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Newspaper
Nappanee Advance
Location
Nappanee, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
7
An article discusses building warm, ventilated dairy barns with emphasis on proper airflow, sanitation, and individual drinking cups for cows. It cites a 32 cattle gambrel barn design with four air shafts, three louvers per side, and front silos. It notes war economy and metal controls for jewelry trade reports and mentions the American diamond committee led by Roland G. Monroe.
A humorous exchange at Camp Mc Clellan Anniston Alabama as a doctor asks recruits about their prewar jobs and an undertaker-turned-soldier quips he will answer if the doctor reveals why he chose medicine. The anecdote highlights light banter between service and civilian trades.
Advice on nasal relief through a throat and nasal douche using baking soda and warm water. A half teaspoonful in a glass of warm water clears nasal passages, reduces heaviness, and improves breathing through the nose.
A playful flyer cites banter about Dolly de Dolly with lines from a conversation between Jack and a friend. The text hints at cheeky humor and flirtation in a vaudeville or club setting. No dates or explicit events are provided.
A historic guide to cooking cornmeal mush with milk, varied by adding dried fruits. It covers methods to avoid lumpiness, including double boiler techniques and long slow cooking, plus recipes for Indian Pudding Cornmeal and Fig Pudding and ways to serve with cream. It also notes fireless cooker tips.
A newspaper column urges a return to mush and milk as a cheap nourishing American dish. It argues the meal uses no wheat meat or sugar and can feed families while freeing scarce foods for the military effort. The piece notes wartime food conservation benefits for Allied soldiers and mocks enemy counterparts.
The article explains fruit sugar content varies by type with figs and plums around three ounces per pound while watermelon has less. Drying concentrates sugar, making dried fruits taste sweeter. It notes sugar is in all fresh fruits, advises eating unsweetened fruit to reduce added sugar, and suggests fruit based desserts as substitutes for buttered sugary dishes.
In Cava dei Tirreni Italy a millennium old sport uses nets and stone slingers to trap migrating pigeons from October fifteenth to twenty fifth. Teams of six clubs operate towers and clearings with watchers signaling by horn while nets drop to capture birds for a rare, though not highly profitable, harvest. A wartime memento clock crafted from munitions from the Somme battlefield combines German shells Belgian bullets and British cartridges into a timepiece.
Instructions emphasize washing glasses first and proper bean handling. It mentions using Cold lima beans in salad and avoiding water when baking beans. It suggests baking small potatoes in about half an hour and a rhubarb meringue pie as a dessert. It warns not to waste milk and notes bananas can be baked as a vegetable.
A joint committee representing agriculture War navy interior commerce the food administration and the public information committee announced wartime and other federal agency exhibits. They will tour five circuits of major fairs and expositions nationwide from August 10 to December 6.
The article notes a world food shortage driving France to develop Algeria’s refrigerating and packing plants to ship meat without live animals. The plans aim to stabilize markets and could quadruple North Africa meat exports by expanding processing facilities across the Mediterranean.
Warm weather brings stomach and bowel miseries and the ad promotes EATONIC Tablets as a quick harmless relief. It claims EATONIC neutralizes acids and gases and stops indigestion and griping pains. The offer includes a money back guarantee if not suited.
In a Washington street scene a man and his son encounter a man selling toy balloons. The boy wants a balloon, but the father warns of gas-filled danger and cautions against camouflage in wartime slang. The exchange captures evolving phrases as war’s vocabulary spreads.
An old advertisement promotes mixing two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to make a quarter pint lotion. It claims rapid fading of freckles sunburn windburn and tan and soft white skin with a harmless, fragrant application.
Henry Endicott, food administrator of Massachusetts, has prepared leaflets on food conservation translated into Armenian, French, Yiddish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Lithuanian, Swedish, and Syrian. The bulletins feature English on the right for children and the foreign language on the left for mothers to read.
A reflection on gradual effort where trying in small steps accumulates skill and outcomes. It emphasizes steady practice, patience, and consistent action as core methods for achievement.
The phrase suggests that many excuses are false pretenses used to disguise true motives. It reflects skepticism about reasons given for actions and hints at underlying dishonesty or avoidance.
A brief exchange in the Louisville Courier-Journal stage vignette features a debate over altitude versus attitude. A third party backs altitude as the correct term, highlighting comic wordplay in social dialogue.
A concise aphorism notes that the distinction lies in the speaker’s size. The remark implies larger men deliver sharper repartee while smaller ones show impudence.
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