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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
3
A fragment quotes Mark Twain noting life’s irritations outlast simple annoyances. It contrasts endurance of hardship with the annoyance of a good example, leaving readers to ponder resilience and perspective.
A pantry menu lists Salmon Souffle made from canned salmon with lemon and paprika, baked in a buttered dish in a hot water bath with Spanish Sauce. Also included are Baked Rhubarb with prunes, Meat and Potato Pie, Hot String Bean Salad, and a brown stock olive sauce for fish or meat. A quote from Dr. T. L. Cuyler about character sums the item.
A vintage household recipe collection presents Cheese Salad with rich cheeses and peppers, Lobster With Rice combining lobster and chicken over seasoned rice, Cadillac Codfish with layered potatoes and tomato sauce, and Nenetian Sauce with lemon and capers. It also notes Dutch Peppernuts and Olive Sauce, plus a discussion of community kitchens aiding the servantless home and urban meal delivery. The piece ends with a poetic farewell.
Valerie Henning of Panola county Mississippi reports net profits from her poultry flock totaling 525.35 this year. She holds the state poultry club championship, travels to Washington on a prize trip, and uses earnings to pay her way through an agricultural high school.
Farmers should consider increasing their hen flock while ensuring care, protection, and adequate range. Focus on value hens, good feed and shelter, and avoid keeping poor layers as they become liabilities.
This passage provides directions for buttermilk bread and Sally Lunn buns. It details ingredient quantities for sponge and dough, including buttermilk, sugar, salt, yeast, flour, lard, soda, eggs, and milk. It describes mixing, rising overnight, shaping into leaves or rings, baking, and serving hints.
The advice covers raising weak or slow growing chicks, protecting market eggs from sun and damp hen houses, and expecting fewer eggs as fertility and conditions affect laying. It emphasizes rapid growth, exercise, and early marketing of cockerels at 14½ pounds, with bran and charcoal as valuable feeds for young chicks and feeding grain in litter to encourage scratching.
An old rheumatism advertisement urges readers to stop allying with lotions and liniments. It promotes S. S. S. as a blood purifier that claims to remove the disease by cleansing the blood and removing its cause. It directs readers to obtain a bottle at a drug store and offers Medical Director contact at Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chauncey M. Depew recounts an anecdote about Ring Lardner at a Philadelphia club. A guest, bound by a homeward pledge, is wheedled into staying when Lardner phones his wife and pretends the husband is roaring drunk. She replies you can have him, Mr. Lardner, and the man stays.
A child prefers her old doll Nancy for plain days over a new daintily dressed doll kept for company days. Betty plays with Nancy and explains the change in preference after the new doll’s presentation.
The sixty year Metho dist pastor in Missouri was once called the Henry Ward Beecher of Missouri. He recalled his first sermon in the Virginia mountains when an old man judged the effort by a sugar lump rather than a bucket of sap, illustrating rustic critique.
Earl recalls listening to grandpa tell stories as a boy. A calf kicked his cheek in the barn, drawing a remark from his mother about a queer way to get hurt. Earl replies that a fellow must have some experience to tell his grandchildren.
Miss Manchaser and Mr. Skirtshy exchange flirtation and plans with a humorously fateful leap year proposal. She demands marriage only if he doubles his effort at work, revealing a lighthearted domestic clash over partnership expectations.
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