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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1927
Page
3
USDA guidance outlines water bath canning for peaches and apricots, noting precooling, selecting clean fruit, making light syrup, peeling with lye optional, packing into jars, and processing times of 25 minutes for quarts, 25 minutes for pints, and 15 minutes for No. 2 and No. 3 cans, with variations by fruit ripeness.
The rise of simple tailored styles in street and business attire favors summer washable cottons. Dotted Swiss leads along with printed charmeuse ginghams zephyrs lawns and suitings in vivid color combos, offering easy home laundering and crisp, durable lines for practical outfits.
An old bureau of home economics recipe describes a cooked frosting for layer cake with a hard crust and moist interior. Steps include heating sugar and unbeaten egg white in a double boiler, beating for 7 to 8 minutes, then 5 more minutes off heat, with optional chocolate or caramel variations.
The article argues it is cheaper to serve smaller yet adequate portions with seconds for the hungry, rather than piling plates and wasting uneaten food. It stresses appetizing presentation, quick garnishing, and covering hot vegetables, while trimming skin, fat, and gristle. Scorched food is wasteful, and inexpensive materials can be made palatable with good seasoning.
Article advises on turkey health, noting adults endure hardship while young require range and green food. It highlights inbreeding as a major stock problem, indigestion from improper feeding, and dangers of damp roosts, filth, and lice. Young poults suffer from rheumatism, leg weakness, and feather growth draining vitality.
The guide advises two weeks of fattening for market broilers especially after problematic brooding. Confine birds in a small house for two weeks before sale, darken the space, ventilate, remove roosts, provide clean litter, and feed a wet mash with milk using commercial fatteners. Feed three times daily, keep water away during fattening, and maintain sanitation to prevent spoilage and disease.
As soon as the chicks are old enough to leave the brooder they should be placed on free range with grass and shade if possible. If diseases appeared last year the coop should be moved to new range. Grass provides all green feed during summer for free range chicks.
The article explains that touch reveals a hen's condition more than sight, noting the breast bone as an index. It warns that a hen out of condition may fluff like a broody, wasting follows hard winters, with tuberculosis as a leading cause and worms lice and mites common companions. A healthy bird is in good flesh.
A simple chick waterer uses a tomato can or strup pail and a pie tin. Punch six to eight holes near the top edge, fill, invert the saucer to seal, and water seeps through as chicks drink, refilling automatically.
Dr. A B Rosenbach predicts the Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible, bought for 106000 at the Anderson galleries, will rise further in value. Mrs E S Harkness donated it to Yale in memory of Mrs Stephen V Harkness, marking a landmark university gift as more copies go to public institutions and prices climb toward a million.
A business man rushes to his tailor as summer scents fill the air and winter’s excess affects his figure. The tailor, aware of the change, notes the chest is a bit lower while keeping discreet silence during measurement.
A mid morning school lunch in Indianapolis at School No 22 served whole stewed prunes then prunes with seeds removed. A pupil who strives to eat healthy remarked he preferred prunes without the bones, noting the change after the seedless version.
A humorous Vancouver Province item features Tommy lamenting his mother’s mistaken wedding tale. He spoeks of Mr Flubdub entering blindfolded, only to reveal he did not when the moment came.
A lecturer and his press agent navigate hotel room bookings amid a tight frontier schedule. The press agent reports all rooms are booked, but notes they will bed down in their own bunk, keeping plans on course.
A short exchange shows an old lady asking where a boy lives and an officer prompting the boy to explain he knows his name but not the way home. Roy asserts he does know his address but lacks directions.
A concise observation notes how steadiness appears as the powerful withdraws. It frames a shift in responsibility from a dominant figure to a less imposing counterpart, highlighting resolve and duty in challenging moments.
Fragmentary lines hint at a planned union needing clergy and financial counsel. The dialogue suggests a minister assisting with wedding matters and a banker possibly involved in the arrangements. The context remains unclear from the limited text.
A quoted remark from a historical column remarks on gender behavior noting boys and girls and a view on fear as a cultural safeguard attributed to a Doctor Johnson era voice.
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