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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1905
Page
6
A Commoner column advises on selecting and brewing coffee, stressing fresh roasted beans, clean gear, and proper water. It outlines methods from drip and steeping to brief boiling, noting care and cleanliness as keys to flavor. It warns overboiled water and coffee intolerance in some diets.
Household tips cover kitchen cleaning fabric care and polishing methods. Advice includes not storing warm foods in covered dishes, adding sugar to stove blacking for shine, salt in water to boil cracked eggs, gasoline washes for garments, cork spacers for frames to reduce dust, pressing lace curtains, olive oil for lungs, olive oil and olives as tonics, rubber plant care with milk and castor oil, ammonia or soda for window cleaning, old newspapers as polishers, and milk plus salt to remove ink stains from delicate fabrics.
A historic recipe describes mixing two pounds of round beef with bread crumbs milk butter salt and pepper then baking in deep tins for about 45 minutes and serving cold. The note also advertises MCCO Coffee fresh roasted daily by W. J. Letts.
Home cooks lacking scrapple ingredients imitate the dish using sausage meat water salt and cornmeal to make a thick batter for frying. Pork chops with fried apples are seasoned breaded and cooked slowly then finished in the oven. Apples are cut into rings and fried in the chops fat until brown, served with the chops on a hot platter.
Frank H. Spearman notes the Peninsula division of the Chicago and Northwestern railway showed extraordinary loyalty and efficiency during a severe sleet storm that cut telegraph lines for 48 hours. Despite a single track, without dispatchers, crews moved 4,971 cars and 125 freight trains plus 34 passenger trains on time, keeping Lake Superior ore flowing from mines to ports and earning high praise for intelligent handling of the emergency.
The article details elegant table decor using grape baskets from antique designs, plated ware, and fruit arrangements. It discusses using silver or plated baskets, grape displays with short stems wired to hang, and smilax trims. Centerpieces feature roses with a note on seasonal flower costs and affordable substitutions like Bridesmaid roses with asparagus borders.
Stand Work Well. Railroad magnates are generally supposed to be hard workers, but many of them seem to stand it very well. James J. Hill is 67, A. J. Cassatt is 66, Marvin Hughitt is 64 and KV Jeffrey, Roswell Miller and Thomas Lowry own up to 62 each. Of 17 of the most prominent railroad men in the country not one is under 50 years old.
Our ads promise prompt service during the Christmas rush and highlight a carefully selected stock of watches, diamonds, jewelry, cut glass, decorated china, Japanese ware, and holiday novelties. The message stresses high quality, good pricing, and available fitting of gold spectacles after Christmas.
A cocoanut pie from a Santa Fe lunch counter sickened engineer Neils Jorgenson and fireman W D Johnson, delaying trains two hours. They collapsed in a freight engine two miles from Saffordville and were hospitalized for ptomaine poisoning, while yard congestion and a temporary blockade ensued.
Five Cents per package and all sewing machine items offered at drastic reductions. Look for the red S at 106 West Main Street Sedana Missouri.
The Brooklyn Eagle surveys belts for this season highlighting plain and elaborate styles in leather silk ribbon velvet tinsel braid linen and feather. High end pieces include jeweled buckles and novelty feath er belts costing up to 17 dollars with Japanese carved leather and monogram buckles among the new designs.
Advertises Red Cross Ball Blue as the solution to yellowed clothing with a claim that grocers stock large two ounce packages priced at five cents.
The Cleveland Leader reports railroads have many openings for passenger and freight solicitors but few qualified men. Rail managers emphasize presentation, reliability, ambition, and public interaction as key, noting many good candidates are scarce and often miss essential habits and manners.
In a Boston restaurant a Lowell man George A. Marden asked for a plate of fly specks while waiting for a train. The proprietor replied they did not serve fly specks and Marden asked why they remained on the bill of fare.
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