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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
3
Fashion notes from Paris discuss sleeve trends and the guimpe in spring frocks. Designers favor flexible sleeves from long to short with transparency, while white guimpes recede for color and delicate lace details.
Select a small fine pointed head of cabbage and prepare a stuffed cabbage dish. Remove the center to leave a wall about an inch thick. Mix finely chopped cabbage with ground ham veal onion crackers egg milk butter celery salt salt white pepper and cayenne. Fill cabbage tie on and boil in salted water for one hour. Serve sliced with cream sauce and potato croquettes.
Recipe notes bread rolls using lard butter salt sugar and milk with compressed yeast dissolved in warm water then flour to form dough. Shape into rolls with wreaths and garlands as fashionable decorative touches in the day.
A long list of gift ideas for a girl graduate centers on affordable yet pleasing items. Neckwear such as jabots and lace collars, handkerchiefs with Madeira edging, hosiery, gloves, and small accessories like bags, chamois, ribbons, pins, and combs are recommended. More substantial gifts include watches, jewelry boxes, cretonne baskets, flowers, and bonbons, with pennants for collegians and photos or stationery also suggested.
A striking summer headpiece in pale yellow with black velvet trim. The hat features an artistic crown arrangement and a spreading bow on the left side that falls over the upturned brim, creating an attractive nautical-style millinery look.
A new shaped Panama hat suits seashore or mountains per the item. It resembles the popular peach basket style, simply trimmed with a large dotted silk scarf. Scarves come in a variety of shades and complete the refined outdoor look.
A terse, provocative note cites a judge addressing Te-She as a queer girl and comments on her shifting views and changing waist line. The fragment hints at legal or social commentary with sharp, personal tone and gendered critique.
The article offers household methods for rug care including beating on the wrong side, brushing on the right, and spot removal with oxgall ammonia or vinegar. It suggests broom cleaning with hot suds, bran brightening, salt for stains, and benzine for carpet moths. It warns about corrosive sublimate and prepares under-edge steaming for Wilton carpets, plus a wood cleaning mix of pepper and strychnia.
A mixed patch of old verse translation lines and street humor. Melee among cabbies erupts over a petty quarrel with playful mispronunciations. A stray line notes France has seven thousand five hundred fifty eight pustul saving banks.
A Pittsburgh special recalls Andrew Carnegie’s former rival in love, Squire Edward Cox Negley, an East End alderman. The tale speaks of youth, Miss Crawford, and a wartime love triangle that ended with Negley’s marriage and Carnegie remaining single for years. The now-widowed Mrs Negley is the former Miss Crawford.
Instructions describe slow stewing or roasting beef chicken or pigeons in a kettle with onion and pork, adding minimal water, turning the meat, then browning and tenderizing it before removing and thickening the gravy. An inserted note mentions world earthquake records around the year 30,000.
Prepare round sandwich bread with crusts removed and cut into half inch slices. Beat one egg, mix with club cheese, salt, and pepper. Butter bread, layer with cheese, add three slices of crisp bacon, broil until cheese melts. Serve as toasted cheese and bacon sandwich.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her 90th birthday at her Beacon Street home in Boston surrounded by family. Despite age she remains mentally acute and engaged in public affairs, receiving friends and flowers while the Associated Press notes her gratitude and longstanding humanitarian influence through roles in the American Suffrage Association and Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs.
Household hints offer a cure for pneumonia using onion poultices heated with vinegar, then a blanket regimen with borax ammonia and soap. Additional tips advise refreshing old ice chests with enamel and varnish coats to restore them.
Curing sore lips with camphor spirits or tincture of benzoine dries sores and hastens healing while keeping them soft. Advice covers polishing old furniture, carpet cleaning methods, and careful hand care in cold weather. Notes mention Miss Louise Calder guiding 72 deaconesses at a German Methodist mission and Bethesda Hospital caring for 726 patients last year.
Pale blue chiffon gown trim details described with white silk yoke and velvet edging. The design features a fitted bodice, long sleeves with cuffs, and a deep frill at the wrist.
The text describes several salad preparations including Tomato Salad with diced tomatoes and dressing, Stuffed Tomato Salad with tomatoes and peppered dressing, Brick Salad made from mashed potatoes, onions and eggs molded into bricks served on greens, and Pineapple Salad with lettuce, walnuts, celery, pineapple, mayonnaise and whipped cream. It presents stepwise prep hints and serving suggestions in a vintage kitchen tone.
A compact old fashioned recipe notes assembling mustard with grated Parmesan cheese to form a cheese blend for sandwiches. It also describes a bread leavening method using bread sponge, flour, milk, chopped butternuts, and baking to produce loaves.
A set of bake recipes including Pittsburg Fruit Cake with butter sugar eggs molasses apples and sour milk, Blackberry Jam Cake with jam spices and white caramel icing, Fig Fruit Cake with figs raisins soda and vanilla, and a general Fruit Cake with raisins nuts and spices plus a note on method and a saltaed butter milk addition.
A recipe fragment describes Beef Burrs with a two pound steak cut into strips, a stale bread egg onion butter and sage dressing, rolled and browned then simmered in water to form gravy. Stewed Chicken uses a bean sized soda sprinkle and boiling water to remove odor, then simmered to tender with broth thickened for gravy. Veal Loaf combines minced veal and pork with milk soaked bread, eggs, sage, and spices baked in a pan.
Instructions describe turning leftover bread into batter for griddle cakes, using milk or water soak, salt, egg, flour, and optional rye bread with yeast for overnight rise. Mentions Algeria vineyards yielding the greatest per acre.
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