Desserts from Fruit Elevate Summer Dinner Menus
United States Department of Agriculture offers simple fruit based desserts to replace rich, heavy options. Emphasizes using fresh in-season fruit with minimal added sugar, including baked pears peaches apples and snow pudding. Provides step by step methods and optional flavorings for light cooling treats suitable for hot weather.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Thirty Three Fatal Accidents Reported In July
Austin Texas July saw thirty three fatal accidents reported to the Texas industrial accident board, the highest monthly figure in the fiscal year begun Sept. 1. Total fatal accidents since Sept 1, 1918 reached 207. July totals also included 4,304 accidents, 1,261 claims, and 93,622 in insurance expenditures as the year’s figures rose to 42,518 and 814,180 respectively.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Industrial Accident Board
Bayer aspirin cross safety mark advertises genuine tablets
An old ad notes Bayer Cross on genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with safety markings. It advises buying unbroken packages with proper directions for headache and other pains. The text promotes Grove's tasteless chill tonics for summer strength and blood enrichment.
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Bayer
Grove
War thrift urged as nation’s key to prosperity and stability
The piece extols thrift as essential for continued national prosperity and independence. It links household saving and wise spending to supporting government loans, securing future income, and rebuilding after war, asserting thrift as a permanent service households render to the nation.
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United States Department of Agriculture
America
Dyeing Serim Curtains with Boiled or Soap Dye
The guide explains dyeing serim curtains using a boiled similar dye or popular light color soap dyes. It notes both methods as viable options and suggests choosing based on preference for color intensity and process.
Utilizing milk for soups in daily meals
A guide to making nourishing soups using milk and leftover vegetables. Directions suggest half to one level tablespoon of flour per cup of liquid and one level tablespoon of fat per cup. Flavors include onions corn cabbage tomatoes salmon and cheese. Such soups can help children accept milk as part of daily health goals.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Old Time Kitchen Tips From Households
Oil or glycerine on fresh eggs preserves them. Start vegetables in cold water to keep flavor. An iron kettle is needed for deep fat frying. Use old brooms to polish floors and felt to pad hats. Scratched pans clean with baking soda after soaking. Cover potatoes with a cloth over the pot for quicker, fluffier results.
Big Fine Set to Punish Profit Teasers in Food Act
Washington reports the house amended the Lever food control act to extend penalties for profiteering to clothing containers food feed fertilizers fuel oil and implements used to produce necessities with a 5000 fine or two years imprisonment. Attempts to cover rents kerosene and cotton failed. The measure includes retailers under 100000 in business to let the justice department pursue smaller operators.
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Washington
House
Agricultural Committee
Representative Strong
Kansas
Newton
Minnesota
Blanton
Texas
Palmer
Department of Justice
Castoria Labels Highlight 30 Years of Use
The advertisement urges careful selection of Castoria for infants and children, emphasizing the product’s long history and the signature reassurance. It notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria and that even adults insist on fair treatment for the remedy.
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Fletcher
Vader Balm advertised for common colds and relief
An advertisement from E W Vacher Inc New Orleans promotes Vader Balm as quick relief for nervous headache inflammations and conditions like mumps hay fever and other pains. It offers free samples agent terms or 50 cent stamps for 225 cent tubes and warns to avoid imitations.
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E. W. Vacher, Inc
New Orleans
Adv
Family troubles and a house full of bedbugs
An orphan suitor asks for a home and maternal protection, pleading for a wife versus four sisters. Harold and his mother return to a hotel to find every bed occupied by bedbugs, the landlady unaware of their existence, while Harold jokes that they are all married with families.
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Harold
Chicago
Bandit to Get Remainder of Ransom for Aviators
San Antonio reports that Mexican bandit leader Jesus Renteria will receive the remaining 6500 dollars saved by Captain Leonard Matlack and escaped with Lt. Paul H. Davis after aviators were captured. General Dickman states payment to Renteria or heirs is planned and no manhunt will be pursued. Washington notes cotton growing in China is rising as a new industry per a British consul report citing Kiangpei and Hachow with American seed experiments.
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San Antonio
Tex
Jesus Renteria
Leonard Matlack
Paul H. Davis
Harold G. Peterson
Joseph T. Dickman
Southern Department
Renteria
Dickman
United States
War Department
Washington
China
Nanking
Kiangpei
Hachow
Their Class Marty's Moonstone Gift For Bride
A fragment notes a husband Marty giving his bride a beautiful set of moonstones during their wedding trip, playfully calling them honey moonstones. A separate line references a secret a woman does not know.
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Marty
Twenty Germans Escape from Camp Sherman Stockade
Reports from Camp Sherman Chillicothe at midnight indicate that 18 of the 20 or more interned German sailors who fled the stockade Sunday have been recaptured. Six were caught inside the camp, two at Chillicothe, five at Circleville, and five more were arrested in Columbus as they arrived by traction car from Chillicothe.
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Columbus
Ohio
Sherman
Chillicothe
Circleville
An Irish Philosopher on Income Tax Paper
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Casey asking about the income tax paper while Casey boasts of saving money by not having any income. The banter reflects Irish voices debating taxation and finances with playful sarcasm.
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Casey
August Flower Remedy Promises Relief for Stomach Ailments
In lively old time prose the ad touts August Flower as a universal remedy for tired overworked stomachs, indigestion, fermentation, sour stomach, headache and constipation. It claims gentle liver stimulation and cleansing of the intestines, selling the product everywhere.
Regular shark at putting off plans taunts boys
A facetious young man courting a Hoosier schoolteacher drives by in his car to tease boys while waiting for the teacher. When pressed, he jokes about delaying a promised ride, prompting a boy to warn that if he were not such a procrastinator a new teacher might appear.
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Indianapolis News
Typist Prays Amid Letter Storm in Office
A Vancouver Province clip recounts a joke overheard in a government office. Sir Evan Jones, British transport chairman, heard two typists lament workload and nudge humor from a mass of letters. One quip notes typing so many letters yesterday that prayers ended with Yours truly.
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Evan Jones
British Transport
Vanccouver
B. C
English Inventor's Interlocking Piling Gains Strength
An English inventor presents interlocking concrete piling as stronger than traditional wooden sheet piling. The claim highlights durability and modern construction advantages, underscoring a shift toward concrete solutions in piling.
Revenge of a Reporter and the Oxford Bishop
Leyden Chronicle notes a British victim of an American reporter. Doctor Gore the retired bishop of Oxford faced a city of copy-hunting critics during a visit to an American Episcopal church. A later interview in a focal pager mocked his views on topics including local politicians.
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Gore
Oxford
Teneath
Leyden Chronicle
A Difference Do You Know If It Is Geet Jones Son
A clipped exchange notes uncertainty about whether Geet Jones's son pursued acting. The only clear point is that he went on the stage.
A Whole Fire and a Witty Exchange
A fragment shows a jokey exchange about marriage and flames, mentioning a confe cration and ex wife. The bantering tone hints at a domestic humor moment with a punchline about a gentleman who won’t argue with any other woman but his wife.
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