Women Builders of Homes and Crab Recipes from Canning Factories
A discussion of women labor in canning plants describes steps from washing to sealing crabs. It lists numerous crab recipes using canned meat including Crabs in Peppers, Crab Meat Terrapin Style, Crabs with Cheese and Mushrooms, and a custard dessert, Snow Balls, Rebecca Pudding, and an orange sauce.
Poem fragment echoes endurance and peace within faith
A devotional verse urges weary souls to endure pain, noting others endure worse, and promises victory and divine calm both in heaven and on earth. It speaks of brave strugglers finding peace in the heart as trouble ceases.
Foods for entertaining a frazzled crowd
A dainty salad made by slicing cold boiled potatoes, marinating in olive oil and vinegar, then served with head lettuce and parsley. Also Cheese Ball Salads colored with chives, red pepper, egg yolk and nuts, arranged on lettuce leaves. Strawberry sponge dessert with gelatine, lemon juice, strawberry juice, beaten egg whites and cream, chilled in a mold.
Cold Desserts For Hot Summer Days
A brief note describes inexpensive cold desserts like coffee custard. Prepare by scalding milk with coffee before straining and finishing, offering an easy treat amid high prices and labor scarcity.
Rope and Resolve Quote Cited by George Eliott
Fragmentary OCR lines reference a motto about action beyond binding, attributing the saying to George Eliott. The note hints at a principled stance on taking decisive hold rather than mere restraint, framed as a quotation.
Ways of Serving Vegetables From German Methods
A compact guide lists German methods to serve common vegetables in simple appetizing styles. It covers sour pickled beans with brown gravy, long-simmered string beans with salt pork, seasoned beets with vinegar and spices, Lima beans fried in butter, hot slaw with apples and cabbage, green peppers with beefsteak gravy, mashed carrots with butter, parsnip escallop, and a banana junket with gelatin and whipped cream.
The Real Mystery Foxes Motive In Moss Feint
A fox is seen carrying moss into the river and swimming out to sink beneath the water then releasing the moss ashore. A bystander suggests the act was to rid the fox of fleas but the fox hints the motive is to mislead observers. The moral: motive is a great mystery.
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Puck
Profitable Dairying On Small Town Lot
A compact diary of a three fourths acre urban dairy notes net profits of 164.51 per cow. With two purebred Jersey cows, careful feeding, regular milking, hay and grain management, and a simple setup, the operation yielded 16,560 pounds of milk and a total gross of 476.86 against 147.84 expenses, giving a 329.02 yearly profit for two cows.
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Jersey
Iowa clover pasture yields higher pork per acre study
The Iowa Experiment Station compared dry lot, bluegrass, and clover pastures for hogs. On June 4, pigs weighed similarly across pens. By fall, clover pasture produced 748 pounds of pork per acre versus 367 from bluegrass, a $26.67 per acre advantage at $50 per cwt, favoring clover for hog pasture.
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Iowa
Bluegrass
Farm Philosophy and Rural Life Satire by Mandy
A witty rural brief argues cheerful farm surroundings help reduce city crowding and praises open air treatment for tuberculosis while noting it strains farm implements. It lampoons neighbors and country canvassers with a humorous, homespun tone.
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T. J. Mandy
Debt, Delight, and a Second Bite at the Apple
After clearing a six year debt on their home Brill and Ida Brill face restlessness and a craving for risk. Brill buys a store property for 7000 dollars while Ida hatches plans to cut expenses, reigniting the couple’s pursuit of finance and excitement despite warnings from elders.
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Brill
Prill
Ida
John
Baby brother ill in bed. teeth to gnash haywire
A mother enters from the sick room and tells Robert that his baby brother is very ill and may die. Robert replies that if he dies he won’t go to the bed place because he has no teeth to gnash, a remark the judge notes.
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Robert
Practical Fashions Misses Apron Pattern 4827
The pattern 4827 for a plain misses apron features a high neck full sleeves square yoke across front and back with optional yoke variations. Made in gingham and wash fabrics with sizes 10 to 18 years, medium size needs 3 1/2 yards of 36 inch material. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address and size.
Peasant effect plain shirt waist pattern illustration
The article describes plain waist fashion with decorative yet tailor made features such as a one piece sleeve and concealed seams. It notes fabrics like percale Madras cambric and includes pattern 6444 sized 22 to 43 inches with yardage and ordering details.
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