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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
3
In Philadelphia the Recod prints letters about naming in marriage. A woman resents losing her identity to her husband's name preferring to be called by her own first name Anna. After her husband dies she asks to be addressed as Mrs. Henry, insisting she keeps her married name in future.
The article explains that the U.S. president’s annual salary of 50000 dollars is delivered monthly by a treasurer’s messenger. It is paid as eight checks of 4166.67 and four checks of 4166.66, ensuring the total remains 50000 despite the month to month division.
A self working number trick is described. A performer asks for an even number and guides three steps: triple, halve, triple, then asks how many times nine fits into the result. Multiply that count by two to recover the original number. Examples use 4 and 6 to illustrate.
A Scottish minister chastises his flock from the pulpit for overindulging in whisky. He vows punishment with a dramatic strike on a Bible with a shouting warning that they are doomed. The punchline comes as the fly on the Bible escapes harm, prompting a humorous misfortune.
Describes olden practice where a belt winning wrestler wore the belt to his village church on Sunday and to a neighboring church the next Sunday to claim precedence among youths. Notes champions were large men and mentions Old Steam man as reputedly the strongest wrestler at twenty stone.
In Holland meals resemble a card game where the mother serves all, then redeals until the dish is empty. There is no promiscuous serving and the quick feeder gains no advantage, unlike in leisure in Holland.
A teacher asks about the six hundred from the Charge of the Light Brigade. A pupil jokes they were dentists, as depicted in Illustrated Bits.
A friend spotted a dramatic author with a manuscript nearly slipping from his pocket. The observer quipped that if the writer were less famous his pocket might have been picked.
A brief quote extols careful readers of good Rhode Island newspapers and suggests they gain more knowledge in a year than many scholars do in libraries. The remark highlights newspapers as rich, rapid sources of information.
Iowa Bulletin describes a proposed silo feature a door in the chute allowing a inner ladder climb directly onto silage. design calls for tongued planks or similar doors with reinforced wall sections and optional roof to prevent warm air loss. Windows along the chute provide light and permanence of the structure.
The article argues that a bull’s quality strongly shapes all offspring, while one poor cow limits only her own calf. It urges farmers to value superior sires, avoid inferior bulls, and breed cows with elite sires to raise a consistently higher herd. It concludes only strong, high lineage parents yield profitable heifers.
An Indiana correspondent describes a calf raising method starting with warm first milk from one to three days old, then skim milk after ten days, with oil meal and stepped increases in meal. By four to five weeks, sour milk with cream removed is introduced, plus wheat shorts or middlings and later corn meal, yielding no scours and occasional paregoric use in a single severe case.
G. T. Powell of Columbia County conducts trials on dwarf apple trees to ease spraying and harvesting. Paradise stock is very dwarf and short lived while Doucin stock offers sixteens to eighteen foot trees. Planting and pruning strategies aim to maximize future fruiting and ease of cultivation.
The Louise Bonne pear is a well known midseason market variety praised for productivity and hardiness. It thrives in rich loam on natural pear stock or quince, grows upright, bears large yellowish green fruit with brownish red tint, and ripens in September to October. It is a good dessert pear suitable for shipment and is French in origin with official New England and mid states approval.
Plan next year flowering beds by noting bloom times and gaps in a notebook or stake markers. List exact shrub specs including height and bloom season to guide fall orders and planting. Consider neighboring architecture and foliage texture to ensure shrubs grow without crowding.
A historical note explains that onions absorb unpleasant odors in closed houses. Place cut onion pieces in two or three saucers per room and leave them overnight. If odors persist, replace with fresh onion pieces for another day until the air clears.
The article explains a stage illusion using a black skeleton figure painted on a slate board. The performer draws a white chalk outline briefly, then under dim lights reveals a hidden figure that appears to animate by pulling a string, producing a ludicrous jumping motion with arms and legs.
The piece describes a Scotch method for orange marmalade using Seville oranges. Rinds are boiled, pressed for juice, combined with uncooked juice, and sugar, then cooked twenty minutes. Test readiness on a cold plate, jar while warm, and seal with paraffin after a night uncovered.
