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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1911
Page
9
A guide to seasoning and preparing salads with proper dressings. It covers potato and pear salads, emphasizes tasting during preparation, and suggests recipes including gelatin molds, beer extract, onion, chicken, olives, pecans, and strawberries. It also notes dressing timing, adding peppers, and using cottage cheese with chives for wholesome salads.
A fragmentary note references a cabinet related project involving a book and unspecified shady actions. The text hints at hidden agendas or questionable conduct, but details are unclear and no names or dates are provided.
Instructions for preparing party punches including Ginger Punch Fruit Punch and German Punch with detailed ingredient lists and steps. Also notes on serving with Apollinaris water and ice and a small almond paste cake pairing.
A startled Mrs Comeno questioned why her husband would not use anything not refined in his business. The remark suggests a strict insistence on quality and refinement guiding his practices.
A historical advocate argues that good roads are essential to national progress, farming prosperity, and industrial growth. Citing Washington and Jefferson, the piece credits roads with shortening distances, boosting markets, and tying the country together. William Sulzer signatures the call for constitutional, economical highway expansion.
At the zoological park a large tree log nearly twenty feet long was cut in two using dynamite to create troughs for feeding animals. Dr Hornaday, the director, ordered a workman to split the log. Later the Irish workman’s son rushed to the director, exclaiming that the dynamite had blown the tree into halves.
A Rhode Island Red hen laid 200 eggs in a year under Prof. W. G. Chambers’ care at the Colorado Xericultural College. He tracks all feed costs, keeps hens only if they lay at least 120 eggs in twelve months, and reports average output near a dozen eggs per hen weekly. His feed regime uses dry whole wheat and corn plus alfalfa meal, oats, and a mineral mix, with dry feed given daily.
The article recalls President Andrew Jackson’s private circle known as his Kitchen Cabinet, a group of editors and treasury officials who advised him behind the scenes. Members included William B. Lewis, Isaac Hill, Amos Kendall, Duff Green, and Francis P. Blair Sr. Kendall became postmaster general. Green later opposed Jackson. Blair rose to public prominence. Hill later served as senator from New York area. Lewis is less documented.
Advice on duck-raising stresses keeping ducks dry and out of water. It notes ducks can be profitable without water, warns against mixing ducklings with chicks, and emphasizes soft food, ample greens, and dry, clean housing to prevent disease and lice.
The text advises keeping chicks lice free to ensure growth, notes older geese lay more eggs and are more reliable than young geese, and mentions fresh air as a key disinfectant. It discusses Indian Runner ducks, age effects on goose egg production, and cautions about heat, crowding, and chicks sweating in brooder during crowded conditions.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church will hold a rummage sale on Friday and Saturday at the building formerly occupied by the U S Express Co opposite the Pastoral Office. The sale opens at 9 oclock sharp and offers good usable clothing at very reasonable prices.
The Ann Arbor Railroad will sell excursion tickets December 2nd and 3rd, limited to return by December 2nd, with routes likely confined to on line points. Other Michigan railroads have declined to offer the usual variation this season.
Arcada Township Treasurer EL K. Keitiaas announces tax collection in Armama at State Savings Bank on Saturdays and in Ithata at National Rants on Tuesdays. Additional days at home available.
Taxpayers will receive taxes at Verese Hill Taw Tall on December 12 19 26 and January 4 at the office of EX Chadwick All December 16 20 27 and January 11 at Commercial Bank St Louis to pay Pine River township taxes. GPO FRUCHEY Treas.
An English resident of Manila attributes the long life of locals to a simple diet of rice, bananas, and a little fish. He notes their quick adaptation to meat and European foods but emphasizes that simple eating habits correlate with greater longevity.
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