Puzzle Page Cloze List of Word Clues and Answers
A dense jumble of crossword style clues and partial word fragments. The page offers numerous entries across varied categories with definitions hinting at solutions, some numeric tags, and stray letters. readers are invited to solve the puzzle in next week’s issue.
How to Solve a Gross-Word Puzzle
Instructions explain placing letters in white spaces to form words across and down. Each word starts with a number indicating its definition. Letters go in black spaces and all solutions are standard words with dictionary authority, including proper nouns and abbreviations as defined.
Proper Manner for Making Cup of Tea
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines tea making steps using two warmed earthenware pots. Boil fresh water, measure tea in the hot pot, add boiling water, steep three to five minutes, then strain into the second pot. Tea strength varies with serving style. use one level teaspoon per cup for English breakfast or China congou.
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United States Department of Agriculture
China
Ceylon
Cheese Salad Recipe From Fragmented Text
A garbled recipe describes mixing cream cheese with salt paprika and mayonnaise, folding in whipped evaporated milk, then adding green pepper pimento pecans and parsley or watercress. The mixture is molded chilled for three hours and served on lettuce leaves.
Earning Money at Home by Making Your Own Soap
Homemaking advice explains saving fat scraps from farm and meat processing to make hard white soap. A detailed recipe uses 70 pounds fat 4 quarts water lye borax to produce about 100 bars, aging two months for quality.
Baking Rhubarb Before Canning Is Ideal Plan
Baking rhubarb with sugar until tender then hot packing and five minutes of hot water bath processing is recommended. The hot pack is favored for vegetables and many fruits, while some fruits may be cold packed with syrup and longer processing. Directions are in Miscellaneous Circular 24 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Virginia Woman Turns Waste Space Into Kitchen Use
In Powhatan county Virginia Mrs E L Johnson transformed an awkward stove area into storage under a stair closet for pots pans mop soap and more a new sink bright light from a window a warming bread space above the cupboard and a wheel tray from an old stand. She also enamelled cabinets white and labeled coffee cans for cereals and supplies. The USDA provided the feature photograph.
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United States Department of Agriculture
E. L. Johnson
Powhatan County
Five Senses Teach Sydney a Lesson in Gratitude
A sulky boy named Sydney frets about lack of toys and luck until five kindly personifications of the senses appear. They remind him he already possesses hearing, taste, smell, sight, and touch, and he learns to appreciate them, ending his mood and grumbling.
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Sydney
Tie
Ile
Jim
Gaddy
Attie
Early Bird Ad for Electrical Engineer in Two Years
Advertisement in the Cincinnati Enquirer states a man studying electrical engineering at night will finish in two years and asks if an engineer will be needed in the future. This note appears in the New York World.
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Cincinnati Engineer
New York World
Cuticura Skin Care Ad Offers Soap Ointment Dusting Powder
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness and itching along with Cuticura Soap for bathing. It instructs rinsing drying and dusting with Cuticura Talent to leave a fragrance, priced at 25 cents each.
Stage Talk Sparks Mystery in Domestic Drama Preview
Leading lady defends her innocence as a detective questions secrets in a production blend of revue flair and tense domestic intrigue. The dialogue hints at a gasp inducing reveal set to captivate audiences.
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CHICA
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