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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
8
A readable vintage guide to simple entertaining dishes and quick desserts. It covers corn pudding with tomato or chowder uses, a frozen fruit pudding with gelatine and grape juice, and a chicken croquette recipe with mushroom cream sauce. It stresses easy, palate pleasing dishes for short table time and frugal care.
A French woman cooks chicory until tender, presses it through a sieve, then makes a sauce with butter flour and milk or cream. The puree is returned to a boil to serve. Spinach and other vegetables can be prepared in the same way.
Simple two eighteen inch handkerchiefs stitched around three edges form a light baby pillow cover. Tie by tacking tapes on the fourth edge at equal distance. Add stitches or lace to hem for ornament.
A fragmented report references Tomete Tonet in connection with an event described as a thick half can incident. Details are sparse, with readable fragments indicating a notable action or occurrence involving Tonet and a container.
Sowing on dark fabric with thread mishaps leads to unthreaded needles and stray threads. A piece of white fabric underneath makes the issue more visible, and the helper notes how to adjust to avoid the fault.
A detailed description of an afternoon gown in wedgewood blue voile. The bodice features a round decolletage over Alencon lace, rose and gold silk embroidery, and a high back waistband with a large voile-covered buckle. The skirt shows horizontal satin stripes, box-plaited panels, and a kimono-like short outer sleeve edged in embroidery.
Dress articles discuss the role of sashes and scarves in spring and summer outfits. They note sashes for simple frocks and elaborate accents only on ultra-dressy gowns, sleeves reflecting a shift from Japanese influences, and fringed bretelles as decorative touches. Fabric options include mousseline de soie gauze and filet, with embroidery in beads pearls or gold.
The piece highlights embroidered waistcoats as a gay spring feature. Paria offers cretonne waistcoats with cretonne fronts and plain backs, white button rows, and colorful floral styles. Women may choose taffeta floral vests to pair with pony coats and cutaways.
A smart navy blue mohair spring coat for small girls features a box style, double breasted closure with large smoked pearl buttons, shawl collar, turnback cuffs, and an added white percale vet-collar and cuff with black hair stripe embroidery, finished without fullness.
The article describes back styling for gowns featuring fronts, the back matching the front with elaborate trim, a small embroidered vest or point, a lace applique, and a decorative buckle with a sash. The buckle and sash create a graceful fringe effect at the gown’s rear.
Guidance on baking beef and mutton to save cost, with methods for roasting in oven and spit. Includes beef forms with cold meat, baked eggs, and ways to prepare mutton, fillet, and roast beef tongue. Emphasizes oven temperature, cooking times, and gravy pairing.
How to make a lamp burn well explained steps describe lighting by good light avoids trouble reading and writing. Emphasizes steady light for wood and lamp upkeep. Advises placing camphor in oil to improve flame or using a few drops of vinegar if camphor is unavailable.
The passage outlines cutting chicken into pieces, frying in lard, simmering briefly, draining, dusting with flour and pepper, and finishing by sauteing in butter and lard. Serve with blotting paper.
A fragmentary recipe describes light soft cookies to keep for weeks using two cups light brown sugar one cup buttermilk one cup butter one heaping spoon of shopping raised flour tea spoon full baking powder and sour to mir The secret lies in the sugar and method.
A simple home made portfolio assists a tidy desk and quick access to papers. Two thick cardboard squares are covered with heavy tannen and yellow silk, edges feather stitched, whipped on one side, with inner linen panels to hold sheets.
A vintage recipe describes using canned salmon with drained liquor, rinsed clean, to flake and mix with sugar salt flour mustard red pepper lemon juice egg yolks melted butter cream and vinegar. The mixture is cooked in a double boiler until thickened, then gelatin is added and the salmon is set in moulds to serve.
A home liniment recipe uses 94 grains camphor and a quarter pint turpentine with 16 grains almond oil. If almond oil unavailable substitute vaseline or lard, about two tablespoons. Heat cautiously in a shallow pan, apply hot, rub in, and cover with flannel. Avoid cold exposure afterward as pores are open.
A vintage recipe describes a jelly made from sixteenth ounce Russian isinglass, one ounce glycerine, three ounces orange flower water, and five drops neroli oil. The orange flower is warmed in a hot bath, isinglass dissolves, glycerine and neroli are added, then the mixture is poured into a container and cooled to set as a jelly.
A compact guide offers a cheese and nut sandwich method using Gruyere and walnuts, plus stain removal for coffee and quick candle fixes. It describes trimming crusts, layering buttered bread, pressing the assembled sandwiches, and drying. then advises glycerine use to lift coffee stains from silk or wool and explains a quick candle repair by melting grease in the socket.
To remove mildew rub tomato on the stain, sprinkle salt thickly and lay in the sap. Repeat thin two or three times if necessary. Eye wash mix a teaspoonful of powdered boric acid in one cup boiling water, strain and apply to the eye night and morning.
Baron Edmondo Mayor des Planche spoke in Washington about Verdi after the Paris Aida debut. The composer received the Legion of Honor rosette at a second performance as the President of France presided. Verdi, moved, fumbled the badge and had it reaffixed with a knife by an attendant. He then mused on his inability to help himself and wondered what his wife would say about a great hole in his coat.
A musician recalls organ blowers past and present as vanity grows in the craft. He notes many blowers once matched music to mood, yet some adopt showy poses akin to Paderewski or Sousa. In climaxes they strain, bellows jerking, faces flushing, the organ nearly bursting.
A sneak thief pinched a grip from two miners at a Los Angeles railroad station, thinking it held gold dust. The case contained only an enormous live rattlesnake, causing fear of harm and prompting police and miners to seek the thief and the shed snake.
An old Arab wearer of a stone scarab experiences a scare claiming mania from a night’s tears. He drinks bichloride under the impression it will dissolve the amulet but the scarab persists, while the tale notes the harmful effect on Arabs and ends with the buried figure.
The Chicago Record-Herald promotes humor as part of its mission with the Alternating Currents column by S. E. Kiser and Ralph Wilder cartoons on the front page. Its humor aims to entertain and provoke thought while remaining clean and truthful, aided by contributions from famed humorists in Sunday Magazine.
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