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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1914
Page
6
A wounded French soldier relates a brutal episode under mitrailleuse fire showing tensions between officers and privates. The account highlights discipline and fear during combat in Paris.
Miss Cora E. Binzel presents three salad dressings French dressing Sour Cream Dressing and Cream Salad Dressing with proportions and methods. The article emphasizes preparing dressing in quantity to save time fuel and energy and storing in the icebox.
A preserved salmon mold with a sauce of cucumber and heavy cream. mix dry ingredients with egg yolks butter and milk, cook until thickened, add gelatin and salmon, set in molds. Sauce uses heavy cream beaten to stiff peaks with vinegar and chopped cucumber for serving.
Instructions describe a dark Thanksgiving fruit cake with ingredients including molasses, brown sugar, butter, milk, flour, eggs, raisins, citron, and spices. The method bakes in a large deep tin for two hours on a slow fire, yielding a rich holiday loaf.
One and one fourth pounds flour one pound sugar half pound butter four eggs a tea cupful of cream or milk warmed to melt butter a teaspoonful of rose water two of wine grated nutmeg shape into buns and bake.
A simple sugar cookie recipe uses three fourths cup fat one cup sugar one egg quarter cup milk two teaspoons baking powder two cups flour one teaspoon flavoring or spice Roll thin sprinkle with sugar cut and bake.
A recipe describes frying two chopped onions in two tablespoons of butter until light brown. Add two chopped green peppers then one quart of tomatoes. Season to taste and stew to a pasty consistency. This mixture folds into a six egg omelet.
A fragment lists ingredients for pumpkin fritters including a pint of pumpkin boiled, milk, eggs, salt, and ginger. The text reflects a vintage cooking note with measurements and terminology.
A Battle Creek man reports dramatic relief after one bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy. The ad claims the medicine clears the digestive tract, relieves stomach liver and bowel troubles, and has saved patients from surgeries. It urges chronic cases to try one dose and states the remedy is sold by druggists nationwide.
Carl J. Balliett of Buffalo challenged efforts to blacklist popular family remedies arguing publishers should reject fake medicines but not all medical advertising. He cited rising consumption from 1900 to 1912 and noted 40 percent of doctor prescriptions include proprietary medicines, urging scrutiny of ads and merit behind long standing products.
The passage describes how boiled, broiled, cutlets, and steak made from salmon dominate meals in remote Canada. A tourist laments the lack of variety at breakfast as a whole fish and mustard arrive, and the host insists there is enough salmon for six. The guest declines, preferring something else.
A man vowed to quit drinking and asked a temperance lecturer to draft an affidavit. The document was signed and sealed with the usual oath but when asked for payment the lecturer said it was a labor of love. The pledge maker exclaimed nothing to pay and then suggested they celebrate with a drink.
A satirical list parodies elderly ladies purporting cures and experts in newspapers. It mocks provincial scribes and fad remedies from potatoes to poison ivy, mixing social targets with playful jabs at authors and misused knowledge.
A wry remark on how a writer achieves a flowing style suggests a fountain pen as the favored tool. The quip hints that humor can bend a doctor’s mind and tone.
An old testimonial extols Grape-Nuts as a scientific food that restores strength after long illness. A Washington woman recounts recovery from severe stomach catarrh and weakness after four months in bed, crediting Grape-Nuts with improved digestion and renewed health.
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