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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1901
Page
18
A colonial era guide offers versatile uses for overripe or underripe fruit. It details pineapple fritters and pineapple puddings, currant relishes, jams, and marmalades, plus omelets with pineapple and peach puddings, pies, and breads forging practical dishes from imperfect fruit.
A detailed home guide shows multiple bread making methods with graham and whole wheat flours, yeast, raisins, prunes, and milk. It describes mixing, rising, and baking steps, oven temperatures, and dough handling, emphasizing rise time, warmth of the kitchen, and simple variations for soft dough and bread sticks.
A brisk dissection of how celebrated writers fall into anachronisms and factual slips. Shakespeare, Thackeray, Dickens, Zola, and others are cited for improbable details, misdated events, or misnamed persons, with examples from Keats and Chapman. The piece highlights the gap between literary invention and historical accuracy.
The article contrasts two Manila housing styles in an era of earthquakes and typhoons. It details two story stone and wood houses with open upper floors and glass substitutes, plus native bamboo and nipa leaf structures on stilts. It notes open ventilation, light construction, and safety from quakes due to light materials.
A discussion of the slang terms rubber and rubberneck entering common usage beyond vaudeville. The piece notes the growing familiarity of the words, their vivid imagery, and cites a Music Hall biograph sheet definition of rubberneck with a moon figure reaching around shrubbery to spy lovers, illustrating how slang evolves in language.
A fragment discusses a curious process of language enrichment, noting how the word rubber evokes stealthy movement. It cites a family cat rubbering about a house and a college student writing letters, predicting a shift toward a new form pubber as the twentieth century begins.
A detailed home pickle guide notes cider vinegar for best flavor and preservation. Use silver or wooden tools, avoid tin or steel, keep vinegar scalded, and store in a dark dry place. Include horseradish or nasturtium to prevent mold, tie spices in muslin bags, and seal winter jars hot.
Leslie's Weekly notes that women have entered public service in growing numbers, aided by an 1880 act allowing department heads to appoint qualified women to clerkships with the same terms as men. Data show women comprise a significant share of Washington departments, with varying salaries and roles, including postoffice clerks and many other positions. progress documented across decades.
George E. Graham reports from the Brooklyn during the battle that Sehley defeated Spain’s naval power and disputes Fighting Rod Evans. He claims Evans is a coward who watched from the conning tower and explains the ship’s turn to prevent Viz from passing, asserting the maneuvers altered the outcome.
A New Orleans Times Democrat column argues that the once revered title professor has faded. It notes many now prefer doctor or mister, with some educators happy to be plain misters, while others in showy roles or public lives mock the old label.
Horatius Garwood fends off a loud hungry baby and a bustling wife while he tries to write. The scene details a frazzled Chicago writer’s domestic chaos with a noisy infant, mounting distractions, and a fruitless search for quiet, board, and lunch as he struggles to finish his manuscript on The Servant Girl Problem.
Detroit Free Press recounts Doctor D Frank Powell of La Crosse Wisconsin detailing his meeting with Grizzly Adams, famed trapper and animal tamer. Adams hosted a cave menagerie of bears wolves cats and birds, including an attack on a band of Indians. He narrates rescuing a captive boy and using his animals to aid in a chase through a Native village, ending with Adams’ death years later in Neponset May.
The text compares coronation costs under George II and Victoria, noting rising extravagance in earlier reigns. It cites George II’s coronation expenses totaling £16,080 amid fears of lavish display, versus Victoria’s crowning soon after prior festivities. It implies economy shaped Edward's approach, with Duchess of Kent's death prompting restraint.
The account details the £13,000 total for royals and heralds, £1,800 for a bill, £5,000 for commemorative medals, £1.50 fireworks, and a grand banquet for about two thousand clergy and attendants. It lists meat figures, seafood dishes, drink costs, and other royal consumption, highlighting the extravagance of the George IV coronation feast at Westminster Abbey.
A marketman remarks on his vegetable stock, noting asparagus from the same garden cut and shipped the same day. He quotes 18 cents per bunch and plans to sell 190 bunches, with inside and outside lots priced 5 and 2 cents respectively, expecting quick sales. He ends with a quip about human nature.
Fragmented Philadelphia Record account describes a breakfast scene at a Walnut Street boarding house. A stranger sits with the rear of the household, gains no official introduction, and a lively table discussion about bacon follows amid a chaotic kitchen moment.
Vague descriptive prose paints a nature inspired temple formed by two interlacing arches of foliage. It describes lofty green jets crossing and a double row creating a hand built image with fluttering capitals. The fragment evokes a natural cathedral aesthetic beyond any man made minster.
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