Visitors and hospitality in the age of budgets
A reader adviser urges practical visiting gifts tied to hosts needs to avoid draining budgets. It shares anecdotes of young couples hosting weekend guests and suggests bringing essentials like coffee, butter, ham, and eggs instead of costly toys. Practical tips emphasize shared food gifts over expensive presents and planning to ease strains on hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Betsey
Martha
David
Lydia
Sam
Sonya
Phil
Bobs
Mrs. Bob
Iowa
Jim
Minna
Tom
Golf stars of past and present collide in Chicago
The piece contrasts legendary golfers from Hale America open stars like Hagen Jones Sarazen with modern greats Nelson Hogan Snead and Wood. It argues old timers can still hit all shots, but struggle to link them through 72 holes due to stamina, while youth and depth of field favor today’s game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Young
Ty Cobb
Nap Lajoie
Tris Speaker
Joe Jackson
Ed Walsh
Babe Ruth
George Sisler
Rogers Hornsby
Hans Wagner
Jim Corbett
Bob Fitzsimmons
John Lawrence Sullivan
Jim Jeffries
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Joe Louis
Francis Ouimet
Harry Vardon
Ted Ray
Brookline
Massachusetts
Walter Hagen
Midlothian
Chicago
Bobby Jones
Merion
Gene Sarazen
Skokie
Jones and Sarazen
Hagen
Jones
Sarazen
Byron Nelson
Ben Hogan
Sammy Snead
Craig Wood
Nelson
Hogan
Snead
Old Guard
Vegetable Canning Guide Promotes Science in Home Preservation
This guide emphasizes proper canning using pressure cookers, clean prep, and correct sealing. It covers jar cooling, seal tests, and safety steps, noting fresh vegetables yield best results and that overmature produce spoils. Readers are urged to write Miss Lynn Chambers with problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Illinois
Jars Needed for Canning Based on Common Yields
Home canners seek jar counts for common canned goods. Tomatoes yield a quart per 3 pounds, beans a bushel gives 17 to 20 quarts, greens from a bushel produce 13 pints for spinach or 15 pints for dandelions, corn from 100 ears yields about 14 pints, beets yield 6 pints stalk or 2 pints if cut, peas from a bushel yield 14 pints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Garden
Do Upholstery At Home With Simple Steps
Home makers article by Ruth Wyeth Spears explains low cost upholstery repair. It guides clearing a corner workspace, preserving the outer cover as a pattern, removing padding springs and webbing, recording placements, rewebbing the bottom with new webbing, and using No 4 tacks and a tack hammer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Pholstery
Lincoln Quote on History and Destiny
A historical excerpt reflects on the inescapable role of citizens and leaders in history. It speaks of a fiery trial that will determine honor or dishonor for the nation and the enduring hope of earth as expressed by Lincoln.
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Congress
Lincoln
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Joe Gordon
Bobby Doerr
Joe DiMaggio
Pete Reiser
Terry Moore
Beans
Lima
Coulifower
Lynn
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Goethe
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Housewives
Lane of Health
Nature
Kidae
Dean
Doan’s
Doans
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