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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
2
A collage of jokes and quips from Baltimore American Kansas City Times New Zealand Free Lance and other dailies. Patter centers on women, men, manners, and everyday foibles with brisk one liners and short dialogues.
A collection of kitchen and household guidance detailing odor removal for liver dishes, utensil cleaning, layered cakes with icing and fillings, steamed meats, rice stuffing, and simple desserts. Also includes boiled cake, steamed potatoes, baked tomatoes, pickled onions, beaten biscuit, and practical short suggestions for cleanliness and polish.
A vivid jumble of vignettes and anecdotes ranges from a German peddler at a kitchen door to a ministerial debate on cooking and a court scene with a brutal interrogator. Miscellany includes a horse found for five dollars by a half witted man and a tale of a clever mind versus an outwardly plain spouse.
A historical note explains lead pencils use graphite rather than lead. It traces origins to early times when lead was used, lists graphite sources worldwide, and describes milling, dusting, and grading processes that produce pencils from different graphite and clay mixtures.
A lyrical tribute describes an ancient swamp white oak as the greatest tree the author has seen, its vast height hollow trunk and aged crown evoking cathedral grandeur. Nearby a tulip poplar rises, its green and gold blossoms contrasting with the oak’s mighty presence and timeless majesty.
A beetle weighing two grains can move 5 1 2 ounces or 1220 times its weight. A 150 pound man could proportionately move about 198 000 pounds. A scientist recalls capturing a handsome beetle and observing it escape from under a beaker on a lab shelf.
An escort comments on a safe hit and the runner earning second base. A dameel adds a quip about the daffer lacking base running speed, joking that he could have turned the hit into a three-bagger.
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