A detailed historical instructions describe making Bay State crullers using eggs, sugar, milk, lard, lemon extract, flour, and leavening. The method covers mixing, rolling to a quarter inch, cutting with a center-ring cutter, frying in hot fat, turning, draining, and finishing with cinnamon sugar. The note claims a good yield and ten day freshness if stored properly.
Create a Jack Horner Pie centerpiece by covering a bread riser pan with pink crepe paper and placing a small gift for each child inside. Tie each gift with a narrow ribbon long enough to hang outside the pie, and let children pull ribbons to claim their gifts. Use different color ribbons for boys and girls.
Instructions to craft decorative bookmarks from sheet celluloid. Cut a 2 by 3 inch rectangle with rounded corners, mark a marginal flap, cut along a guide, round the flap corners, and decorate with gilt paint. Suggest mottos from favorite authors or practical reminders.
A historic cooking method instructs to boil chicken, remove skin, chop meat, and layer with buttered crackers, cream, pepper, lemon zest, and nutmeg. Repeat layers, top with buttered crackers, and bake in a hot oven for a scalloped chicken dish.
To clean bottles without a washer, use a quarter inch thick twine about two yards long. Insert it into the bottle so you can shake well after adding a suds with soda. Remove the twine and rinse in clear water for a clean bottle.
Use fine sandpaper to remove burned edges from layer or leaf cake once set but before it cools. Place a paraffin paper cut to cake shape to prevent sticking to the plate during setting.
Two cups Indian meal and one cup flour combined with two-thirds cup molasses two eggs and a quarter teaspoon soda. Stir with half a cup hot water then fry like pancakes. Split and butter for serving.
A kitchen tip describes making a dairy based mock cream by warming one egg yolk in a pint of milk until scalded. The method emphasizes gentle heat and union of yolk with milk to imitate cream texture for coffee.
A French woman living in the United States hired a carpenter for work at an agreed price. She later discovered he charged more than the original amount. When she tried to protest, she could not express herself in English and said, You are dearer to me now than when we were first engaged.
Merchants in South America protest that U S manufacturers frequently unload undesirable goods on them, upsetting trade relations and market expectations. They urge reforms to improve export practices and product quality.
A reflection on personal economies and thrift habits by a reader citing multiple small saves. The piece notes people tying knots, hoarding scraps, and a preference for half sheets of paper, then recalls a clergyman's aunt who drinks remaining medicine to avoid waste, a cautionary narrowing of a good principle.
Forced The Scene Illustrata of Rome recounts Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to finish a drama titled Hector after seeing The Cid. The manuscript lay forgotten until 1805 when Napoleon asked Luce de Lancigal to complete it, the Paris stage refused it, but Napoleon restored credit and the work became a success at the Comedie Francaise earning the Legion of Honor.
The voyder was a large dish used to collect leftovers from trenches with a broad voyder knife. The Boke of Nurture from 1577 urges ready voyders to hold morsels and reclaim them clean. Few silver examples remain, though brass voyders still appear in collections with little known provenance.
The text compares beauty across Teutonic groups in Sweden Poland Saxony and Austria. It notes the Swedish type is less animated but well formed, Austrian women blend charms from several races with Vienna women described as tall and harmonious, while Tyrolese maidens combine Latin and Germanic traits though their figures may not be ideal.
At Studio Ten the young woman thanks her host for showing the academy picture as they part. He escorts her to the door and asks if she will view Black's academy picture next. She smiles and says she will see that at the academy.
A London comedian exchange notes two parrots with remarkable speech. The thin man recalls a parrot that could recite Hamlet Act I flawlessly while the fat man recalls a bird that spoke not a word. The joke ends with the parrot reportedly fluent in the dumb alphabet.
A clipped exchange mocks youthful airs as Miss Cap sicum and Fan Billiwink trade banter about age and authority. The Chicago Record-Herald captioned piece leans into light facetious dialogue.
A compact historical note quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on prudent use of resources. The line suggests restraint and measured deployment of knowledge and timber before full utilization.
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