Choosing Curtains for Bedroom Windows in Apartment Living
An USDA home economics guide explains curtain options for bedrooms, including glass curtains, side draperies, and colonial ties. It stresses matching drapery to wall backgrounds, with plain walls favoring patterned sides, and describes a sample apartment window treatment with gauze glass curtains and cretonne side drapes.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Walla
Hot House Lambs A Tasty Seasonal Dish
The article discusses year round lamb meat availability and price, noting hot house lambs from Christmas through winter as a luxury and Easter lambs as the next season. It highlights tender cuts like Saratoga chops and noisettes and suggests affordable preparations such as lamb pie and stuffed breast.
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Saratoga
the Farm Journal
How to judge oven heat by paper test
The guide instructs testing oven heat every ten minutes with white paper to determine readiness. Dark brown indicates small pastry, light brown for tarts, dark yellow for bread and large pies, and tinged for sponge cake and meringue.
Paris Bridges Span Seine River Across City
Paris has built 32 bridges over the Seine which winds seven miles through the French capital.
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Paris
Seine
White and Black Felt Hats Highlight Winter Fashion
A fashion feature showcases white felt hats with black trimming from fur bows to black feathers. Styles include tricorne shapes and unbalanced brims, worn with white fur accessories and black gal yak trims. Paris influences appear in trimming and silhouette notes.
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Ehle
Sta Eharm
Paris
Union
Boy Tries To Catch A Whippoorwill In The Night
A boy desires a whippoorwill pet after hearing its beautiful sad song. The birds sing only when undisturbed by people and prefer woodland homes. He attempts to catch one but finds them elusive, flying away silently each time.
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Mr. Whip
Mr. Whippoorwill
Mrs. Whippoorwill
Whippoorwill
Cinnamon Rolls and Spice Cake Recipe Tips
A cooking note offers cinnamon rolls with milk yeast dough and pecan rolls, plus spiced hot cross buns and spice cake directions. The piece blends recipes with a wholesome vignette about a boy and whippoorwills, highlighting kindness to birds and their note in the woods.
Lamb Chops Prepared by U S Department Recommendation
The United States Department of Agriculture suggests uniform thickness for lamb chops cut from loin shoulder or rib. Double loin chops may be rolled in bacon and cooked over coal or wood fire or with gas flame electric grill or skillet for best results.
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Bureau of Home Economies
United States Department
Cooking Double Loin Chops and Turkish Tobacco Trials
The article describes cooking double loin pork chops two to two inches thick in gas ovens or broilers, with searing, mid temp finishing, and 25 to 30 minutes total time. It also notes successful experiments growing Turkish tobacco near Leamington Ontario.
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Canada
Leamington
Ontario
Liver Boil Dish With Crumbs And Onions
A simple home recipe guides boiling one pound of liver until tender, mashing, then mixing with bread crumbs, minced onions, an egg, salt, pepper, and milk or hot water. Shape into small flat cakes, coat with flour, and fry in bacon fat or butter until brown.
Cod Liver Oil Helps Prevent Winter Infections Says Expert
University nutrition specialist Miss Inez Hobart notes vitamin A rich foods defend against infections of eyes sinuses air passages and lungs during winter. She recommends cod liver oil dairy eggs liver greens and daily cod liver oil especially when dairy and eggs have reduced vitamin A. For children over two and adults the usual daily dose is one tablespoonful.
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Inez Hobart
University Farm
St. Paul
Minn
No clear news item in readable text
Fragmentary prose offers aphorisms on memory manners humor and wealth. No identifiable event person or place presented.
Learning to fly a student pilot midspiral landing
A student recounts earning a private pilot license in 1930 after practicing spirals and spot landings. He details the spiral technique, the written exam, the test flight, and the tense moments near the line before landing successfully. The account ends with notes on renewals and ongoing aviation safety improvements.
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Department of Commerce
Washington, D. C
Western Newspaper Union
Oil for Watches From Porpoise Jawbone Cavity
The oil used in watches comes from a cavity in the jawbone of the porpoise or blackfish. Cape Cod fishermen supply most of it. It is tested in Vermont where temperatures often drop below zero. The best grade remains unchanged at low temperatures. A single drop can lubricate a watch.
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Vermont
Holds That Apologies Are Due
A Des Moines Tribune article muses that people who once denounced telephone operators for wrong numbers should apologize for their own faults in dialing. It argues memory lapses and human error justify past criticisms and calls for self-reflection among users.
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Des Moines
Action Over Words In College Indoor Sport
A Los Angeles Times quip notes coeds debating an indoor sport with one preferring vocal appeal and another prioritizing action. The ad copy promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as essential in housekeeping for towels linens and sheets.
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U. S
Los Angeles Times
Department of Housekeeping
Clocks and Watches at Windsor Castle Highlight Legacy
Windsor Castle houses about 360 clocks and watches including the first lever watch ever made. London Answers notes the extensive collection and historic timepieces on display within the royal residence.
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Windsor Castle
London
Farm Woman Benefited From Pinkham Compound
Mrs Curve I Sueemay of Lickdale Pennsylvania recalls helping on a 64 acre farm for eleven years before marriage and child care. After her last child she suffered then used Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and reports becoming a new woman with health improving beyond riches.
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Lickdale
Lydia E. Pinkham
Curve I. Sueemay, R
Lickdale, Ps
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