Mystery Ad Name Draw Promises Free $2.50 Groceries
The Daily Times invites readers to inspect Friday’s page ads for a hidden name and address. The housewife whose name appears will receive a $2.50 grocery or meat order by calling the paper’s office.
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Newspaper
Laredo Daily Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1928
Page
3
The Daily Times invites readers to inspect Friday’s page ads for a hidden name and address. The housewife whose name appears will receive a $2.50 grocery or meat order by calling the paper’s office.
A collage of kitchen notes featuring cabbage and pineapple salad with maraschino cherries and custard pie, rhubarb meringue pie, orange custard pie, breakfast cereal ideas, stuffed mutton chops dinner, and peppermint stick ice cream with condensed milk. Includes steps, ingredients, and serving hints, with era culinary tone.
The winner of the $2.50 grocery or meat voucher for last Friday is Mrs J W Mussett of 1900 Chi Huahua.
Readable recipe fragments describe a Spring Fruit Salad with pineapple orange banana and strawberries served with honey-mayo and mint garnish. Also notes a Tomato Slaw using shredded cabbage and a chili mayo dressing.
Fragmentary recipe notes describe mixing condensed milk with hot water and salt, then adding shredded coconut and heated milk. The text is incomplete but indicates a coconut custard or pudding preparation with coconut and dairy components.
A dated menu outlines meals from breakfast through dinner featuring stewed figs cereal and asparagus omelet for breakfast. fish roe in tomato sauce for dinners with mackerel and flounder. includes ingredients like canned tomatoes celery garlic bay leaves cloves and spices. provides cooking steps for roes including parboiling peeling and making a tomato sauce with butter and flour.
A newspaper ad promotes a carton exchange offering a two piece Amber Glass Dessert Service and a Beater and Bowl for Five one pound cartons or ten one half pound cartons of MistLEToe or Roseland Butter. Readers may redeem multiple gifts, shown on display at the newspaper office.
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