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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
3
Manila and P. L. detail Lukban hats woven from the Buri palm leaf and its buds. Leaf products yield mats, brooms, ropes, and baskets, some watertight. Bud products include sugar, sirup, and the fermenting drink tuba. Filipinos use tap sap for sugar and a mild intoxicant, with extensive basketry skills noted.
Spokane prepares a banquet for President Taft in Daventon Hall of the Doges, featuring Spokane apples as a centerpiece. Nearly 20,000 apples will decorate the room and adorn the menu with apple served dishes, cider bumpers, and artistic designs celebrating the state’s bumper crop.
In Bally Pennsylvania a reunion of over 300 Wetzels included a first in years meeting of aged twins Enoch Wetzel of West Point Nebraska and Benjamin Wetzel of Vera Cruz. Both 77, born in Hereford township, Enoch a stone mason and Benjamin a carpenter. both widowers.
Miss F L Todd of Btazen Island has constructed an aero plane she believes will surpass prize winners in France. The biplane uses a 50 horsepower automobile engine, spans 43 feet, and is 6 1/2 feet deep. She seeks suitable grounds to test it.
Tokyo notes the first day of September closed favorably for rice crops. Analysts predict demand this year may surpass 50,000,000 acres-equivalent, about 259,000,000 bushels, signaling robust production prospects.
An elderly Maine woman confronts a newspaper editor over a bill sent to her dead husband for two years of the Citizen. The editor jokes about past errors and promises an extra asbestos copy to ensure delivery to the widow.
A Charlott eville Observer note recounts a tale from a respected Anson County citizen about a toad frog crossing a road and a pursuing snake. The frog kept facing the snake with a front held crosswise, a pencil sized object in its mouth, supposedly preventing swallowing as the snake circled.
A two year four month old Wickham workhouse infant shocks staff with constant foul language. Described as strikingly beautiful yet with a shocking vocabulary, the mysterious child’s origin and age remain unclear as experts seek answers to his unprintable remarks.
A 19th century reflection argues that rest equals work in importance, insisting both deserve proper place and dignity. It challenges the view that only labor proves virtue and that rest is suspect.
Cauliflower creamed with milk and a light egg sauce, served over the vegetable. Also creamed cabbage with hard boiled eggs, and creamed sweet potatoes baked in milk with sugar and butter. Read from The Housekeeper, offering simple methods for these cream sauces and combinations.
Instructions describe starch mixing with flour and water, noting lumps form with a spoon but a fork prevents them. Salt reduces scorching but weakens fabrics when wet. If white wax is unavailable, add kerosene and blueing to starch and boil until bubbling. unfinished starch that only simmers makes ironing difficult.
Slice six lemons thin, seeds removed but keep white pulp. Add three pints cold water per pound of fruit, stand 24 hours, boil until tender, pour into earthen dish and rest overnight. Weigh pulp, add one and a half pounds sugar per pound pulp, boil transparency. Heat with java and store in a cool place.
A resourceful woman suggests a daily lunch routine using eggs. She breaks a small piece from the end of one eggshell then washes and preserves the shell as a container for jelly or jam for the noon lunch basket, protected by paraffin paper.
Tender cauliflower is split into small bouquets and simmered in a sauce. A sliced onion and curry powder are sautéed with butter lemon juice and white stock then blended and cooked for an hour before straining. The florets finish simmering in the sauce for ten to fifteen minutes.
A farmer purchases a gold brick for ninety nine Confederate money and a Cann's quarter, causing city onlookers to marvel at the novelty. In a separate note, ants exhibit prolonged petty warfare in peacetime, with sandwiched battles between neighboring colonies often ending in the stronger group’s victory.
A tested recipe for mace dressing uses three eggs beaten with salt pepper and made mustard then mixed with cream or milk and six tablespoonfuls of oiled butter. Add vinegar last, cook over gentle heat until it resembles thin custard, then cool. Keeps well for a long time.
A concise recipe lists ingredients for cookies: one cup sugar, half cup butter, one well beaten egg, two tablespoons sour milk, half teaspoon soda sifted twice in one cup flour. add more flour to form a stiff dough, half teaspoon vanilla. roll thin and bake in a quick oven.
A recipe fragment describes using a fourth of a pound of cream cheese and one dozen small pickles, finely chopped with a table spoonful of onions. Mix with mayonnaise dressing and serve the mixture to twelve people.
Sutter introduces a garnish described as sea butter, to be run through the river into Ice water, chilled, then applied to the food. The method suggests chilling the garnish before plating for texture and presentation.
A paled and trembly older woman sits with a calm young man at a marble table. The girl near them imagines the pair are mother and son and feels relief for the old woman. They part at the desk and exit. it turns out the man is not her son.
An amused royal tale recalls a Parisian studio visit where King A- of Xhonored agreed to carry a washing bag for a painter’s friend after a porter’s error. The king explains generosity over identity, saying everyone should be obliging and avoid refusing a simple favor.
A short admonition urges balance with the world for smooth outcomes. It stresses regular exercise for health, proper dress, and keeping up with current times to preserve self respect, attributed to Exchanges.
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