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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1918
Page
7
A Housewife columnist urges widespread canning and drying as a key garden season effort. Emphasizing sterilization and airtight seals, the piece outlines steps from washing to processing and stresses using limited sugar and salt while preserving vegetables and fruits for future use.
Practical instructions for blanching and cooling produce before packing into jars, plus how to use a homemade lard canner for two tiers of quart jars. Includes specifics on timing, sealing, and processing, and promotes rhubarb canning as an economical, easily grown summer staple.
The United States food administration urges using extra milk to make cottage cheese and the agriculture department offers recipes including Cottage Cheese Sausage with onion savory fat and soda steps. The article highlights various cottage cheese ideas to encourage home preparation.
A reader reflects on wasteful energy and spending in daily life. The piece recalls coal waste in factory heating and questions thrift in clothing, home building, and future choices. It argues waste harms thrift and urges careful spending.
A scanned menu of recipes includes cottage cheese dishes such as cheese and peanut cakes and cottage cheese soup. It describes preparing fried cheese cakes with peanut butter and onion, a delicate cottage cheese soup with lemon rind and mace, and a cottage cheese pie baked in barley crust. It also notes grain shipments to Switzerland via Geneva on May 19 escorted by an American warship.
Superintendent Charles Gill compared soldier discipline with home discipline in a Adams school Parent- Teachers' association meeting held Friday night. Fathers attended as guests of honor for Fathers Night, with more than 200 people despite rain. The program featured Victrola selections, solos by Francis Collins and Miss Emma Fingerlin, recitations by Gladys Wortzmann, readings by Esther Reeder, and an address by Gill followed by more music and the Star Spangled Banner.
An enemy observation balloon opposite Toul broke away after its two occupants parachuted out. It floated two kilometers inside American lines before our aviators reached the scene. the balloon rose and drifted back toward Germany.
A group pursues a craft for twelve kilometers until it rises too high to continue the chase, making further pursuit impractical.
Three men were killed in a Wa bash locomotive yard in Decatur Saskatchewan when struck by a cut of cars. The victims were Phil Delaney Henry Hinton and A F O Duffer Jealousy flares as a cause rumor circulates.
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