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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
2
A 1907 Delineator recipe excerpt outlines lemon based sauces for boiled fowls and fish, a sweet lemon sauce for puddings, and a lemon butter sauce. It also details a lentil sauce with pork bones bay leaf thyme parsley carrot onions and cloves, plus steps for thickening with butter yolk and corn starch. The instructions stress careful stirring to avoid curdling and provide measurements and preparation tips.
Instructions describe making cold potato scalloped dish. Dice boiled or baked potatoes, prepare rich drawn butter with eggs and grated cheese, layer potatoes in buttered dish with seasoning, pour sauce, add onion juice optional, top with crackers and grated cheese, bake covered then brown.
A World of Golf note observes a few golfers who begin a round certain they will not face failed tee shots or miss easy putts. Their steady, automaton like play makes golf seem a dreary sport to the consistently accurate player.
A described slim dark woman described as sweet and polite visited the Lehigh Avenue station area and the Odd Fellows orphanage posing as a friend of the matron. Several rooms were entered thefts occurred including purses worth $5 30 four dollars a limousine of small valuables and personal items. She fled but later was seen making calls at private homes.
Princeton University will erect a new sun dial north of McCosh recitation hall. It copies the Turnbull dial at Corpus Christi College Oxford and stands over 24 feet high once finished in about two weeks. unveiling is set for early November. Sir William Mather, M P., leads the project.
Seguin Texas Charles Bean a Black man handed to County Judge H M Wurzbach a bag once belonging to John Stephen Geake an English hermit who lived with him for two decades. Inside were Crimean War medals a bank CD and mining stock from Goldfield California and Australia. Letters from kin in Dunmore Cornwall England found. authorities will contact them. Geake died suddenly and quietly.
The article notes vast life-span differences among animals. Mosquitoes live about three days, toads around 15 years, carp up to 150, chickens 12–16, dogs up to 10 or 15, parrots to extreme ages, turtles and storks often centenarians, and merchants once claimed 500 years.
A bolt of lightning struck a Worcester Massachusetts house while pranksters were inside. The blast wrecked the diving room and blew windows onto the lawn. Fourteen year old Wilkie, son of William J Wheeler, hid in a cupboard as the bolt struck and locked the door. He stayed trapped until his parents returned and heard his cries.
The dialogue notes Miss Passay acting close to Miss Newcombe and asserts Miss Passay remains 21 for ten years, while admitting uncertainty about Miss Newcombe’s age. The exchange flags persistent age questions around Miss Passay in the social circle.
The article reports that the meat industry in the United States had 929 wholesale establishments in 1904 with a combined capital of 227 million dollars, employing 74,134 workers, paying 40.3 million dollars in wages, and using materials worth 805.9 million dollars to manufacture 913.0 million dollars of products. It also contains assorted anecdotes on education, aging workers, and European figures, plus recipe snippets for Yellow Tomato Preserves, Stuffed Potatoes, and Mutton Feet a la Creole.
Instructions explain adding one teaspoonful of powdered alum to every four gallons of water. Stir briskly to precipitate impurities to the bottom, leaving the upper portion clean and clear.
A historic tip suggests sealing jelly jars by using plain writing paper dipped in strong bread and placed atop the jelly, functioning like paraffin as a substitute.
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