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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
4
Cobb’s Shoe Store introduces Queen Quality ladies’ shoes and new all rubber and buckle-vershoed styles. The shop invites customers to inspect men women misses and children footwear and a Real Dope line for men and boys at right prices.
Kentucky wit Tom Marshall, famed in the last century for humor and charm, flirts with Blave Breckenridge at a Christmas gathering. He returns a gold medal mistaken for a stolen coin, and Breckenridge theatrically retrieves it, prompting Marshall to quip about the darkness and the payback.
An irritable disposition is often blamed on a disordered stomach. A good digestion promotes good nature. Many have benefited from Chamberlain's Tablets after years of suffering. The tablets strengthen the stomach and aid natural function. Sold by Wiewel Drug Co.
A Pocahontas broker lists Feb sales including Wolfe at Pocahontas Feb 15 and 21 Ahrens near Pocahontas Feb 21 and 22 Shiebrier near Palmer Feb 22 Jackson near Ware Feb 22 Dilmuth near Pocahontas Feb 23 Kauffman near Blanden Feb 24 Johnson near Palmer Feb 28 Mrs Thornton near Rolfe Feb 28 Egli near Blanden Feb 29 and Abner Egli near Palmer Feb 29. Contact Pocahontas for gate dates and details.
Cabbage offers versatile winter dishes from creamed to baked varieties. A basic creamed cabbage blends butter flour milk salt and pepper, while baked cabbage uses bread crumbs and a butter flour milk topping. Creamed cabbage fries onion and clove into a tender mixture seasoned with pepper and salt.
Select tart apples and cut into quarters. Three large apples yield six dumplings. Mix two and a half cupfuls flour one heaping teaspoon baking powder and one teaspoon salt. Rub in two thirds cup lard then add enough cold water to form a dough. Divide into six, roll, fill with apples, seal, bake in shallow dish until done. Serve with cream and sugar.
A simple recipe combines cream cheese with canned corn half a pint milk and a beaten egg for a light pudding. Season with sugar salt and pepper then bake with butter and crumbs in a hot oven. The author notes a method for dividing corn when opening a can.
Chop cold roast veal very fine then form a base in a pudding dish with salt and pepper. Layer rolled crackers and butter, wet with milk. Repeat until full, moisten with broth and milk, invert a pan to trap steam, bake for about thirty minutes.
A recipe extract describes Italian Salad with shelled peanuts bananas grapes and mayonnaise dressing served on lettuce. It also outlines Tomato Timbales made from tomatoes onion flour eggs baked in buttered molds set in a pan of hot water until firm like custard.
Peel and slice large white onions into half inch pieces. Parboil in salted water, drain and place in a buttered dish with bits of butter. Bake until soft, season with salt and pepper, add a layer of cheese and return to heat until cheese melts.
A short note advises ironing dark calicoes on the wrong side with irons kept not too hot to avoid shine or damage.
Advertisements announce two blooded stock sales in the upcoming week with maps to sales, encouraging readers to join early as farm buyers report strong demand and substantial selling activity.
The Comision Reguladora, backed by Carranza supporters, now controls Yucatan sisal fibre sales, forcing higher prices for binder twine. American bankers finance the monopoly with warehouse receipts and a large commission, raising the farmer’s twine bill by about 2.6 million dollars per cent price hike. The piece argues US anti trust action is warranted due to American capital backing the scheme.
Local residents share visits and family events from Rolfe Laurens Plover and Rolfe. Attends weddings and anniversaries. Rebekahs plan a February supper. many relatives gather for a twenty fifth anniversary. ads invite readers to subscribe for The Chicago Tribune with The Arrow gift.
To whom it may concern you must appear at the court house in Pocahontas Iowa on March 11 1916 at two o clock P M to attend probate of a document claimed as the lost will and testament of Robert Hunter deceased of Pocahontas county Iowa to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate witnessed by the District Court clerk W E Bollard Pocahontas Iowa February 15 1916
An old advertisement promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills to improve digestion relieve constipation and tone the entire system. It claims benefits for eye health and skin and prices the product at 25 cents at all druggists.
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