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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
3
A USDA guide explains apartment and home laundry by creating a separate wash area near or below the kitchen, proper table heights, portable tubs, and durable materials. It stresses avoiding odors and using correct heights to reduce fatigue while enabling efficient supervision of chores.
A six month U S Department of Agriculture study tested floor oils on old pine floors. Among three mixes the boiled linseed oil turpentine blend best preserved gloss and did not darken floors, while the commercial oil darkened more but kept some gloss.
A DIY gas saving cover for gas plates or ranges is described with reinforcement riveted to the pan center if sheet metal is light. The design uses sheet metal and rivets, with self explanatory drawings credited to L. C. in Popular Science Monthly.
A list of kitchen hints covers using beef drippings as shortening for pie crust prunes without sugar for best results insipid apple sauce with a touch of cinnamon and preserving cheese for grating. It also advises greasing pot rims to prevent boilovers keeping stoves clean with vase line and wetting bowls before meat to reduce greasing and adjusting jelly liquid for firmer fruit jellies.
In Cresswell near Newcastle the coast guard detachment includes volunteer life-savers, many women, who rush to launch lifeboats under warning rockets. Mrs Armstrong, 75, has never missed a service since 1874 and once traversed five miles along a stormy coast to obtain rocket apparatus for a Swedish steamship crew.
A large unusual fish was caught 18 miles off Waianae, Hawaii, by a Japanese fisherman. Weighing about 150 pounds and nearly circular, it featured a silvery body with scarlet fins and snout and a long dorsal fin with white spots. University expert Edmondson could not classify it. A booth charged a fee for a glance, drawing curious locals.
A London Morning Post correspondent praises the sky lark for its intrepidity in war zones. He recalls May 9 near Festubert and Richebourg where a lark sang above while machine gun fire and shells rained on British lines, proving the bird’s calm under fire.
A Washington Star report notes an English test of an American invention to render wood nonflammable. Sap is removed from the timber in heated vacuum chambers, then a fireproofing solution is forced into pores under hydraulic pressure. The treated wood is said to resist fire and decay.
A fragment quotes a host boasting of hairbreadth escapes while gathering hunting trophies and inviting a guest to view his stamp collection. The light exchange reflects curiosity and casual social banter in a dated tabloid tone.
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