Housecraft Tips From A Century Ago
A collection of practical vintage advice covers rug rotation to reduce wear, drying storage fat to prevent mold, preparing iron for painting, wrapping cheese in vinegar cloth, gourmet onions with corned beef, and repurposing worn dresses into aprons.
Are You Needlessly Suffering Constipation
Promote Kellogg's All Bran as a remedy for constipation caused by lack of bulk in the diet. Recommends regular use with water and medical consultation if no relief. Mentions Kellogg's production in Battle Creek.
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Kelloge’s
Battle Creek
The Cinema At War A Buzz Of 1940s Film Reviews
Film notes review a crop of wartime newsreels and features praising combat vets and denouncing enemy propaganda. It highlights Wake Island The World at War Across the Pacific The Maltese Falcon stars and Goebbels rhetoric while mocking pacifist isolationists and Clark Gable in The Hard Way.
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Wake Island
Brian Donlevy
Robert Preston
MacDonald Carey
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Meller
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Sidney Greenstreet
Berlin
Goebbels
U. S
Clark Gable
Clark
Miami Beach
Army
Gable
Looey
Farmers to grow legumes to supply nitrogen for war effort
The Middle West Soil Improvement committee urges farmers to plant nitrogen fixing legumes such as alfalfa and clover to boost soil nitrogen. They warn that much of the nation's nitrogen will be diverted to military use and stress ample phosphorus and potash for legumes to ensure good yields.
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Uncle Sam
Middle West Soil Improvement Committee
Typewriter Ribbons and Quotations in Brief
A collage of names and aphorisms winds through cultural blurbs about public figures and writers. It notes corrections crediting Kay Riley, mentions Ernie Haas petition drives for 10,000 signatures, and cites James True with offices in midtown Manhattan amid Time exposure.
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James Cozzens Gould
Ann Hunt
Margaret Culkin Banning
Kay Riley
Austin O’malley
Tom Dewey
Margaret L. Runbeck
RL. Stevenson
M. R. Eliot
R.L. Martens
Rudy Vallee
Ernie Haas
James True
Washington
Manhattan
Cranberries Yield New Uses From Byproducts
Articl e describes ursolic acid from cranberry skins as an emulsifier valued at 80 dollars per ounce and vitamin A from cranberry seed oil. It notes unexploited seeds in canning, ongoing experiments for cranberry wax, and the ideal bog states Massachusetts Wisconsin and New Jersey. The piece also explains the origin of the name cranberry from crane like blossoms.
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Massachusetts
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Hog slaughter rules per farm and pork needs
North Carolina State College extension swine specialist Ellis V. Vestal advises that a 225 pound hog should be slaughtered on each farm annually for every two family members. He estimates the average non-farm person consumes about 72 pounds of pork and 15 pounds of lard per year. He also recommends feeder pigs of medium weight with good-sized bones for starting stock.
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Ellis V. Vestal
North Carolina State College
Two piece dress pattern with versatile jacket styles
Pattern No. 8147 offers a short jacket and two top options in velveteen or rayon crepe for girls ages 6 to 14 with collar or open neckline. Pattern No. 8148 covers sizes 12 to 40 with a similar two piece style and short sleeves.
Rum Ration in Navy Histories Coffee Majority Mentioned
Sailors worldwide receive daily alcohol in most navies, except the U S Navy which abolished the practice in 1862. American sailors reportedly drink up to a dozen cups of coffee daily, with an average around six cups.
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United States Navy
Jewish Year 5703 Began September 12 1942
The Jewish calendar includes six year types with 358 354 and 355 day variants. A leap month is added in leap years, making this new year 383 days long, starting September 12, 1942 and labeled 5703.
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Collier’s
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