Rainbow of Good Things to Eat Recipes Menu
Nellie Maxwe presents a collection of homey recipes and salad ideas. The page details greens with French dressing, tomato cheese mold, Boston brown bread, plain muffins, Spanish meat loaf, gooseberry relish sandwich, chicken warmein, green peas onion cucumber salad, lima bean and celery, a dainty dessert, strawberry options, Grange Banana Cream, and Maple Syrup Salad Dressing with egg yolks. It cites 1929 Western Newspaper Union.
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Uie Pension
Boston Brown
Herkimer
Western Newspaper Union
Hints for Housekeepers and Home Tips
A quirky list of kitchen and home advice covers cooking eggs, using a hot dry knife, canned vegetables, dairy enhancements, and adding grated cheese to soups or salads. It also notes loose children’s clothing for growth, preheating tools, and careful measuring, plus stocking length to avoid toe-tightness.
Planning Ahead for Picnics
A 1940s USDA guide stresses comfort at summer picnics with shade benches water and well planned menus. It recommends cafeteria style serving, prepared by a volunteer committee, with hot and cold foods and separate salad components for easy assembly. The Oregon home demonstration club exemplifies cafeteria service.
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Oregon
United States Department of Agriculture
Fairy Tale of the Thornless Roses at the Florist
A whimsical tale features a pink rose and a yellow rose in a florist shop debating training and thornlessness. They discuss family lessons to do what they are told, while bystanders admire their beauty. A girl buys a non prickly pink rose for her birthday.
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Thormona
Western Newspaper Union
Modern Felt Sets and Crepe De Chine Frocks Rule Fashion
The article highlights bright appliqued felt ensembles with multicolor borders and playful figures, noting their originality. It also praises white crepe de chine dresses with triangular hems and three-color piping, recommending crepe de chine for party frocks and Parisian style dressy pieces.
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Weeters Newspaper Union
Electric Ventilator Keeps Kitchen Cool
An American Home note describes three kinds of electric ventilators for kitchens portable built in and hood installed models. All run by motors and function as glorified electric fans with simple on off operation.
Protective Sun Hat For Children From Cretonne Weave
A guide describes a child’s sun hat with cretonne and net, featuring a wide ventilated crown and cherry design. Instructions cover pattern adaptation, cutting, sewing, and binding, noting the bureau of Home Economies designed the hat and sun shield.
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Cretonne
Somme
Ealf
Bureau of Home Economies
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Rural Industry Expands Into Western States And Iowa
The article notes industry moving into rural areas across the United States. Iowa shifts hog shipping away from Chicago as local plants expand, with manufacturing bases in rural districts growing in steel, machinery, washing machines, pens and more. Rural industry supports farms with markets, better roads, schools, electrification, and higher land values.
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Iowa
Chicago
United States
W. M. Jardine
Saturday Evening Post
Small Home Gains With Trees and Shrubbery
A small home on a tight lot benefits from trees and foundation shrubbery to balance scale and attractiveness. Plant native shrubs and trees to suit local soil and climate, as they require less care and can increase resale value by adding curb appeal.
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Broand Acres
Nature
Missouri towns push for planning and zoning powers
Small Missouri communities would gain authority to form city planning and zoning commissions under a bill passed by the Missouri house. The measure allows commissions to lay out permanent physical plans and submit them to city councils for approval, aiming to guide growth in cities of all sizes.
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Missouri
Missouri House
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Highway Width Standards For Safe Traffic Movement
United States Bureau of Public Roads officials advocate minimum 20 foot width for a two lane highway. In built up areas the roadway should be 36 feet wide for parallel parking and wider in areas allowing diagonal and right angle parking.
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United States Bureau of Public Roads
Ground for Fruit Growing and Orchard Layout
The text outlines space needs for fruit growing: about ten to twelve square rode for summer fruits and an acre and a half to two acres for other crops except winter apples. Early or summer apples could be interplanted among winter apples as Oilers, due to their lesser permanence.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Waldport Tribune notes community request and delay
In Waldport Oregon the town newspaper remarks on a reader invitation to volunteer for community work and the response hints at needing more time to consider the effort.
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Waldport
Ore
Tribune
Spend Money in Home Town Communities
The Dallea Optmist argues that communities thrive when money is earned locally and spent locally not sent to distant cities or mail order halls, emphasizing local economic circulation.
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Dallea
Beautification Plan Expands Across Bullivan County Roads
A local campaign began to beautify Bullivan County by planting trees evergreens and vines along highways as the season progresses flowers will follow in selected areas. The effort aims to improve the rural landscape and attract attention to community growth.
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Bullivan County
Ind
Elobwomen
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