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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
3
A recipe describes making mince pie filling using beef tender bits with a chopped gristle, minced with cider, half wine, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, candied citron and other fruits. Boil briefly then serve hot or cold with optional butter for richness.
Advice describes placing a cut tree in a tub of wet earth and watering regularly. If the needles stay firm and green, the tree absorbs water. otherwise a drying trunk may cause needles to yellow and drop, indicating it needs immediate soaking.
Fragmentary verse asserts that wealth does not make a home and that love and beauty define a dwelling. The speaker contrasts gilded palaces with a humble cottage and emphasizes duty and affection as true riches.
A brief exchange shows humor about walking to work and dieting as one person jokes about reducing expenses while the other quips about not being too fat. The fragment reflects casual street conversation without additional context.
The article discusses toys as developmental tools fostering imagination, patience, and hand skills, favoring simple, enduring designs that children can modify. It offers age based toy suggestions from under three to fifteen and notes preferences by gender. It then shifts to furniture fashion, describing a move away from identical suites toward harmonized groups and lighter, graceful lines in American and colonial styles.
Travelers marvel at the Sphinx and pyramids near Cairo proving Egypts enduring industry and ingenuity. Cruises by Canadian Pacific and world liners plan visits to Cairo with Empress of Scotland Empress of France and Empress Australia, while passengers recall dawns over the desert and a golf ball struck from a pyramid summit.
A historical home guide presents quick dinner plans for mothers away from home. It lists menus centered on Cream of Tomato Soup Hamburg Steak Balls and Spaghetti with Sauce, plus salads, desserts, and a memory of emergency salads. It also includes a recipe for Mince Meat Drop Cookies with butter sugar egg mince meat and flour.
A collection of small tables adds charm to the present room style. Describes tea tables lamp stands end tables and a candle light table with folding leaves and Bourton or two used by ancestors for night medicine or snuff.
Miss Frances Bloodgood visits Tallahassee relatives during vacation. Mr and Mrs Fred Magathlin return to winter home with Nantucket guests Mr and Mrs Butler. Elsie Bartlett and Mildred vacation at St Cloud. Horace Magathlin and family stay in winter home. George Davis and Margaret Gould visit Charles Gay and family. Mrs Claude Ferrell spends a week in Lacoochee. Mrs Emilaa Bliss of St Petersburg visits sister Mrs Rice.
A list of social visits includes Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Towne and son of Shuburne Vermont with Charles Double day, Mrs. M. M. Howard and Mrs. Julia Howard in Orlando, Mrs. Carl Wile of Umatilla with her mother Flora Jameson, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Van Nuys with Mrs. Thomas Prescott and Miss Mary Doubleday visiting Bok Tower. A formal notice from Lake County Florida invites bids for fifty thousand dollars in Special Road and Bridge District Number Ten bonds, to be issued July 1 1929, with 6 percent interest and repayment in 1934 and 1939, bid conditions, and bid deadlines set for January 27 1930.
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