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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1897
Page
19
The issue covers weather woes and visitor notes, a candidate for debt to the Constitution, and local church remarks about holiness. It mentions opinions on home training and Sunday papers, concerns about votes and morality in elections, and calls for prudence in public morals amid a proposed national quarantine debate.
Directions for making a genitive chi it plum pudding from The Concury Cookbook. Ingredients include flour raisins currants suga bread crumbs lemon zest candied orange and citron cinnamon cloves nutmeg eggs brandy or rum and buttered cloth steaming method with four to five hours boil time. Keeps well serves 12 to 14 and can be made in small puddings.
The Decorator and Furnisher extols liberty velvets as picturesque with splendid tones. It notes large designs and exquisite shadings, especially yellows with rich fiats and sunflowers leading. Schemes are so bold a single blossom can fit a chair seat while the back features a flower and leaves for an effective decorative device.
A fragmented piece notes that mourning fashion shifts with seasons, recalling a recent move away from traditional crape to lighter fabrics and different textures. The text reflects era styling and public interest in how grief is outwardly expressed through dress.
A fragmented description outlines a black cape or mantle piece with bands of type or metallic fringe and edging. It notes buckskin or buck fiber trim, silk or satin-like bands, and a fitted waist with an inner vest, suggesting a formal or theatrical costume item.
Two pounds of Walelora chopped beef, three-fourths of a gond of fat salt pork choppe Pree al ples chopped fir eupful of molass pound of extra ad ok oftron, anon of cinsumea, at Tey of cloves and imi Sy Ue whole quite moist v, bol. A ceten
A Jewelers circular notes a rise in decorative table items such as silver rims on glassware, cracked ice bowls, and salad dishes. It highlights entre plates in Drexdun china, lamps of cut glass, Cloisonne enamel, Jap anese porcelains, and exotic brass mounted pieces, plus heatproof glazed pottery dishes in silver frames.
From the fragment it instructs taking juice of 10 oranges and 2 tamarinds with a little lemon peel a quart of water ounces of sugar and rainglasa dissolved in all water boil together and strain into a chalice.
A kitchenuscript describes creaming pati pool potions and boiling them until perfectly done. It advises smoothing mushy texture, adding ten spoonfuls of rive iil, enlarging a tablespoon of butter, and a light boil with salt.
An OCR fragment describes mixing flour sugar molasses and other ingredients with butter milk and water to form dough. It references heating, stirring, adding eggs, onions, and spices and mentions quantities and steps that are garbled and partially unreadable.
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