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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1908
Page
6
In a tense room, Mother Borton confronts the narrator and guards. She concedes sympathy yet warns of a looming plot, naming Tom Terrill and Darby Meeker among the street gang, while the narrator weighs how much to trust her tale.
In a tense scene on Clay Street, a narrator learns of rival schemes to trap him as he guards a boy. Mother Barton urges heavy guards and warns of covert moves while the narrator prepares to confront Doddridge Knapp and the hidden room. A muffled groan from behind a locked door halts him at the threshold.
A humorous tale from Harper's Weekly recounts the rise of The Thunderer Ecclesiastical Editor Cecil Appleby Botsford-Hetherington whose imagined authority leads to a comical impersonation of archbishopial access. After celebratory cards and grand declarations he drifts into sleep at Lambeth palace and is carried back to the paper. The incident mocks inflated clerical prestige and media power.
A girl named Ethel aims to follow her mother's instruction to bid Marian's mother good night and report a pleasant visit. She recounts she did not fully comply after Marian took the largest apple piece and spilled lemonade on her dress, but she still said good night and implied Marian enjoyed the visit.
A deaf tourist staying in a rural English cottage overlooked his alarm. He had asked the amiable landlady to wake him at a set hour, but she left a note under the door: Sir it is half past 8. The lighthearted moment reflects quaint lodging customs in vintage travel writing.
An excerpt notes the fox can sense a man up to half a mile downwind, a mouse detects cheese at 50 feet, and a deer can smell a approaching person from 200 feet even while asleep.
A housekeeper offers quince based desserts pairing with apples and custards. Includes a quince tart and pudding forms with custard layers, meringue topping, and candied garnish. suggestions for tapioca with quinces and whipped cream accompany the cold or hot servings.
Take a round steak two to two and a half inches thick and flatten with flour. Brown in lard on both sides, then simmer in water with onions and a ripe tomato or canned tomatoes. Cover and cook two hours, adding water as needed. Salt and pepper to taste. Delicious hot or served cold.
A step by step instruction describes making soap suds from pure soap and warm water then brushing the aigrette with a fine fibered brush on an oilcloth table. After cleaning the feathers become limp and are dried before dipping in cold starch and hanging to dry to restore their condition.
Lebanon Ohio December 8 Daniel Brandenburg seventy a farmer near South Lebanon perished in a barn fire that also consumed the structure and its contents. He entered the barn to light a gasoline stove with a lantern when the gasoline tank exploded setting his clothes ablaze. He fled the flames leaping from a second story window as neighbors started to aid him and extinguish the fire. He died two hours later.
A blaze in Number 6 pool at Gallipolis Ohio destroyed one model barge of the Signer Dennick company and damaged several loaded barges. The fleet valued at hundreds of thousands was saved by heroic crew efforts though many barges are aground and immovable in case of further fire. The origin of the fire remains unknown.
Nathan Straus attacked Dr. Koch's claim that cows with tuberculosis cannot transmit the disease to humans at a Judeans meeting in New York. Straus said he wrote to Koch requesting a retraction but received no reply, and he called Koch a discredited man for not admitting fault.
In Omaha on December 8 the Davis murder trial featured a defense witness, Mrs. Emily Allen, who testified she saw Mrs. Abbie Rice downtown at about 4 am buying a paper, and she detailed timing to fix the sequence of events. The testimony contradicted prosecution witnesses who placed Rice at Clara Gleason’s public house at that early hour.
When broiling a fish never bone it as removing bones breaks tissues and lets juices escape. Before frying dust with salt and pepper. Do not stuff a fat fish to be baked since fish fat is strong and stuffing makes it unpleasant.
A breakfast or luncheon dish for two stars sautéed calves liver with green pepper and butter. The liver and pepper are heated, two eggs are added, and the mixture is stirred until hot but not dry, then served.
A compact recipe lists Graham Pudding ingredients two thirds cup molasses one fourth cup butter half cup sour milk one egg half teaspoon soda one and one third cups graham flour. Sauce combines one cup sugar two tablespoons corn starch one egg and boiling water thickened with vanilla.
The Agriculture Department released Dec 1 reports showing winter wheat 85.3% vs 91.1% last year and 92.2% 10-year average, rye 87.6% vs 91.4% last year and 95 10-year average, with total winter wheat area about 29.884 million acres and rye about 1.935 million acres.
Instructions advise adding four tablespoons of maple syrup to one pint of whipped cream, removing froth, and arranging the sauce around the pudding when unmolded. Garnish with boiled chestnuts.
Richmond Virginia December 8 The chancery court here decided in favor of Mrs Florence Maybrick and her mother Baroness von Roque of New York in a land dispute valued at about two and a half million dollars.
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