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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1949
Page
6
An old home economics piece urges families to schedule one weekly baking session. It details making refrigerator dough for cookies and rolls, planning bread and desserts for Sunday, and using pre mixed dough to speed prep. It lists Refrigerator Rolls ingredients and steps, including warming milk, dissolving shortening and yeast, and chilling dough.
A collage of home style recipes and menu items listed under Lynn Chambers includes Beef-Vegetable Pie with mashed potatoes, Banana Spice Cake, Nut Wafers, and Whole Wheat Bread. Recipes provide steps, ingredients, and bake times for breads and cakes, with notes on preparation and rising times.
Practical advice covers cleaning enameled fixtures with kerosene or oil to avoid scratches and gloss loss. It notes silvered flatware stays bright when wrapped in treated flannel with silver particles. Leather pieces, pastry cloths, and kitchen towels are advised cleaning methods to prevent staining and sticking.
Ertta Haley offers a family friendly guide to decorating for Christmas using imagination not expense. Emphasizes creating traditions through shared crafts, wreaths, greeting arrangements, and edible touches like cornucopias and popcorn chains to reflect personality and foster togetherness.
A guide to simple handmade decorations using corn syrup and vinegar candy balls, popcorn, ribbons, candy canes, cones, cornucopias, colored paper, and cookies. Tips cover tree ornaments mantel card displays with stars on walls, and arranging cards under glass for a festive look.
A collection of humorous courtroom vignettes where light offenses lead to surprising outcomes. A grocer faces an assault charge after kissing a maid. a bus passenger sues over sudden jerks. a judge rules on opportunistic fines and constitutional limits on local officials amid a flurry of quirky legal missteps.
In a season marked by distinctive neckline decoration, knitted Shetland wool scarfs bring soft froth and seafoam color. Cropped fur cravats in leopard print captivate youth, while revived twenty ties with scarf collars offer bows or crossed ends worn loose at the back.
Kathleen Norris reflects on Christmas debt beyond gifts. She links the season to the Carpenter and Christ's teachings, tracing how Christian faith shaped culture, charity, learning, and law across civilizations, urging a stressed emphasis on the Christmas message in modern life.
Milwaukee readers are reminded of colonial hotel customs once common in America. Signs proclaimed limits like five to a bed and no boots in bed, with others banning organ grinders and beer in kitchens. Early hotels opened in 1704 in New York, and up to the Civil War offerings remained primitive with crude plumbing and unheated guest rooms.
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