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Newspaper
Piqua Daily Press
Location
Piqua, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1917
Page
3
A 1917 King's Market Report from Ohio blends Christmas cheer with war gloom. It questions Kaiser, cites farmer hardships, and urges production. Grain and seed data show Timothy and clover markets, with prices, receipts, and shipments amid war-driven volatility.
Cattle and sheep prices listed from Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati Baltimore and Boston markets. Fat steers, cows, heifers and calves show varied values. lambs and sheep peak at noted bids. Poultry and eggs reported with creamery and dairy items. feed costs and hay prices mentioned.
Market column lists prices for potatoes at $4.50 per hundredweight and per pack, winter wheat flour at $2.08 per barrel, sugar and lard rates, onions and butter prices, and a Piqua Flour listing. Includes miscellaneous items like creamery butter and various per unit costs with multiple OCR fragments.
A vintage recipe fragment describes Cranberry and Orange Appetizer, Chicken on Casserole, and Cranberry Sauce. Includes instructions to boil sugar and water, chip oranges, and serve very cold. Details for stewing chicken: ingredients, layering in a casserole, long oven cook time, and gravy thickening with flour. Also notes using giblets for soup and a note on fowls.
A compact 20th century recipe fragment describes boiling sweet potatoes then baking with salt pepper and sugar until browned. It also outlines shaping Neufchatel cheese into pear forms with clove stems and paprika garnish, served on crackers.
A fragmented recipe describes roasting a shoat a young pig with unusual steps including removing eggs and toes, cornea in the mouth, and cranberries in the eyes. Instructions specify scoring the rind, rubbing pepper and salt, searing, basting, and serving on a bed of watercress or kale with a snail red apple in the mouth.
A concise vintage recipe note describes making barley sugar drops with reaf sugar white of egg lemon juice water and steps to thickening unifying and shaping. Also outlines golden sirup taffy with granulated sugar water sirup butter vanilla and a test with cold water to determine readiness and final shaping.
Webster county sheriff reports Piersol admits role in abduction of Gaby Liloyd Keet and implicates a gang leader named Riley. The child died from poisoning after a drug was given to lull it. Piersol claims Riley entered the Keet home, handed the infant to Diel Carter, then to a woman in the group. Other members named include Cletus Adams Maxie Adams and Dick Carter, now not all under arrest.
London December 24 officials report the armed steamer Stephen Furness sunk by a German submarine in the Irish Channel. Six officers and 95 men perished out of 109 aboard. The merchant ship of 1712 tons gross was built in 1910 at West Hartlepool.
Washington December 24 managers of the Red Cross campaign for 10,000,000 members before Christmas day decided to permit local workers to continue their drive through the week in several divisions because of unfavorable weather during the campaign’s initial days.
William J. Pivan resigns as chief of the United States Secret Service with his departure set for December 31. The item notes over 1,000,900 pounds of Christmas packages sent by pares post to American Expeditionary Forces in France and mentions related wartime dispatches including a German spy Feige shot attempting to cross near El Paso.
An old ad promotes Neutrone Prescription as a blood purifying remedy for rheumatism. It asserts the medicine purifies blood and kidneys, relieves sore joints, and claims dramatic health restoration with bottles priced at 9 and 14 dollars, offering mail orders and wide availability through Greenamyer & Co.
Ohio Registrar McCurdy reports 350 000 licenses issued in 1917, up from 254 000, a 40 percent rise. Gasoline cars lead at 342 000, plus 4 500 electric cars and 8 500 deniers, with motorcycles at 21 000. Receipts reach 1 765 000, and growth is slowed by war work and loan investments.
Washington reports every American soldier in France will receive a full Christmas dinner with turkey cranberry sauce sweet potatoes and mince pie. The War Department confirms delayed supplies will be overcome and provisions extend to home and abroad forces including training camps cantonments and navy stations and ships.
A two weeks' supply of coal has been furnished to every domestic consumer, along with utilities and a mobile institution in Ohio, ensuring continued warmth and service amid ongoing shortages.
A historic recipe for a cider sherbet mixes four cups cider with spices brown sugar and water. The spices steep in water then sugar is added before chilling and freezing part of the mixture as ice cream or punch like dessert served in red apples with trimmed bottoms for stability.
Homer Mercer, 31, of Zanesville Ohio, is at Mt. Carmel hospital with a fractured skull after being attacked by a soldier in Columbus on December 24. Mercer and 23 year old Melen Patterson were allegedly accosted by the sergeant, leading to a confrontation on the pavement and the assailant at large.
Paris reports the death of Oscar Siegel a former partner in Morgan Hages and Company and a director of Oil Lighting and Farraraways companies He was a longtime figure in banking and business circles with ties to major firms in the era.
A Jefferson quote advocates tolerance for others' views. It urges not to force agreement, noting no injury from another's error and that information should come only if asked. If disputes arise, one should listen and say nothing, treating it as the other’s affair.
Superint endent W 4d English of the Erie railroad announces the appointment of T Shaughnessy of Huntington Ind as trainmaster of the Kent division with headquarters at Mansfield.
Washington December 24 Two far reaching plans for Ohio coal relief were agreed on and steps taken for immediate execution. The program provides two weeks of coal to state institutions public utilities and domestic consumers from Kentucky sources. Telegraph orders authorized 74 cars from Kentucky to Cincinnati and up to 500 cars to the Miami valley for immediate use. Beginning today and continuing on.
Mark Twain wrote a humorous letter in Harper's Magazine recounting his visit to the Jameson raiders in prison at Pretoria South Africa. He described delivering a long speech advising them to stay and adapting to their confinement and joking about visiting the president to double their jail term.
John accepted Edward's birthday dinner with a reply that mixed spacing and wording, leading Berry to think she was invited. She urged adding Betty to the message, unaware she had not received an invitation herself, revealing a miscommunication about guest names.
The St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Sunday school children presented a Christmas program featuring songs recitations and the Little Candles exercise. A large audience attended as candles and a Christmas tree lit the altar. A $52 gift was given to synodical orphans and aged in institutions. The Aid society funded provisions and gifts for the pastor and family and parishioners were thanked.
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