Explaining the Expanding Economy and Oddities
A satirical guide questions the idea of an expanding economy. It compares debt, magic forecasts, and phantom growth to a carnival, cites political and cultural quips, and ends with a note on a cigar retailer shifting back to cigars.
Humor Verses and Short Sketches from Aboard Everyday Life
A collection of brief, humorous lines and anecdotes. A preacher recalls a country church encounter ending with a sharp farmer retort. Other jokes unfold in hospital and hotel settings, including a maternity reveal and elevator gaffe. The pieces rely on quick punchlines and everyday characters.
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Bill Alexander
Oklahoma
Alexander
Pancake Variations and Quick Breakfast Ideas
Pancakes fit breakfast lunch dinner or snack with versatile batter and fillings. Recipes include Rosy Scrambled Eggs with tomatoes, Spicy Meat Filled Pancakes, Buckwheat overnight batter, dessert pancakes, and a Honey Sauce. serves up to 24 cakes.
Baking Tips for Successful Pastries and Pies
Tips include brushing pastries with milk to aid browning and sprinkling sugar for a glossy finish. Use less juice in berry pies to prevent runniness when using canned fruit. Dust fresh berries with flour before baking to help them stay in the crust.
Cold Frame Still Best Garden Helper for Small Spaces
The 18 square feet of space covered by a cold frame proves most valuable in any garden area. The device dates to ancient times and now forms an enclosure partly below ground with daylight access. A simple build requires only basic carpentry skills and standard sash or plastic coverings.
Car comforts become home on wheels for drivers
Americans spend about two billion yearly on in car comforts says Carol Lane travel director for an oil firm. A home on wheels includes a portable fridge inflatable crib desk on steering column and an expanding roof bedroom with gadgets for meals and comfort all within reach while driving.
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Carol Lane
Miss Lane
Higher Production Is Goal of U S Farmers
The Department of Agriculture sets 1952 production goals 4 percent above 1951 and 50 percent above prewar 1935–39. Despite 200000 fewer farm workers, farmers must raise yields per acre and expand acreage where needed. Fertilizer shortages and lower farm machinery output complicate efforts, prompting USDA to offset gaps.
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Department of Agriculture
Bakes Help with Water Bath Steam Technique
A home cooking tip suggests placing pans in a water bath to moderate oven heat for custards cakes and breads. Do not grease pan sides to aid rising and keep muffins biscuits and rolls moist by steaming in a double pan.
Farm wagon drop side easy loading aid
A farmer adept with simple tools can fashion a drop side for his wagon or truck using scrap iron and a pipe. This modification eases loading and unloading, particularly when the vehicle is near a loading platform.
Essentials for Ideal Farm Life Are Listed
An Oregon rural life committee after a statewide survey lists nine essentials for the ideal farm home. They cover income and time to enjoy life, family goals and love, religious education, parental recognition of opportunity, character-building in children, evaluation of ideals, and belief in family.
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Oregon Rural Life Committee
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