Local Sketches and Notices From Yakima December 26 1906
Brief items from Yakima including public notices and community updates. Names and places referenced reflect early 20th century Northwest events and residents.
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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
6
Brief items from Yakima including public notices and community updates. Names and places referenced reflect early 20th century Northwest events and residents.
A guide lists many practical uses for old newspapers from moth prevention in carpets and trunks to window cleaning and pet care. It also notes newspaper stuffing for pillows and cherry tree damping, plus tips on making pipe spills and simple cooking with potato rissole recipe.
Minced meat may replace or join herbs in the stuffing. The recipe covers stuffing with bread crumbs beef suet sausage or veal nutmeg pepper salt eggs and a hot roast. A sauce made from bread crumbs water peppercorns salt onion butter and cream accompanies the dish. Roast time is about an hour and fifteen minutes on a hot fire.
A recipe for potatoes au gratin using cold boiled mashed potatoes or mashed potatoes with skins. It details making a cream sauce with butter flour and hot milk, seasoning, layering with cheese, butter, and crumbs, baking hot until browned, and serving from the baking dish.
A recipe outlines mixing milk with fruit sauce, adding sugar and boiling. Remove from heat, fold in four beaten egg yolks, then bake a custard over a layer of tinned fruit. Top with stiffly beaten egg whites and bake thirty minutes.
A recipe describes simmering rice in milk until tender, then combining yolks with milk sugar butter and raisins, beating egg whites, folding them in, adding nutmeg on top and baking for one hour. The mixture should cool after cooking the rice, then bake until firm and golden.
A fragment describes cooking directions for a rice pudding crust. It lists ingredients including rice, six apples, lemon peel, cloves, and sugar. The method involves boiling the rice ten minutes, drying, shaping around a basin to form a crust, and placing quartered apples in the center.
A dish of rice and fruit is prepared by layering chopped lemon peel cloves and sugar with the fruit then covering with rice and boiling an hour. The finished servings are served with melted butter and a sweet sauce poured over.
Two cups of mashed sweet potatoes and ingredients are combined with sugar butter eggs and spices. The mix is beaten until creamy then poured into a crust lined dish and baked slowly for about forty five minutes.
A historical recipe instructs mixing one cup suet one cup molasses currants sour milk and soda with salt and flour to form a stiff dough. Pack into a mold and steam four hours to finish.
Grandest Raspberry Extant Cumberland variety described as stronger and more prolific than Gregg and ripening earlier. Enormous berries, fifteen sixteenths inch diameter, firm and good for shipping. Bushes vigorous with stocky canes. Strong rooted valley grown tips, delivery spring 1907, $40 per 1000. Address provided.
Friday marked the final day of Yakima County Teachers Institute. Sessions featured speeches by H C Sampson and Miss Thomas, with music from Miss Spalenka, and closing remarks by Rev M J Bywater. The assembly approved resolutions urging salary raises, wider dissemination of Sampson’s views, and stronger supervision of athletics.
A committee praises a recent institute program for entertainment and instruction in Yakima county. They thank Miss Towne for musical supervision and Miss Spalenka for her contribution, and extend gratitude to city clergymen and the school board. The list of attendees includes J. K. Busch, Jessie Winchester, Nellie Evans, Florence Merritt, and many others.
A testimonial from A. G. M. Williams of Navasota Texas endorses Ballard's Snow Liniment as a cure for rheumatism sprains and muscle strain. The Colton-Fry Drug Co. distributes the product and recommends keeping it at home for injuries and ailments.
In a Northwest Water and Light window on Second Street a new mercury arc lamp shines, claimed as extremely powerful. The display highlights its pure white rays and futuristic glow, prompting speculation it may contain radium.
The article notes a red ray free bright lamp yields jet black appearance when viewed under light while faces turn a ghastly green. Superintendent Arrowsmith explains the lamp is for photography and blueprint printing using mercury vapor in a tube powered by standard incandent wiring. The arc lights glow yellowish beside the new illuminator.
An advertisement touts Ballard's Horehound syrup as a cure for coughs influenza bronchitis and all pulmonary diseases. One bottle will convince you available at Colton Fry Drug Co and druggists in sizes 25c 50c and 1.00.
Mr Van Viiet principal of the Yakima Business College received an elegant gold-handled umbrella from the pupils on Friday in a presentation by G E McDaniel. The handle bore his name and the inscription From the pupils of North Yakima Business College. He expressed surprise and thanks for the thoughtful remembrance.
Albert T. Patrick, once condemned for the Rice murder, learned his death sentence was commuted to life. He was taken from the death house after four years eight months and will work in the sash and door factory. He will ask the new governor to grant his release in a letter to his wife.
A vintage downtown ad notes value and money with Rocky Mountain Tea on earth and Case's Drug Store run by John H. Lynch.
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