Household canning and kitchen preserves guide from 1940s
Household News presents a practical guide to home canning, jam making, and preserving with tested recipes for tomato soup, sweet pickles, strawberry jam, rhubarb butter, and spiced sauces. It includes equipment tips, sterilizing steps, and storage advice, plus a promotion for Eleanor Howe’s Better Baking book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Welsh rarebit cooking tip to prevent stringy cheese
A kitchen tip suggests melting cheese in the sauce after removing the pan from flame to prevent Welsh rarebit from becoming stringy.
Sandwich Bread Chilled for Easier Cutting Tip
A kitchen tip advises placing fresh sandwich bread in the refrigerator for one hour. Chilled bread firms, allowing cleaner slicing and neater sandwich layers. This simple step helps reduce crumbling and yields more uniform portions.
Bathing on screen stirs debate in Hollywoods wartime era
Virginia Vale details how directors and stars approach bath scenes and on set radio quiet in wartime productions. Cary Grant baths in a round wooden tub for The Howards of Virginia while Friedrich March funds an ambulance for the Red Cross. Sam Wood bans radios on Rangers of Fortune set as war coverage dominates.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Joan Crawford
Virginia
Cary Grant
Elizabeth Page
Frank Lloyd
Raleigh
Willameburg
America
Potomac River
Lloyd
Hoyle
Sam Wood
Rangers of Fortune
Frederic March
American Red Cross
Europe
Mls
March
Paramount
Cabinet Meeting Sparks Republican to Democratic Shift
In a staged cabinet exchange, Knox and Stimson join Secretary Ickes Hopkins and Morgenthau under the President. The dialogue highlights party switch anxieties and a forward move with Knox toward the Navy Department while Stimson seeks War and Hopkins reflects on Republican-turned-Democrat dynamics. Television progress and a sermon-themed feature on Job conclude the piece with cultural notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox
Stimaon
Hopkins
Ickes
Wee Hopkins
Mr. Knox
Henry
Mr. Stimson
Mr. Ickes
Mel
Harry Hopkins
Harry
Navy Department
Ee Knox
Strange Facts From Collier's On Weird Science And Customs
The article lists odd claims from Collier's noting the Army carbon arc searchlights reach two hundred miles skyward and appear exceptionally bright. It asserts no double joints or blood tests can reveal a parent’s race. It claims some Americans pay more federal tax than people in many states, crested wheatgrass roots reach nine hundred nineteen miles, and Brahmans bathe for purity after a meat-eating letter.
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United States Army
A Time to Do Good While We Travel This World
A timeless exhortation to show kindness now, as we pass through life only once. The speaker urges immediate goodwill toward others and not to defer acts of generosity or help.
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Weatinghouse
New York
Weathinghouse
Radio City
Elmer
Job
Christ
Eliphaz
Biddad
Carl S. Knopf
Sheol
R. V
Bethany
God
Wit's End
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Zhonor Ie Ve
Thia
Virginia Vale
Nowspaper
Patricia Morison
Royal Air Force
Fibber McGee
Fibber
Patsy Kelly
Hal Roach
Warner Brothers
Heaven
Bette Davis
Charles Beyar
John Garfield
Isabel Manning Hewson
Isabel
Nste
Roosevelt
Frank and
Morgenthau
Harold Ickes
Harold
Frank Knox
Miss Perkins
Labor
Grand Opera
Elmer Twitchells
Plance
Ethica
HAR
wWeatarn
Leason
Dermivaton
Redeemer
Moses
Calvary
India
Collier's
Hostetter's Bitters
Nature
W. C. Bryant
Prince Albert
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