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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
3
The guide explains using fresh milk or milk set to turn with a rennet tablet bought for 10 cents a dozen. Warm the milk for an hour to form clabber, strain through cheesecloth, let the whey drain. Dry the clabber, then season with salt pepper and add rich milk or cream.
A recipe instructs to melt butter and stir in flour then add milk to make a white sauce. Chop six eggs finely, pour sauce over, season, and mold into egg shapes. Roll in cracker crumbs and fry in butter for a savory dish.
Chop one head of cabbage sprinkle over it two tablespoonfuls of salt and let stand over night. Cut kernels from twelve ears of corn chop two peppers mix these with the cabbage. Bring two quarts of vinegar to a boll add one cup of sugar and one-fourth pound mustard rubbed smooth in a little cold vinegar. Always get light colored first grade mustard as dark mustard spoils the taste.
The piece offers fashion remarks on a gown with silk embroidery and novel sleeve effects. It gives kitchen and cleaning guidance including white pepper preference, chicken seasoning, downstairs cleaning with a plain brush, and starching tips. Also includes dessert flavor boosters with almonds and cereal cleaning advice, marble care, and floor refinishing using spider vinegar. It closes with egg beating and cornstarch tips.
The Thaw murder case hearing in White Plains moves forward as Charles Morehauser weighs calling Thaw to testify, possibly tomorrow or Wednesday. District Attorney Jerome supervises the state’s case with Dr. Evans and other experts disputing Thaw’s alleged paranoia while Evelyn Nesbit Thaw remains subpoenaed for later cross examination.
Senators Burkett and Brown and Nebraska representative praise the Lincoln convention platform though misgivings linger about interpreting Taft’s course as a voting directive. Brown hedges on specifics while Norris and Hinshaw’s positions remain unclear. Insurgents expect Burkett and Brown to back conference tariff terms, while some western senators warn they can block free hides bills.
Lincoln hosts Republican, Democrat, Populist, Prohibition, and Socialist conventions to pick state committees for the year. Major parties report large attendance, harmony, and minor clashes, with Republicans naming Will Hayward as state chairman and Democrats deferring a chair pick, while platforms emphasize tariff revision, state policies, and opposition to county option.
A southbound Big Four train wreck near Zionsville Indiana injures forty two. Six passengers remain hospitalized in Indianapolis after the baggage car and coaches derailed while the locomotive stayed on tracks. Several coaches overturned as unhurt passengers helped pull the injured from windows.
Dispatches from Polotsk report a cholera outbreak with forty daily cases and only five doctors. Panic grips the city as physicians refuse night calls, families scramble for care, and well to do residents flee.
A Cleveland group of disheartened factory workers advocated suicide as the only way to attain peace of mind. Miss Rebecca Bosecheck, eighteen, was found dead in Gordon Park, and relatives fear another girl, a companion, may follow. The club reportedly included six girls and several young men and a couple, many employed in cloak factories.
In Hastings Nebraska Mrs. Wyes Fleming tells authorities about Japonica a girl who says she is thirteen though her mother claims eleven The child reports abuse by multiple men dating from Chicago Spokane and Seattle and describes a former encounter in Chicago She has stayed at an Adventist hospital and features a mature look with a refined background.
American Consul J C McNally reports to the state department that rice crops around Nanking are wholly destroyed by a record drought. Fields near water sources were irrigated by tread mills, while distant plots suffer poor yields due to prior floods, signaling a feared famine and pestilence risk.
A Nebraska note describes a man trapped in a threshing machine line with the head caught and rescued after about thirty minutes. He is 30 years old and lives near North Bend. Separate items record Chester Sheley and Miss Martha Weekley of Newton Kane wed by Judge Spafford at Beatrice, who asked to keep their names from newspapers.
Larry Lyman aged 20 son of Roadmaster Lyman of Valentine died suddenly from heart failure after swimming with friends. In Sutton, a Burlington yards collision between freight trains 170 and 171 derailed the 170 engine. the crew jumped. If 171 had moved forward, the crash would have been a grave accident in that vicinity.
Dennis Lyhenne 67 died at his home southwest of Sutton from injuries in a runaway. He leaves a wife three daughters and five sons. Harry Campbell 19 of Fullerton was hurt at the Fullerton roller mill when his arm was crushed by a belt. Dr W F Johnson hopes to save the arm if infection does not set in.
At Otto Parvin's country home near Fullerton a near fatal accident occurred when his 8 year old son found the infant in a water tank and revived after over an hour. In the same incident the child’s elder brother, son of John Dopf editor of the Fullerton Post, was thrown from a pony and severely injured as the animal kicked him and dragged him.
George, 15, son of T. G. West of Syracuse, fractured his wrist and elbow in a twelve foot scaffold fall. Two kitchen helpers from Kearney Industrial School remain missing after officers arrival. Mrs. Maud Moran of Nebraska City faces potential legal action after a family dispute, she later confessed injuring relatives and was deemed out of danger by a physician. A habeas corpus case led to Maud Moran’s release. a new insanity commission may be appointed for August 2."
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