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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
3
Mrs Drayton and her mother debate Chester's upbringing as Guy, Chester's uncle, arrives to judge his progress. The family navigates late dinners, rough speech, and a budding baseball interest while insisting the boy mature naturally without overprotection.
A collection of practical household advice covers preserving dairy by chilling, drying air in cellars, and avoiding spoiled foods. It includes methods to keep cream sweet, restore paint with sandpaper and lemon, safe handling of meats and vegetables, and everyday tasks like wrapping sandwiches and repurposing old curtains into usable washcloths. Also offered are lemon remedies, paper cornucopias for children, and simple recipes like green pea pancakes.
A suburban dweller extols using discarded kitchen boilers as decorative and practical yard features. Boilers, hauled to vacant lots when worn, serve as gate posts fence substitutes and planters. Painted or unpainted, they color the property and even hold soil for flowers or hedge enclosures in some homes.
The article explains milk safety and preservation through pasteurization and sterilization, stressing clean handling and the health risks of milkborne diseases. It also offers a vivid guide to a Japanese luncheon with cherry blossoms, tea, and themed decor, plus a simple minced toast recipe and a humorous domestic anecdote about starched pajama care.
A recipe describes parboiled asparagus tips with butter salt pepper Madeira for three minutes. Beat two eggs with thick cream and fold in the asparagus tips. The mixture is served on triangles of bread or bat.
J Claude White describes an extreme cold event where a mountain stream froze solid overnight. The expedition awoke to a silent ice field, with gear and provisions turned to ice, forcing them to survive on tea melted from ice and biscuits as their only nourishment.
Puebla correspondent reports doctors face a puzzling eye case. Estanielao Ruiz confesses he watched a lover kissing a well dressed stranger near a barn window, triggering emotions and a trip to the sanitarium for examination.
John Philip Sousa reflects on aging in a tranquil Circle, noting youth persists in imagination from age eight onward and fifty marks a period of expanded creativity balanced by experience. He envisions a steadier outlook as past and future merge, yielding calmer nerves and softened passions.
A correspondent recalls a mix up at a suburban post office after a clerk failed to locate a German town in the guide. The clerk jokes that the town is not under China and suggests Dresden might be in the celestial empire.
A reflection on wealth arising from labor and the value of intelligent energy. It notes that achievements come from minds and hands, citing examples like a portrait painter influencing telegraph and a college professor shaping the telephone, and urges mindful progress toward a better world.
A quirky aphorism contrasts a fivefoot book cane as a mark of learning with a folding bed shaped like a bookcase, implying humorous insight from Prek about clever objects and education.
The Rev Leo Logan son of Col Logan of the Ninth returns to 660 Broadway South Boston after being ordained at a Jesuit university in Austria. He toured the world including China and the Philippines praising trade schools and noting local wages, education and customs while recounting Boxer era views and local shifts in etiquette in Japan.
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