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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
2
Three cupfuls buttermilk and soda with salt and flour form old fashioned pancakes. Graham griddle cakes use graham and wheat flours with brown sugar and yeast for a lighter batter. Best pancakes rely on sour milk eggs and careful folding for a brunch ready mix. Cornmeal cakes mix cornmeal baking powder salt sugar lard and water with eggs for two large cakes.
The skin of poultry is often dirty from market and should be washed and scrubbed with warm water and baking soda. Drawn birds should be cleaned inside and used soon, or kept cold with charcoal inside. Cold storage poultry must not warm up before cooking and should be cooked promptly to prevent spoilage and illness.
A recipe for sour cream candy describes using fresh sour cream mixed with brown sugar, cooking until grainy, then adding butter and chopped nuts. Walnuts are preferred, optional vanilla, and the mixture is cooled beaten, poured into buttered pans, and cut into squares once set.
A sponge cake split into two sheets wraps a brick of ice cream, forming a cylinder that projects, then covered with meringue and briefly baked to golden. The finished cake browns on white paper, then is slid to a platter and served. The second note hints a possible nationwide strike if the railroad association assists in shipping strikebreakers to Northern cities.
In a small town, Miss Henrietta Winstanley overhears banker Antony propose to Barbara Hemingray as her brother Dan works for Antony. Antony accuses Dan of looting the bank after Barbara refuses him. Barbara persuades Antony to delay prosecution while Twining, the attorney, consoles and supports various couples as Mrs. Dines schemes to block a match and Antony eyes Barbara as the price of silence.
In the scene the narrator and Tom recount relief that a dangerous mess has passed. Miss Winstanley explains Barbara’s actions during the broken engagement and asserts Barbara never loved Anthony. Dan will manage Montana mining ventures as Miss Winstanley plans to join him, seeking independence and a new course for the family enterprise.
Barbara returns and admits she has fought her feelings for Tom. He declares his love, she confesses she has broken away from a months long restraint, and they share a tender, decisive embrace as the scene ends.
The article traces wireless telegraphy from Kelvin in 1853 through Maxwell 1865 Hertz 1888 and Lodge’s 1890 syntony to coherer terms, Popoff and Jackson in 1895 and Marconi’s 1896 breakthrough, highlighting key theorists and demonstrations of signaling across space.
In Luthersville Georgia C C Nall’s Irish potato vine produced potatoes along its branches. The plant grew in land a mix of sand and red clay. When dug up the vine still yielded a normal crop underground. The potatoes were unusually large and egg sized. The Atlanta Constitution reported the sighting.
Mrs Ferguson tests spring hats while Mr Ferguson weighs two options. If limited to two styles the inverted waste basket and the inverted coal scuttle are discussed. The couple considers adding another hat at home.
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