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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
4
The new Philadelphia mayor Blankenburg vows to clean the city of vice closing saloons and speak-easies. He reports 600 venues shut and raids on remaining establishments as a German community voices discontent over Sunday beer bans. The reform plan aims to make Philadelphia well governed and morally upright.
President Fallieres at the Paris New Year reception praised arbitration efforts led by Taft. British ambassador Sir Francis Bertie and U S envoy Robert Bacon attended as diplomats voiced support for extending arbitration to international questions. Fallieres and Bacon agreed the principle offers a pacific method for settling disputes.
Theodore L. Weed chief clerk of the post office department and top aide to Postmaster General Hitchcock is appointed director of the postal savings system at $5,000 a year. He will start immediately as the system expands, with deposits exceeding 14 million and plans to open postal banks in about sixty locations.
Governor Robert Verkins Dass of Hampetire is engaged to wed Edith Bird daughter of Charles and Bird of East Walpole and granddaughter of Francis Woftird. Hass, a forestry advocate and former Progressive Republican speaker, is expected to run as vice presidential candidate if Progressives prevail.
A period instructions list many recipes with measurements and steps for plum pudding doughnuts brown bread cookies and other items. It gives amounts for molasses milk suet raisins spices and flour and explains boiling baking steaming and cooling methods.
Recipe describes peeling and dicing mushrooms with butter and ch mer, cooking with rice, onion, white pepper, and water until tender. Stir in eggs and parsley, chill, form croquettes, coat in crumbs, and fry in hot fat.
A damaged recipe fragment describes smothering chicken by boiling then browning in a pan with water butter and steam. It mentions basting and thickening the sauce while the chicken becomes tender and fully coated.
The note describes methods for percolating coffee using a four cup percolator and the alternative of pouring hot water through ground coffee in a cloth or other makeshift filter. It emphasizes achieving the desired strength and browning appearance of the brew and mentions scenarios where no percolator is available.
A simple fruit puree method using a pound of whet rye and Goedolf cup of wig ar. Heat the falke whleur exke with double cream, add the frosted whites, then the cherry mixture. Melt butter, pour into a pan, bake, and finish with hot sugar. Serve immediately.
The text describes mixing dough and sugar, kneading, letting the dough rise, and baking. It mentions measuring ingredients, forming tables, and a rising period before baking for a set time.
The article explains frying doughnuts and crullers at the right temperature and batch size to avoid sogginess. It advises draining, sugar coating in a paper bag, and using raw potatoes to clear fat cloudiness, with fat strained through cheesecloth to remove particles and prevent black specks on future items.
A homemaker recounts trimming dessert costs during early childrearing years. She swapped elaborate sweets for fruit, quick gels, or small cake with tea, freeing time for outdoor play with her children. The change eased workload without harming the family.
Soak the liver in salt water to draw out blood then dry with wine. Stuff with force meat of bread crumbs pork fat shallots pepper salt nutmeg marjoram thyme and optional sage. Moisten with butter and eggs. Create a small cavity with a knife, fill it, sew the opening, and roast an hour basting with butter and water. Serve with gravy.
A short guide suggests using a light red dye and careful painting to conceal wear on rugs and fabrics. It notes the nap may not return but appearance improves, offering a inexpensive restoration that can extend use for another season.
A garbled historic recipe describes a salad with exotic elements and layered preparation. The text mentions hawklike pinemyple and heated wheels, cured olives, mayonnaise, and a palmerina pastry topping, with an emphasis on arranging stripes of Pimento and decorative petals.
Fragmentary kitchen notes describe mixing sugar and butter with unclear measurements. The text references jelly and sandwich steps but the ingredients and sequence are garbled. No clear quantities or valid method emerge.
A scrambled OCR style entry lists items including Tea Cake one quart of Gogi one cup of sour Wik and other ingredients. The text mentions two mohee dick and bebe bee quick oven with culinary context unclear.
In New York the long running challenge to Maria L Campbell's will gathers a who’s who of old New York society. Testimony alleges insanity amid schemes around large legacies as relatives contest provisions to four cousins. A trove of old checks surfaced in Campbell's rooms including a 100000 and 260000 signed in past years.
Fifteen hundred professionals including actors chorus girls and vaudevillians converge on Chicago seeking openings as agencies report a shortage of supply and a crush of applicants. Managers say there are more performers in demand than spots with as many as a thousand actors lacking work and firms returning from neighboring states.
Miss Ketelle Mekiroy, eighteen, held in Hilburn jail after being captured in a search for a burglary ring leader. Police pursuing a gang linked to factory, hotel, and postal robberies across Rockland County villages. A charge of attempted burglary is filed against her as investigators note band activity and increased police presence with unhelpful leads.
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