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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
6
A vintage recipe article extols fruit cakes and puddings as festive special foods. It provides a detailed method for making Dark Fruit Cake and a lighter cousin, including ingredients such as raisins, currants, nuts, citron, spices, and fruit juices. Steps cover mixing, layering with flour and fruit, baking times, cooling, wrapping, and storage, with gift-ready smaller cakes suggested.
Readable recipe fragments describe plum pudding and suet puddings with ingredients and steps for preparing plum pudding sauce and hard sauce. Includes historical notes and a note about serving flambé plum pudding, plus a short reference to Western Newspaper Union.
Alicia Wylie schemes to advance unknown singer Alfred Deems with help from Myron Corbin, a famous chorus patron. The plan hinges on Alicia’s confession of loving Deems, but jealousy and betrayal erupt when Deems discovers her past with Corbin and rejects her, signaling a ruined relationship and shattered trust.
Lynn advises planning several days for fruit cake and plum pudding prep to avoid fatigue. Cut and chop fruits and nuts in advance, fill batter into pans evenly, and store in a wool dry place in a tightly covered tin container. Keep apples in the container if used to retain moisture, replacing them if decayed.
In 1934 a scientist uncovered 30 primate skulls in Montana's Beartooth range suggesting beings 156 to 175 million years old as the direct ancestors of man. Described as nomadic with minimal social ties, no religion, and no music, they kept to simple animal life, wearing loincloths or leaves and fading from memory after death.
In Danbury Connecticut a young P T Barnum left unpaid bills behind him and vowed to pay once rich. A creditor mocked that a sieve would never hold water. Years later Barnum wrote to the man that he had fixed that sieve.
The article describes building a Victorian style conversation chair with a pine frame and ready made cushions, noting comfortable angles and movable base domes. It also mentions Mrs Spears Add-A-Square rug pattern No 201, offered by mail for 10 cents.
A reflective quotation compares ideals to stars guiding a traveler across a desert, underscoring that one may not touch ideals yet can follow them to reach destiny with steady purpose.
The speaker contemplates the guiding inner principle and asks on every occasion which soul governs action. They seek to identify the ruling aspect of self in this moment, questioning whether it embodies a child, a young man, a feeble woman, a tyrant, a domestic animal, or a wild beast.
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