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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
7
A domestic squabble ends in reconciliation and humor as a wife admits fault and jokes about ill fitting shoes. The scene shifts to a court of appeal where a judge’s lengthy judgment prompts a witty exchange, illustrating legal pomp with comic relief in a London Chronicle style.
A bright girl and her escort, who is also her Intended, discuss the game as a metaphor for marriage. She compares baseball to a union, noting engagement as the diamond, then struggles and hits, then men leaving, and finally the amenity of returning home. The exchange ends with quiet reflection as he ponders the analogy.
A naval officer brought home two parrots from South American waters. He gave one to the housemaid and the other to the cook. After lively debate over which bird talked better, the maid claims hers has the most beautiful foliage, a clinching ornament to her parrot.
Dialogue fragments reveal a banquet scene with characters such as Colonel Sogesby and Eddie. Banter touches on love, a fall from a second story, eye symptoms, and suspicions about delaying operation suspensions. A paperhanger and remarks on fiction hint at a humorous, clipped style.
In a hushed post dinner chat the girls discuss love tricks. Elsie mentions a nut test to reveal who loves you while Sophie toys with a ring and a staged sofa moment to test a man’s affection.
A teacher notes clever students solving a million dollar legacy split among wife son daughter brother and missions. The punchline: a lawyer answers. A joke greeting follows with a quip about three life periods in a man’s understanding of a woman.
In a Metropolitan Magazine piece a child frets over a brown bottle, asking if it contains rum. His mother reassures him with a punning, if odd, explanation about the label. Freddy then wonders why his hat won’t come off.
A statesman notes that a party platform is a mighty important consideration. The other quips that a platform in politics is like a golf bunker: required to have it, but skill lies in avoiding it.
A playful line from Harper's Weekly depicts Eve tying a maple leaf garland about her ankles and Adam asking what she is up to as she cheerfully replies she is trying on her hobble skirt in a whimsical historical vignette.
A quirky exchange between Johnny and Grandpa about whether Mons go to heaven and ministers. Johnny asks if a Hon eats a minister, prompting Grandpa to discuss beliefs. The dialogue preserves a humorous, informal tone and hints at religious themes without explicit conclusions.
In a playful exchange from Puck, Miss Giadys Guggies coyly asks Clarence Snuckles if he loves her. Clarence fires back with a humorous line about preferring gum to listening to a minstrel band, showcasing lighthearted romance between the pair.
A lively exchange depicts a beach belle recalling a triumphant summer. She boasts a perfect season and jokes that on the way to the station she even got engaged to the bus driver.
A fragment describes a dog that imitates any person it meets, clinging firmly to its chosen master and resisting efforts to detach. The remark compares the animal to Ike, highlighting the dog’s labored attachment and the difficulty of shaking it off.
Quotation from The Name of It questions the assumption that political success proves virtue. The speaker asks if winners truly belong to the elect, challenging the notion that victory confirms moral character.
A historical overview traces England’s plague history from the Black Death of 1348 through later outbreaks. It notes Dorset, Bristol, Oxfordshire, and London as key spread areas, with clergy losses in East Anglia and abbots among the victims. Early quarantines appear from 1543, while later orders target dogs and city embargos. The account references Windsor’s 1662 pest measures and mentions pest houses, doctors, and a physician’s hardship during outbreaks. It concludes by contrasting modern cholera concerns in Russia and a high fatality rate in 216,091 cases last year.
A dated brisk menu offers clam cocktails and an easier appetizer plan. Recipes include clam juice frozen into cups with lemon, horseradish, tabasco, and ketchup, plus a dairy garnish. The cold entree uses chicken simmered in broth with celery parsley onion and cloves, pressed into a mold and chilled overnight.
A cooking note outlines making a large beef and ham based soup. It lists beef and bones, four quarts water, carrots, turnips, onions, tomato, peas and corn, plus pepper and salt. Steps include simmering stock, parboiling vegetables, returning stock, adding vegetables, and finishing with a brief simmer.
A mushroom sandwich is prepared by sautéing sliced mushrooms and onions in butter then adding seasoned stock. Strain the liquor, mix with finely pounded lobster meat, season with salt, tomato ketchup and oregano, moisten, and spread between thin white bread slices.
Tomato preserves are described to peel and simmer twenty four ripe tomatoes with less sugar, add peaches, cook long, then finish with water. German beef stew explains cubing lean beef, browning, adding stock, simmering with onions olives and prunes before serving.
Instructions describe peeling eggplant by slicing into eighth inch pieces and using a grapefruit knife to trim edges. The method aims to remove peeling in one piece, saving time and reducing waste while producing uniform pieces.
A kitchen note suggests adding a generous pinch of sugar to all boiling vegetables except potatoes. It claims the sweetening becomes a favored trick once tried and likely to be repeated.
An advertisement-like note touts a cheap dye method mixing one quart gasoline with one tube paint to color fabrics from ostrich feathers to gowns. It claims many shades by adjusting paint and gasoline, warns against fire, and suggests lemon juice to remove paint stains from hands.
A Tarrytown manufacturer markets a combined egg beater cream whipper and mayonnaise mixer. The unit features an off dripper attached to the beater handle for quick use with mayonnaise. Attaching and detaching takes only a few seconds, according to Popular Mechanics.
A delectable inexpensive suet pudding recipe uses sugar molasses suet raisins currants and spices. Mix batter with milk or coffee steam portions in a steamer two to three hours then serve with a butter sugar sauce possibly flavored with wine brandy or other.
A historic recipe describes Flemish salad using one endive four Dutch herrings three potatoes celery two small apples one small onion chopped parsley and French dressing. Bake the onion in its skin then peel and chop. Dice herring peel and shred apples and celery cook potatoes into strips or dice shred endive then mix with the dressing and parsley.
Fruit salad recipe notes removing pith and seeds from Danance and oranges, washing and halting two pints of strawberries. Layer fruit in a glass dish, add dressing, chill before serving. Dressing combines sugar and water boiled briefly, then poured into beaten yolks, cooked over steam, cooled, and finished with lemon juice.
Recipe notes divide six hard cooked eggs half lengthwise and arrange in a circle around Wish. Make a sauce by melting batter, adding flour galt cayenne water cream and grated cheese, cook briefly, beat in two raw yolks, pour over eggs, top with buttered crumbs and brown quickly.
Bay on ordinary wop saturate fr crudy paraffin oil purchased at any druggist. Wrap the mop in a rhowst cloth and stand in a draining pan for several days until the paraffin oil is thoroughly absorbed. It proves invaluable for hardwood or painted floors and the cheesecloth is excellent for dusting highly polished furniture.
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