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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
6
A vintage sounding menu column promotes holiday salads and molded fish mousses. It includes Tuna Mousse and Green Goddess Dressing recipes, pretty fruit salads, and a quick Xmas casserole with sweet potatoes and pork sausages.
American Builder magazine endorses concrete blocks as a low cost durable option for dairy barns. Benefits highlighted include cleanliness, weather and insect resistance, plus low maintenance. Concrete foundations floors and precast joists enable lasting structures and repairs. Temperature ideas note cows keep interior 45 to 50 degrees when barns are well insulated.
A study shows fewer than half of over 4 million U S farm homes have baths and about half the rooms lack heating. Outdated postwar designs produced rectangular box like houses with small rooms and poor plumbing. A Department of Agriculture plan now guides better layouts with adequate space and storage, aided by a 10 year electrification drive reaching 75 percent of farms, expanding demand for automation and appliances.
The illustration explains pulling a car or tractor from a ditch using a tow rope hitched to the front end and tied to a stake or tree at right angle. It emphasizes getting out with the least effort.
The 1950 crested wheatgrass seed crop is estimated at 5,330,000 pounds of clean seed, about 5 percent above 1949’s 5,090,000 pounds. North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana show gains while Nebraska, Colorado, and Washington lag. Colorado’s crop was near failure in 1950.
A note suggests serving steamed puddings with hot or cold cinnamon sauce made from pear juice, thickened with cornstarch and butter. It also recommends festive carrots with pineapple chunks, and a pineapple juice glaze for both vegetables and fruit using cornstarch.
A Danish clerk sparks a Christmas seal concept later approved by King Christian and Queen Louise. The idea spreads through Copenhagen, leading to four million seals sold in 1904. In the United States Miss Emily Bissell starts a sale to fund tubercular care, aided by Philadelphia editor Leigh Hodges and E A Van Valkenburg, turning the campaign into a nationwide effort.
The first Christmas card was designed in 1842 by William Maw Egley, a 16 year old London apprentice. The card failed commercially at first but was later rediscovered in 1941 and helped kick off a lucrative Christmas card industry featuring many designers and publishers.
A feature describes Capitelli as festive Italian Christmas dining, presented on plates. The little conical hats resemble dunce caps and are crafted as miniature edible caps for the holiday meal.
Readers share varied beliefs linking Christmas weather to future events. A warm Christmas supposedly foretells a cold Easter, a green Christmas allegedly signals a fat graveyard, and an apple tree on Christmas day is said to indicate a good crop next year.
Appealing angelic figures six and a half inches high traced on stiff paper. They bend and stand alone or swing from the tree for festive decoration.
Gift ideas target cigarette and pipe smokers with Camels in cartons and tins of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. Ads promise convenience with wrapped packages and emphasize popularity of Camels.
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