Thanksgiving table ideas from 1912 hostess guidance
A 1912 article contrasts modern Thanksgiving prep with a hundred years ago noting open fire cooking and lack of conveniences. It suggests elaborate paper turkey decorations, crepe paper centerpieces, and home crafted Pilgrim and New England tableaux using simple 10 cent toys and paper crafts to create festive, educational table scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adele Mendel
America
Boston
New England
Jack Horner
Illinois Happenings Chronicle Troubling Crimes And Odd Tales
Jacksonville heiress heir to a $75,000 estate linked to a poisoning case. Duquoin hosts medical conventions with new officers. Sparta reports severe weather including a cyclone and damaged homes. Chicago reports a fatal cemetery candle fire. Aurora notes a county clerk missing and found in Indiana. Champaign covers a university editor cited for contempt after criticizing a grand jury. Decatur reports multiple violent deaths and a saloon case. Savanna notes a campus idol at the University of Minnesota.
Improvement of Dairy Cattle by Careful Selection and Breeding
Professor C. C. Hayden argues for careful selection and purebred sires to uplift Illinois dairy cattle. He notes low records keeping, urges local breeder associations, cooperative advertising, and bull sharing to spread good genetics and improve prices while advocating stronger disease control and better breeding laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Hayden
University of Inlinoiis
Tinois
Dairy Cattle Improvement Association of
Ulinois
McHenry
Effingham
Illinois Bulletins Discuss Beef Cuts and Dairy Cattle Rations
The Illinois agricultural experiment station releases bulletin No. 158 on the Relative Economy Composition and Nutritive Value of Beef Cuts. Bulletin No. 159 covers Balanced vs Unbalanced Rations for Dairy Cows. Bulletin No. 160 presents Official Records of Pure-Bred Dairy Cows. Free upon request from Urbana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University
L. D. Hall
D Emmett
Animal Husbandry Department
Corn Stover
Timothy Hay
Department of Dairy Husbandry
University of Ilinois
Wilbert Fraser
Cassius Do” Hayden
Dairy Husbandry Department
I1loig
Frof. C. ©. Hayden
Illinois
Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station
Urbana
Iil
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Jacksonville
Pansy Hastings Lesh
Los Angeles
Cal
Museseum
Hiram N. Hastings
Cora Luttrell
J M Luttrell
Luttrell
Lesh
Springfield
Wesley Plummer
Wilbur Morris
Plummer
Morris
Duquoin
Southern Illinois Medical Association
TlInois Medical Association
Souther Illinois Medical Association
H. B. Wilson
Centralia
W. T. Lingle
Cobden
J W. Armstrong
C. W. Lillie
East St. Louis
Sparta
Eden
Bob Adams
George McFarland
Hugh Adams
Anthony White
T. A. MacMillan
Chicago
Mary Kamratke
St. Adalbert’s
Aurora
A. E. Mottinger
Will County
Plainfield
Terre Haute
Ind
A. M Bennett
L. A. Mottinger
Joliet
Champaign
A. Hogie
Belleville
University of Maos
Taint
William Bush
Bright
I C Davidson
Subway
Powardsville
Alonzo Hogan
Collinsville
H. M. Herrin
Decatur
Charles Verner
Savanna
Walter K. Hyde
University of Minnesota
Leland Pride
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