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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
7
Reports describe rest rooms established to aid farm women on business in towns. Local rural clubs and civic groups fund furnishings and secure facilities in courthouses or markets, with cooperation from county officials and chambers of commerce. A Oklahoma example shows community effort to obtain space and create a usable rest room.
The article discusses rest room financing by women and organizations, outline initial furnishing costs and ongoing maintenance, and note funding through public appropriations or private gifts. It explains locations at town halls or courthouses and the rationale of public funds versus private sponsorship.
United States Department of Agriculture specialists offer aid to women’s groups seeking to establish rest rooms. Bureau of Markets specialists target such spaces for women in marketing centers. A bureau publication titled Best Rooms for Women in Marketing Centers outlines plans and practical details. County home demonstration or county agents may assist in the effort.
Private solicitation and a county appropriation enabled a country rest room at Grand Junelloi Colorado. The room was funded by rural women clubs and town merchants. A matron’s salary of 25 dollars monthly was covered by pledge cards for 5 cents per month. In two years expenditures rose from 80 to 160 dollars monthly as new activities formed around the rest room.
A jumble of recipes and tips appears, detailing a honey salad dressing with lemon juice, and a beef dish with macaroni baked in a dish. Instructions include chopping beef, onions, suet, and pasta, plus a lemon jelly salad garnish and a salmon of leg of lamb roasting method. The piece ends with a moral couplet from Franklin.
Homemade frozen desserts explained with simple equipment and salt ratios. Velvet sherbet and peach grape flavors described using milk, fruit juices, sugar, and optional flavorings. Banana sherbet, chocolate ice cream, and Spanish sponge instructions include egg whites and gelatin. serving with lemon custard.
An excerpt describes nearshore waters with crags currents rocks and eddies shaping surface conditions. It notes the shore remains quiet as wind rarely breaks the surface and emphasizes the water close in.
The guide from the U S Department of Agriculture emphasizes prefarrowing care to boost pig numbers and profits. It covers sow observation, feeding, bedding, farrowing pen safety with guard rails, pig resuscitation, removing sharp teeth, afterbirth disposal, and postfarrowing feeding and exercise to prevent illness and the thumps.
If your soil is too acidic for alfalfa, test with blue litmus paper from a drug store. Wet a piece with soil and check color. pink indicates acidity. Apply lime generously, using ground limestone or hydrated lime, before planting. Rates range from 1200 pounds to a ton depending on soil.
A Department of Agriculture pamphlet cites a farmer seeking guidance on crossing Jersey and Holstein cattle and milking goats. The letter shows a lack of definite purpose and highlights the mismatch between milk quantity and quality in such crossbreeding attempts.
Mrs. May Hult of Des Moines says catarrh of the head caused suffering and weakened her. After using Tanlac she reports renewed strength, clearer head, and easier work in her ten room house. Tanlac described as a remedy from bark and berry extracts for stomach kidney and catarrhal issues. Sold by leading druggists and obtainable through wholesale druggists in Iowa.
William Somerset Mangham is cited as a novelist turned playwright. A Maugham anecdote features a professor delivering a lecture to one distant man, who answers that he came to get warmth rather than hear the talk.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney bladder and urinary troubles. It claims quick healing effects and urges readers to buy a bottle or request a sample by sending ten cents to Kilmer Co Binghamton NY, mentioning the newspaper.
The dead Abdul Hamid is described as a diminished figure, merely the Co. in Satan, Hohenzollern & Co., with notes that the senior partner has stepped down in favor of Wilhelm. The piece suggests wartime issues dampen obituary impact and cites the London Globe on Wilhelm’s superior methods.
A Tunmlinville Texas Tote Fair Store proprietor assures Mrs Oggy that if the purchase is not perfectly satisfactory it will be refunded, though he doubts he will refund cheerfully. The note comes amid a stream of miscellaneous clippings and ads.
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