Cleaning grease spots with carbon tetrachloride and ink removal tips
The article cites H F Zoller of Kansas State Agricultural College advising carbon tetrachloride to remove grease spots while warning that gasoline or benzine is dangerous and wasteful. It notes ink removal methods with oxalic acids and acids for rust and a formula for fountain pen ink removal using aceto oxalic acid in alcohol.
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H. F. Zoller
Kansas State Agricultural College
Mr. Zoller
Household Hints for Bathing Birds and Cleaning Tips
Household hints suggest ways to train a canary to bathe by sprinkling seeds on water. They advise keeping flowers fresh with bicarbonate in vase water and adding washing blue to soap suds for clear glassware. Ink spills should be treated with salt, and oxalic acid or Javelle water remove ink stains. New tinware will not rust if greased with fresh lard and baked before use.
Corn Chowder Recipe From Old Household Guide
A recipe for corn chowder using corn, four cupfuls potatoes in quarter inch slices, fat salt pork, onion, milk, and crackers. Pork is fried, onions cooked, potatoes parboiled, then combined with pork fat, boiling water, corn and milk, seasoned with salt pepper and butter, topped with soaked crackers before serving.
Century Cake and Chocolate Pie Recipe Notes
A recipe fragment describes Celenial Cake with butter sugar eggs cream soda cream of tartar flour raisins or citron, baked in a tube pan with white icing. Also includes Chocolate Pie directions with cocoa, corn starch, eggs, vanilla, and a meringue topping baked to brown.
Cornmeal Muffins Recipe
Sift cornmeal bread flour and baking soda into sour milk then mix in molasses two eggs and melted drippings. Beat well and bake in greased muffin pans about thirty minutes in a moderately hot oven. Yield twelve muffins.
Graham Drop, Salmon Wiggle, and White Sauce
A recipe fragment lists Graham drop batter with graham flour soda salt sugar egg cream and soured milk to make a stiff batter. It also describes baked salmon wiggle with salmon peas butter and milk sauce and a white sauce made from milk butter and flour.
Rice Soup Preparation Guide
A simple method to make rice soup by adding boiled rice to one quart of hot stock. Bring to a boil then season with pepper salt and parsley or other preferred flavorings.
Electrolytic Silver Cleaning Method Endorsed by Washington Office
The Washington home economics office reports a cheap electrolytic silver cleaning method from USDA Bulletin 440. Boil a solution of baking soda and salt then submerge tarnished silver with a sheet of aluminum or zinc for cleansing. rinse and dry. The process cleans without metal loss but leaves a satin finish.
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Office of Home Economics
Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Clara Glidden
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Colo
Silver Cake Recipe with Cream Frosting
A recipe describes beating egg whites with sugar butter and cream then folding in milk flour tartar soda and salt and optional shredded coconut. Bake then frost with a simple butter cream frosting using powdered sugar butter and cream with no extra flavoring.
Delmenico Cream Roll Potatoes
Delmenico offers two potato recipes. Pare and cut potatoes to pea size, soak in cold water. For each scant pint of potatoes, make a pint of white sauce with onion juice or celery salt, mix, bake in a buttered pan until tender and saucy, fold like an omelet, and serve without browning.
Fried Parsley as Meat Garnish Method
A Boston Globe description explains frying parsley to garnish meat. Heat fat until bluish smoke rises, lift parsley aside, let fat stop spluttering, then fry briefly until green and drain. Do not overfry to avoid brownish color.
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Boston Globe
Harness price advance prompts special sale
Merchants report a March 1 price rise on harness and offer a stock bought below current market. Sale items include No. 6001% 1% inch medium heavy team harness for 50.00 No. 6462 1% inch medium heavy team harness for 55.00 No. 9163 1% inch heavy team harness for 60.00 No. 1704 1% inch heavy team harness for 15.00.
Three Trips To Depot For North Bound Train
A. H. Tedman visited the depot three times on Wednesday as trains to the north were delayed. At 5:30 p m the announcement said the train would arrive soon and he boarded for Lovell. State Superintendent E F Burton will join him to advance plans for a local cheese factory at the depot.
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A. H. Tedman
North
Lovell
E. F. Burton
Injury Report at River Rig For J R Clay
Last Friday a worker at the rig across the river injured his right index finger when caught by a casing. Initial fears of a crushed bone were ruled out by X ray. Three stitches were required and he is reported to be rapidly recovering.
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J. R. Clay
Yeomen Dance Attended by Local Guests at Manderson
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Drumm Mr. and Mrs. R J O Malley Miss Gladys Gebhart and Robert Wilcox went to Manderson last evening to attend the Yeomen dance.
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Harry Drumm
R. J. O'Malley
Gladys Gebhart
Robert Wilcox
Manderson
Whitmore Returns From Rochester Physical Checkup
H. C. Whitmore traveled to Rochester for an annual physical exam and returned Wednesday. He says his health is better than in years and notes harsh weather in Duluth and Minneapolis. Also mentions 80 acres near town offered for sale by J. R. Bonwell.
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Whitmore
H. C. Whitmore
Rochester
Duluth
Minneapolis
J. R. Bonwell
Big Horn County Special Meeting Approves Court House Plans
Big Horn County Wyoming Board of County Commissioners met February 17 18 1917 in special session with T W Spratt C A Welch and M G Traugh present. They approved plans and specifications for a new county courthouse by architect W N Bowman and ordered advertising for bids in the official paper and in Denver and Salt Lake City. The meeting adjourned to March 6 1917.
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M. G. Traugh
C. A. Welch
Court House
Denver
Colorado
Salt Lake
Utah
Big Horn
Zela Murphy
Board of County Commissioners
Big Horm County
Wyoming
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