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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1912
Page
5
A brief quotation from L. M. Alcott urging steady daily labor. It emphasizes that work sustains health and vigor, with a cheerfully resilient stance to keep hands busy regardless of thoughts or feelings. The line underscores practical effort as a lifelong habit.
Old newspaper cooking tips describe baking in paper bags with tripe creole beef loaf and calf s brains with brown butter. The guide praises bag cooking for flavor, notes soups and cabbage don’t suit, and offers desserts like cherry tarts banana pastries and orange with coconut for quick, hot weather treats.
A short piece notes a strong wick and oil will burn, but success depends on determined will. It states the key difference in people is not in innate ability but in what they extract from themselves through steady effort.
A guidance on serving dainty treats with punch ginger ale or lemonade on hot days. Includes recipes for small cakes cookies and quick bites like orange marmalade buttered sandwiches ginger cookies and coconut dates. Suggests keeping a stock of bite sized cakes for unforeseen events.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions desserts and baked apple notes with unclear language and names. The readable portion highlights praise for nice desserts and a reference to baked apple. No clear events, dates, or identifiable entities emerge.
A brief poem excerpt by BH. Kiser invites a moment of playacting to feel free brave and strong. It suggests pretending will guide better effort and progress if sustained beyond the moment. The tone is reflective and hopeful about self-improvement.
Advice on staying comfortable in heat through proper diet rest and routine. Recommends salads fruits and cooling drinks like lemonade. Offers recipes such as Ginger Punch and fig sandwiches plus ideas for muskmelon desserts and simple cheese and olive spread pursing light meals during hot weather.
A New Haven railroad project reports extensive increases in electrical equipment and track electrification. By year end, more than 562 miles of track are involved, signaling major progress toward full electrification.
President Taft accepts the Republican nomination pledging to uphold the constitutional system and independent judiciary while arguing against radical reform aimed at extending power to a single leader. He defends past party achievements and warns voters against promises of sweeping changes that would threaten constitutional government and economic stability. The speech contrasts Republican steadiness with Democratic and former Republican calls for recalls, court changes, and new political remedies.
Iowa farmers report oats reaching eighty bushels per acre near Storm Lake and Minburn, with winter wheat yielding up to fifty bushels. Experts say crop vigor will stress rail freight capacity, predicting a severe car shortage as rivers of grain begin moving and railroads struggle to keep up with extraordinary production. The assistant superintendent notes agriculture could push corn yields to unprecedented levels, while city folks cannot grasp the scale of the harvest.
The body of a man with a bullet wound to the head was found three miles west of Le Mars on the Great Western railroad. In his pocket the name Walter T. Wilson, a resident of Ogdensburg, New York, is shown. It is believed he was killed and thrown from a freight train while a farmer nearby heard two shots as the train passed. The coroner is investigating.
Twin sisters aged 18 from Maquoketa Iowa were picked up by police in Davenport after riding in male clothes from Kansas City. They planned to travel to Hot Springs Arkansas to relatives but met their mother there who sent them back.
Clara Adella Llestor Lane former reporter and founder of the Girl Scouts of America and chief scout. has accepted an invitation to visit England. Lane has been working in Denver and organized girl scout societies across Iowa Nebraska and Colorado.
Haons Hanson had vanished from his Humboldt home leaving his family concerned. A postcard to his eldest son urged him not to forget his father, but Hanson gave no reason for leaving and stated no plans to return. The farm is rented for a year.
A lightning bolt struck the Cottage hotel during a thunderstorm damaging the building and frightening guests. The strike occurred near a prior bolt that destroyed the Dunkley store two weeks earlier causing about $50,000 loss.
The Free Methodist church will hold its annual camp meeting at the Big Four fair grounds in Eldon from August 15 to 25. District elder will be assisted by Rev. C. W. Stamp, general conference evangelist, and Rev. J. W. Whiteside of Washington Springs South Dakota.
Guthrie County farmers report one of the county’s largest wheat crops. A field north of the city yielded an average of forty four bushels per acre. FE Hogera residing north of Guthrie Center thresh ed one field with that average.
A Greek laborer employed by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, was killed while removing a pump from a steel tank when the pump touched a trolley wire. He was knocked from the tank and died from the shock and heart failure.
A 24 year old Mason City farmer named John Rombgch was killed when struck by a Milwaukee freight train near Whittewore. The accident details are incomplete in the readable text.
A Cedar Falls buyer notes scarce beef cattle and hogs amid high living costs and plans few fall feeding options. He expects strong demand for young feeders due to a large corn crop, while supply remains tight as western ranges suffered from drought and then benefited from rain.
Prof. M. Le Mosher the crop expert hired by Clinton county arrives August 8 for a short stay to find a home and then move to Clinton late in August to begin duties. Clinton becomes the pioneer county in the middle west to employ a crop expert.
John Little of Scandia is in the county jail at Adel after a hearing on a charge of wife desertion. He was arrested in Des Moines and brought back to Scandia for trial. The justice offered a bond to insure support, but he chose jail.
Dallas area farmers expect to harvest over 200000 bushels of wheat with reports noting W B Kinfick near Adel thrashing forty bushels an acre from a 300 acre field. Hundreds of acres are projected at forty bushels to the acre. The oat crop in the vicinity is anticipated as the best ever known.
Tony Caponi of Chicago defeated Frank Klein of Dubuque in a ten round heavyweight bout at the Riverside Athletic Club. In the final bout Jeff O'Donnell of Chicago lost to Kid Andrews of Milwaukee in six rounds.
The Creston Eagle lodge voted at a special meeting to appropriate 5000 dollars for remodeling and refinishing lodge rooms. A banquet room gymnasium and baths will be added in the remodel making the building one of the finest in the region when completed.
A 17 year old, Otto Hartzer, eloped with Maria Boden who was married, causing Otto’s mother Mrs. Hartzer to swoon in Albia. The couple fled to Ottumwa and were married.
Des Moines reports that milk dealers who use the Babcock test and have not paid the annual $2.50 license to the state will be prosecuted, as announced by the state dairy and food commissioner.
The oldest resident in Duncombe died Tuesday after a long illness. Michael Laddin, aged 84, came to the country in 1878.
Miss Louisé Gaedke of Des Moines, supervisor of writing in Iowa City public schools, has been appointed supervisor of writing for the public schools of New York City.
Perry Grant Emmerson, a laborer employed in Milwaukee, was held to the grand jury on a charge of bootlegging. The brief item notes his employment and the charge without further details.
The Denison Chautauqua reached a high water mark on day five with Thavin's international band of thirty players and a lineup of grand opera singers. One thousand tickets were sold for next year's event.
Des Moines reports that Attorney General George Cosson is improving after undergoing surgeries at Rochester Minnesota. The brief bulletin notes the official’s condition as better and moving toward recovery, with no further complications disclosed.
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