Leopard Coat Fashion Takes the Field for Young Women
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union fashion feature details leopard fur coats and trims as a top style for coeds and outdoor events. It notes beaver trimmings, leather and fur mixtures, cloaklike capes, detachable fur canes, and matching muffs, with coats in cream lapin and checkerboard browns.
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Western Newspaper Union
Left Over Cereal Baked Apples Sweet Treat
Use left over cereal to fill cored apples and bake until soft. Butter and sugar top each apple with a few drops of lemon juice, then serve hot with cream. This quick idea is practical for breakfast or dessert and makes good use of leftovers.
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Western Newspaper Union
Tomato adds to flavor of tuna fish
A USDA home economics note describes an all in one lunch using spaghetti celery tomatoes and tuna fish. Cook spaghetti, flake tuna, sauté celery in oil, add tomatoes and olive oil if desired, combine with spaghetti and tuna, season, simmer, and serve.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Story for Children at Bedtime by Mary Graham Bonner
Minna attends a ball where a C Major Scale woos Miss First Piece, sparking a romantic chorus of instruments. The piano keys discuss class and compatibility while the crowd weighs whether an unlikely pair can wed, amid objections from Chromatic Scales and sharp critics.
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Apple Butter Flavors and Slow Cooked Variations
A guide to making apple butter without cider using tart apples and slow cooking. Variations include grape juice and lemon additions with sugar, salt, and spices to taste. The excerpt also includes unrelated literary dialogue and a note about 1929 media content.
Choni Monastery Lamasery Tale From Western China
National Geographic reports on Choni monastery near the Tibetan border in Kansu Province. The remote lamasery, once a prince’s domain, houses 172 buildings and 700 resident monks, with vast halls, sacred artifacts, and rare Tibetan classics printed from ancient blocks.
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Learning
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Library of Congress
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Shanghai
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Storing Dried Fruits to Prevent Insect Infestation
Government guidance advises keeping dried peaches apricots raisins figs and other fruits in tight containers to deter insects. Use cheesecloth during drying sterilize briefly in a hot oven or fumigate with carbon disulfide then store sealed. Exercise caution as fumes are inflammable.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology
Household Hints On Home Dressmaking And Cookery
Household hints discuss the importance of a good dressmaker’s board for efficient sewing and warn against dull knives for the housewife. It notes minerals help maintain body alkalinity, advising minimal water and time when cooking vegetables to preserve nutrients, with an emphasis on leafy greens needing little water. An intense heat is not essential.
Child lunch programs and simple foods for wholesome meals
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union piece urges expanding school lunch programs and teaching simple, economical food preparation. It promotes using fresh fruit, varied fillings, and small culinary touches to avoid monotony while outfitting lunches for both indoor and outdoor students.
Split Pea Puree Hearty Egg Dish From Home Economies
A vintage recipe mixes cooked split pea puree with eggs for a hearty lunch or supper. Soak green split peas, cook until soft, press through a sieve, then combine with butter onion celery flour milk and seasonings. Fold in egg whites and bake in a buttered dish at 300 degrees for about an hour.
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Bureau of Home Economies
Reserved Strength in Historical Texts
A compact note discusses the idea that stored or reserved knowledge remains a persistent strength. It reflects on how preserved information underpins future use and resilience across contexts.
Ways to Serve Ice Cream Prepared by the United States Department
Ice cream can be served in many attractive ways from simple scoops to mousse rings with peaches or cantaloupe cups. The guide suggests dessert presentations using china, flowers, and cake, with options like Peach Melba style halves, parfaits in tall glasses, and ice cream sandwiches among cakes or pies.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
How to Remedy Separated Mayonnaise With Cornstarch
When mayonnaise curdles or separates, mix one tablespoon corn starch with two tablespoonfuls water. Stir and add to the separated dressing. If needed, repeat once. This treatment usually makes the mayonnaise smooth and firm.
Indian pudding recipe and baking method
A historic recipe instructs to seal one quart of milk with half a cup molasses and a tablespoon butter. It then combines three fourths cup corn meal half a tablespoon ginger and half teaspoon salt, adds an egg, and bakes two hours in a moderate oven.
Epicure Notes Divorces Often Come From Bad Marriages
A lighthearted epicure quips that many divorces arise from failed marriages, comparing life choices to cooking. The remark frames dissolution as a remedy when partnerships sour and heat rises.
Worth the Difference Secretary Cadwell Remarks on Hotels in New York
Secretary Cadwell of the hotel association spoke at a New York luncheon recounting a traveler’s bad hotel experience in Constanza, Romania. He contrasted a rate of twelve lei daily with rooms costing twenty, noting how rooms can look alike despite price.
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Hotel Association
New York
Constanza
Black Sea
Fed Up Ten Virgins Sermons Stir Rural Scots Parish
A London Tit-Bits item recalls a Scottish rural church practice where a minister preaches ten sermons on a single text from the Parable of the Ten Virgins. After weeks the beadle bluntly tells him the congregation’s “tough auld maids” fatigue shows in the vestry.
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Scotland
London
Tommy’s Trouble at School Ends in Earnest Exchange
A father scolds his son Tommy for poor school progress and calls for improvement. Tommy quips about an alteration and jokes about schools advertising easy terms, revealing the lighthearted exchange.
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Tommy
Price Gap Explained by Room Differences at Store
A store manager answered a customer’s question about why a larger room price is higher, noting that the bigger 20 left rooms include insect powder as part of the package.
Ocean Pelican Fish of Deep Atlantic Depths
The pelican fish is eel like with jaws resembling its avian namesake. It dwells at depth and is rarely seen at the surface unless dead. Found in the Atlantic and Vacitie oceans, it remains a deep sea species.
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