Paris fashions bring long skirts and vivid hats to New York
A fashion column notes Paris spring and summer gowns arriving in New York. It highlights long skirts, minimal trimming, citron yellow organdies, and lace hats. Parigian styles feature bold leather hats, lacquered leaves, and cire finished floral trimmings, with flowers growing in prominence for the season.
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Paris
New York
Madeleine Et
Madeleine
Weil
Chantilly
vegetables are cheap for food garden truck as source of mineral matter
United States Department of Agriculture specialists emphasize vegetables as rich in minerals and protein and argue their diet value exceeds common perception. They advocate increasing vegetable intake, especially in spring and summer, and highlight the benefits of home garden production for affordable, fresh produce.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Novelty Bedspreads Featured in White Voile Floral Bande
Novelty bedspreads described as white voile with floral banda appeal to shoppers. The listing notes fabric style and decorative banding as key features for bedroom decor.
Care of Heaters in Summer
A tip on preventing rust in unused heating systems. Remove smokepipes and store dry with doors open to vent moisture. Place lime on the grate to absorb moisture and leave boiler water heaters filled to the water line valve during summer, per farming division guidance.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Old Fashioned Method of Clarifying Fat at Home
Guide to saving fat from cooking meat to replace butter or lard. Instructions from agriculture experts detail clarifying fat by washing with cold water and simmering, then scrapping clean. Alternative steps include cooking raw potato slices in fat and storing rendered lard in tins or jars in a cool, dry place.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Good Supper Tomato Sauce with Baked Eggs
Recipe from USDA experimental kitchen combines tomato pulp juice egg and spice to form a sauce. Half the sauce lines a dish then six eggs are slid in one by one without breaking yolks. Bake until set then serve hot over toast or rice with grated cheese on top.
Peach Butter From Dried and Canned Peaches
A USDA recipe combines four pounds dried peaches with two quarts canned peaches. Soak and simmer until tender then rub pulp, add 244 pounds sugar, cook two hours until thick, pack hot and sterilize.
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United States Department of Agriculture Food Specialists
Care and pressing tips for cotton and linen outfits
Guidance on caring for cotton and linen fabrics notes they press and launder at home, dust is shaken off, brushing can rub dirt in, and recommends pressing heavy suitings on the wrong side or under a thin cloth to prevent shine on seams and iron marks.
Household Questions and Kitchen Tips
Sweeten egg custards with maple sirup. Olly bottles may be easily cleaned if a McHe ammonia is used. To keep a pie from sticking sprinkle flour on the plate generously instead of greasing. Remove skin and bone from fish while it fits will warm and they will come away cleanly. When a pie runs over in the oven, sprinkle over the juice to keep it from filling the oven with smoke.
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Olly Bottlea
Accident Averted by Quick Action Near Richmond
J B Frix of Richmond says a boy called Young Bird stood on a railroad track as a car sped by. Another boy warned the youngster to move, fearing an engineer might misjudge the mouf and strike. The anecdote ties into a broader note on civil service exams and public learning.
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J. B. Frix
Richmond
National Teachers’ Training Association
Run Down Warns of Illness Ads for 3.8.8 Remedy
An advertisement warns that feeling run down signals immune disorder and potential illness. It touts an A-1 blood remedy and a vegetable medicine 3.8.8 as a cure, urging readers to buy from a druggist and write to Chief Medical Advisor in Atlanta for free advice.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Georgia
Moralizing On Servants And Racial Stereotypes
A late 19th or early 20th century vignette shows Mrs. Morgan scolding her maid Sarah about her suitor in white flannel and racial jabs. Sarah retorts that hints fail with her lover and recounts a blunt insult. A second tale follows a fashionably naive Englishwoman who cannot communicate with a Russian maid leading to humorous missteps and regret.
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Sarah
As Funny as Ever Bowle Shrugs Off Decade-Old Mustache
A man named Bowle shaved his long mustache on a Sunday morning after years of jokes. A neighbor girl, four, first saw him and exclaimed that he looked funny as ever, remarking on his upper lip.
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Mr. Bowle
Girl He Was Looking For
A brief comic exchange ends with a marriage proposal as a man asks the woman to marry him after a silence and a quip about debt and entry. The dialogue contrasts talkativeness with readiness to commit.
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