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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
6
A fragmented page describes women in May embracing service suits and gardening to supply food for winter. It portrays wartime ethos, patriotism, and self reliance, with guidance on gardening, preserving, and practical clothing like aprons, sun bonnets, and pockets. The piece ties fashion to national duty and domestic productivity.
Readable excerpts list assorted home cooking ideas and steps for dishes like stuffed egg salad, meat and poultry pairings, potato tips, peanut butter, rice spoon bread, and hermits. Includes fragmented guidance on quantities, methods, and serving notes, reflecting a period home economics style.
The article urges tight resource use and home gardening to conserve food. It promotes growing and preserving vegetables for winter, suggests beans and soy as substitutes, and advises using milk and dairy products to stretch resources. It emphasizes waste reduction and practical cooking tips for bread, cakes, soups, and desserts.
Daily readers are offered a free trial of Cuticura Soap and Ointment for skin care. The ad promises better facial cleanliness with nightly and morning use. A nearby scene shows a household exchange about a story, with a brief dialogue.
Druggist Herbert Maxwell of Plymouth Massachusetts praises Kidney Medicine Kilmer Swamp Root as a trusted remedy. He urges readers to send ten cents for a sample and a booklet detailing kidney health, noting the product is widely marketed and available through Kilmer Co New York.
The instruction suggests preparing soil for alfalfa by choosing a field area, removing 4 to 5 inches of surface soil from a previously productive field, and broadcasting the soil at a rate of 950 to 500 munds per unit. The text is fragmented and contains archaic units and phrasing.
The text notes cloves yield volatile oil with enganol as a principal constituent and mentions hydrocarbons as another major component. It describes pungency observed by pressing or biting cloves and states the pharmacopeia values cloves for tonicity and examinative uses, while their main pharmacy role lies with other remedies.
Practical guide on pruning fruit trees and grapes outlines pruning timing, tool selection, and form. Emphasizes starting heads high for drooping varieties, avoiding high forks, and making clean cuts to promote healing. Advises twice yearly pruning early spring and summer for first years, with winter cuts depending on climate.
The article discusses pruning and care for shade trees, advising careful timing after planting and after damage. It notes hazards from improper pruning of species like poplar and softer woods, stressing avoiding topping and the risk of destabilizing the tree.
The article discusses lawn care for summer life, advising reseeding bare spots and maintaining a tidy lawn. It suggests white clover as a suitable plant, noting it dies out after a few years, and recommends close clipping or hot mowing to sustain a permanent stand.
The article warns that young trees need watching after brisk spring winds. Open spaces around them should be properly firmed down to prevent damage. It notes this is important to ensure trees survive and remain secure following the weather.
The text describes new fabrics and waterproof white materials improving durability. It mentions European market adaptations and a coppery gloss on fibers. A joke about getting down from an elephant ends with a pun about the trunk.
Hundreds of tons of apricot and seed waste once discarded in California canneries are now sold as fuel at about 200 per ton. Seeds once deemed too hard to burn pop when heated and burn with an intense glow and minimal smoke, improving usefulness as a fire source.
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