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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
6
This piece argues small, locally sourced, uniform feeders fit the farmer best. It notes failures from unfamiliar market practices and emphasizes starting with quality, in-neighborhood stock, proper timing of salting, and feeding only what is profitable. It urges careful selection by season, breed suitability, and market awareness for full fed cattle.
Practical guidance on feeding, health, housing, and management of hogs. Emphasizes balanced corn and clover forage, avoiding grain overuse, importance of vigorous breeding stock, disinfectants, and clean waterers. Advocates humane treatment, close hog companionship, and sensible limits on mud and pen design.
A discussion on sheep keeping as a profitable farm stock choice. Neighbors weigh weed control benefits and the merits of starting a small flock with market ewes, noting the adaptability and low fencing needs of sheep. Fresh butter is praised for quality and superiority when produced fresh.
The practician advises farmers how to care for horses. avoid washing in cold water, exercise before blanketing, wipe dry with straw, rub dry after exposure, provide warmth, and groom at evening. Emphasizes preventing chills and fevers by proper drying and heat management to maintain work output.
A vintage guide explains making jellies and flavorings at home from garden roses ginger vanilla and lemon. Techniques cover drying petals extracting flavors with alcohol or grain alcohols and pressing berries for raspberry vinegar. Detailed steps include quantities and storage hints for rose, ginger, vanilla, lemon, strawberry, and raspberry preparations.
A method to erase white marks from a table involves dampening wad with methylated spirit and placing a white linen patch at the back to create a grip. Apply in eight circular motions in one direction until the mark fades, then wipe with a dry cloth and polish with furniture cream. Do not apply spirit directly to the huen.
A short kitchen guide advises soaking prunes overnight in cold water then boiling fifteen minutes with sugar, simmering half an hour. An alternate method uses boiling water poured over and left to stand briefly, while flavor variations suggest adding jam or a bag of splove for nuance.
Brief cooking note advises shelling walnuts, toasting with butter in a pan, seasoning with pepper, baking in a moderate oven while stirring to avoid browning and preserve flavor. Warns against browning as it spoils taste.
A scrambled early 20th century style note discusses strawberry shortcake origins in New England and offers a local recipe. It details using wild and cultivated berries, two quarts for topping, slicing and sugaring, and a cake with sifted pastry sour and cream of tartar or baking powder. It instructs rolling half inch thick and assembling with a thick berry layer and rich cream.
Practical advice for busy housewives on cleaning knives with carrot juice for sharpening edges and removing onion odors. Tips include cleaning gilt frames with white of egg, peeling onions rootward to reduce tears, saving cold tea for houseplants, and minting silver teapots with sugar to prevent musty odor.
A Delineator tip suggests using large peeled radishes as a mushroom substitute when mushrooms are scarce. Slice and cook radishes in steak juice until brown, then finish with butter, salt, and pepper. Radishes are said to resemble the real article and can replace turnips when boiled.
A vintage recipe for fig pudding using cornstarch milk sugar salt and eggs. Scald milk, mix with cornstarch and sugar, add hot milk, cook until thick, fold in egg whites and figs, bake or chill in a mold, serve with cream.
A simple method for scalloped mutton: in a buttered dish, spread bread crumbs, add a layer of meat with salt and pepper, and a little gravy or tomato. Repeat to the top, finish with raw potato slices and butter, bake 45 minutes, uncover to brown 15 minutes.
Hy weathing the mint before adding sugar salt vinegar and juice from half a lemon a finer flavor will be procured. It can also be bottled and will keep for some time saving preparing it each time when desired.
Instructions describe baking a ham slice in a pan, soaking if not wild, then coating with a honeyed mustard glaze. Sprinkle powdered mustard, brown sugar, and flour, add water, bake about forty minutes, basting often. Finish gravy by adding boiling water without thickening.
A brief note explains how shell spoilage of eggs occurs when air or inefficiencies in the shell allow taste and appearance to be affected. It suggests a method involving salt before boiling to reduce spoilage and improve flavor.
A fragmented cooking instruction describes placing email sausages on a baking dish and heating until brown. It then mentions cooling, splitting lengthwise, spreading brown bread, layering crisp lettuce, and adding another bread layer. The text is garbled with misspellings and unclear steps.
A historic note warns that mixing white hearth atona of red petre with thin starch instead of water makes the mixture cling to the winner and resist washing or wear off slowly.
Remove grapefruit pulp from rind and add to lettuce leaves with chopped nuts or celery. Serve with mayonnaise or French dressing for a bright, simple salad.
Arrowroot serves as a clear thickener for fruit juices. It cooks cleanly, preserves the juice’s transparency, and does not affect the flavor or texture beyond desired viscosity. Ideal for beverages seeking a smooth, glossy profile.
A century ago Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of France after army distrust and political pressure. Generals Ney Lefebvre and Moncey urged abdication, Napoleon agreed, and on April 11 the Treaty of Fontainebleau sent him to Elba while his family’s throne rights were renounced.
Sir Ernest Shackleton speaks on the drive behind Antarctic exploration, noting the uncertain force that compels explorers. He says the lure is best left undescribed, as mystery fuels the quest and the desire to push into the unknown remains a duty for future ages.
A quirky critique argues mustaches hide traits and modify appearance. The speaker mocks efforts to ban upper lip hair and notes mustaches vary from ugly to striking, noting their universal appeal from emperors to commoners and dismissing calls for removal.
Dr William B Cannon of Harvard Medical School reports experiments distinguishing appetite from hunger and linking stomach contractions to the hunger sensation. He finds hunger can occur even when food is scarce or the system is overfed, and that emptiness alone does not cause hunger.
The Williamsburg Bridge was rehung over almost three years replacing ten inch steel cables with thirteen inch nickel steel bars, raising weight capacity by doubling support. The job, completed with under two hours traffic interruption, supports a new subway scheme making the bridge a central link for elevated and streetcar tracks.
A Munich geologist descended Vesuvius crater with a wire and metal cylinders of lead zinc and antimony that melt at 626 788 and 1166 degrees Fahrenheit. Lead melted at 3 1/2 feet depth, zinc at 49 feet, antimony at 175 feet. A crater vent showed 204 degrees in 1911, 627 in 1912, and 872 in 1913 suggesting potential eruption.
An Irishman sued after a Negro ticket hopper knocked him down at a New York elevated station. The attorney, using ingenuity, secured an Irish jury but the panel ruled against the plaintiff, contending an Irishman beaten by a Black man deserved it.
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