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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1919
Page
5
The text blends household prep for emergencies with a laborious recipe and a note on optimism. It urges calm efficiency for unexpected company, lists shelf foods like canned fish and cheese, and ends with a firm belief in hopeful, productive citizenship and personal improvement.
Fragmented recipe text describes preparing chicken pieces with giblets, feet, vegetables, and a rich gravy, then baking into a dish. It also outlines a complex Fruit Mince Pie with dried fruits, cranberries, sugar, spices, and cider, plus a convoluted method for preserving and finishing a mince from preserves.
Recipes describe economical meals using soup as a starter and simple salads. Includes date custard pies and a beef roll made from shoulder or chuck with bread crumbs and parsley, baked until browned. Dessert combines pineapple rice with whipped cream, with fruit garnishes as variations.
The text describes saving bread scraps for birds during winter and presents two bread crumb recipes Fea Bread and Bread Crumb Piea with ingredients like milk eggs syrup flour barley flour baking powder salt fat and raisins It also includes a short inspirational quotation about will and action attributed to Davidson and notes on human behavior.
Readers are urged to adopt a modern combined horse and dairy barn design shown in a detailed illustration. The plan separates horse and cow areas with a solid wall, includes 32 cow stalls, a center feed alley, a covered chute to a silo, litter alley tracks, and a connected hay mow. The piece explains government emphasis on farm-building to boost postwar production and labor utilization.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges schools to attract and support birds on campuses. Preserve woodland corners as sanctuaries, add bird food plants, nest boxes, and winter feeding. Engage ornithology experts and publish guidance, Bulletin 715, for schools and public areas.
A big rustic bird house built of logs sits high above the ground in Belle Isle Park Detroit serving as an attractive municipal recreation center and a shelter for pleasure seekers described in Pop War Mechanics Magazine.
Public health and urban growth are linked as cities expand their governance. The piece envisions a future city prioritizing sanitation, beauty, cleanliness, and humane living, with clean pavements, deodorized sewage, sealed waste transport, reduced smoke, and dust containment.
The article explains that Christmas carols began in England during the popularity of mystery and morality plays. They served to entertain between acts and were sung by groups who preceded the curtain. Over time dancing and greater variety were added, shaping modern Christmas carols.
The article advises ample side ditches with sufficient fall and outlets to shed water as quickly as it enters. It recommends cross drains with end walls, wing walls to protect embankments, and possibly longitudinal underdrainage for springy roadbeds to keep roads in good condition.
The year will feature Dixie highway upgrades by states with government cooperation. Concrete and bituminous paving will extend 54.5 miles from the county line north through Will, Kankakea, and Kogubdis counties to Vermilion county line, at a cost of 904700 dollars. Georgia will extend 72 miles from Atlanta to Macon through Clayton, Henry, Spaulding, Pike and Monroe counties. Tennessee and Kentucky projects will advance to further smooth the central north to south route.
The article explains patching gravel roads in wet conditions using road dragging to preserve the surface. It stresses maintaining a surface layer not poorer than the old road and avoiding excess clay content to prevent rapid wear.
Civilized communities know good roads civilize and educate. They raise land values and bring in better residents, making road upgrades a sound investment for any town.
A reflective note on how a nation is defined by its roads and the possibilities they promise for a future time. The piece speaker considers transportation as a gauge of national potential and hope.
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