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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1902
Page
6
A breakfast and dinner menu fragment lists foods such as baked puck stuffed with pmolsis and Soran wil Bees, Invon Entre Wheat Gems Coffie, potato balls, pepper salad, stewed fruit, cocoa, and cereals. It mentions Tonto Puree and various dinner items including veal, chocelite cream, and coffee with vague OCR errors.
Fragmented text appears as a broken food menu or recipe list with garbled item names and stray phrases. The readable parts mention items resembling stews, pies, tomatoes, and fruit dishes but lack coherent structure or complete dish names. No clear events, entities, or dates are identifiable.
A long discussion on celery varieties from Europe to cultivated types, noting red green and white stalks with ivory white plumes. It praises rich soil, moisture, and tenderness, and describes edible parts from tops to roots. It claims celery aids digestion and may ease rheumatic symptoms with a specific boiled recipe.
The passage outlines culinary uses for celery and celery seeds, noting white sauce with nutmeg served over buttered toast, and celery products like celery gull and celery pepper. It distinguishes real celery from wild celery or eel grass and mentions celeriac as a turnip rooted celery used in salads with boiling, mashing, and condiments.
The article extols celery as a key ingredient for winter salads noting it should be white crisp and tender and used soon after cutting to preserve its crunch. It suggests celery endive and cress form a pretty salad and offers variations with mayonnaise and hard boiled eggs.
Instructions describe preparing celery in multiple forms including blanched leaves on toast with eggs, celery soup thickened with white sauce, cheese baked celery, potato and celery croquettes, and a method to puree stalks with butter and flour to make a seasoned celery purée. The tone reflects practical kitchen guidance and exact measurements.
A brief kitchen note describes boiling two eggs for about half an hour then mixing with water to form a sauce. It advises adding two ounces of butter cream and lemon, stirring over heat just until the eyes cook, and avoiding a full boil.
A reader requests the paper publish an elderberry wine recipe noting simple steps with ripe berries four quarts of water sugar and fermentation in a stone jar for four weeks. Another reader suggests a seasonable nut sandwich recipe using chestnuts apples orange juice butter and optional celery.
Fleet Surgeon Aoki stated Japan will station a permanent fleet on the Pacific coast of America next year. The headquarters will be at Esquimilt British Columbia, with visits along the coast to Valparaiso. The fleet may include three or more ships and accompanying smaller vessels. An European fleet is also anticipated with a British base.
Samuel Cruttenden a New Haven horse dealer was killed and Joseph Lovckstrom of Auburn Route 1 was injured when an express freight derailed on the Shore Line division near Madison Connecticut. Cruttenden was riding in a stock car with a horse bound for Boston to ship to England. A broken coupling pin caused a collision of train sections blocking both tracks for hours and delaying mail trains.
Acting Consul General Chow Yu Kwan reports to San Francisco that China and the United States settled bubonic plague losses for Chinese residents of Honolulu. Indemnity set at 800000 dollars with 100000 paid immediately and the rest within a year. The agreement satisfies the Chinese community and expectations toward their government.
In the House of Commons Postmaster General Austen Chamberlain said the special mail train for White Star Line steamships was not an accelerated service and had no postal advantage. He added the change was made reluctantly at the White Star Line's request.
Instructions describe browning onion in butter then adding flour to brown it, mixing with celery pulp and water, seasoning with nutmeg. Also details washing and preparing four heads of celery, boiling in water, adding cider vinegar, salt, cayenne, mace, and cloves, then straining and bottling. Also suggests six heads of celery parboiled, cooled, glazed with white sauce and Allemande, breaded, fried, served hot.
Melt butter in pan on low heat then whisk in flour. Stir in one and a half cups clear chicken broth until smooth and boiling. Season with salt and pepper to finish.
News report from Saigon viaexclusive wire describes a northern Siamese uprising over government actions. Troops clash with insurgents and several district chiefs and many residents flee to French territory seeking protection.
An exclusive AP dispatch from Vienna notes three violent shocks felt in Houmelia during the night. Wind of extraordinary violence accompanied the quakes causing serious damage to the populace and structures.
The Bundesrath appoints Fernand Du Martheray as Swiss minister to Washington. Du Martheray, currently secretary of legation in Rome, will replace the outgoing envoy. The announcement came from Berne via Exclusive Wire.
Testimony and cross examination reveal wage methods by car and ton, dockage disputes, and miner earnings while commissioners examine whether a shift to ton basis would raise pay. Mr. Mitchell defends current practices and argues for weigh scales to determine earnings.
Exclusive wire reports Mr and Mrs Andrew Carnegie and their family contracted food poisoning while in Cannes Switz erland delaying their planned voyage to New York. Mrs Carnegie and daughter recovered. Mr Carnegie remains ill but expected to recover soon and sail next week on the Celtic.
A ship bound for New York cancelled its voyage after failing to depart as scheduled. No passengers were reported aboard at the time of the cancellation.
Miss Prot ence McFarlin a music teacher is stabbed to death in her home on Court Street. Mrs Tula Young wife of a local official, confessed to the attack after a kitchen pursuit ending with five stab wounds. A second woman died in the kitchen during the struggle as the assailant fled. The only spoken words reported were the killer declaring the victim had come between her and a husband.
Mrs Rosetta Engler a beauty specialist was arrested on Nov 18 charged with the death of Mrs Fladike Hart at Pekin A Whe Negs testified Eisler induced Hart to buy in bottle beauty medicine alleged to be largely arsenic and taken in excess a virulent poison
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