Fairy Tale Gnome Club Holds Slush Party For New Members
Peter Gnome explains the Every Day is Nice club rules to brownies and gnomes. New members join and receive badges. A planned slush party prompts everyone to wear rubber boots and suits for a celebratory day of weather fun.
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Peter Gnome
Gnomes’ Club
Billie Brownie
Brownies
Mr. Sun
Western Newspaper Union
Scotch Shortbread for Dessert
Scotch shortbread recipe from the USDA bureau outlines ingredients and steps for a crisp, storeable dessert. Instructions cover flour sugar butter salt, mixing, rolling, pricking, baking at 275 to 300 degrees, and resting before serving. The piece blends with a children’s snow story and ends noting the 1930 Western Newspaper Union date.
Healthy household hints for children and daily care
Practical tips cover teeth care with iron rich molasses for sweets and iron calcium, safety tips to prevent broken china with a rubber hose, introducing new foods gradually, breathable garments for warmth, and ironing silk with white paper to avoid flatiron marks.
Egg cookery and garnishing tips from 1930 column
Nellie Maxwell explains low temperature cooking preserves tenderness in eggs in shells and poached forms. She outlines sauces and garnishes for meats and desserts, including mint jelly with lamb and pineapple accents, and provides a lemon butter recipe for long storage.
Cabbage and Apples Cooked Together Recipe
A winter recipe from the bureau of home economics describes cooking cabbage with apples to stretch fresh produce. Layer alternating cabbage and tart apples with sugar salt and buttered crumbs bake 45 minutes until tender then brown the crumbs and serve in the dish.
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Bureau of Home Econonomics
Cold Box Is Convenient for Winter Food Storage
Article describes how a cold box kept outdoors can preserve food in very cold weather with proper air circulation and screening, and notes safer storage options like cellars or pantries when freezing is possible. It cites a Virginia farm photo by the USDA and a kitchen improvement by a county agent.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Simple lines highlight chic street frocks with bordered detailing
The article notes a beige printed crepe street frock with a fitted princess silhouette and a gradually dropping hem. It emphasizes a coordinated ensemble including a dark brown kid pump, hat, and a crepe scarf in a darker brown with a vivid striped border, plus bordered fabrics driving spring wardrobes.
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Western Newspaper Union
Housewife Finds Wire Cleaning Ball Versatile
An Ore housewife reports the ordinary fine wire cleaning ball used for scouring pots and pins cleans bird perch rings. Another notes it is the best cleaner for bathtubs and bowls, with powder or soap aiding and dirt rinsing from the ball.
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Ore
Welcome Nugget Discoveries in Ballarat Australia
The largest gold nugget in world history is the Welcome nugget found on Bakerz hill in Ballarat Victoria Australia on June 11 1858. It weighed 2195 troy ounces and became a famed mining landmark.
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Bakerz Hill
Ballarat
Victoria
Australia
Prune Cookies Recipe Headlined for School Lunches
A recipe instructs mixing one beaten egg with melted fat then adding salt coconut and chopped prunes and nuts with lemon juice. The batter is spread as small flat cakes and baked fifteen to twenty minutes in a moderate oven. They are described as delicious for school lunch boxes.
Curried Fowl With Carrots and Rice
A U.S. Department of Agriculture tested Indian inspired recipe for curried fowl with shredded carrots and rice. The method uses a whole chicken boiled in salted water, a curry thickened with flour and fat, and served with boiled rice.
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India
Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
How to Prepare Pineapple Salad
Prepare a pineapple by slicing across and removing the core, or use canned pre cut fruit. Serve on individual plates with bleached lettuce and a pineapple leaf, fill the cavity with thick mayonnaise, and garnish the edge with six English walnut halves.
East Indian Cities Population Note
India remains largely rural with Calcutta Bombay and Madras as the only cities over half a million residents highlighting urban concentration in the east.
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India
Calcutta
Bombay
Madras
How to Live Longer Director of Public Health Education
A PA State Public Health Education office outlines longevity guidance led by the Director of Public Health Education to promote healthier living. The brief emphasizes diet, exercise, and preventive care as key factors for longer life.
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State of
Pennsylvania
Remarkable Oak Tree in Small English Wood
A famed old oak in Yardley Chase Wood, linked to a Cowper poem from 1791, is said to be Judith's Oak planted by Judith countess of Northumberland. Tradition holds it dates to the Norman conquest, about eight and a half centuries ago. A Cowper memorandum notes Yardley oak girth at 22 feet 6 inches.
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Cowper
Yardley Oak
Child humor at bridge party as five year old proposes own game
A five year old at a bridge party brought her own cards table and chair and announced I dont play bridge but I play sanitary a game you just play alone. She explained she would play a solitary version while the adults played.
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Joyce
Advertising honesty tested by mileage claims
A brief Ohio State Journal note suggests that readers wrestle with belief in advertising truth when confronted by the stated miles per gallon of their own car in the paper.
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Ohio State Journal
Real and Personal Estate Defined in Simple Terms
The article explains real estate as freehold houses and land while personal estate includes leasehold property money furniture and similar items. It clarifies the distinction between real and personal property in legal and practical terms.
Cheese loving hound causes storeyard caper in Pittsfield
A cheese hound roams Pittsfield as Officer William Dunn searches for the dog. The animal jumps onto a grocery truck parked before a store, sniffs through parcels, and seizes a large package of Sweitzer cheese before fleeing.
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Pittsfield
William Dunn
Broad minded blame earns praise in Tit Bits quote
A master taunts a boy with a sharp remark and the boy replies with praise for taking the blame in broad minded fashion. The exchange reflects a moral lesson captured in a Tit Bits snippet.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Relief for Sour Stomach
A short ad promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a quick remedy for sour stomach caused by overeating or smoking. It claims the product alkalinizes acid, sweetens the system, and relieves distress from over eating and acidity, endorsed by physicians but skeptically noting they favor Phillips.
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Phillips
Philips
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