Crochet Rug Pattern From Old Garment Scraps
Instructions from Anne Cabot for making a large crocheted rug from strips of cotton dresses and stained sheets in bright colors. Includes color alternations, tips on rug size up to 12 feet, and requests 10 cents, name, address, and pattern number to Southwest Magazine in New York City for Pattern No. 5513.
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A Woman in Kansas City Urges Calm on Rationing Fashions
Nell Snead urges women to avoid panic buying and resist clothes rationing. She argues normal, necessary purchases protect against inflation and keep supply steady, while praising sturdy, simple work outfits with bright accessories. She notes OPA denies imminent rationing and promotes practical spring styles.
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OPA
Shepherd
Simplifying Point Rationing for Wartime Households
Wartime policy urges careful shopping and early purchases to ensure fair food distribution. Emphasizes using 8 and 5 point stamps first, reliance on unrationed staples like fresh produce and cereals, and home practices such as soups stews and home canning to extend limited supplies.
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OPA
Stuffed Meat Loaf and Fritters From Home Cookbook
Home style recipes show a stuffed meat loaf with ground beef and veal wrapped around a bread crumb stuffing and glazed with catsup. bake 375 F for about an hour to yield eight servings. Also included are Corn Flake Wafers cookies using Kellogg cereals, butter, sugars, egg and nut meats baked at 350 F for about ten minutes yielding about two and a half dozen cookies.
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Kellogg’s
Applesauce Rolls From Biscuit Dough
Simple bake recipe yields apple filled rolls from rectangle biscuit dough. Spread sweetened applesauce, roll, slice, place cut sides down in greased muffin tins and bake at 450 F. for a hot, quick treat.
Handy recipes for eggs vegetables and garnishes
A compact guide notes double boiler keeps eggs hot moist and creamy as break times differ. It adds color and flavor to salads with chili powder in mayonnaise and suggests stuffing cured apples with peanut butter and raisins. Raw turnips can replace carrots for garnish slaw or salads with sliced shaved or cut strips. Eye yolks and whites keep several days when refrigerated in airtight coverage.
Dry Cleaning Tip From Historical Note
An old method mixes equal parts salt and cornmeal with turpentine to create an excellent dry cleaning compound. The blend is moistened thoroughly and used for cleaning textiles.
Fluid coal eyed as possible substitute for fuel oil
Battelle Memorial Institute engineers in Columbus study a pulverized coal product called fluid coal as a potential economical industrial fuel. Ground coal dust mixed with air forms a liquid flowing through pipes and jets, offering a possible substitute for oil in heating, with Germany already converting coal to gasoline at high yield.
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Battelle Memorial Institute
Columbus
Ohio
Germany
Cancer advance boosts early stage cure rates
Fifty years ago doctors would have been happy with a ten percent cure rate for early stage cancer. Now reports show cure rates of seventy to eighty percent. The article notes widespread ignorance about this improvement.
Egg whites tried as cancer treatment in Bellevue report
Doctors Kaplan and Zurrow of Bellevue Hospital in New York studied daily intake of 36 raw egg whites to treat advanced cancer. They say avidin in egg whites may destroy a vitamin B constituent cancer cells need, potentially slowing disease. They emphasize this is not a cure but a step for further study.
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U. S. Bureau of Home Economics
Sam
Victory Gardens
Ira Kaplan
Milton Zurrow
Radiation Therapy Department
Bellevue Hospital, New York
Dr. Kaplan
Kaplan
Covery
News Review
London
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