An Auburn lady’s recipe for Potato Milk Soup for three people: Mash one hot boiled potato into one pint hot milk. Add butter, salt and pepper to taste, also a little onion chopped fine or a few celery leaves.

Miss Jessie A. West, Center street, Auburn recipe for Beef Stifle: Cut a piece from the neck into small junks; put into a bean pot with a little salt, an onion, if the flavor is liked, and not more than a half cup of water, or if the oven is very slow, not any. Cover and cook three hours. Then make a gravy with water and flour, just enough to have thick and brown. It will come out brown and tender and can be cooked with very little attention.

50 Years Ago, 1956

This is the 15th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and in many an American home there will be reminiscences, as people try to recall where they were and what they were doing on that fateful Sunday. The attack came at 11 a.m. Pacific coast time, and caught people there at church-time. It was noon in the mountain States, and one in the afternoon in the mid-west. On the eastern seaboard people were finishing dinner, or planning a short ride in the early December sunshine. What was most shocking was the suddenness of it – one minute we were at peace, and in the next minute at war. And nothing was ever quite the same after that. December 7, 1941, was not only the date of a historic surprise attack, but it marked the end of one ear and the start of another.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Fuel oil glistens on the murky waters over the hull of the once-proud battleship Arizona, and there are still scars on the concrete headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Air Force command in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Little other physical evidence remains of what happened here Dec. 7, 1941, the day 40 years ago that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would “live in infamy.”