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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1903
Page
10
A feature on New Year customs with guidance on health, cheer, and family gatherings. Includes a detailed children’s table display using cotton snow and fairy motifs, plus warnings about flame risks. Also provides a sample menu with clam cocktail, venison, and decorative desserts, and practical cooking steps for festive dishes.
Recipes describe honey cakes with honey, sugar, butter, and spices, baked in a moderate oven after rolling and cutting. Boston cookies are formed from butter, sugar, eggs, flour, nuts, currants and spices, baked until firm. Charlotte russe and a caramel glaze are also outlined for festive desserts.
In Jericho a two mile hog delivery ends with Deacon Carter and widow Green amid a chaotic chase. the hog tramples plants while the widow vows legal rebuke and revenge. The tale blends rustic farce with old rivalries as the fat hog becomes central to village lore.
Public notices seek farm and household goods for sale and barter, with readers asked for clean cotton rugs and a tenant needed to rent 88 acres near Topeka. The text shifts to a long anecdote about a deacon, a stubborn hog, and a widow, detailing heated language, neighborhood sympathy, and reflections on church discipline.
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