Garments Made From Discards Spark Home Shows
Home Demonstration Agents across the country teach clothing conservation using cast off garments. Fashion shows and clinics remodel old clothes into new wear, with notable displays in Cerro Gordo Iowa and Lincoln Nebraska. The effort boosts thrift amid rising costs and wartime scarcity, urging broader public participation.
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Ed Miller
Chait
Eddie
Eddie Miller
Eddies
Johnnies
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Nebraska
Cerro Gordo County
Mason City
Lincoln
Neb
City Hall
NEW CLOTHES Economic Wardrobe Guidance
Advice on buying fewer, higher quality garments. Choose durable materials like wool serge and broadcloth, favor conservative styles, and buy after the rush season. Make or modify pieces to fit your wardrobe, aiming for multipurpose items and easy laundering.
Apples on the table all season in the North
The agriculture department urges various apple uses for winter meals. Fresh apples may be stuffed with sausage then baked or sliced and fried. Raw apples suit salads. Canned or dried forms boost custards and desserts. Apples also enrich short cakes and sauces.
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Department of Agriculture
One Base but Many Dishes in Housekeeper’s Recipes
A housekeeper with experience shares that a single dough base can adapt to many dishes. She compares crusts for pies, cakes with different icings, and doughs used for short cakes, dumplings, roly poly puddings, or tutti frutti combinations, showing flexibility in cooking.
Morning Banner's all female staff proposal shocks editor
Olive Claggett confronts Bennett Stokes over a letter to Mr Fordyce proposing a feminized Banner staff. He reveals he is Fordyce and the two confess mutual attraction, planning to marry while Olivia remains business manager. They agree to publish the letter and name a new business manager.
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Olive Claggett
Bennett Stokes
Olive
Bennett
Morning Banner
Banner
Fordyce
Stokes
Mr. Stokes
Mr. Fordyce
Medal Story Turns on Melon for a Thirsty General
A Napoleonic veteran rebukes Napoleon I for not awarding the Legion of Honor for his melon gift in Egypt. The emperor jokes that greatness lies in giving a melon to a thirsty commander, not just fighting. He pins the cross to the grenadier, declaring it for the melon.
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Legion of Honor
Egypt
Arcola
Marengo
Austerlitz
Santo Domingo
Lavish Funeral Sparks Irony in Old Wealth Tale
A quip from the Birmingham Age-Herald notes a man who saved all his life died before enjoying his wealth. The widow now hosts a funeral costly enough to make his passing a final display of fortune. The exchange hints at irony surrounding inherited luxury.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Uniform Foundation Herd Key to Uniform Market Hogs
The guide stresses uniformity in breeding stock to produce uniform hogs. Buy bred sows or gilts around 12 months, ideally from one herd to align color, type, and conformation. Emphasizes germplasm continuity, record keeping, and selecting sows from a single line to improve true to type outcomes.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Petsai versus lettuce a cheaper global grower
The article promotes Petsai as a nationwide, cost efficient alternative to lettuce. It claims Petsai grows across the United States at about half the cost, stores better, and matches lettuce in nutrition while serving as a chop suey staple. it clarifies Petsai is not cabbage.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
What’s in a name clashes with taste for petsai
The piece argues prejudice taints food perception noting Chinese cabbage petsai as a delicacy. It cites U S Department of Agriculture introduction from China and current cultivation in Civioa New Jersey California and other areas. Unprejudiced diners affirm petsai as appetizing.
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United States Department of Agriculture
China
Civioa
New Jersey
California
Feeding Cattle in Winter Notice
Guidance on winter silage feeding for beef cattle stresses estimating total forage on hand to avoid exhausting supplies. If short, options include feeding dry roughage first or mixing silage with roughage through winter, with a January start and April end aim. Include dry roughage and a small cottonseed meal if legume hays are not used.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers debate dairy herd care and forage choices
A rural note discusses maintaining dairy cows with ample clover and cowpeas. It stresses good producing cows and using roughage options to sustain dairy operations despite corn crop failures.
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America
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Goldier
Napoleon
Poland
Petsai
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