Bread making and home health tips in Mount Vernon club notes
The article outlines gluten and starch roles in flour, steps for making whole wheat and gluten breads, salt rising and yeast methods, and a salt rising bread recipe. It includes letters to Dr. Reeder with home remedies for gall stones and a breathing episode in children, plus reader Q&A on health advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
David H. Reeder
Laporte
Ind
Columna
Uberty
Home Health Club
Laporte, Ind
Acrobatic bobechon toy explained with simple parts
A curious box on a ramp demonstrates a bullet loaded toy from France. A lead bullet in a small cardboard box rolls and balances in odd ways as the box slides on an inclined plane while players attempt to remove the bobechon and coin without dropping them into the plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
France
Seo
People's Home Journal
Horse Sense of Smell and Behavior in Horses
The article explores how horses rely on smell to identify owners and detect strangers. It notes a mare’s need for nasal proof of foal ownership, a blind horse’s anger at intruders, and how horses navigate pastures by scent to reach gates or feeding areas.
Berries and Bugs Tale From a Berry Patch
A man who hired many young berry-pickers made them wear face nets to guard against mosquitos. They welcomed the nets at first but soon found no mosquitoes and the nets prevented berry eating, leaving the workers puzzled and hungry.
Riddies and Answers from the Brooklyn Eagle
A humor column ponders jokes about a tree with a trunk and convicts condemned, noting stonecutters as persistent workers and drawing parallels between parcels and vines when twined, all from a Brooklyn Eagle item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Ventriloquism in Birds and Animals Across Species
The article explains how many birds and animals produce sounds without moving their mouths. Pigeons, cuckoos, snipes, frogs, and even the nightingale use internal resonance to create audible calls. It notes ventriloquism as an art once esteemed, now rarely practiced, allegedly taught to humans by the suitcase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicolardot
Breech loading cannons traced from treasure to modern guns
A Washington Star excerpt describes early breech loading cannons from Mexico’s conquest and older European and Asian examples. It details mechanisms, sizes, and origins including a 1490 Spanish bronze gun and 1817 rapid fire concepts, plus notes on vigorite high explosive developed in Bavaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confucius
Paris
Mexico
Cortez
Navy Yard
City
Washington Star
Spain
New World
Fort Monroe
Naval Academy
Annapolis
British Museum
Bavaria
Widows in Gun Business and Clock at Dartmouth College
The text notes Krupp widows driving arms sales to Europe and Mrs Cait running a revolver factory. It also mentions a Movel Naval Clock at the new marval college in Dartmouth England marking eight with four bells as aboard ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krupp
Europe
Cait
Rebel farmer jokes about fooling General Sherman near Savannah
A Detroit Press correspondent recalls a farmer six miles from Savannah who offered tobacco to answer questions. The man boasted he fooled Sherman after Atlanta, describing Sherman’s 70,000 strong lines of march and the crowd’s rage when they found him absent. The farmer’s wife is invited to recount the Yankees’ reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Detroit Press
Sherman
General Sherman
Atlanta
Gineril Sherman
Sll
Virginny
Lee
Relic Call to Arms Framed in Fort Wayne Office
In Fort Wayne Indiana Col Robertson preserves a Civil War call to arms for a regiment drawn exclusively from Washington county. The Ninety third New York formed under Colonels and generals and later became a federal prison warden who oversaw Guiteaus hanging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Washington
Charles Guiteau
Garfield
Croker
Col. Robertson
Branded Deserter Story From Civil War Era
Robert McReynolds writes from Colorado Springs about Alex Jordan of Evansville, a Civil War deserter branded with a hot iron in Tennessee. Jordan died months later, heartbroken, and his grave near Evansville remains unmarked. The practice was halted by a Grant order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert McReynolds
Evansville
Colorado Springs
Colo
American Tribune
Alex Jordan
Jerry Jordan
Jordan
Murfreesboro
Tenn
McReynolds
Thi
Gen
Grant
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Tome
B. P
Iowa
A.D
Centoria
Wis
H.J
Webster
A. D
Georgia
Ninety- Third New York Regiment
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