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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
7
Nostalgic column dedicates the week to mothers with favorite childhood recipes. It recalls simple pantry days and offers Sour Cream Devil's Food Cake with detailed directions and Felicity Frosting, celebrating traditional home cooking and memories of mothers.
Readable sections mix a mother daughter banquet menu with film industry notes. Recipes include a pineapple strawberry cup roast chicken and a fig oat cookie mix. Hollywood wedding trends in April, star updates from Rudy Vallee to Marlene Dietrich, plus casting and production tidbits.
An old instruction sheet suggests cleaning with a clam shell and wood ashes, sweeping snow for carpets, saving tea leaves for dark rugs, dusting woodwork with a turkey feather, pounding laundry with a small pounder, using a wringer, grinding coffee beans fresh, and mastering dishes like Jenny Lind Cake Parsnip Pie Marrow Dumplings and Flannel Pancakes.
Changes in garden practices suggest smaller harvests for better flavor. Plant more often than once or twice a year to maintain proper sized vegetables and enjoy garden fresh produce longer. Many gardeners lack flower seeds as cross pollination can ruin seed quality.
Charming homey rug Idea described as crocheting from old silk stockings. Promotes a 32 page booklet with detailed instructions for crocheting hooking weaving and braiding rugs and other styles. Includes tufted rugs and inexpensive methods. Order form included.
Reader home service advertises a guide titled How To Make Your Own Rugs, priced at ten cents, available from its office at 635 Sixth Avenue New York City.
A fragment reflects on distrust of sentiments far from nature and warns that extreme wisdom and folly may appear closely allied, blending sublimity with ridicule. Deslaudes hints at the tension between lofty thought and misjudged excess.
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