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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
6
Agricultural tips cover cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and poultry. Emphasizes breeding, feeding, housing, water access, daily rations, and avoiding overcrowding. Highlights stock selection, vet exams, fencing, and humane handling to improve health, output, and farm profitability.
Emma P. Telford advises households to reuse cooking fats and refuse wasting shortening. Use pot liquor from boiled meats and stock for frying, cookies, or mayonnaise. Mix half lard and drippings or other fat blends. avoid costly butter which burns.
An exchange column warns that fastening the cover on a steam filled cooker kettle caused a scalding burn when the clamp released. The writer describes injuries and stresses leaving covers unfastened during boiling and either turning down heat or removing the kettle from flame to avoid accidents.
A recipe outlines cooking one fourth pound macaroni in boiling water then layering in a buttered dish with meat and a little water or stock. Season with onion green pepper sausage or herbs and bake covered until heated, cooking any raw meat beforehand to blend flavors.
The article suggests lowering meat costs by using cheaper cuts like chuck roast. It explains pounding the meat, flouring, then searing in a hot pot and roasting with bacon bay leaf garlic and vinegar for a tender piquant dish to accompany boiled rice or potatoes.
A fragmented recipe describes creaming butter with salt and sugar, adding a wet egg and milk, mixing to a dough, rolling to thick, cutting with a biscuit cutter, dipping in melted butter, folding pieces, and baking about 16 minutes. The text uses misspellings and archaic spellings.
Tea water cleans varnished wood quickly by soaking leaves then straining the liquid and applying with cloths to loosen dirt and remove smear. The recipe includes boiling water, tea leaves, gelatin, and butter to prepare a salmon dish as a separate instruction.
Fragmentary notes describe meat loaf ingredients and method including one pound hamburger half teaspoon salt and pepper plus optional crackers and fat. Text is garbled with unclear amounts and directions.
A reader recounts chronic backache and kidney distress attributed to kidney failure and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills are endorsed as the preferred remedy, with a long testimonial claiming relief after months of suffering and prior ineffective treatments.
Mildred is described as voice of her era challenging norms as she asks why girls are restricted while boys can do more. The child confronts parental and societal limits on girlhood and autonomy provoking reflections on justice and division by gender. The piece frames a child’s awakening against conventional limits.
Mrs Charles H Brooke reports eighteen years of ankle sores with intense burning and sleepless nights. She says Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured them in three months, ending the pain and restoring the skin. The ad invites readers to request samples and a Skin Book from Cuticura Dept. L in Boston.
A lively scene at Brooks Lyn Navy Yard shows generals and admirals inside a big function as a crowd watches. Two poorly dressed men discuss the day’s events and guess the cornerstone is being laid for a battleship while a city storebook department chatter surrounds poetry and fashion a misheard scene.
A misheard tale in Léppincott's Magazine describes an Englishman at a New York boarding house who, amid a storytelling session, mistakes a creature described as a dachelund for a long German dog. The punchline hinges on the Englishman exclaiming Prankfurters.
Judge Jeremiah Neterer issued a permanent injunction for Centaur Company of New York against Stewart & Holmes Drug Company over a misleading Fletcher's Castoria label. The decree requires recall of infringing goods and payment of costs and damages, with damages capped at 400 dollars in Seattle.
A man offers a method to speak while drinking and asks secrecy to avoid his wife learning of the arrangement. The odd scheme appears in a local column, reflecting humorous or curious social chatter.
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