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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
5
A nostalgic home cook article suggests varied soups as autumn returns. It outlines potato tomato bisque with sorrel, a chicken stock method, artichoke broth, salmon soup, and a sage cream soup, including step by step prep and thickening tips.
The week’s column lists residents visiting kin and townspeople shopping in Spencer. Individuals travel to Storm Lake and Sioux City, attend graduations, and pursue sales, school duties, or repairs. Local auto dealers, teachers, and farmers are noted among frequent trips, visits, and purchases, with Spencer described as a growing business center.
Sold at once a trouse and barn with three acres of land in Spencer. Sea W. W. Haines at 174 West Fifth Street advertises the bargain. Date and offer details appear in the terse local notice style.
Five young Shetland ponies are for sale by J A Miller. The seller notes they are suitable for children and invites interested buyers to call for details at the listed contact.
One Fairbanks Morse one horse portable engine, one Leaver three horse engine, and one Wart Parr two horse engine offered by W N W. Wels at Spencer. Engines are in good repair and guaranteed.
On June 1, 101%, the Clay County District Court appointed G. Prawam of Dickens IA as administrator of the estate of H W Mish deceased. All indebted parties must pay and all claimants must present properly authenticated claims to the court for allowance.
A quarter section of fertile land in Clay county is described as a reliable gold mine, yielding steady income with rising value under proper tiling. The text urges local bargains over distant investments and invites dealing with a firm named Square Dinan Esrarn Ca Mi 't MoLang Meri.
A vintage instruction lists mashing anchovies into French dressing, preparing olives, beets, cucumber pickle, and lettuce to line a bowl. It calls for chopped hard boiled eggs, dusting with salt and pepper, then drizzling with sherry and the dressing.
The guide instructs boiling tripe after washing it half a pound, cooling and cutting into small pieces. It adds milk, water, chopped onions, and seasonings, then simmers for two hours and thickens with a flour and milk slurry.
Peel and poll squash until tender then blend with one onion. For each cup of squash add one cup of milk and a small lump of butter. Season with salt and pepper, then serve hot.
A father urges his son to observe and remember, teaching him to see. The boy answers with a candid list of household secrets: Sister Jane’s hair dye, Aunt Jennie’s extra teeth, mother’s cards and whisky behind the bookcase.
A terse crime note describes a thief trapped during a failed breakout as a police pursuit ends with capture. The account references a robber named in passing and a sudden reaper figure intervening at the scene, leaving readers with a sense of rapid closure.
A traveling salesman in a southern town visits a sunlit pond where an old man fishes. The salesman asks about the fishing and the fisherman reveals there are no fish, only a plan to prove his wife he has no time to chop wood for the fire. The anecdote highlights a humorous misunderstanding.
In a local deli scene food and drug inspector TR Schall tested a meal to show a hoax. He found no feather in the soup and learned a waiter confessed the boss ordered kitchen tricks to deceive the inspector with a bogus display.
In a playful exchange two Anonian figures recount legendary smokeflowers from their lineage. The first recalls a great grandfather who blew smoke rings to guard a peg in a corner store game, while the second adds that another ancestor could blow rings so deftly a cyalone shattered his door keyhole, yet he pressed on with a new pipe.
An oddly phrased dialogue notes a doctor called frequently at the Dempatara area during the past week. A child falls ill after a lonely pie breakfast before the family awoke. The exchange hints at a possible Carly plot.
A fragment discusses Norwegian voting rights claiming noncitizens cannot vote. It questions if people with filed teeth retain franchise rights and how dental status may affect political participation in Norway.
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