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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
5
A guide to packing for a picnic with ease and comfort covering lightweight disposables, paper wrap and centerpieces. It describes canning fruits like cherries and berries, sugar crystallization, and methods to preserve fruit for winter use. It notes using sheet iron for cooking, thermos drinks, and making lemonade from mason jars.
The article suggests using tender green peppers in salads and stuffed dishes, including cottage cheese blends and meat filled bakeware. It also presents a frying option for small green tomatoes, a layered vegetable salad, and a Scotch Stew using peas carrots turnips lettuce parsley rice and mint.
The passage extols cherry pie as the sine qua non of pie excellence and lauds the luscious fruit for its superior taste, noting that true enjoyment comes from experiencing the fruit’s beauty, though the text ends with an invitation to ride.
A light essay extols the onion’s culinary value and healthful claims while acknowledging social awkwardness from its odor. It praises onion’s role in salads, its antiseptic and prophylactic properties, and notes parsley as an odor neutralizer. The piece reflects playful debate over onion consumption in polite society.
Three eggs, one cup sugar, one pint milk, half teaspoon vanilla extract, two heaping teaspoons baking powder, two cups flour plus more to make a thick batter. Spoon batter into hot fat, fry until golden brown, roll in powdered sugar.
A reader describes ironing embroideries by using a Turkish towel. Iron on the wrong side with the right side facing the towel to help the pattern stand out. The method reportedly restores the embroidery to look as good as before washing.
The $50,000 Washington county hospital was dedicated in William Perry Wells park with a large crowd. It is Iowa’s first county hospital under a 33rd General Assembly act, three stories high with reinforced concrete and Bedford stone trim. It will serve the county’s residents with twenty five beds and no charge differences for payment abilities. Doctors cannot have official ties, but all county physicians are on the staff.
Mason City plans to keep most members in the Iowa State league and replace Clear Lake which has dropped out. Charles City is considering the proposal favorably, but a Fort Dodge withdrawal could threaten the league’s unity and stability.
Mills county board of supervisors rejected the petition for a Nishna River ditch straightening project in the northeast, extending five miles from the north. The district would cover about 6,100 acres of productive land.
Kossuth County land sales near Swea City show cheaper tracts disappearing. J. L. Vaux sold 160 acres northeast of town to Kossuth County Land company for 73.50 dollars per acre. Frank Jacobs sold a quarter section northeast of town to W. B. Packman and W. R. Jacobs for 75 dollars per acre.
Sioux City livestock commission merchants celebrate a new world record after Tuesday's market arrivals showing Sioux City at 13,168 hogs. Chicago was second with 12,440 head.
Raymond Batchelder aged 14 a messenger for the Postal Telegraph company dies in Ottumwa hospital from a collision with a delivery wagon. The wagon shaft pierced his right lung leaving him in serious condition earlier.
The Cedar Rapids school census reports 4,882 children of school age not in school. It also notes 203 more girls than boys devote several hours daily to their books, based on the recent count.
William Severance, 25, was killed when his team was frightened while mowing near New Hartford. He was thrown from his seat in front of the sickle bar and died within fifteen minutes despite immediate help.
Webster City reports the Fort Dodge district Methodist church annual camp meeting will be in Eagle Grove at Hewitt park from Tuesday until the evening of July 25. Sessions will occur daily at Hewitt park.
Ralph Parks aged 17 from Lebanon Kane visiting his aunt drowned while swimming in the Mississippi River opposite Ft Madison. The incident occurred during a day of leisure as authorities investigated details of the drowning.
White Clayton Johnson, a retired farmer, attempted to steer his automobile across Northwestern tracks in Glidden when a passenger train struck the car. Mrs. Johnson was killed and Mr. Johnson was badly injured in the collision.
Newton report states a tramp whose legs were crusted in a wreck four miles west of here Saturday died following an operation at Colfax. The incident occurred in the Colfax area with local authorities noting the fatal outcome after medical treatment.
A Des Moines report details state house day at the state rifle range with Governor Tt. Farroll, the executive council, and state officials and families. The party inspected the camp and range, enjoyed a mers hall visit, then toured the revolver range where several women tried shooting after watching officers.
