service.
A laborer for the Wobart city corporation was killed when the crane jib swung and a wire rope touched overhead electric lines. One week earlier a workmate had repeated a dream of a fatal crane accident, which then occurred exactly as foreseen.
During the war we knew a bread called Hottentot's bread named for a tropical plant whose root stock is eaten by Hottentots. The root forms a large fleshy footlike mass and the plant is also called elephant's foot. A plant genus in India shares the nickname from its root leaves resembling an elephant's foot.
A Birmingham Age-Herald item quotes a lawyer coaching a client with signals for fainting tears and a hosiery display to edify jurors. The comic exchange frames courtroom theatrics and jury attention.
The Washington Star recounts two men resolving when a man can carry a doll unashamed. They concluded the sole unabashed moment is returning in triumph from a booth at a nearby amusement park.
Henry Savage Lander earned fame as an explorer by reaching the sources of the Brahmaputra in Tibet, mapping their positions, and conducting Himalayan studies. He spent a year among Philippine islands, crossed Korea with a partner, and then roamed Africa and South America with extensive travel through 1914.
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