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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
3
A short guide shows how to repurpose leftover fish into dishes like scalloped fish, fish loaf, and fish molds with tomato or acid sauces. Recipes use shredded fish, rice or potatoes, milk or eggs, and optional spices. Directions cover layering, baking, molding, and serving with sauces to flavor and extend seafood.
Instructions for proper table setting include placing silverware 1.5 inches from the edge, 12 inches of plate space, knife with sharp edge to the right, spoons with bowls up to the right of the knife, forks tines up to the left of center, and napkin to the left of the forks. The glass sits one inch beyond the knife tip, bread plate sits above the plate space to the left, and extra dishes go where appropriate.
Guidance on setting a table with space to the right for the plate and coffee cup, arranging serving dishes neatly, and placing utensils to the right. After meals remove dishes and cloth and cover the table for a better appearance. Eating slowly at a neat table enhances pleasure beyond mere sustenance.
A monthly routine uses kerosene poured down the kitchen sink in the evening, followed by two gallons of boiling water the next morning. The kerosene removes grease from pipe sides and the boiling water dissolves and flushes it away, helping prevent clogs.
Wash corduroy in warm soapy water and rinse well. Partly dry and brush the nap with a stiff brush. When thoroughly dry brush again to restore the texture.
Oil paint in deep cream or light tan makes durable washable kitchen walls, offering easy cleaning and lasting appeal.
Do not shake rugs by one end as it loosens threads at the border and causes edges to unravel.
The excerpt advises not placing food directly into hot fat to avoid greasy results as fat boils. It notes that shorter cooking time after sugar addition yields lighter, more delicately colored jelly. It also mentions extending the usefulness of leaky hot water bags by oiling them with heated sand or salt.
A quirky kitchen note suggests using cold coffee instead of mink fat in chocolate frosting. It mentions guts powdered sugar as part of the texture and flavor reference, reflecting a peculiar historic or fictional culinary aside.
The USDA notes you can create new rugs from shabby woolen carpets by cutting old material into three quarter inch strips, sewing and twisting them into chenille like cords as filling. Cotton warp and dyed borders from solid color strips yield neutral, sturdy rugs weighing about 6% pounds per square yard.
A kitchen floor puddle is best tackled by dampening the mop first. An absorbent mop cloth holds more water when it is not completely dry, making cleanup quicker and easier.
A simple home method instructs to place soiled quills in a box of cornmeal. Shake gently to clean, then remove the feather and shake out the meal.
Household tips cover kitchen gadgets cleaning frames and frames care beds mattresses and cooking. Advice includes taping seams on fabrics dampening with borax for cleaning dishes turning mattresses weekly and using soda to prevent curdling in slightly sour cream. Practical domestic guidance for daily living.
A brief guide outlines various curing methods for pork to be used in meals or sold. It covers common techniques, safety considerations, and basic steps for salting, smoking, and curing to preserve flavor and extend shelf life.
The United States Department of Agriculture promotes home pork and pork products and tomato canning. It urges healthy hog selection and 18 to 24 hours without feed before slaughter, plus proper tools for killing and processing. Tomato growing hinges on good practices, seeds, plants, fertilizer, cultivation, and disease control for profitable yields.
A collection of household tips includes freshening rancid walnut meats with boiling soda water, cracking brittle nuts with a hot bath, and using candle ends for polishing irons. It also offers broom repair, doughnut fat saving, meat grinding for even seasoning, stale bread as cereal, crochet fixes for runs, old stockings to braided rugs, auto tire inner tubes as elastic, and tips for mayonnaise texture and egg white use.
The article notes there is a right time to plant corn and that farmers rely on calendars leaves or moon phases to decide. It warns many plant too early and that April plantings germinate slowly and are less hardy than mid May sowings. Rainfall distribution affects yield, with best growth from medium planting dates.
The article notes feed crops are easy to manage for animals, with potential to turn products from animals into cash. It cautions that producing excessive feed is challenging and hopes the cost of feed will stay home this year.
A commentary promotes crop rotation as essential for soil health and livestock feed. It stresses using a legume base to restore soil nitrogen, with red clover highlighted as well suited to farm needs and soil balance.
Sudan grass is praised as an ideal emergency hay crop and is rapidly replacing millet in many states. Thousands of farmers use it successfully as summer pasture and it provides strong returns while supporting permanent pastures and feed lots.
Soy beans deserve focus alongside corn in acreage adjustments as a high protein off crop. Proper manure management matters since manure losses reduce plant food value by forty to sixty percent each ton leached away.
Farmers cultivate home grown geed beet and acclimated corn varieties to raise yields, replacing imported seed with locally developed stock.
A United States Department of Agriculture study notes broodiness can be markedly reduced by strict selection. Massachusetts experiments show broody frequency dropping from 3.88 to 0.36 times yearly after five years of selective breeding. The report links broodiness to egg production and outlines four nonbroody and one broodiness genetic types.
A compact reflection on happiness by Robert Quillen arguing that contentment comes from within rather than travel or outward search. It warns that happiness cannot be bought or found at colorfully promised endings and must be contrived from one’s own outlook.
A fragmentary 1922 Western Newspaper Union page offers recipe hints for pea soup pineapple pie and peanut dumplings with notes on Graham Muffins, plus a brief definition of a Documental Vessel and its registry role in trade. The text mixes culinary tips with early 20th century maritime terms.
The California College of Agriculture's poultry division launches a hatchery program with Alameda county hatcherymen. About 20,000 birds have been inspected and only eggs meeting weight production size and shape standards are approved for hatching. Hatcherymen agree to use eggs only from tested flocks.
The note warns to avoid premature culling of poultry and to feed all birds through winter. It advises delaying culling to summer, from June to September, so that only older birds are removed after they have a chance to lay eggs.
Mrs. Chas. Baker of Hornell New York reports improved health after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E Pinkham's Food Medicine. She says she regained energy, better sleep, and can do more daily work now and urges others to try the remedies.
Classic advertisement notes handkerchiefs look hopeless after washing. Recommends washing with good soap followed by rinsing in water tinted with Red Cross Ball Blue for a brighter result.
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