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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
8
Instructions list several sweet potato recipes including Glazed Sweet Potatoes Stuffed Potatoes Sweet Potato Souffle and Southern Pudding with details on ingredients and baking steps. Also includes a Potato Cakes recipe featuring shortening sugar chocolate cinnamon nutmeg raisins milk flour baking powder walnuts and oven time.
Delicious sandwiches formed in fancy shapes with sugared whipped cream filling, olives, and cheese. Elaborate Eliza recipe for figs and apples with sugar and water, boiled and served over crushed ice with orange slice. Tournedos of Lamb features lamb chops wrapped with bacon, seasoned, grilled, and plated with mint jelly and browned potatoes. German Potato Salad combines jacketed potatoes with onions cucumber pepper radishes and bacon dressing of hot vinegar water and mustard. Corn Pudding In Rica Shell molds rice, fills with corn, egg, sugar, salt, butter, milk and bakes.
A European immigrant cloakmaker, John Doe, faces bankruptcy after a cloakmakers strike. He schemes to salvage money by pretending engagement to Mollie, gifting her diamond jewelry and furnishing a flat. When the plan collapses in court, Mollie clings to the furniture, and John finally proposes marriage.
The European war's direct effects sharpen trade, industry, and finance across the Americas. Observers note a moral awakening and a broader, shared national self consciousness. Countries seek clearer roles in a global system and how to best secure their resources and capabilities.
A boss jokes about hiring a new stenographer last month and a colleague who preferred her. The conversation turns to marriage and the speaker hints at seeking a successor after the wife of the favored co-worker. The exchange reflects office humor and a potential love triangle.
In a San Francisco Chronicle account a Navy or army tale shows Corporal A Lincoln Brown of the Ninth Cavalry narrowly losing a sergeant’s stripe to a debt burden. Lieutenant Gardner, overseeing a troop, notes Brown’s reluctance to accept promotion until his $40 debt is settled, highlighting post payment periods and cash scarcity in the army. Brown fears added duties without pay, while Gardner presses the promotion.
Sulphur deposits lie on White Island in the Bay of Plenty north of New Zealand. The 600 acre isle rises to 900 feet and hosts a volcanic crater and a boiling lake. After the New Zealand Sulphur Company spent 200000 on mining preparations, a volcanic disturbance wrecked the camp and killed ten men.
A report describes nitro cotton producing a convincing amber imitation and a tortoise shell substitute. The method involves a meerschaum pipe with an amber piece and a guncotton ether solution, with camphor creating a cloudy smoking effect.
The remark suggests magistrates place tipsy men before a glass to prompt self examination. It frames the idea as offering an opportunity for sober reflection rather than judgment or punishment.
A disgruntled guest refuses to share views of the hotel, joking that men should keep their views to themselves while a host offers to show them to friends. The exchange frames a light skit on courtesy and perception.
Quotations clash over diet and character with a jab about sour Miss Tart and angel cake. The fragment hints at social chatter on food influencing personality. The brief exchange mentions cake and a named person, suggesting a light moral aside in a local column.
The county government of Oahu reports a bought kangaroo and a player plane as notable recent acquisitions. No further context or details provided on purpose or recipients.
A reflective note says a man desires little in this life because he trusts a greater yield awaits after passing below. He believes restraint now leads to a larger reward later, a common moral about patience and humility.
An October lesson notes Elisha's providential protection during Israel's crisis amid Jezebel's fall. It contrasts spiritual sight with fear, recounts the plot to seize Elisha, and shows the Syrian army's blindness and later restoration inside Samaria.
An old ad promises to improve gray hair with La Cre ole Hair Dressing priced at $1.00. A humorous business exchange about embezzlement prompts a clerk to ask how to reply, and a joke about Mr Timpkins moving without a fixed destination follows.
A schoolboy interrupts a sister reading poetry about melancholy days and the saddest of the year, insisting with nine examples and a page of grammar that he knows the season. The exchange captures a moment of classroom humor and seasonal mood.
An advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims benefits for liver function malaria defense enriched blood and overall system strength with a 50 cent price.
The speaker reports meeting Newrich who plans to send his daughter to finishing school. A cryptic remark suggests an ironic future consequence when she returns. Tone hints at social commentary and personal ambition within a domestic scene.
An advertisement proclaims readers will look ten years younger by using La Creole Hair Dressing, claiming it darkens ugly gray hairs. The piece then shifts to a lighter note noting two women briefly stop talking about each other to exchange kisses.
A local note reports Mr and Mrs Nagger have agreed to separate, with a witty exchange calling it the most fratlike agreement since their marriage. The item reads as a light gossip snippet from a private social circle.
An old ball scene note comments on a decollate costume and a worn appearance. The ad promotes La Creole Hair Dressing to cleanse the scalp and darken grizzly hairs, priced at $1.00.
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