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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1925
Page
6
The Us and Loelube hosted husbands at Mr and Mrs Tom Schulty where supper was served cafeteria style followed by games and social tunes. Evening outings included Lloyd Hill leading a Methodist Sunday school class with six boys, music, and moving pictures plus popcorn and pumpkin pie.
A busy midweek schedule lists the BO B W club meeting with Mrs Roy Littrel and various groups meeting in G ALK hall, Baptist church, and local homes. Planned officers elections, bake and candy exchanges, and missionary society gatherings fill Wednesday and Thursday, with Thanksgiving reflections in West Chester.
A scanned recipe block details making Christmas candies with dried fruits and nuts, dipping, rolling in sugar or chocolate, and shaping techniques. It lists ingredients such as figs, dates, nuts, etc., and steps for boiling, coating, and setting the confections, along with fruit caramel and apple candy directions.
At the request of Mrs. John Fox Lake Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs a garden department will join the Fortnightly Club under Mrs. A. K. Baldrige who has landscape experience. A state committee will plan programs and initial work includes planning email flower gardens. Members decide meeting times, with options for night gatherings, and aim to start soon though organization may complete after Christmas.
Shelled peanuts are placed on a buttered pan and heated. Sugar is melted with constant stirring until golden brown, then quickly poured over nuts and spread thin. A speck of soda is added before stirring for a porous result.
A recipe describes boiling brown sugar water and vinegar for ten minutes then adding butter and cooking to a hard crack stage at 410 degrees F. to form brittle candy poured into a greased pan.
The Pilotsburg area reports on a Thursday December quilting event hosted by Mrs. Finley Rickey. Several households, including Mr. and Mrs. Oldfield and Daryl and Fern, shared Thanksgiving with Mrs. Oldfield's mother Mrs. Jones in Wellman. Families like the Stranksy and Horak clans joined Proby in Richmond for Thanksgiving.
The great Spanish painter Bartolo Murillo is celebrated for religious pictures and was an indefatigable worker. There are 481 authentic Murillo paintings, with almost half in England and his native land claiming 121.
During Henry VII's reign England was intrigued by Mother Shipton, a Welsh prophetess whose reputed foresights spurred public interest. Modern scholars deem many extant prophecies to be forgeries or later fabrications.
Community women and girls are asked to back the YWCA budget with donations tomorrow. Twenty dozen names of canvassers and volunteers are listed with Miss Harmon and Miss Denny at the library as contact points for those not called on.
Iowa Republican Cummins inherits the seat long held by the late Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin. LaFollette Jr. will take a back row Republican seat after election to succeed his father.
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