Creed of Cheer and Health in a Gospel of Cheer
A devotional piece urges readers to focus on pleasant thoughts and love to promote health and peace. It cites Mary Moore Ingerson in the Christian Register and Mary Gates Williams as editors discussing optimism, avoidance of fear, and the power of hopeful mental states to sustain well being and prosperity. It concludes with a call to keep the heart on high.
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Mary Moore Ingerson
The
Christian Register
Thoughts Are Things Guide To Better Conversations
A column by Helen L. Manning urges readers to switch the current when conversations drift into gossip, horror stories, or tales of illness. It advocates rebuke when needed, protecting minds from vile tale bearing and preserving optimistic mental pictures.
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Helen L. Manning
Mrs. B
Sallery
Polk Health
The Revival of Rag Carpet Craft and Dyes
A vintage guide celebrates rag carpet making, detailing weaving methods for braided and woven rugs, fringe edges, and color patterns in blue white green and yellow. It covers practical sewing, machine work, and dye recipes using diamond and chemical dyes, with step by step color prep and cost figures for rag carpeting.
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Lin A
Traversa City
Hands Free Dishwashing Secret from a Frugal Homemaker
A homemaker shares a winter friendly method to keep hands soft and unchapped while cleaning. She advocates two dish mops, rubber gloves, and sturdy leather gloves, plus routine hand care with lemon, nail care, pumice stone, and gentle water. She urges consistent use and practical steps over fleeting effort.
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Ouy
Cream of Onion Spinach and Tomato Soups From Table Talk
Easy winter vegetable soups show how to make Cream of Onion Cream of Spinach and Cream of Tomato without meat stock. Uses onion butter flour milk and vegetable purées from spinach celery tomato and other produce with optional croutons or whipped cream.
Hash and croquettes: varied recipes from Good Housekeeping
A vintage recipe column outlines plain hash browned hash and a meat and potato hash mix, plus croquettes. It covers chopping meat and onion, paring potatoes, browning and frying, and adding stock or milk sauce. It concludes with croquettes formed from seasoned hash and meat, crumbed, egged, and fried.
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Sars
Good Housekeeping
The Value of Household Ammonia for Cleaning Uses
Household ammonia is praised as thrifty homemakers tool with wide uses. It cleans glass and silver, unclogs drains, brightens carpets, shines windows, freshens laundry, softens bath water, and cleans hair brushes, combs, and jewelry with careful, hot water and repeated applications.
Don t Throw Away Old Newspapers We Read Them
A rustic guide extols keeping and repurposing old newspapers for household use. It suggests lining shelves on washing floors as slips, dusting and drying, using sheets for table protection, as splashes for sinks, wrapping vegetables, and even sewing torn sheets into a roll for storage, noting moth prevention with carpet paper and ink.
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World
Bree
Eben Piper
Apple Roll with Butter and Sugared Apple Filling
A dough made from flour milk and baking powder is rolled out with butter and a sugared apple filling. The dough is rolled, cut into pieces, baked until done, and served with warm pudding sauce using cornstarch and sugar.
Ginger Bread Recipe from Mrs Minty Barnard
A home recipe contributed by Mrs Minty Barnard of Munteno Hl for ginger bread using molasses butter soda boiling water sugar cinnamon and cloves. The method warns to bake in deep pie tins with frosting and to keep the oven door closed for the first fifteen minutes while cooling.
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Minty Barnard
Munteno
Dessert Preparation Instructions Fragment
Fragment describes combining enp water with sunar until thickened, chilling to harden, pouring hot over beaten whites, and cooking cake batter until set. Details are garbled but indicate a layered dessert process and a meringue component.
Nut Cocoa Cake Recipe From a Faded Page
A fragmented 1920s style cake recipe describes a nut cocoa cake using butter sugar egg yolks whites, honey, baking powder, and chopped walnuts. It mentions a frosting or icing with cream, sugar, cream or ice milk, vanilla, and spread over the cake in a shallow pan. The text is garbled with several misspellings and illegible words but conveys a rich nutty chocolate cake with a creamy icing.
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Haifa Ep
Cecen
Apricot Snow Dessert Preparation Note
A muddled recipe describes soaking geknin in hot water, combining apricots with syrup and wine, adjusting sweetness, and thickening the mixture with demen juies. The process ends with whipping whites to stiff peaks and molding the dessert for chilling.
Porenowedy Uses Three Cloths To Remove Dining Table Stains
Marred Table details a method to treat white spots on a dining table. Porenowedy suggests using three cloths and saucers to apply kerosene first, then alcohol, then sweet oil. Apply kerosene immediately if the stain begins, repeat steps as the stain stands, and rub thoroughly to remove the spot.
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Porenowedy
Stewed Steak Recipe From Aged Menu Text
A fragmentary cooking instruction describes selecting beef from the top round, trimming, and placing it in a pan. It mentions a little fat, adding strained sauce, covering, and slow cooking in a modern oven for an extended period. The readable text is garbled and archaic.
Fig Wafers Instructions From Cooks Note
A recipe fragment lists ingredients: wafers, half a cup of butter, one cup sugar, milk, two eggs, bal ing powder, finely chopped figs, and enough flour to roll thin. Mix as cookies and eat with a raife in oblong bursts.
Cure for Nervousness Water Habit Recalls Simple Rule
A booklet promotes a simple cure for nerves by drinking water every hour or two. Medical men urge thoughtful, persistent use of this method as a practical aid for busy people to reduce nervousness.
Cleaning the Stove with Paste and Kerosene
A simple cleaning method uses a paste of table salt and oil rubbed on nickel ornaments when the stove is cool to brighten them. Use a flannel cloth dipped in kerosene to remove grease from stove lids, keeping the surface cool during application.
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Breeze
Earth
Boyce
Hash In Disguise
Kimball Music House
W. W. Kimball Co
Lyon & Healy
Jason Phonograph Co
Gomis
Front Street
M. B. Harner
Prop
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