Planning the Family Budget Budgeting tips from USDA home economics
The article outlines a practical loose leaf household budget system from the USDA Bureau of Home Economics. It explains start with income sources, estimate yearly expenses across categories, use a two page spread for columns, and include pages for property, inventory, insurance, and investments. A monthly summary compares actuals to estimates to guide future budgeting. The Ohio home demonstration agent explains and demonstrates the plan.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Government Printing — Office
Dainty and Wholesome Dishes From The Homemaker
A vintage menu feature presents hot Vegetable Timbales Green Pea Timbates Mexican Tomato Canape Coffee Spanish Cream Squaw Dish and Prune Cottage Pudding. Recipes use simple pantry items with steps and garnishes reflecting home budget cooking and domestic guidance.
Embroidered Footstools and Winter Delicacies
A 1929 Western Union summary offers a craft note on making a needlepoint embroidered footstool as a thoughtful gift with plentiful material options from department fancy-work departments. It also includes several winter recipes such as prune sauce, quince paste, oyster stew, tomatoes au Ritz, and poached peaches with custard sauce.
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Dames
Western Newspaper Union
Ground Beef on Toast A Tashy
A simple economical lunch idea using ground beef on toast. Broil the beef briefly to resemble broiled steak flavor and juices, then spread on buttered toast with salt pepper and parsley garnish. Serve with pickles for adults or omit pickles for children.
Pleasing Salads Showfruit Platter Tips
A compact guide to assembling fruit salads with grapefruit lettuce oranges pears and bananas. Steps include placing lettuce leaves arranging two fruit series across the plate and garnishing with green pepper strips and walnuts. Optional stuffed dates or prunes with cheese on citrus sections complete the presentation.
Hints for Housekeepers and Home Comfort Tips
Practical advice covers meat choppers bread crumbs, mattresses, food variety for appetite, stocking fit, and linoleum color and pattern. Emphasizes bags on choppers, regular mattress care with washable pads, and choosing patterns that hide soil.
Castoria Purportedly Safe Remedy For Crying Baby
An advertisement promotes a pure vegetable preparation called Castoria as a safe quick comfort for colic and stomach upsets in infants. It claims relief for colic constipation diarrhea and coated tongues with gentle regulation and urges keeping a bottle at home.
Mysterious Romance Exchange Sparks Question of Marriage
In a clipped backroom exchange, Kathryn declares intent to wed Billy Bullion despite opposition. Kytie hints Billy may accept if she proves real. A bold message arrives asking if she cares enough to marry, while plans to the movies are suggested amid chatter of a passing show.
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Kathryn
Billy Bullion
Kytie
Billy
Invented by a blind man camera prints photos in London
A new camera devised by a blind inventor is reported in London. It uses two lenses one for normal light and one for ultraviolet rays. Upon shutter release a gas develops and fixes the image, printing immediately while film and paper advance together.
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London
Santa Claus Finds a Way to Visit City Children
Daddy tells Nick and Nancy that Santa adapts for tall apartments with fire escapes. He leaves reindeer on the roof and slides down the fire escape to each home after mothers unlock the windows. Children learn Santa can always reach them on Christmas Eve.
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Nick
Nancy
Daddy
Santa Claus
Western Newspaper Union
Welsh Rarebit as a Winter Dish
A historical note on Welsh rarebit explains its popularity as a warm late night snack. The article details a method from the U S Department bureau of home economics to prepare a cheese based rabbit sauce in advance, reheat, and finish with egg just before serving. It suggests serving on crisp toast or crackers and mentions using leftovers creatively.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of
Immediate Canning Keeps Vegetables Fresh
The text urges canning vegetables promptly after harvest to prevent flat souring. Delays in a warm kitchen may allow sour flavors to develop, so canning should occur as soon as vegetables are brought in from the garden.
Train the Man Marriage Says Pleasant Visits Prevent Wrecks
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues that marriages would improve if husbands were as welcome at home as they are when they drop by in the evenings with candy flowers and theatre tickets.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Precept and Practice Quotable on Overcoming Evil with Good
A Congregationalist quote notes that condemning evil robs effort from overcoming it with good. The message urges practical action aligned with virtue rather than mere denunciation.
Drums and Linings and a Curious Riddle
A London Opinion quip mocks fashion, while a Field Museum shipment to Chicago features porcupine rattles from the Kelly Roosevelt Asia expedition. The note compares rattles to those of snakes, noting similar sounds as the animal prowls. What is more disappointing than magazine when it is.
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George
Field Museum
Chicago
Kelly-Roosevelt
Asia
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