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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
3
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An article provides fireless cooker methods for ham and chicken soup, plus guidance on cooking grains, oatmeal, and rice. It also offers numerous housekeeping tips such as avoiding waste, proper utensil care, and uses for sandpaper, encouraging efficient, careful kitchen habits with practical, era-appropriate advice.
A compact collection of home recipes using sour cream in place of sweet cream. Dishes include Graham Gems, Cream Blacults, Horseradish Sauce, Hermits, and Carrot Pie with steps for mixing, baking, and flavoring to suit a home kitchen.
A fragment urges practical housekeeping rules such as using a poor broom to scrub when suitable and avoiding waste by not opening multiple fruit cans or leaving parts. It mentions picking up fallen clothes pins and keeping corks and stoppers stored, and to wipe the boiler before packing away.
For the first picnic, guests may entertain at 4 with porch or garden party formats. Activities include reading aloud and discussions, with contests on flowers, birds or fruits. Refreshments feature punch, sandwiches, salads, cakes, ices and coffees. includes Sponge Cake and Pimiento Cheese recipes with practical steps.
Washington Herald reports Dr. B A Walker of Boston warns office workers should avoid exercise after work. He says mental labor fatigues the body and that further exertion during evenings or weekends is unnecessary. He notes youth need outdoor activity before entering offices but afterward should limit strenuous effort to free time.
The Bell telephone system reports over eight million telephones in use in the United States with 4,030,668 strictly Bell phones and extensive interconnections. Bell also lists 11,448,913 miles of wire lease and total revenue from telephone service at 166,600,000 dollars, up about 16,000,000 from the prior year, implying a daily national talk bill near one million dollars.
A fragmentary report recalls a tense moment described as a moving picture revealing horrors of a ban gals counter rush. The quote captures shock and concern as observers question the cause and immediate dangers yet lacks full context.
A Ravenna church steeple toppled when high winds tore a large cross from its peak just after repairs. In Portsmouth a murder confession followed a county arrest, with life sentence after pleading guilty. Canton and Minerva report church discipline and a mayoral funeral decision, while Akron and Youngstown note political and corporate changes.
Head Keeper Billy Snyder found Hattie the trick elephant ill in her pen after breakfast. He prepared a medicine mixture including linseed oil and whisky to treat her, pouring it down her throat with the elephant restrained. The keeper was splashed in the eye but Hattie recovered an hour later and performed tricks for the children.
Milwaukee youths in northern Wisconsin rigged a phonograph to call cows home. They set the machine in a pasture and used a recorded voice to summon the herd while they played checkers, finding chores interrupted their game.
In Pottsville a patient named James Donnelly had a fractured vertebra removed when doctors found a two inch glass fragment embedded in his back, likely from a four year old trolley car accident. The shard lay between his shoulder blades after a long period with an undetected neck wound.
Mary Jenkins, a Posey county teacher, raced to her students after screams, finding snakes in the yard. She used a poker and shovel to kill them, ridding the area of 27 dead reptiles and injuring none of the pupils.
Fight students at Ohio Northern university have been expelled after a fierce melee. The faculty at Kenton upheld President Albert Edwin Smith by decree. Eight students were expelled for their roles in the incident.
Carolyn Wells describes easy crafts to make imitation animals such as turtles and frogs from household items, using wax, prunes, cloves, and colored paper. The piece includes a pocket toy alphabet of items found on Robby and ends with a note on a boy named Bob cherishing his unique treasures from Little Folks.
A quirky essay notes horse aversion to camels and affinity for dogs based on perceived beauty and humor, contrasting gentleness with vulgarity. It then describes Harper's Weekly reporting on jacana birds in tropical South America performing a love dance to attract mates with wing-spread, colorful plumage and impressive display.
A mouse sleeps only about two hours in twenty four and spends the rest of the time active, running miles and consuming or concealing a pound of cheese in four days and nights. The honey bee sleeps from dusk to dawn, prompting the saying to shift to as busy as a mouse. The creature always maintains a hearty appetite.
Little Ford describes finding nine peculiar stones in the yard. He compares one to a good sized small apple, while recounting the size to his father in a brief backyard moment.
A curious magic square is described with all rows columns and diagonals totaling 369. It features the odd numbers placed inside the inscribed diagonal squares, a distinctive arrangement noted in the text.
A playful lore tale claims young Christopher Columbus loved gooseberry jam so much he woke at night to steal it. The piece jokes that his jam habit might have steered him away from discovering America, warning that too many jam temptations could lead to trouble at home.
The F and Benson Brooklyn collection sold over fifteen years. A Katana tetradrachma fetched 3500 dollars, bought by Mr. Henson in 1903. Amphipolis tetradrachma realized 750 dollars from a 1500 dollar cost. A Terina stater, bought for 200 dollars, sold for 1500 dollars.
At a Massachusetts county fair a pony race offered 25 dollars to the victor. Nine boys and one girl competed and the girl led so far ahead that some boys rode off in disgust. The item suggests a future where a girl may beat boys in running events.
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