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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1923
Page
6
Expert answers diet questions about stomach acid and fruit juices. Discusses acid fruits, prune juice as an appetite stimulant, and the importance of fruit at breakfast. Provides housekeeper diet tips, white sauce method, fritter batter standing time, pepper effects, and a sample school lunch with apple sauce and honey.
A reader letters column offers nutrition focused cooking guidance for children. It emphasizes gentle heat for meat and fish to preserve digestibility, slow cooking for tough cuts and eggs, and proper preparation of starches and fats. It urges saving cooking liquids for soups and notes careful handling of vegetables for better nutrition.
Florence Fedwell guides Watly and the Bottums through a camp cookery lesson. They plan to teach cooking with trout and campfire techniques, wrapping fish in wet newspaper, baking over coals, and using bacon skewers, while Flo retains control and urges step by step learning.
A 1920s expert argues pasteurization protects public health. He details three methods, favors bottle and bulk processes, and notes minimal chemical changes in milk. He cites typhoid cases averted, rising city adoption, and vitamin retention with remedial juice additions.
A scrambled, error-filled menu lists meals for April with breakfast items like grapefruit juice and homemade coffee cake, then lunches and dinners featuring meats, vegetables, and desserts, interspersed with garbled health advice about weight loss and exercise. The text preserves odd phrasing and numerous OCR errors but includes references to meals, beverages, and a long aside recommending walking, diet balance, and cautious calorie guidance.
A revivalist article cites John Phillip Street and several authorities praising macaroni for diabetes under 54 percent carbohydrate reduction and easy digestion. Quoted figures claim high calories and health benefits, while references to naval act food allowances and other authorities emphasize fatless protein and digestive ease.
A fragment mentions palatable substitutes for hungry children and references Our Family Food readers who can obtain books by sending stamped envelopes. It also lists recipe snippets for conaconate ice cream and creamed celery with evaporated milk, water, butter, salt, pepper, and cheese. A sentence notes a very dock and wheels transporting vessels over East Asia and Richmond, Indiana, with an art gallery in its high school.
An old health idea extols Vitamin from natural foods and promotes Grape-Nuts as a ready to eat cereal that supplies Vitamin, phosphorus, iron, and bran for digestion. The ad claims easy digestion, quick assimilation, and strong nourishment with economy, urging regular use. Made by Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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