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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1956
Page
13
The notice discusses spring hints in March with warmer weather and gardening plans. It recommends choosing garden plots of two sizes and managing them in hot summer days. Mrs Levi Martin of R2 Ephrata sends recipes and a free one year subscription to Lancaster Farming. Pineapple Salad recipe included with fruit, marshmallows and nuts.
A Lancaster Farming reader offers a year long subscription giveaway to housewives who mail a post letter recipe and home making tip. The page features recipes for dressing pineapple dessert, filled raisin cookies, potato salad, peanut butter cookies, rice dinner in a dish, and doughnuts. It notes reader letters about brown sugar storage, praises Mrs Violet Preston and Mrs Ella Lied, and mentions Irma S Rombauer receiving a Washington University alumni citation for Joy of Cooking.
Lancaster County residents will attend the 29th annual Philadelphia Flower Show during March 12 week at the Commercial Museum. The event runs daily from noon to 10 p m Monday and 9 a m to 10 p m the rest of the week. Exhibits total over a million dollars in flowers with more than $75 000 in exhibitor awards.
Mrs Martin invites shoppers to sample cookies in her department and recommends trying a specific treat as a daily indulgence. The note emphasizes fresh-baked flavors and homey comfort from the shop.
The poem contrasts doors that invite warmth with doors that repel visitors. It explores weathered entries that shut out guests and pristine ones that guard beauty. The speaker longs for a door that welcomes all and grants repose to every crossing guest.
Members of the Society of Farm Women 6 to serve a dinner at Wyeth Laboratories in Marietta Wednesday noon March 21. Mrs. Martin Hoffer in charge. On March 15 the group travels to Philadelphia to attend the Flower Show, meeting at Mrs. S A Shaeffer’s home in Elizabethtown at 6:30 am. Thirty seven plan to attend. Guest speaker Mrs Mary Myers of Landisville, PA Power and Light Co.
A Lancaster farming publication gains notable praise, with Mrs. E. V. Lausch of Reinholds sending a friendly compliment and a recipe. The note appears in multiple editions and languages, with continued coverage on page nine.
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