Water bath canning vs pressure cookers for victory garden veg
Gladys Kimbrough urges home canning safety using steam pressure or improvised water bath methods. The article outlines proper jar types seals and processing steps, stressing sterilization, reboiling before serving, and that canning success is about technique, not equipment.
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Ball Bros. Co
Gladys Kimbrough
Home Service
Bali Brothers Company
Home Canned Berries Take Little Sugar
Home canned berries provide vitamins and minerals and are easy to can with Blackberries blueberries and more The guide covers washing inspecting jars using hot-pack or cold-pack methods sugar options water-bath processing times and tips for sugarless canning It promotes using fresh berries and outlines steps from prep to preservation and uses for the final product
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Boyser
Gladys Kimbrough
Home Service
Ball Brothers Company
Keep Vitamins as In Home Canned Tomatoes
Home canning tomatoes preserves vitamins A and C. Use fresh firm ripe fruit, wash, skin, core, pack hot jars with salt, seal and process 35 minutes in hot water. 45 minutes if not garden fresh. Avoid air exposure and overcooking to retain vitamin content. juice best when fresh from whole canned tomatoes.
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Ball Bros.,Co
Jar Rubbers Are Different This Year
Wartime guidance explains red rubber may replace traditional lip seals for jar rings while black rubbers risk. four rules emphasize washing boiling sterilization, keeping rubbers wet, partial sealing before processing, and careful slow tightening to avoid slippage. mentions moving pullets at first egg and handling tools safely.
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Gladys Kimbrough
Ball Brothers Company
Bega
Mountain of Beryllium Found in Oregon War Effort
Discovery of a massive beryllium ore deposit in southern Oregon positions the United States to develop a strategic metal domestically. The ore, touted as the world’s largest, could supply beryllium for alloys and precision parts used in airplanes, tanks, ships, and weapons, with research addressing brittleness and corrosion resistance.
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Washington
Oregon
United States
War Production Board
Brazil
Argentina
South Africa
National Geographic Society
New World
Europe
Hitler
Urals
Russia
Austrian
Tyrol
Pearl Harbor
Frank Payne Almost Joined Parliament in Australia Error
Frank J. Payne of Evanston Illinois finally joined the Signal corps after nine months in a military police company caused by an intake center error. Before induction he had three years in motion pictures and two in radio. An interviewer miswrote two years radio and three years M P, delaying his transfer until now.
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Australia
Frank J. Payne
Evanston
Ill
Signal Corps
Payne
United States Fliers Host Arab Children Sightseeing
Lieutenant Colonel Graham W. West, based in Portland, Oregon, led a U S air forces fighter unit host visit for Arab school children in Tunisia, reversing the old sightseeing role of American troops in North Africa. The report to the war department notes the shift in perspective as soldiers become the sightseers.
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United States
Washington
Tunisia
United States Army Air Forces
War Department
North Africa
Graham W. West
Portland
Ore
Apple Pie Proves Sure Cure for Homesickness
Denver letter from Hortense Addison, a Red Cross recreational worker in India, says home cooked American meals relieve mass homesickness in soldiers within a moment, especially when topped with apple pie. The note to her mother describes the pie as the No. 1 cure for homesickness among U S troops stationed in India.
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Denver
United States
India
Hortense Addison
Red Cross
Murder at the Left Handed Clue in Poison Case
Inspector Casper Strong and Detective Colin East solve a murder by poison after analyzing a left handed handwriting clue, the left hand used to hold the stopper, and a note implicating self blame in a New York crime scene. The bottle shows poison with a skull and crossbones, and a landlady confirms Miss Vail’s left handedness.
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Casper Strong
Colin East
New York
Young East
Weaver
East
Miss Vail
607
Detective East
Lack of Uniformity Marks States Judicial Systems
State judicial structures show wide variations in tenure from two years in Vermont to life tenure in Massachusetts. Election and reappointment patterns differ, probate and equity handling varies, and court names span diverse systems. Citizenship, residency, and age requirements for supreme court judges also differ across states.
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Vermont
Massachusetts
Justices of Peace
United States
Supreme Courts
Supreme Court
Cover Crops Boost Yields and Curb Erosion
Experts advocate green manure and cover crops to keep soil covered during off production periods. This reduces erosion and preserves nitrogen and organic matter in the soil, while legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen for future crops. Wartime farming emphasizes using atmospheric nitrogen efficiently and planning ryegrass seeding with final cultivations to maximize soil conservation.
Unusual Thames Island Seal Draws Attention by Chiswick
A seal spent an extended stay on a mud platform at the river Thames near Chiswick London. The creature rose with the tide like a curious bather, swam with evident relish, and occasionally appeared to observe boats. It surfaced with a fish crossways in its mouth on one occasion.
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Thames
Chiswick
London
Ink Stain Remedies: Caution and Clean Methods
The article notes ink stains are diverse and warns against using milk as it may set stains. It recommends a glycerine water mix and dry cleaning for best results, mentioning that certain inks need different spotting agents. On white fabrics, peroxide after ammonia can be used, but not on colored fabrics.
Cucutilla Peruves Fique Bag Industry Surges
Cucutilla Colombia with 10,000 people reports no unemployed or beggars as it pivots to ersetzen jute. It uses wild grown fique fiber to craft coffee bags, resembling henequen, with cultivation boosting supply. Every cottage acts as a bag factory as families produce over 40,000 bags daily for regional coffee markets.
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Cucutilla
Colombia
India
Mexico