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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1936
Page
8
The notes offer winter tips to melt ice with salt and wash with hot salt water. It includes Canton Crepe Sponge dress care, thickening soup with oats, and a variety of recipes. Recipes cover Rice Croquettes with Cheese Sauce Divinity Candy Baked Alaska style ice cream pie and Excellent Corn Bread with detailed steps and measurements.
County agent R E Homann promotes a curing method using cotton seed oil to prevent mold, reduce shrinkage and contamination, and allow slicing from large chunks. Instructions cover packing, oil quantity, container choice, and a home refining process using lye to reuse oil. The article ends noting the marriage of Miss Davie McFee and Mr Edward Lowden by Justice of the Peace E M Burt.
Practical guide advises feeding turkey uses laying mash for laying hens and hatchery selection. It covers garden prep, pest control with lime and arsenate, hotbeds, meat storage, seed quality, terrace work, pruning fruit trees, peach and codling moth sprays, corn seed protection, calf crop goals, baby chick starter temperatures, broiler costs, and notes a Feb 22 discussion on sore mouth in sheep plus a Kerrville visit by Mr and Mrs Tom Johnson of Kerrville.
Letters and photos from the Kountz family describe Fred Kountz, now a big game hunter in Arizona, killing a 900 pound elk and a large brown bear during a December vacation. His elk head was mounted and the bear skin made into a rug as trophies. The hunts occurred in northern Arizona.
Notes recount Stephen F. Austin's imprisonment in Mexico City on February 13 1834 after urging Texas statehood. It also covers the 1848 Texas commissioner receiving US annexation rejection news and the 1870 legislative organization under Governor E J Davis with Ira H Evans as speaker and Donald Campbell as Senate president.
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