Recipes for the Housewife Honey Gingerbread and Log Cabin Sandwiches
Instructions describe two recipes: a honey gingerbread batter with honey milk eggs flour and spices, and a log cabin style sandwich method using large bread loaves cut and layered with butter and fillings, arranged in a log-cabin pattern.
Bean and Beef Noodle Soup with Corn Bread
A recipe combines one pint canned beans two quarts beef stock one-fourth pound noodles half cup diced celery one tablespoon minced parsley one-fourth cup minced onions with salt and pepper. Cook noodles celery and onions in stock add beans heat through season and serve with corn bread. Also instructions for honey muffin batter with flour baking powder salt butter eggs honey milk baked in muffin pans.
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T. C.B. Allen
Elmia Jona Locke
Vintage Cake Recipe Card from Miss Tille Haremski
Sugar and baking powder are sifted with flour and salt and shortened with fat. Eggs are beaten and folded with milk into a stiff batter. Spread in a buttered pan and bake for half an hour. Optional chocolate or orange icing. De Pue, Indiana recipe attribution.
Tried and True Cookie Recipe and Cranberry Raisin Pie
A two part recipe feature lists cookies using butter or lard sugar eggs sweet milk baking powder vanilla lemon or nutmeg and stiff dough rolled to one eighth inch. Also details cranberry raisin pie with puff paste crust sugar lemon juice and slitted top before baking.
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Lou
Bessie Orden
South Kline Street
Oklahoma City
Okla
The Real Culprit of a Melon Theft Tale in NYC
In a New York dinner, the Duke of Sutherland praises a watermelon while recounting a voyage tale from a Southern preacher who rails against shooting craps and melon stealing. A backseat passenger adds a quick, humorous remark about his knife as the scene unfolds.
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Duke of Sutherland
New York
Breddern and Sistern
Pahson
Dry Farming in the Great Basin
Historians describe how dry farming emerged between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. In 1855 a water failure led to wheat thriving on dry land while irrigated plots wilted, proving moisture management can sustain crops. By the 1890s Colorado spearheaded experiments, now many states host experimental farms. wheat roots six feet long illustrate adaptation and soil humus and nitrogen remain stable under long cultivation with summer fallow and mulch practices boosting yields.
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Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Great American Desert
Colorado
Dry farming roots and soil depth shape Great Basin yields
Historical overview notes dry farming origins from the 1847 California gold rush and Mormon settlers in Utah. It explains how deep sagebrush roots retain moisture, the variable West soil profiles, and the need for long-rooted crops and section specific methods to optimize water use and capillary action.
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Great Basin
California
Plains
Utah
Mothers Will Be Pensioned
An essay argues rising birth control among the wealthy and poor alike threatens national vitality. It cites England and America where birth rates have fallen since 1870, notes child labor and poverty as drivers, and warns Germany’s growth may dominate world demography. The piece references Malthus and Lincoln predicting U.S. population trends and calls for government action to avert decline.
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England
America
France
Germany
Lincoln
United States
Thomas Robert Malthus
India
Open River for the Northwest Power Plant Vision
An article argues for a large scale hydroelectric project in the Northwest linking power to industry and transport. It proposes 800 000 horsepower, compares with Keokuk, and envisions railways and ocean trade fed by a central plant. The piece urges regional unity to develop wealth, power, and resources for future welfare.
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Prise
Portland
Northwest
United States
Mississippi
Keokuk
Mississippi Valley
Orient
Great Northwest
The
Great Basin
Columbia
Natural Flesh Tints and the Ideal of Nature
The passage argues that art achieves true beauty by mirroring nature in flesh tones. It asserts that realism in color yields the most convincing effect, suggesting the invention or prompting idea behind the artistic pursuit is to imitate natural shading and complexion.
Shredded Wheat Breakfast Promises Easy School Morning
The ad touts Shredded Wheat as a complete wake up meal for Johnny and others, claiming it provides all needed nutrients for study and play. It explains how to heat the ready-cooked biscuits, pour hot milk, and tailor taste with cream and salt or sugar. It markets as a muscle making, brain building food for children adults athletes and laborers.
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