Home style canning and cooking guide from old kitchen column
A 1925 kitchen column offers home canning and cooking tips with recipes for Cherry Olives Plum Catsup Apple and Pepper Sauce Sliced Green Tomato Pickles and Peach Pie plus notes on wholesome foods like buttermilk soups and buttermilk ginger bread The piece also provides household care tips such as prolonging life with buttermilk and preserving ham with paraffin roots in a homemaker’s pantry tone.
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Cardle
Cool frocks and colonial furnishings color summer homes
Julia Bottomley notes midsummer fashion trends with lightweight, airy day and evening frocks in silk crepes and chiffons, plus relaxed home decor. She highlights thin fabrics, two color dresses, and a revival of colonial style in hooked rugs and handmade textiles, stressing practicality and coolness.
Immigrant's Rise from Shammos to Millionaire in New York
A Russian immigrant arrives in New York with no education and little money. He becomes a beloved shammos at a synagogue, then a successful East Side real estate operator. He borrows fifty thousand, admits he cannot read or write, and the banker marvels at his success given his illiteracy.
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New York
East Side
Minager
Mr. Rabid
A Dependable Family Income From A Southern Homestead Tale
A river journey through hill country reveals a family with a steadied income from guardianship of the insane. The speaker notes the state once paid guardians one hundred dollars per year for helpless dependents. A lowlander traveler reaches a remote homestead and learns the occupant is forehanded yet fortunate, with seven children among them.
Rural Indiana rail workers and fare talks on electric lines
Working by the Time Card, Indianapolis radiates inter urban car lines. Conductors and motormen are farm raised and known by first names. passengers include kinfolk. A Lafayette United line cleared suburbs and roamed Boone county fields as one conductor, Jess, explains his delayed spit due to a woman boarding at Zionville and a ride to Lebanon.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Boone County
Jess
Zionsville
Lebanon
Human Happiness Not to Be Bought
A reflective note attributed to Edith Summers Kelley cites La Rochefoucauld on fortunes balancing good and evil. The author reveals personal shift from isolation to feeling part of the herd and argues extreme poverty and wealth alike fail to guarantee happiness. Possessions and status are seen as less valuable than shared human experience.
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la Rocheffoucauld
Edith Summers Kelley
Hearst
Ingenious Cat At Burlington Store Causes Egg Heist
A clever black cat, pet of a Burlington store, leapt onto the counter, toppled an egg basket, and gnawed an eye from an egg before eating the contents, leaving shells as proof. Later the cat toppled a glass jar of chicken, devouring the meat but leaving the glass.
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Burlington
American Bungalows Influence in Sao Paulo Housing
A Brazilian housing note observes that American bungalow designs influence new Sao Paulo dwellings, with 55 percent copying a California product. It cites a shortage of servant’s rooms as a key challenge, noting that middle class Brazilians employ servants because of low wages.
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Brazil
Sao Paulo
Large Beaver Fur Sale By Provincial Guardians Dept
The provincial game guardian's department conducted a large beaver fur sale years ago, selling 216 pelts to Alberta dealers. The average price was 1278 dollars, with three especially fine skins fetching 100 dollars for the trio.
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Game Guardian's Department
Alberta Deaters
Cuticura Advertises Baby Skin Care Products
The advertisement promotes Cuticura products for soothing a baby's red rough itchy skin with hot baths using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. It also recommends occasional use of Cuticura Talcum for fragrance and cleanliness as part of the indispensable Cuticura Toilet line.
Igloo Fisheries on Baffin Island Eskimos Build Igloo
Eskimos on Baffin Island construct igloos on lake ice and carve through parlor floors to access fish for winter dinners. Science Service notes the adaptive practice reflecting Arctic subsistence and shelter use.
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Baffin Island Eskimos
Science Service
To Learn Trade Td Uke to lear to shoe horses
All right Son begins work in a Blacksmith shop learning the craft of shoeing horses. The old master directs the novice to start by shoeing the feet of beasts, guiding him through the fundamentals of the trade.
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Lear
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Weater
K.man
K Man
Jone Jones
Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
Torrid
Daya
Golose
Kodorogotoosoboss
Northwestern Yeast Co
Ashland Ave
Chicago
England
Japan
Java
Monarch Manufacturing Co
Council Blufts
Iowa
Toledo, Glig
Uskide
United States Rubber Company
Erla Co
Haring
Euclid Village
J. Gordon Pub
Ni Hoyne Ave
Des Moines
Fletcher
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