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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
3
Hicks the pawnbroker nursed a lifelong mystery tied to a green umbrella and a secret love letter. After 58 years a final visit reveals the letter inside the umbrella head, and a stranger who sought it for love and memory dies suddenly, leaving the revelation unspoken and the broker dead.
Rev. Dr. Frederick Gast recalls President Buchanan and a boyhood cow bell nickname. A German upbringing and the line between friends Thaddeus Stevens and Buchanan ended in a notorious courthouse brawl that soured their longtime alliance.
London Truth condemns the Welsh clergy’s poverty and beggary, urging bishops and wealthy churchmen to take practical action. The piece questions the value of maintaining the church establishment in Wales under current conditions.
A short prayer asks for strength to face daily duties with cheerfulness and industry. It desires a day of lively conduct, content rest, and finally peaceful sleep, ending with the blessing Amen by Stevenson.
The shallow basement at Fulwood's Rents in Holborn, once linked to Fagin's thieves' kitchen, is noted for its historic ties to Jack Sheppard and even Francis Bacon, as the area undergoes demolition.
Testimony at a Bryn inquest recounts Owen Richards killed by a rock fall after freeing his horse attached to a tram. His act delayed his escape and cost him his life, a report notes. Also mentions slow French tapestry production and Britain's annual wheat flour consumption.
A Dayton Herald item notes that most meatless or plant based diets may tax the stomach and finances, citing concerns about digestion and cost in daily meals. The brief reflects reader commentary on dietary trends and practical implications.
Housekeeper advises correct ice and salt mix for freezing ice cream. Finely crushed ice and rock salt, 1 to 3 parts, are packed in layers and the pot cleaned between uses. Begin slowly, speed up as it thickens, then stir, remove heater, and ripen for hours. Philadelphia ice cream uses cooked or uncooked mix with sugar, vanilla, and eggs optional.
The method involves placing the fish in a deep pan of water and keeping it submerged while scaling. This keeps scales from flying in the kitchen. After finishing, pour off the water and dispose of the scales in the garbage.
If soup is used the same day it may be greasy. Pour the hot soup through a cloth wrung out of iced water to congeal the fat and retain it while the soup passes through. The chilled cloth traps the grease and lets the liquid drain cleanly.
A simple uncooked icing method whisking two egg whites with powdered sugar until thickened. Add sugar gradually, beat to desired thickness, flavor to taste, spread on cake and dry in a warm place.
Have several sets of dish towels for china glassware and crockery and use each cloth only in its proper area. Change towels weekly to keep towels and dishes cleaner and avoid cross contamination from mixing cloths.
Lift three cupfuls flour and one-third cup sugar with a rounded teaspoonful cream of tartar and the same amount of soda. Add two level tablespoons butter one beaten egg a cup and a third of milk and two cups blueberries dredged with flour. Bake in a shallow pan in a hot oven and serve hot for breakfast or supper with butter. The bread should be broken not cut.
An observer recalls a man identified as Mr. Fisher drowning in a mill pond while fishing. The search disrupted the water and spoiled the fishing, as Mrs. Fisher called the incident terrible and the response heavy.
An assortment of patent medicine pitches fills the column from CASTORIA to Dr Kline and Allen's Foot-Ease. Advertisers tout cures for infants eyes nerve issues corns and bunions with claims of swift relief and trial bottles, while observers mock the undertaker and hawk cigars and quotations from literature.
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