Cedar Rapids hosts a summer Bible conference at Coe College beginning Sunday. Noted speakers include Bishop William S. Lewis formerly of Morningside College Sioux City professor Shaller Matthews and professor James H. Snowden. Also appearing are the Rev Amos W Patton the Rev A Johnston Ross the Rev Henry F Cope professor G M Coe burn the Rev Willam Eliott Griffis and others.
Start Alligator Farm at Spirit Lake Iowa near West Okoboji reports arrival of six six foot alligators from the gulf with another shipment expected. About twenty alligators planned including Old Jon said to be around 200 years old and a "monster" among them.
Spirit Lake Rac ing association will give a speed mat inee at its track at Spirit Lake July 27. About twenty horses are being worked there and five entries are in the free for all trot. Track and county records are expected to be lowered in this race.
The Northwestern Hotel Men's association will convene in Des Moines on August 6 7 and 8. A committee is making extensive arrangements for the entertainment of several hundred delegates to the meeting. The association includes five states Iowa Nebraska Minnesota North and South Dakota.
The Mississippi Valley Spiritualists association holds its annual camp meeting at Mount Pleasant park from July 28 to the last Sunday in August. About a hundred visiting members are expected from across the middle western states.
A spectacular fire in Belle Plaine consumed the coal sheds of the J F Henry lumber yard on the south side of the Chicago and Northwestern tracks, just west of the Belle Plaine Cooning company's buildings.
Sioux City reports the Consumers' Ice company will immediately begin constructing a large ice plant on the neat side with a daily capacity of 300 tong totaling around 100000 dollars.
Secretary W J McChesney of the State University of Iowa submits resignation to the state board and urges that assistant W H Bates be appointed secretary.
Davenport report details the drowning of Mrs. John Rusmann aged 21 while bathing with her husband opposite the city. Neither could swim. Also notes a contract for four miles of sanitary sewer to J Cathro of Omaha and automatic safety gates at eighteen grade crossings.
Tipton reports B F Bossert of this city secured the contract to construct the new button factory. M G Uggers of Buffalo entered into a contract to operate the facility.
Davenport report states Cora Bradley a deaf mute employed in a cigar factory drank carbolic acid alleging mistreatment by factory girls. In Lews City a new commandant for the State University of Iowa is named First Lieutenant James A. Mars of the Second Cavalry U S Army. He is to report August 16 per an order from Major General Leonard Wood in Washington.
The Methodist church at Grove Center near Greenfield was struck by lightning and totally burned, with the subsequent fire destroying the structure.
Washington reports say President Taft will suspend sending Faville and Temple for Senate confirmation. Delegation action on Iowa patronage prompts a protest by withholding reappointment, with possibilities of holding until after the election for further review and political considerations.
An eastbound Milwaukee train struck a car carrying four young girls to a Sunday school picnic, killing Holt Maywall 15 Erma Ferguson 14 and Helen Johnson 12. The driver Herman Maywall 18 was seriously injured and another girl escaped with miraculous survival. A freshly graded embankment hid the oncoming train until impact. The car was demolished and the victims were from the local area.
Knoxville couple Mr. and Mrs. James T. Gregory marked their sixty ninth wedding anniversary in a small quiet ceremony on Wednesday. He was born in Indiana October 16, 1824 and nearly 88. She, born Harriet Ridlen in Indiana March 22, 1826, is 86.
The ministerial alliance in Creston calls on all church members to discountenance Sunday baseball and evening exhibitions, arguing such amusements conflict with sacred observance and should not be patronized.
The annual homecoming runs August 10 to 18 with Hon. John Y. Stone as president K M Goodell as secretary and Mrs Mary Records as historian of the association. Seventy five vice presidents are listed across the United States and Canada.
Rev. B. H. Bailey, pastor of Methodist churches at Le Claire Princeton and MacCausland Iowa, will resign to enter chicken-raising business in Missouri. He formerly practiced law in Davenport.
Emerson DePuy longtime editor of the Northwestern Banker and a noted lecturer and entertainer in Iowa and the middle west died at the Methodist Episcopal hospital after an operation on Wednesday night.
Eagle Grove reports Nels Olson, 35, a Northwestern brakeman from the city, was seriously injured while switching at Burt. He was transported to Eagle Grove hospital for treatment.
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