Deceptive Pictures on Food Labels Warn Consumers
United States Agriculture Department officials warn housewives about misleading images on food and drug labels. Fine print often reveals truth. bold pictures like olives or oranges mislead buyers into wrong expectations. Careful reading of labels helps avoid deception and seizures of misbranded products.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Chemistry
Italy
America
Far East
Muscadine Grape Paste Ready for Home Cooks
The article highlights making fruit paste from Muscadine grapes using pulp from jelly or juice as a wholesome alternative to candy. It notes this paste is among the best tasting, urges housekeepers to use it when available, and directs readers to the U S Department of Agriculture Bulletin No 1 for full directions and usage ideas.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Wise Housekeeper
United States Departea of Agriculture
Canned Fish Adds Variety to Quick Home Meals
Canned fish and meats enable the housewife to prepare palatable meals on short notice, saving fuel and time. They broaden the diet beyond cured, salted, and smoked meats, which can be monotonous and less wholesome.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Immense Waste of Milk Questioned by Editor
The note argues that if 20 million households waste an average half cup of milk daily, it would amount to 2 500 000 quarts per day and 12 500 000 quarts per year, equating to the output of over 400 000 cows.
Ice and Cleanliness in Meat Preservation
The article emphasizes temperature awareness and argues that ice and cleanliness are essential defenses against spoilage. It notes higher temperatures hasten decay and advises careful handling to extend meat freshness through proper storage practices.
Sweet Curds Good Filling
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture home economies office. Sweet curds make a filling for pie or tarts. A curd is made by adding rennet to warm milk then allowing it to harden. The curd is broken, strained, and mixed with butter sugar egg yolk raisins nutmeg. Bake like custard.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Household tips from an old column
The article compiles practical home advice. It covers reducing onion odor by cooling hands and knife, singeing a chicken over burning alcohol to avoid soot, burning formaldehyde candles in rooms with pests, using benzine to purge beetle eggs in cupboards, vinegar wash before whitewashing walls, and handling dough softly for better biscuits and doughnuts.
Martial Law Declared In Storm Haunts Texas Coast
Governor Hobby proclaims martial law in Corpus Christi and storm affected portions of Nueces, San Patricio and Aransas counties. Colonel W D Cope is ordered to assume command as civil authorities request state troops after one of Texas' most terrific hurricanes.
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Austin
Tex
Corpus Christi
Nueces
San Patricio
Aransas
Hobby
W. D. Cope
Texas
Dig Bodies From Sand At North Beach
Corpus Christi searching parties have dug dozens of bodies from North Beach sand in recent days as storm victims. Two unclothed women were found with a rake and iron attached. More than 700 bodies have now been found with others being dug up daily. Mexico City treasury chief ordered to pay 10000 pesos to U S government for released aviators Harold G Peterson and Paul H Davis captured by bandits. A special messenger will deliver the funds.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
North Beach
Mexico City
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Harold G. Peterson
Paul H. Davis
Treasury Department
First Series Game at Cincinnati Sets World Championship
Cincinnati hosts the opening world series game on Oct. 1 between the Reds, NL pennant winners, and the White Sox, AL contenders, marking the city’s first NL world series edition. Riot claims during Houston unrest to be reviewed by the Senate Claims committee per J. Sheppard resolution.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Cincinnati Reds
Chicago White Sox
Washington
Houston
Court of Claims
Senate
Sheppard
Robinson
Arkansas
Bond Vote Passes in Harrisburg District
Houston Texas voters in the Harrisburg Park Place Magnolia Park and Brookline school district approved a bond issue of 100 000 for improvement and construction by a vote of 111 to 11. Senator Hiram W Johnson concluded his Midwestern tour with speeches in the Twin Cities opposing the nations covenant in its present form. In San Francisco California the California Grape Protective Association petition to block wartime prohibition enforcement was denied.
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Houston
Tex
Harrisburg
Park Place
Magnola Park
Brookline
Johnson
Minneapolis
Minn
Twin Cities
Hiram W. Johnson
Middle West
Grape Growers
San Francisco
Cal
California Grape Protective Association
The Cost of the War in American Losses
The United States reports 116,492 dead and 206,590 wounded from the war, totaling 322,182 casualties. Washington officials provide the official manpower cost of the conflict.
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Washington
United States
Johnson Abandons Pacific Trip for League Speech
Senator Hiram W. Johnson said he canceled his planned Pacific coast journey to respond to President Wilson's address on the league of nations. The change keeps him in Duluth, Minnesota, during the week of the announcement.
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Duluth
Minn
Hiram W. Johnson
Pacific Coast
Wison
League of Nations
Kidney Pain Remedy Ad and Short Jail Joke
An old advertisement touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure for kidney pain with claims of quick relief and long history, urging readers to consult a druggist and seek the premium box. A separate brief jokes that a man with seven wives faces time in Sing Sing, calling the trouble glutton a vacation.
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Haarlem
Inaarlem
Holland
Adv
Sing
No clear article title in OCR fragment
A fragment describes an eye balsam claim and a man being accused of cross eyed for promoting it. no verifiable events or identities are present.
Capudine and Cuticura Advertisements Blend Remedies
Headache relief claims for Capudine with quick results across headache types. Trial size priced at 10 cents. larger sizes available. Also promotes Cuticura for pimples and blackheads with ointment and a five minute wash using Cuticura Soap, plus Cuticura Talcum for daily use.
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