Salads from vegetables and fruits from USDA guidance
The USDA home economics bureau shows how rural families can make vitamin rich salads from cabbage apples and other stored vegetables and fruits. Recipes include a creamy cabbage salad with lemon juice horse radish onion tabasco and optional cayenne plus a warm dressing over crisp cabbage and variations with pineapple cheese celery green pepper and apple.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
New Hampshire
The
Cream Cheese Delight With Apricot Pineapple Preserves
A U S Department of Agriculture home economics bulletin offers a light luncheon option using cream or cottage cheese with toast. It includes a recipe for dried apricot and pineapple preserves, detailing prep steps, quantities, and cooking times to yield just over three pints.
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Bureau of Home Economica
United States Department of Agriculture
France
Gervais
Bar-Le-Duc
Neufchatel
Bureau of Home Economies
Cooking Jerusalem artichokes tastes and methods
Fried Jerusalem artichokes are crisp chips when sliced thin and soaked in cold water then fried in hot oil. A quick cream soup uses milk, flour, butter, and grated raw artichokes with salt onion and parsley. Boiled artichokes make a potato puree or salad ingredient, while uncooked tubers add fresh texture to salads with lettuce watercress and vegetables.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Jerusalem
Baked Apples for School Lunches
Wash and core cooking apples then fill centers with sugar spice raisins and chopped nuts. Bake in shallow dish 80 minutes with water in bottom. Not peeled apples travel better for school lunches.
Origins and spread of cotton from ancient times to modern era
The article traces cotton origins from southern Asia to Africa and the Americas, noting early cultivation after Alexander the Great’s era, with Sea Island cotton linked to America. It discusses tree cotton in Africa, Arab naming origins, China’s later cultivation, and historical Egyptian use of tree cotton alongside flax.
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Alexander
India
Burma
Western Hemisphere
Tropical America
Sea Island
Carolinian
America
South America
Peru
Central America
West Indian Islands
Kut
Kittan
China
Asia
Upper
Egypt
Abyssinia
Origins and spread of oats through Europe and Asia Minor
The article traces oats from central European plains to eastern Europe and Asia Minor, noting limited ancient cultivation by Greeks and Romans. It cites Gauls in Asia Minor and asserts wild oats lack authenticated finds, while oats appear in Bronze Age Swiss lake dwellings and early German tombs. It suggests northern cultivation predominance and spread from stables and rubbish heaps.
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Hungary
Europe
Tartary
Mesopotamia
India
Egypt
Scotland
England
Asia Minor
Germany
Wittenberg
Italy
Roeman Republic
Usion
Dallas Girl’s Yawn Dislocates Jaw In Sleep
Eight year old Dorothy Caldwell of Dallas Texas woke unable to close her mouth. Physicians required three hours to reduce a dislocated jaw. Yawning in sleep was blamed for the accident.
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Dorothy Caldwell
Dallas
Texas
Beg Your Pardon: Bale Seeks Room, Clerk Reports No One Home
Dialogue shows Harry seeking someone in a building with the top floor empty. The clerk replies no one is home on the top floor, prompting Harry to consider asking someone else.
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Harry
Mr. Bale
War forecast by Haldane and Capper's Weekly
English chemist Haldane predicts a war worse than World War I may arrive within a century and threaten civilization. Capper's Weekly concurs, saying science should aim to make wars unprofitable for both victors and vanquished.
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Haldane
Capper
Only Way Out
A fragment notes a rumor that Brown plans to marry a landlady while another line unkindly suggests he cannot pay his board bill. The terse quotes imply social commentary on marriage and financial strain.
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Brown
Death of a Cotton Grower Prompts Highway Grave Tradition
Alfred McGee a wealthy Alabama cotton grower requested his grave lie near the highway so farmers hauling cotton could call out the market price. The custom has continued for forty five years as a practical memorial.
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Alfred McGee
Alabama
There Are 82 Points of the Compass
A brief note states that the compass has 82 points, detailing its division into directions and intercardinal points. The item emphasizes the compass’s granular directional system.
Woman’s Head On a Silver Dollar Sparks Debate
A short, opinionated note questions why money features a woman’s head on a silver dollar. The terse remark implies money talks and hints at public discussion about currency imagery and value.
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