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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
6
The article offers practical recipes and kitchen tips including stuffed calves hearts with sausage, a tomato onion sauce, tapioca with raisins, currant jelly with mint, and fig sauce rice. It adds advice on cooking kidneys in casserole, and ends with musings on wisdom and progress, urging practical action.
Dessert ideas to please children while teaching moderation include Butter Scotch Mold made with brown sugar milk gelatine and rice, Prune Dumplings steamed in cups with prune juice and cream, a spice filled rolled dough with prunes, and Banana Fluff using red bananas with lemon and ginger syrup.
Guidance on cooking a ham with cider and aromatics, plus recipes for Rice and Sultana Croquettes with Orange Sabayon Sauce and Casseroled Calves Hearts. Includes cautions on overcooking, and a closing aphorism about readiness and circumstance.
Instructions for budget friendly Christmas candy including Orange Dainties Fruit Caramels and Honey Drops with steps for dissolving sugars, butter, extracts, and add ins. Directions cover boiling times temperatures and cooling methods plus wrapping in waxed paper and setting on plates.
The piece urges readers to cast off old habits and embrace a truly new year. It champions daily renewal, ambition, and persistent effort, claiming a happier year awaits those who act with determination and focus.
In a light provincial voice Hubbard riffs on New Year resolutions. He mocks self restraint while urging readers to purge more habits beyond smoking drinking swearing and gambling and to confront hidden foibles for the common good. He notes women often skip resolutions and mocks boastful quitting declarations as unreliable.
An Indiana man riding a steamer on the Ohio River with a mare and a two year old colt fell overboard when the boat lurched. The roosteer clung to the colt’s tail while the mare swam ashore. The colt swam downstream as the owner, unable to swim, held on and refused to let go.
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for facial application and Cuticura Soap for washing. It claims five minute removal, skin clarity, and daily use, offering a free sample by mail from Cuticura Department L Boston.
The article describes a new industry in Wamburg converting milk into a hard, bone like material called galalith. It resists burning, is odorless, polishes well and can be colored. Products include toilet articles buttons dominoes dice chess pieces piano keys and electrical fittings.
Foods that energize include cereals bread and butter corn breads white and sweet potatoes cream and other wholesome fats and sweets. Those doing heavy physical labor and very active children need more energy yielding foods than those in mental work or light physical labor.
A reflective piece argues the poorhouses fill with people who spent thriftily, believing money useless beyond life and could not be carried beyond death. It cautions against neglecting saving and prudent finances.
The note opines that all cylinders not attributable to the weather may be blamed on the war, suggesting broader impacts on production or performance beyond climate factors.
A new pupil in the cooking school copies a teacher’s grocery memo for the next day. The student asks if all items are needed to make a fruit panel, noting two pounds powder ed sugar, lemons, mullegs, pauprika, tarragon vinerir, lettuce, raisins, buttermilk.
Dialogue fragment shows a maid asking about a bedchamber visit and a Mistress-Maary answering she has not been upstairs since coming down. The exchange suggests a domestic scene focused on privacy and routine.
Pine tree seeds are shipped from Scotland to the battle zone in France to aid reforestation of forests destroyed by artillery during the past three years.
A fragmented quotation evokes gender and creation themes with a humorous twist. The lines contrast a wish for nonconformity with a playful authorial retort about being male, hinting at social roles and identity.
A playful exchange hints at a coded term grapefruit used as a lemon Gat's flavored wil quinine, suggesting a local or insider cipher or joke without full context. The men exchange a curious nickname and its implied taste reference.
A Sunday school class debated food conservation when a teacher asked if parents say grace. A child answered, "Yes, ma'am," noting, "he always says, Now, kids, don't make hogs of yourselves, that's all the butter there is in the house."
A witty remark questions whether beauty affects rulings as a person notes that a very pretty woman might be acquitted even after murder. The dialogue hints at stereotypes about trial outcomes and public perception.
Women and girls in British munitions factories are being immortalized by distinguished British artists. The project highlights female wartime contribution and public recognition.
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