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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1913
Page
3
Practical guidance for hosting a Thanksgiving meal with colonial themes. It covers inviting guest worship, table decor, and DIY place cards using carbon transfer or watercolor paper. Instructions emphasize simple, quick methods and a few minutes of work to enhance the feast with pumpkin pie as a centerpiece.
A homemaker’s serving cart, an enlarged tea cart, becomes a four‑shelf helper placed at the right hand of the housewife. Its top shelf transfers soup plates, then fish or meat plates, with white flannel sheets between. Salads and fruits are served from the lower shelves in sequence, easing course by course service.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch excerpt urges quiet evenings for children and highlights the value of prayer, gentle interactions, and routine care. It recommends warm chest rub with sweet oil for colds, borax in bath water for tender skin, and a borax wash for healthy hair, stressing parental mindfulness at bedtime.
For Older Women. Evening gowns for older women are made of brocade, metal lace and velvet, showing the high waist line. They are usually split at the foot with square back trains hanging from the middle. Trains now hang from the side or front, and mature outfits feature abundant brilliants and beads. Lace appears in flounces tunics stoles cuffs and De Medici collars, with full brocades over flesh colored chiffon and tulle.
The feature, seen in wraps, suits, and dresses, emphasizes a stiff, thick neck look created by embroidery and wires. Designers bend collar bones with stiffenings to achieve a hump-shouldered silhouette that will be very fashionable.
Practical bread making tips from the era cover using compressed yeast by soaking overnight in cold water to reduce odor while preserving strength. It explains settling, then awakening fermentation with sugar, and advises lukewarm liquids, warm dough, level measurements, and light flour handling for reliable rising.
A period recipe for making light bread in stages. It lists ingredients for the sponge and second raising, including bread flour salt lard and butter milk and water yeast sugar and detailed steps to soak dissolve rub mix raise and knead, shape into loaves, bake until golden and hollow.
The article describes dividing one loaf of milk bread into small portions the size of half an egg. Shape into finger lengths and place close together in a greased pan. Bake as a loaf when light and break apart at intersections to serve warm and lighter than sliced portions.
Recipe lists ingredients for Graham bread including graham flour lard and warm water with sugar. Method describes mixing salt and lard into flour not sifted, soaking yeast, preparing dough with sugar, two rises, pouring into greased pan, and baking until a toothpick comes out clean.
A fragmentary manual describes dissolving actions to awaken yeast with water sugar and warmth. It notes dormant yeast activates fermentation when added to warm dough and warns to keep ingredients in a warm place. Measures are given for flour and half cup sifts, avoiding packing.
Take portions of bread dough and shape into small balls. Arrange in a greased flat pan and bake until light brown. Brush tops with butter while hot and serve fresh.
A traditional almond loaf cake method detailing yeast sponge, warm liquids, and double rising. It covers soaking yeast, then mixing butter sugar eggs almonds lemon extract and flour, beating for ten minutes then five minutes, pouring into cake molds, proof, bake until golden and clear toothpick, then invert and dust with confectioners sugar.
A compact recipe describes making German cinnamon cake using bread flour warm milk compressed yeast sugar eggs and lard or butter. It instructs preparing a sponge beating in flour raising dough shaping in greased tins spreading dough and topping with melted butter sugar and cinnamon, then baking as coffee cake or tarts.
When dough is ready for pan spread a thin layer in a greased pan. Use tart cooking apples, core and slice each quarter into two or three pieces. Layer evenly over dough, overlap to cover. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon, then bake until apples are tender and crust cooks through.
Housekeepers praise bakers goods as best yet many miss the value of home made items. For large families the cook may bake weekly to provide better and cheaper treats, with advice on cooling and soaking methods for best results.
A simple custard mixture combines one egg or two yolks with one cup of rich milk. Beat the egg well, blend into the milk, sugar the apples, omit cinnamon, then pour the custard over the sugared apples and bake until set.
Peach cake directions describe using ripe peaches cut into quarters pressed into dough with sugar and baked plain or with custard. The note emphasizes skin and stone removal and pressing the fruit with the round side against the dough for even incorporation and flavor.
A garbled OCR style note mentions blue plum cake and a vague baking or culinary reference with scattered names and phrases. The fragmentary text lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable persons, making a precise news item impossible to confirm from the readable portion.
A vintage collection of Thanksgiving dessert recipes includes Citron Souffles with Monroe Sauce and Cape Cod Pudding. Instructions cover ingredients, steps, and steaming times for individual molds, plus a Nuts-and-fig Fruit Pudding and Lyman Sauce. The excerpt ends with a Lincoln quote about honesty and justice.
Apple dishes to vary meals include baked apple ice cream using tart apples and rich dairy, taffy apples dipped in sugar glaze, masked apples with lemon and custard gelatine, sponge cake topping, and baked apples stuffed with dates raisins nuts sugar and butter.
A young man proclaims he will work in a dry goods store after finishing his legal education. His friend warns him, but the new attorney insists he has a job promise and plans to proceed despite doubts.
Mrs Titus leaves to shop telling her sons eight and ten they must wait. The boys try half a dozen keys to the jam closet with no luck. They vow to ask mom for a treat when she returns, in a light New York Evening Post item.
Father from Jackson Missouri reports a ten month old daughter suffered a body eruption turning into bloody sores. After trying various ointments she slept better within days and was totally well in a week following use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Ad. Cuticura worldwide sales offer free samples and 32 page Skin Book.
Anatole France promised an essay on Moliere but delayed. Publisher threatened legal action. Raymond Poincare, then a lawyer, urged him to begin. Poincare dictated the first sentence Moliere is a Parisian and France continued, producing the piece in time.
A mother sends Marie to the next room for misbehavior. After a waiting period Marie answers that she will tell her mother when she is sorry, politely but firmly declining to apologize at the moment.
A brief cartoon caption from Lippincott's depicts a persistent peddler and a sharp reply from a lady of the house. He offers a whistle to sell and she warns she will whistle for the dog if he stays. The humor rests on a sharp retort and a cheeky exchange.
A brief London Opinion fragment contrasts marriage moods with humor. The exchange shows a bride noting happiness of her honeymoon while the groom speaks of disillusionment, reflecting light satirical tones on early 20th century married life.
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