05 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1910
Page
1
A weary princess Amorette loses magic as she grows tired of fairy charms. Her Fairy Godmother tries charms ending with a forest squirrel transformation that reveals love and human longing. Amorette becomes mortal, but the Godmother warns magic still lingers in charms.
The French writer Daudet once housed a silver oiled bowl in his study during weekly receptions. Guests used the bowl for a mute meditation, and some visitors began pocketing coins, prompting Daudet to abandon the practice.
An old Irish woman kept fruit and received melons she exposed for maig. A smart Yankee aims to take revenge in a terse, fragmentary crime notice with limited readable detail.
In Shadyside the Wise Man returns home to read a book but is interrupted by guests and a 250 piece cut up picture puzzle. He bets he will win, buys the puzzle, and the family spends a week assembling it on the dining table while he reads. The dining table stays cleared for puzzle work until completion.
A fragmentary poem styled out of a Washington Star quip portrays a narrator haunted by a ghostly turkey. The speaker references a lingering specter, poetic grief, and a morbid joke about stew as he frets over the eerie poultry vision.
A dialect quip notes that kindness bridges social gaps as much as wealth. It argues that both workers and employers benefit from small courtesies, stressing goodwill over money in workplace relations.
A narrator recalls an exchange where a visitor claims Irish melons are small apples, while a local woman responds with a sigh and gentle scolding about unfamiliarity with Ireland and American fruit sizes. The dialogue hints at cross cultural misunderstanding and rustic humor.
A guide lists home remedies for common ailments with simple preparations. Treatments include glycerin and lemon egg mixtures for hoarseness, hyposulphite baths for ivy poison, raw potato poultices for burns, honey and egg paste for felons, and salicylic acid powder for tender feet. Also described are boric acid for canker, lime water with carbolic acid for hives, lard and turpentine for croup, shellac for cracked fingers, lemon juice with egg for car sickness, and eyeing postures for hiccups.
A guide emphasizes arranging guests like flowers with color and form in a cool room. The menu should be well chosen and served, lighting balanced, and flowers kept with little fragrance to avoid overpowering the evening. Congenial company completes the recipe for a memorable dinner.
A dated kitchen instruction describes making clove apples for cold meats. Boil three quarters of a pound of sugar with two cupfuls of water to a syrup, simmer pared apple quarters, lift with a fork, and cook in syrup. Add skins with cloves, cook twenty minutes, remove skins, and pour the clove syrup over the apples in a jar. Inexpensive and beats chutney.
A historical kitchen table lists cooking times by meat type. Beef and pork figures cover sirloin rump and well done roasts, while fowl such as turkey and chicken include multi hour braises and roasts. Fish entries specify boiling and frying durations for bass bluefish cod and others.
A 19th century doughnut method uses one egg half a pound of flour sugar butter jam lemon rind and milk. Mix rub butter into flour add lemon rind salt and sugar warm yeast with milk sugar and flour then beat eggs add to mix knead until clean set to rise roll to one eighth inch cut rounds place jam filling seal and fry until brown and drained sugar dust.
A dated kitchen guide suggests using one pint cold potatoes, butter, minced onion, chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Dice the potatoes, season, fry onions in butter until yellow, then add potatoes and stir gently to brown without breaking. Finish with extra butter if needed, garnish with parsley, and serve hot.
Soak beans overnight then boil until tender discarding the first two waters. Place beans in a baking dish with salt pepper and a tablespoon of molasses per quart. Cover with milk and bake slowly for nine hours, refilling milk as needed for a delicious and healthy dish.
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