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Newspaper
Plainfield Record
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
6
A guide for the modest home kitchen to stage a holiday meal using limited gas range and small facilities. It offers a day by day plan from menu and shopping to timing, with step by step cooking orders, heating and serving tips, and a suggested outline to ensure a successful Christmas dinner even with minimal equipment.
Princess Rosina complains about her bearded husband who is a poor woodcutter. He denies being Prince though she hoped to marry into royalty. She refuses to cook, and he heads to the woods to hunt, insisting she adapt to life in their simple home.
A Courier News notice offers cutting and construction guides for envelopes and child crafts using patterns called Greas. Patterns are advertised as sixty days ahead and can be mailed on request with payment and address, or purchased at A. B. Force & Co. store. The excerpt ends with a fragment about hunger.
A tale unfolds with Princess Rosina and Prince Lorro in a hut. He orders her to cook breakfast and dinner while she resists, hungry and hungry yet watched by him. He reveals ownership of her and keeps her under his control as dinner nears.
A garbled OCR fragment references a Pictorial Review feature about a Gary and practical home creator. The legible bits mention a skirt, foundation, material, and a song lyric fragment. The readable content is unclear and lacks concrete events or entities.
A fragmented recipe by Lily Harworth Wallace describes combining popped corn, white sugar, and walnut meats, beating egg whites stiff, folding ingredients, dropping onto paper, and baking about twenty minutes. The method emphasizes thorough mixing and keeping covered until use.
A wartime style note explains that a white enamelled bathtub needs frequent scrubbing with a slightly gritty powder to stay clean. It warns against using cakes of soap in washing machines and stresses rinsing clothes in hot water after washing.
A fragment from a 19th century column outlines ten admonitions for mothers, each starting with never. The items urge restraint on speech and action, emphasizing gentleness, patience, and avoiding commands. The piece reflects social norms of childrearing and vernacular advice from Backville Stoner.
A fragmented note warns that shrubs should not be overcovered in winter or they may be damaged while house ferns require light. The text also oddly counsels posture guidance related to clothing and seating.
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