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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
7
Old kitchen guide promotes canning as defense era staple. It describes peach jelly and peach marmalade recipes with pectin sugar and boiling steps, plus pear chips with ginger and lemons, offering guidance on preserving fruit for winter.
A vintage note presents a fruit preserve recipe titled Harlequin Conserve featuring ripe peach jelly pear chips apple butter gooseberry and raspberry jelly. The hand written guide outlines steps to achieve a bright conserve suitable for jelly shelves.
A soldier’s letter from a draftee in a hot U S camp contrasts Iceland talk with his mother and explains fears about Iceland’s climate. The page also reprints home canning recipes Gooseberry and Raspberry Jelly and Harlequin Conserve and comments on Iceland’s distance and geography.
Lynn shares vodka tested jelly making tips. She explains when jelly is done by spoon test and two drops method. She advises using ripe fresh fruit and removing spots to prevent spoilage. She urges cleaning equipment and boiling jars and lids before use.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1360-B offers a practical dress with a high waist and back-tied sash. Sizes 12 to 40 with busts 30 to 40, designed for gingham, challis, chambray, or seersucker and includes charted guidance. Size 14 (32) needs 334 yards edging. order from Chicago.
An English high speed salesman turned soldier was wounded and spent days delirious in a base hospital. After beginning recovery he found nurses offering money for radios refrigerators and vacuum sweepers he had sold them while unconscious.
Argentina is the country for the Colorado river. Gulliver’s Travels narrator Swift describes the Brobdingnagians. one gallon water weighs 8 355 pounds. Damascus is the oldest inhabited city. the bundle on a dime is fasces. Antares is the largest star known. a pound of gold weighs more when using troy measure. three US presidents start with A: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Chester Arthur.
Collier's reports the 25,661-foot Nanda Devi summit was reached August 29, 1936 by a team of four Americans and four Englishmen. No oxygen was used and climbers faced near 22,000 feet where unconsciousness can occur.
A sewing note offers a transfer pattern with 30 motifs ranging in size from 614 by 5 inches to 134 by 13% inches. It highlights cross stitch and quick stitchery for linens and lists needed materials and illustrations. To obtain the pattern, readers are instructed to send their order.
Quote attributed to Sir Thomas Browne on wealth urging generosity and generosity as a moral measure. The line emphasizes that abundance should be matched by liberal and magnificent conduct.
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