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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
6
A vintage parcel of notices and ephemera includes a kidney remedy testimonial for Doan's Kidney Pills and a London omnibus anecdote about a driver and a pilgrim card. Other bits offer quips on life, poetry, and daily thoughts from period publications.
The passage extols vegetarian eating with varied wholesome foods. It details cheese dishes, cream soups as main courses, and combinations of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and milk to suit palates. It cautions against overeating and urges simple, nutritious, well balanced meals as the aim of the progressive housekeeper.
The article highlights early November prep for Thanksgiving meals with advice on miner meat, cookies, stews, and oyster stuffing. It suggests making certain items ahead of time, preserving flavor, and offers a recipe note for oyster stuffing with stale bread, oysters, melted fat, seasoning, and onion juice.
Pick over and wash four cupfuls of cranberries. Add one cupful of boiling water and boil twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve. Add two cupfuls of sugar and cook five minutes. Turn into four mold or glasses.
Orange Sauce for Duck, brown butter and hour with salt and cayenne then brown stock and orange juice with rind. Partridges broiled or roasted like duck. Venison should always be cooked. roast leg of venison similar to lamb roast but cooked less per pound.
Take one cupful of stewed and sifted pumpkin, beat with two eggs. Add a pint of milk, a quarter cup of sugar, half teaspoon lemon extract, and a pinch each of ginger, cloves, and cinnamon to taste. Add half teaspoon salt. For richer pie use one cup cream and one cup milk. Bake in a single crust.
A reflective Thanksgiving passage from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about counting blessings. It contrasts dwelling on past losses with gratitude for what remains, and includes a humorous quip about saving two teeth and an old lady flipping clouds to find silver linings.
Household hints advise moistening knot ends of shoe strings to prevent fraying and waxing them. Patch worn heels with extra material, rotate shoes to extend life, and back heels while trimming. A furniture polish combines benzine and raw linseed. open pianos to prevent yellowing keys and wipe with a cloth dampened with alcohol.
A traditional method mixes green tomatoes with apples brown sugar and dried fruits. After salting and draining tomatoes, chop and combine with raisins cit ron cinnamon cloves nutmeg vinegar and simmer for one and a half hours. Preserve as ordinary mince meat for future use.
To prepare mince meat, use lean meat with a little set and cook until tender, then chop fine. Mix twice as much chopped apple as meat, thin with boiled cider and a touch of vinegar. Add raisins, brown sugar, citron, ale moen, mites and cloves to flavor. Cook slowly two hours, tasting often and adjusting spices. Use syrup from sweet pickle peaches as an addition.
A nineteenth century recipe describes stewing mutton in two pounds or more for a family. Cut into small pieces, simmer an hour and a half, brown in fat, then add parboiled potatoes carrots and onion with parsley. Arrange meat on a platter and group vegetables around, seasoning with salt and pepper after an hour of cooking.
A historical recipe describes mixing four cups of wealded mlb with one and one fourth cups of crackers, adding signs eggs nutmeg salt and melted butter, steaming until soft, then baking in a buttered dish for two and a half hours. Serve with egg sauce or a grape juice based cream, sugar and yolk sauce.
A daring aviator tumbles from his aeroplane and a policeman retrieves him from the water. The crowd questions if his heart has stopped while a bystander jokes about two cent cigars and a promised one.
Short-sighted old gentleman admonishes that a grown boy should not be sent outside without a hat. The remark emphasizes practical head covering and parental concern in a quaint, moralizing tone.
A Yukon Oklahoma family recalls a severe childhood rash on a baby boy lasting three months causing intense itching and bleeding from scratching. They credit Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with a dramatic recovery and no symptoms since. Also notes tuberculosis poster campaign funding and effort, detailing artists, posters, and double color billboards.
Miss Cayenne and a candid speaker debate the value of outspoken minds. The exchange notes that those most willing to speak truth often hold less agreeable mentalities, reflecting tension between honesty and public reception.
A Boston educator recounts nervous exhaustion and a later improvement after using Grape-Nuts. She credits improved digestion and bowel regularity, boosted brain power and health, and notes the cereal aids in her recovery. She includes a testimonial urging others to try the product and references The Road to Wellville.
An elderly man near a lunch counter offers to scratch a difficult spot on a young waiter's back. The girl snaps back, saying mind your own business. The passage laments ingratitude and contrasts generous impulses with ungrateful responses.
A story depicts Francis eagerly requesting more grapes after swallowing none and handing the empty stalk to his father. He asks the store to refill the bunch so he can enjoy another round of fruit as a child would.
A garbled OCR fragment presents playful dialogue about fat and color, mentions a large two ounce package of Ball Blue priced at six cents, and ends with an unrelated note about an alarm clock and assorted stray words. No coherent event or clear entities emerge.
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