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Newspaper
Delta Herald Times
Location
Delta, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1932
Page
7
A sewing tip suggests placing paper under delicate materials like myelin or crepe de chine to avoid puckering while stitching. Tear away the paper after the seam is finished. The item also offers women’s fashion and cooking hints.
June breil or fry according to taste. Toast rounds of bread. Fry slices of tomato red or green. Make a mushroom gravy. Serve on hot platter. Place fried tomato on each toast. Top with fried sweet bread and pour mushroom gravy over. Garnish with crisp bacon and green. Combine asparagus, gelatin, water, vinegar, and salt. mold and chill with mayonnaise dressing. Peas, parsley, and radish roses add color.
Homemade dessert ideas from 1932 include strawberry short cake with four individual servings and a Charlotte Russe with prune filling. Instructions cover batter, pan prep, oven heat, and assembly with whipped cream, berries, and decorative prune topping. Serves up to twelve for large cakes.
A summer luncheon feature highlights a toast with fried tomato and sweet breads. It includes mushroom gravy and bacon served alongside Pardoil sweet breads, outlining a simple method for preparation.
Gifford Pinchot reviews improvements in Pennsylvania hatcheries with new bass rearing methods, expanded facilities for yellow perch and other species, and the creation of a Bureau of Research to optimize mass production. Highlights include doubling sunfish per pond and artificial hatching developments for suckers and bullheads.
Figures from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles show youths aged 18 to 24 involved in 190 fatal and 2700 non fatal accidents in four months. Garrison P. Knox of the Keystone Automobile Club notes that drivers 26 to 54 recorded 351 fatal and 7118 non fatal crashes, while those over 55 had 705 incidents with 28 fatal.
Dr. BE. M. Gress, chief botanist at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, deplores the extermination of wild flowering plants in Pennsylvania’s mountains. He notes auto parties remove blooms like dogwood and mountain laurel, exposing them to drying winds and rapid travel, which ruins their freshness and beauty.
The piece warns that picking flowers and uprooting plants harms native flora near towns and along streams. It notes trampling, dust, and industry kill species, while collectors often transplant wild plants with poor survival. Nursery-grown varieties are recommended for successful growth.
Agricultural tips urge culling low producing cows to protect profits. Remove shade from young pines and spruces by late June to July. Apply manure with 50 pounds of superphosphate per load to boost clover and forage quality. Replant missing hills of corn beans and cucumbers early to ensure simultaneous maturity. Avoid rough handling of strawberries at harvest to preserve quality.
The article notes raising prices by several cents a quart and instructs separating young birds by sex once determination is possible, keeping cockerels apart from pullets to prevent breeding.
A Baltimore County landlord demanded rent in money. The dairyman delivered a Guernsey cow as payment. The landlord paid a carpenter with the cow, who owed the dairyman, and the cow was returned to her original owner after three settlements.
About 1000 people attended the memorial service at Centre Presbyterian Church New Park held in the cemetery. The service featured an address by Rev Everett C DeVelde, choir anthem a brass quartet piece and a reading by Mrs Ralph Jenkins. Dr J W Porter read the names of those interred in the cemetery over the past year.
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