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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1924
Page
2
A fashion column praises modern dress as diverse and practical, noting sportswear influence, simplified lines, and the move away from restrictive boning and corsets. It highlights athletic and casual styles, the rise of beaded gowns for formal wear, and delicate dance frocks in pale or bright colors.
The USDA advises on cooked calf parts such as brains in vinegar with eggs, sweetbreads parboiled or fried, bacon fried ver, tongue served hot with tomato sauce or cold with salad, and liver hearts requiring long slow cooking. The tone reflects an old dietary text detailing preparation methods and serving styles.
The article urges teaching children to pack their lunches to ensure variety and balance. It covers neat packing in waxed paper, keeping foods clean, avoiding spoilage in heat, and using disposable napkins and separate wrappings for different items. It suggests milk in small jars when possible.
The United States Department of Agriculture presents a frosting method from the Bureau of Home Economics experimental kitchen. Beat egg white with sugar and cold water in a double boiler until stiff, then add salt and heat further to spreadable thickness. Add vanilla, or flavoring. Chocolate variant uses melted unsweetened chocolate, added after stiffening, then cooked until thick. Caramel icing caramelizes sugar with water, and a portion replaces water in the base frosting.
A frying-size chicken is cut up and fried in hot lard. Add one onion chopped, one green pepper, one tomato, a tablespoon of chili powder and half a cup of rice. Season with salt and pepper and add hot water to cook the rice until well done.
Instructional note on making jellied peaches to preserve fresh peach flavor. Advises using high quality fruit, thinly sliced peaches, sugar, and quick cooking with pectin extract for best flavor, also mentions applying method to raspberries, strawberries, and pineapples.
The USDA outlines common bluings Prussian blue Aniline and ultramarine and notes Indigo now rare. Bluings in solution color fabrics more evenly than suspension and Prussian blue is a soluble iron salt. Testing uses soupsuds turning blue to yellow signals iron. aniline blues dissolve in water and are likely most satisfactory.
The column offers practical advice on reducing waste with maple sugar kept in the refrigerator or in an air tight jar. It also notes a method to clean straw hats using warm water and a disinfecting solution of oxalic acid in water.
A starfish narrates a playful, dark fable about loving to eat oysters, praising ocean life while confessing a wicked grin and a feast to come. Mother Ocean chides the starfish for its appetite and teaches restraint as the tale ends with an implied meal.
A three year old girl bursts into the house in anger saying she wants the old hen whipped for hiding her chicks. The mother questions the motive and the child explains the hen lifted her dress and showed under, upsetting the girl.
In a playful classroom exchange the teacher asks Johnnie to use the word triangle in a sentence. Johnnie replies with a pun about fish and bait suggesting angle worms if grasshoppers fail to bite.
A collage of odd observations spans music politics medicine weather and language with snippets on jazz fatigue, ancient cities, earthquakes, fashion, etiquette and an odd note about an army honorary rank. It also notes British royal rumors, phone service quirks, and a tongue in cheek look at cigarette production.
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