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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
7
Marie Cox urges use of the dilver fruit press to mix press sieve and colander for kitchen work. She notes time savings with guavas and offers cooking tips including a guava spice cake, guava whip, and guava paste to enhance holiday Florida products.
Children form a circle with two players excluded one inside and one outside. On Go the outside catcher pursues the inside runner who may slip in and out under others arms. Caught players swap in, and if catching stalls a Reverse directs the chase. Fruit Basket can restart with the two circle players starting a new round.
A clipped exchange features a diplomat dialogue about biscuits and heavy work. The speaker teases that the addressee is too light for such labor, labeling the craftsman as Basonic and underscoring a playful social banter.
Miss Mary E. Keown is appointed district home demonstration agent for the East Coast of Florida and has already begun work. Former agent Miss Lucy Belle Settle receives a leave of absence to attend Florida State College for Women. Keown previously led Pinellas County programs and has served as a field agent for the USDA.
The piece urges giving children daily free time for play and self direction, so parents can observe interests and guide future vocations. It argues against constant supervision and endorses encouraging right actions over avoidance of wrong ones. It also recounts Abigail Eliot on poetry in marriage via a light Adirondack honeymoon anecdote.
A fragment notes a street accident in a Scottish village with a bystander shouting Give him some air while a Native dials Give him some yersel mon. The source reads like a garbled Brit newspaper snippet from Tit-Bits.
Extension Poultryman N R Mehrhof offers guidance on September poultry care and management tips for flocks. The column outlines feeding schedules housing checks and disease prevention to maintain healthy birds through seasonal changes.
The guidance underscores feeding for maintenance and egg production, breeding from high quality stock, culling broodiness, sanitation, and care to prevent disease. It highlights egg nutrition, brooding challenges, starter feed limits, and the importance of temperature, sunlight, and clean housing for Florida's poultry industry and associations promoting youth involvement.
The article notes Florida's poultry and egg output valued at 8.25 million dollars annually and ranks poultry products below only four crops. It stresses economical production of high quality products, careful handling and grading, regular distribution, and timely supply to meet modern market demands. Culling slackers is urged for greater profits. In broiler production, factors include egg costs for chicks, mortality, time to market, and feed costs.
Practical guidance on constructing a fireless cooker using common containers and insulation materials. It describes inner nest options like agate or tin vessels, tight lids, and straight sides. Packing should be dry poor conductors such as lint, cork, or shredded newspaper with asbestos or heavy cardboard linings for the outer container.
Fanny Heaslip Lea, famed for tales of young love, argues independence shapes the coming woman. She cites summer camps as evidence of girls thriving without men, noting friendship with boys remains possible and optimistic for tomorrow's womanhood.
Instructions describe lining a container with insulation and packing to 4 inches, building a tight collar, and inserting a 4 inch thick cushion to fill the space to the lid. The outer shell may be stained, with a lid held by hooks, and casters added for mobility.
The passage presents Miss Lea as a busy worker who rejects idle gossip. She found her niche early by scribbling stories, freelance writing for a New Orleans newspaper, and eventually turning to fiction. She believes writing is enjoyable but warns it can break a heart without a lucky vein.
A young man asks a girl if her brother likes cheese. She replies she has no brother. After a pause he repeats the question hypothetically. The scene ends in dead silence as the joke lands without a brother to reference.
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