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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
8
A fragment praises imagination in daily life and childlike play. It urges never to outgrow make believe and to enjoy it as a path to happiness and carefree time. The piece exhorts embracing imagination despite aging.
A collection of home cooking tips and recipes including sour cream white sauce for cod, spiced tongue with a flavored onion and wine sauce, scrambled cheese eggs, stuffed onions with garlic and cheese, salmon sandwich filling with mace and cayenne, peanut and rice loaf as a meat substitute, and molded cereal desserts. Also includes a short, reflective poem about days of cloud and sun.
The piece argues American women split into two classes by finances, urging careful food choices to stretch budgets. It discusses the nutrition of combined foods, cautions against replacing wheat with substitutes, and notes butter and eggs add value. It emphasizes frugality without sacrificing growth, and ends with a poem-like reflection on a well-dressed woman.
A collection of frugal home recipes using potatoes onions green peppers rice and noodles. Instructions cover layering and simmering vegetables, baking with peanut butter rice, ham and noodles, spiced carrot dishes, rice griddle cakes, and a spinach and beet bake. Also includes a note on cultivating a serene, truthful mental state to avoid external worries.
A guide to meatless soups including Asparagus Soup, Geldry Soup, Turnip Soup, and Clear Tomato Soup with simple pantry ingredients. Instructions cover simmer times, thickeners like flour and cornstarch, and serving ideas such as croutons and popcorn. The article also notes serving an egg rich or eggless dessert after meatless meals.
Washington residents note the Yevette, a petite white sailor with blue coat and white skirt, as a key office secretary and stenographer in Secretary Daniels' war organization. Her efficiency frees sailors for sea duty, reinforcing naval strength in the fight against German U boats.
A humorous slice from a 1920s social column depicts a bachelor lifestyle. A man jokes about shared housekeeping with four department colleagues, detailing roles from rents to mending, while a woman listener probes the idea of home and marriage and the man insists he will stay with the fellows.
Kirk Miller questions parcel post bargain day prices at multiple post offices. A clerk quotes ninety cents, then forty eight cents, then forty one cents as the day progresses. Miller decides to mail the package when the price fits his budget.
Two youths Jimmie and Leo steal a boss's dog in a morning caper. They chase the animal through downtown, end up in a vestibule, and flee with the dog as a barking crowd protests. The boss arrives claiming the dog belongs to Mrs on Sixteenth Street, who reports the theft to the office.
Summarizing this midsummer fashion feature, taffeta coats in deep tones like dark line brown and green are praised for practicality and style, with black options. New sunflower coats in wool velours and silk jersey appear, featuring silk bodies and velour collars, plus pongee and pongee satin combinations. Elegant long capes of black satin with colored satin linings and bold fringe finishes are highlighted as dressy options.
Readers glimpse a bygone era of wedding fashion with June ceremonies celebrated in vivid pageantry. Bridesmaids wear georgette crepe hats, matinee veils, and lace trims while Honor attendants display ornate dress and broad hats. Organdie gowns and veils shown in multiple draping styles underscore the era’s bridal couture.
The piece compares how shades affect dull materials and bright fabrics. Reds and bright blues fade in highlights while crepe or horsespun show little difference. browns and blacks require care to avoid a dull somber look, with velvet and satin needing attention to avoid muddy tones.
In Neo India travelers note Indian crows Corvus splendens as clever and audacious. A hawk seizes a small bird, but crows distract it and, with stealthy maneuvers, topple the hawk from a bare branch. The titbit is seized by the crows as they fly away triumphant.
An American woman in London sought descendants of the Mayflower crew by placing ads for a meeting at a hotel. Photographers and reporters waited for 45 minutes, but no Mayflower descendants arrived. The woman expressed disbelief at the absence and vowed to continue the search.
Berlin medical congress delegates urge government action to support population growth. They call education cheapening, lower living costs for child rearing, tax reform, housing reform, and broader access to food-producing land to involve lower and middle classes in rebuilding the population.
Japanese women resist Western dress but upper middle class women wear modern footwear at social events. G. E. Bosworth of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce says a few American shoes can be sold now with effort, predicting a growing market in ten to fifteen years and urging commercial patriotism to keep American shoes in Japan.
The London Chronicle notes General Booth is described as sound in mind and body and credits his long life to a strict vegetarian diet. Once despaired of at fourteen and deemed unlikely to reach twenty one, he later walked with assistance. Through disciplined living and wartime work, his health and vigor persisted into old age.
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