The Frog Affair Weather Debate Attracts Ladies
A whimsical piece notes how women proposed constant showers to stay wet as the frogs convened to settle the weather question. The item reflects light domestic humor from the period.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
6
Layer cake craft and baking tips from an American kitchen
A host shares cake making insights from a dinner party. The guest outlines quality factors for layer cakes including shortening choices butter use and flavor, mixing texture and batter thickness tests, oven temperature guidance, and a Barbados sauce recipe with egg yolks butter brown sugar salt and water.
How It Started By Jean Newton
This piece explains the origin of carnival from the Latin roots carn is flesh and levare to take away. It notes the festival before Lent in Roman Catholic countries and how the term means removing meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Newton
Levare
Aged Cliff Ruins Found in Arizona
Kayenta Ariz discovery of cliff ruins dating to 1150 and 1250 A D reported by Rainbow Bridge Monument Valley expedition. Prof Gerald E Marsh UC made the find located on Skeleton Mesa in a cave 8000 feet high with four rooms. Pottery dates occupation. cave had no prior visitors. Excavations will start immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kayenta
Ariz
Rainbow Bridge
Monument Valley
Gerald E. Marsh
University of California
Skeleton Mesa
Marsh
Cakes From Basic to Gold Cake Recipes
Instructions for Standard Cake and Gold Cake including ingredients, mixing steps, and baking details. Standard Cake uses two 9 inch pans and 875 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Gold Cake includes lemon flavoring and filling, baked in two 8 or 9 inch pans at 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Prince Aladar Portia Offers Titles For Dowry In Austria
A Vienna advertisement by Prince Aladar Portia, aged 64, seeks a bride under 40 to grant him marry and bestow his titles and 40,000 acres. He claims the Austrian government illegally sequestered that land and demands a dowry of at least 100000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Prince Aladar Portia
Carinthia
Roanoke Airport Cat Jumps From Plane
A Tabby mascot at the Roanoke airport reportedly died by its own action after jumping from a plane during takeoff. The cat, once sleeping on grounded aircraft, forgot to exit before ascent and leapt while about a thousand feet up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feline
Roanoke
Tabby
Old Ironsides Becomes Church in Boston This Summer
The decommissioned frigate Old Ironsides is repurposed as a church in Boston. Chaplain E W Scott from the Boston Navy yard will lead Protestant services on the ship's deck each Sunday through the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
E. W. Scott
Boston Navy Yard
Lights of New York toy library aids slum children
The Heckscher Foundation runs a toy lending library at One Hundred and Fourth street and Fifth avenue where children draw toys to use and then replace them. Toys are disinfected by CWA workers and selected by age and ability to promote constructive play and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heckscher Foundation
One Hundred and Fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
CWA
Santa Claus
Rose Schwartz
Social Service
Lower East Side
Reckscher Foundation
My Neighbor SAYS: Practical Kitchen and Baby Care Tips
A collection of household advice advising cocoa and fat as chocolate substitutes, using dress shields to keep baby clothing dry, bacon fat for frying potatoes, and a potato ricer as a quick, easy kitchen tool.
What is the most difficult task you do
The line ponders a common struggle between rest and duty as a person fights sleep while an alarm interrupts. It captures a relatable tension between desire for quiet and impending obligations.
Charlie Lavery Describes Bumblebee Nest Removal Gimmick
Three Livers Mich chief auditor at the tin shop explains a method to rob a bumble bee nest using a cider jug set at an angle. Bees enter the dark hole in the jug and are shot with a stick then the jug is plugged to rob the nest and harvest honey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mich
Charlie Lavery
Charlie
Charles
Woman President Leads Tolberton Railroad in Alabama
Miss Virginia Persons, possibly the only woman in the United States to hold such a post, heads the Tolberton railroad. The Alabama operation runs through central Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman Heads
Birmingham
Ala
Miss
United States
Tolberton Railroad
Alabama
Food and nutrition experiments show diet affects mind and body
A Carnegie Nutrition Lab study compared 8000 versus 1800 calorie daily diets over two months. Full ration improved mental tasks, memory, and physical steadiness more than reduced diet, with less brain impact than expected. Regulations for school exams aid child health and adjustment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nutrition Laboratory
Carnegie Institution
Donald C. Laird
Colgate University
Persian Kerman Rugs Described with Weave and Design
Kerman rugs Kirman or Kernan regs are woven in Persian with cotton warp. They use two or three lines of blue weft and the Selima knot. The fabrics are finely woven of medium thickness with natural floral patterns and soft rich coloring. Some modern examples feature figures and pictorial subjects.
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Jimmy Garthw
Aite
Harper & Brothere
WNU Service
Barbados
Arizona
California
Redwood Empire
Cloverdale
Hopland
Calif
Lights of
New York
Stevenson
One
Marmaroneck
Belt Syndicate
Eliet
Savannah River
Augusta
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Ciilu
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