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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
3
A delicate corn cake recipe uses corn meal flour sugar and a double sift of dry ingredients. Mix eggs sour and sweet milk heat the liquids combine with dry ingredients then pour batter over melted butter and milk bake thirty minutes for custardlike sweetness.
A brief recipe note describes baking apples in granite or earthenware after removing seed cavities and sugar filling with salt, baked in a quick oven with frequent baste. It also offers a method to tenderize affordable steak by marinating with olive oil and vinegar, chilling four hours, and turning to prepare for broiling.
Select potatoes of small size peel and quarter them. Soak in salted cold water for 30 minutes. Dry on a towel. Fry in hot fat until light brown and drain. Garnish plate edges with lettuce or parsley, arrange peeled red tomatoes and sliced cucumbers in center for an attractive presentation.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients to make Graham Gems including soda, sour milk, eggs, salt, fryings, wheat four, and graham flour. It notes sugar can be added to taste and the batter should be thick enough to drop from a spoon.
Wash and scrub ham and put in a baking pan with two cups water. Bake twenty minutes to the pound. Take it up and remove the skin. Stud with fat cloves and cover with grated bread crumbs. Brown tightly in the oven.
The text offers practical remedies and hacks such as painting floors with boiled linseed oil for easier cleaning, gum to seal gas leaks, heating jelly to restore texture, adding water and sugar to cattle feed, and cooking onions, turnips, and carrots across the fiber to soften them. It also covers waste oils for smoothing woolen fabrics, safe dishwashing during cooking, lemon and salt for copper cleaning, and egg substitutes using milk fats starch and other ingredients.
A tornado struck Charles City Iowa at five pm demolishing about 200 residences and barns. W B Beck killed and four children missing. Path about ten rods wide, started three miles west, crossed the river, northeastern town, and ended several miles northeast. 3,000 people sought shelter in cellars. no major institutions harmed. stock killed or scattered. telephone wires down. about ten miles long.
A tornado struck John Dalton's farm near Mauston Wisconsin at about four in the afternoon destroying the farmhouse and killing Dalton and his twelve year old son Dallas. A second report from Bowie Texas notes loss and major property damage in Boutague County.
A Friday evening tornado-like storm in Fairfield Arkansas caused extensive damage to Ray Bidge’s home, A Corbin and Louis Day properties, several churches, and multiple residences. About two miles by one to three blocks were affected with losses estimated at over fifty thousand dollars. Livestock losses included hogs and chickens.
A severe tornado struck Thayer County near Carleton on a Friday night causing about 756000 in damages. It leveled a barn and tore through the town, wrecking the Lutheran and Brethren churches. Mrs. Carter was killed in her home and her injured child died the following morning.
Fourteen year old George Randall son of W P Randall a lake watchman drowned while swimming at Lake Manawa Iowa. He swam to a sail boat anchored offshore and climbed aboard but slipped into the water and sank. The body was recovered about twenty minutes later.
County commissioners nearly pass clerks and judges payroll at special election rate of three dollars for special ballots and six dollars at regular elections. Bruning and Wennard oppose Omaha share. Jurors’ pay for non duty Saturdays rejected. Detention home plans and hospital wards bid, not to exceed nine thousand dollars. Krug park road paving request to Ames avenue discussed. Temporary jail proposal seeks annual rental from county.
Authorities report rising waters in Kansas City with conditions described as serious and potentially the worst of the event. Officials expect the danger to ease not later than tonight as crews work to mitigate flooding.
The weather forecast warns of flood risks on the Mississippi from Keokuk to Hannibal with levels near 16 to 19 feet and rising. Kansas and Missouri rivers including the Kaw threaten Kansas City with significant rises, bridges safe yet tracks drifted, and rail service rerouted as crews brace for potential overflows.
Nebraska figure Mitchcock criticizes the eleventh hour currency bill as a political stunt. He notes La Follette has strong Midwest support and predicts shifts in Democratic and Republican campaigning. Mitchcock hints at a potential Democratic congressional bid, warning rivals like Fieharty to reconsider.
In Boone Iowa the high school chorus of seventy five sang as seats in a Guinealn armory amphitheater collapsed sending students to the floor. Superintendent King announced that no student was injured.
A registered mail pouch en route from Los Angeles to New York is reported stolen in Kansas City on Saturday night. Officials guard that a very valuable pouch is missing with estimates ranging from several thousand to fifty thousand dollars, though no definitive information is available locally. Post Office Inspector W. J. Vickery confirms an investigation is underway and says details will come from Washington.
Wahoo held a meeting at the court house where Tred Sheppard of Lincoln spoke in favor of forming a Bryan club. A good crowd attended with about seventy five signing the roll. White named president C 13 Cop secretary and Floyd Fraley treasurer.
Nebraska notes from towns state wide include banker relocation plans of E G Titus leaving Woldrege for the Pacific coast, Custer county banks holding about a million and a half in deposits, John W Epperson injured by fallen wires during Friday cyclone, and the 38th annual Nebraska School for the Deaf commencement at Omaha drawing a large crowd.
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