Rolfe Iowa Community Notes and Local Meetings
Rolfe and area residents report road improvements near Clinton cemetery and a busy week of events. Farm talks by Prof. J E Wooters attract crowds at Center schoolhouse Des Moines Township while Jaycees and clubs host gatherings at the McCray home and Hotel Pocahontas.
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Garfield Township
Clinton Cemetery
City Bakery
Rolfe
Iowa
Center School
Des Moines Township
Bailiwick
J. E. Wooters
Ames College
Ames
Dr. King
Doc
W. C. Kennedy
Pocahontas County Mutual Insurance Co
Pocahontas
Smith Brothers
A. Sandvng
U Wavelock
John Taylor
Wooters
Hotel Pocahontas
Grace Haton
L. D. Smith
Havelock
Dumpling Variations for Meals and Soups Across Menus
A regional culinary note lists multiple dumpling recipes and methods. It covers chicken dumplings with baking powder and milk, soft dumplings with beet juice, liver dumplings with bacon and parsley, potato dumplings with stale crumbs, drip dumplings for soup, and cornmeal dumplings cooked in ham liquor, detailing mixing, shaping, and cooking steps.
Turkish Loaf Candy Recipe From Mother's Magazine
Boil twenty to twenty five minutes with occasional stirring. Toast almonds and walnuts until brown. Cut figs and pineapple into strips. Mix with seeded raisins into vanilla fondant. Shape into a loaf and coat with melted chocolate. When firm cut into pieces.
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Mother's Magazine
Prunes and Chestnuts Stew and Queen Cake Bake
Soak prunes overnight then simmer to tender in water. Blanch chestnuts boil until tender, drain and mix with prunes with lemon juice and slow cook until very tender and thick. Queen Cake mixes butter sugar milk eggs flour baking powder and cornstarch. cream butter and sugar, add yolks with milk, fold in dry ingredients, then beat whites and bake.
Potato Rissoles and Reminiscences Fondly Recalled
A homey recipe for potato rissoles uses mashed potatoes, lamb, egg, bread crumbs and cream, fried and served with lettuce. The text shifts to reflective prose about memory, recalling a childhood home, hoop skirts, and early memories.
Remembering Theatres Past In A Nostalgic Song
A reflective verse recalls past fashions and entertainments from chorus gowns to burlesque shows. The lyric traverses hats, dances, stage costumes, and crowd favorites before cinema changed the scene.
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Villian
Little country paper from his Old Home Town
A rustic poem praising a small hometown paper for lifting mood and keeping locals informed about parties, crops, and social news. The speaker contrasts it with bigger papers and admits a fondness for reading other genres, but values the hometown sheet for its temper- smoothing effect.
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Galler
Florida Winter Trip From Chicago By Train
Low round trip fares to Florida and the Gulf Coast offered with daily service to the new Chicago passenger terminal. Scenic routes to the sunny south and convenient connections via limited trains. Tickets and full details from C. and N. W. ticket agents.
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Florida
Notice to Dealers on Kerosene and Gasoline Storage
Complaint filed about violations of law governing kerosene and gasoline handling in Des Moines. Dealers must use red painted tanks or cans clearly marked gasoline or kerosene and avoid delivering fuel into unmarked vessels. Violations will be prosecuted. J P Risley chief inspector signs.
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J. P. Risley
Des Moines
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McCray
Fort Flocie
J. (. Garner
Holse
Dye
Piau’ Awat
Laand
McGray
Co. N. Cook
Rolfe Telephone Co
Fort Dodge
Cook
C. M. Webb
G. W. Henderson
J. K. Lemon
McIntire
Chile
John Boyce
Clint Morrison
Presbyterian Church
L. H. Howe
Mr. Morrison
Pikertown
Simonson
Ward Ferguson
Wallace Wheeler
Ferguson
W. PL
Sampson
Mr. Simonsen
Billy Taylor
Cobbs
A. E. Cobbs
Prop
Emerson Motors
Emma
H. E. Tubbs Rolfe
John Hall
Avery Place
Bradgate
Gilmore Citt
Rolsh
R. I. Red
McCormick
John Farm Machinery
Deere
Gang
Vain Brunt Seeder
John Deere
U.S
Mandy Lee
Cassie Scow
C. J. Sheldon
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