Electrolytic silver cleaning method and cake recipe
The Washington home economics office summarizes a cheap electrolytic silver cleaning method using baking soda and salt with aluminum or zinc to remove tarnish without metal loss. The article also provides a silver cake recipe with detailed mixing and frosting instructions.
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Office of Home Economics
Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Clara Glidden
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Colo
Delmonico Cream Roll Potatoes Recipe Sketch
Two Delmonico potato methods are outlined. Pare and dice potatoes, soak in cold water, then mix with a white onion celery sauce. Combine in a hot pan, bake until tender and sauce absorbs without browning, fold like an omelet, and serve hot.
Fried Parsley Garnish Technique from the Boston Globe
A cooking note describes frying parsley to garnish meat dishes. Heat fat until bluish smoke rises, remove briefly, add parsley, fry until bright green, then drain. Avoid overfrying to prevent brown color.
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Boston
Lemon Pudding Recipe
Sence One and one half cupfuls of sugar one and one half cupfuls wafer butter size of egg juice and rind of one lemon. Bitter One cupful sugar one cupful water butter size of egg one teaspoon ful baking powder flour enough to make batter like cake. Mix the sauce in granite pan and let stand till dissolved then pour batter over sauce and bake in a medium oven. Good either hot or cold.
Suet Pudding Mixture and Steam Method
A recipe fragment describes mixing suet salt soda cream of tartar molasses and flour with raisins currants citron and lemon extract then steaming the batter for four hours. Serve with hard sauce.
Protect Bed Springs With Muslin Cover
To protect bed springs cover with hovey unbleached muslin or ticking. Sew corners to keep it tight. Keeps springs from rust and can be aired and shaken weekly or when soiled.
Incomplete Note on Bags and Corks for Paper Use
Fragmentary text references corks bags and paper use. Mentions HMC and ens but lacks clear dates names or actions. Indicates a contribution context but no definite event or outcome.
Gathered Quips on Frugality, Suspicion, and Wisdom
A collection of quips on frugality by deeds not words, caution about friends and foes, and reflections on experience, judgment, guilt, self talk, and genius versus folly. The quotes lampoon motivation, perception, and what spurs action in everyday life.
Quotations on Marriage and Wealth A Wise Man’s Mottoes
A collection of maxims on judgment fortune money and marriage. It contrasts luck and judgment and notes a woman learns from servants but won’t admit it. It warns against arrogance and advocates humility in prosperity.
Just Thoughts on Human Nature and Hypocrisy
A selection of maxims on charity jealousy weather luck and kindness. It notes the ill winds of predictions and the folly of self praise while critiquing those who mistreat animals and doubt prayer. The tone is aphoristic and moralizing with pointed observations.
Cold prevention and health myths from old medical advice
A fragmented list questions common beliefs about colds and health, noting that sneezing or spitting can spread illness, open air exercise may help, and that neglect or alcohol use can worsen outcomes. It emphasizes bodily vigor as protection and links repeated colds to weakness.
Oaks Most Struck by Lightning in Germany
Popular Science reports German statistics showing nearly one third of trees struck by lightning are oaks. Russian engineers plan a three year study to test profitability of raising sugar beets in Siberia. Southern Japan hosts the world’s largest volcanic crater measuring 14 by 10 miles. Switzerland enforces laws protecting rare plants, making illicit possession a penal offense.
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Germany
Siberia
Japan
Switzerland
New York Awakening Tests Tommy Crawford’s Plans
Tom Crawford travels to New York chasing change and distraction from Martha. He flirts with Brinton’s plans and lonely dates until Martha unexpectedly reconnects. A dinner proposal in the conservatory leads Martha to test his commitment with a playful condition.
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Tom Crawford
Martha
Tommy
New York
Walter
Brinton
Albany
Manhattan
Hippodrome
Fifth Avenue
Tommy Crawford
Tom
Mary
Mr. Crawford
Tammy
McClure
Treat Turkey for Cholera With Isolation and Creolin
The article instructs isolating affected turkeys in a remote house, dosing with creolin or sulpho-napthol, and giving a minute dose of corrosive sublimate. It prescribes sparing feeding, humane culling of severely affected birds, and burning litter and runs after disinfection. Spraying with creolin solution and frequent plowing of runs are advised.
Picking Feathers From Geese
The article advises picking goose feathers just before molt to avoid blood. It discourages twice yearly plucking as it depletes vitality and breeder suitability. Drying the feathers before market is described as the final step.
Feeding Milk to Chickens Doubles Egg Production
Nebraska experiment station at Lincoln reports milk feeding doubles egg yields in chickens. The station notes milk or wet mash supplies protein and carbohydrates and that meat scrap can substitute when milk is unavailable.
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Nebraska
Oyster Shells Prove Valuable For Egg Shells
R M Sherwood of Kansas State Agricultural College states oyster shells fed to laying hens convert about 90 percent into egg shells. Clam shells and lime share similar composition but are less effective and less appealing to chickens.
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R. M. Sherwood
Department of Poultry Husbandry
Kansas State Agricultural College
Right Males for Breeding in Poultry
Cull out the bum roosters. Males of large vigorous type with well developed breast strong bone large comb and wattles and bright eyes should be kept for breeding. Discard crow heads long beaks weak legs indicate low vigor. Hold late molting hens sell early molting hens persistent sitters and overfat hens. Sell immature pullets or runts and save only the best. Never breed from diseased stock.
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Wise
Charity
Popular Science
Turkey
Washington, D. C
Sout
Southern Railway
Augusta
Pullman
Fred R. McMillin
Eighth St. Augusta
Piedmont
Carolinas
Virginia
Nebraska Experiment Station
California
GEO. Coclin & Bros
Edgefield Friern
Jackson and Ellis Sts
Augusta, Ga
Shas Sastre
South Carolina
J. Norris
Arrington Bros. & CO
Leeds
Cumming and
Fenwick Streets
Georgia
R. R
Augusta,Ga
ELF
C. FE
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