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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
2
A reflective piece on how childless couples cope when dreams of a bustling home fade. It contrasts husbands who lament lacking children with wives who suppress longing, explores adoption as a bridge, and notes how business reversals test patience and faith.
The piece advises men to act with restraint in courtship and avoid inflaming a woman's hopes. It contrasts noble suitors who refuse to kindle false expectations with self serving beaux who flatter for pleasure. It emphasizes patience, genuine intent, and recognizing true heartmates.
A dated piece extols dining out as a romance catalyst for young couples. It describes the glamour of lights music flowers and elegant dress turning a girl into a beauty and inviting flirtation and affection during a fashionable dinner and dancing course.
A reflective piece on a frugal father who bears heavy weekly bills to support a large family. Daughters marry and leave, sons drift away. sons-in-law reject harsher family ties, and the father ends with mounting debt. The text argues a man should save for old age.
Paradise land near Palm Beach once used by Seminole Indians for worship drew attention as Fred Yates and wife from Rochester undertook an automobile tour buying cigar store Indian figures. The Palm Beach Herald notes they now own 27 freshly painted red and green wooden figures brought by freight, set to adorn the site.
The article outlines soil suitability for poultry on different grounds, advocates colony and intensive systems, and details roof styles from shed to combination and monitor types. It covers front treatments with light curtains, floor options by soil, roost placement, and materials including concrete, hollow tile, wood, shingles, and whitewash finishes.
Ontario Agricultural College experiments with three chicken breeds find buttermilk fed hens produced the most and cheapest eggs. Trials used ten percent dry mash beef scrap beet scrap green cut bone and a hopper feed style. One pen used animal food form and showed better egg production and hatch quality in hens.
The piece argues hors d oeuvre should be delicate and tempting rather than substantial. It offers simple, inexpensive ideas like sardines on toast with parsley, radishes on white bread, and fish paste on wafers to whet appetite and ease toward soups and other courses.
A historical bread recipe instructs to mix 1.5 quarts water with 2 quarts flour, add yeast and 3 tablespoons sugar, then 2 more quarts of sifted flour. Stir until stiff, shape into loaves, handle minimally to prevent raw center starch, let rise half, then bake as usual.
Whip boiled potatoes until light then mix with butter hot milk or cream salt and pepper. Beat in a raw egg and shape into small conical heaps. Bake in a hot greased pan until brown then glaze with butter. Transfer to a hot platter using a cake turner.
A recipe combines one cup of cooked beef finely chopped with bread crumbs and seasonings. Add two thirds cup boiling water with gelatin, mix well, then pack in a cocoa can and chill. A tasty cold meat ideal for leftovers.
Practical home method to clean white silk by rolling between sheets of white tissue paper and flour. Layer tissue paper, wrap tightly, and leave for several days before shaking out. Use white tissue only, not colored paper, to avoid staining delicate fabric.
A historical note describes shaping chopped meat into a loaf with potatoes and seasonings. An egg binds the mix, it is crumbed, baked, and basted with hot water until browned. The result is described as a real treat.
A recipe fragment guides chopping half a small cabbage head with one celery stalk. Cook in enough water for 30 minutes until tender, then add one cup milk, salt, pepper, and a small piece of butter to slightly thicken.
A historic recipe notes chopped nuts or other flavorings like caramel sugar for a rich distinct taste. It suggests using fruit such as bananas or oranges if served soon and offers substitutions using egg whites or whole eggs. The cake is flexible for trifs and fruit cream desserts.
Grace nuts and small fruits can be prepared at home though costly. Gather nuts or fruits, boil a sugar syrup with water and vinegar or lemon juice until it threads, then coat quickly, drain on paraffin paper, or set on buttered platter and cool. Break apart once solid.
A recipe instructs washing one pound whitefish cut into squares and layering with diced potatoes and minced onion. Add thyme celery salt and pepper, pour cold water, simmer twenty minutes, then stir in milk or tomato juice with optional sugar and baking soda. The dish can be made dairy free with water and juice and a thickener.
Cream a butter based icing using unsalted butter and icing sugar with flavoring. Stop adding sugar before hard sauce consistency. Spreadable and thick enough to stand up. If fresh butter unavailable, shake cream in a jar or whip to butter. Ready in three to four minutes for immediate use.
Sponge Drops beat to a foam three eggs one cup of sugar stir in a heap of flour with a teaspoon of cream of tartar and one and a half teaspoons of soda mix well flavor with lemon. Butter tin sheets place teaspoonfuls three inches apart and bake instantly in a very hot oven watch closely they burn easily.
Boil one half pound of rice in salted water until soft. When cold beat two eggs add a half cup sugar and half a package self rising flour. Soak bread slice, drain, remove crust, mix with rice and fry spoonfuls in boiling lard. Do not let cake touch pot bottom. Serve with hot coffee.
Two pounds lean beef cut in cubes brown in dripping with one onion then add warm water or stock and simmer for three quarters of an hour. Add twelve small peeled onions, cook half an hour, then add twenty four olives. Fifteen minutes before serving add half cupfuls of sultana raisins or stoned prunes.
OCR fragment mentions bacon cooked on a rotting oven with unclear wording. No clear people, places, or dates are readable. The snippet provides only garbled phrases and partial terms without a coherent event or source context.
A fragmented extract notes a massive snake killed north of Zamboanga after American prospectors Bell and Newman found a skin shown in a Paris Manila building. The creature reportedly measured about 29 to 30 feet, with Wickersham claiming 30 feet 6 inches at death, drawing wide attention.
A testimonial from LeRoy C. O'Brien of Saginaw Michigan Describes a nine month skin disease on the face with seed warts He reports using Cuticura Soap and Ointment after reading about them in a newspaper and and says his face cleared with no scars after ten days Ad shown for Cuticura products worldwide promotion
The text explains how snow both quenches and worsens thirst depending on how it is melted and consumed. It cites Arctic explorers saying natives prefer severe thirst to eating snow and notes melted snow becomes drinkable water, while melting before mouthfuls alters its thirst-quenching effect. Ice melts slowly and can more effectively relieve thirst.
A new French measure creates a copyright for artists including painters draftsmen sculptors and engravers. The bill grants royalties on public sales of works during the artist’s life or for 50 years after death for heirs.
A brief dialogue contrasts a man dismissing a young man's feelings as puppy love with the notion that the admirer trails the speaker like a dog. The exchange hints at social perceptions of romance and pursuit without further context or action.
A rural dialogue notes another automobile turning turtle on the road. Mrs Hayseed remarks how many turtles end up in the way, reflecting on the odd mishaps in local travel.
A Tennessee woman shares a life changing result after switching from coffee to Postum. She describes early stomach pain and nerve weakness, finds relief within an hour of drinking Postum, and notes lasting improvement over five years with improved digestion and strength.
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