Capes for Summer Wear and Frocks for Girl Graduates Debut
Fashion presents a new simple cape for summer wear aimed at outdoor attire. The article notes yarn trimming details and suggests the cape appears knit rather than woven, anticipating strong appeal as Fashion trends favor this style.
Graduation Styles and Cape Fashions for 1922 Girls
The passage discusses commencement fashion with focus on silhouettes and capes for the class of 1922. It notes fabrics like wool, silk jersey, tweed, crepes, and organdie, describing cape shapes, bindings, and trims, and outlines dress combinations pairing capes with short bodices, square or V necklines, and ruched or puffed sleeves.
The Kitchen Cabinet And A Collection Of Fudge Recipes
A vintage collection of fudge and confections with multiple recipes including Chocolate Nut Fudge Ginger Fudge Coconut Dream and California Grilled Almonds. Instructions cover ingredients steps to soft ball stage cooling and shaping with notes on optional add ins and flavorings. Includes proverbs and mottos about joy and cooks.
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California
Sierra
Border irrigation and culling boost farm savings across states
Extension agents describe the border method for irrigation adaptable to alfalfa, clover and grains with loam soils and sloped fields. They report large cost savings from culling poultry in Maine and Texas, showing improved egg production and reduced feed costs through targeted reductions in flock size.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
State Agricultural College
Maine
Fresh Mushroom Dishes and Lamb Pigeons From A Home Menu
A vintage home cooking guide outlines Mushroom on Toast with olive oil broiling and butter, Asparagus Soup thick with rice and cheese, Potato Cakes wrapped in bacon, and Lamb Pigeons featuring forcemeat stuffing and a hot oven finish with baste.
Right Culture of Cabbage and Growth History
The article explains cabbage development, noting that rapid growth yields larger solid heads while drought or fertility loss causes poor heads. It contrasts the Chinese cabbage as a distinct species from common cabbage and its brothers.
Keep Compost Heap Moist and Level for Best Composting
The Flower Grower stresses the top of the pile must stay hollow or flat so rain wets the material and prevents burning and fertility loss. Do not let the pile round over. a level pile absorbs rainfall and improves composting efficiency.
Plan to prevent gape worms in poultry areas
As warm weather returns gape worms will appear in some localities. They can be prevented by adding a few drops of turpentine to each quart of drinking water and scattering clean sand or slaked lime in coops and runs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Determining Sex of Ducks Explained
Not everyone knows how to tell the sex of ducks but the method is simple. The hen quacks in a coarse voice while the drake never quacks and makes a sibilant high pitched sound described as like an old man with brownkeeters.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Mothers
A Kenosha Wisconsin mother credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with helping after childbirth. The testimonial urges other women with female troubles to try the remedy, noting it has stood the test of almost fifty years and is endorsed by mothers and grandmothers.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Mrs. Frep
Of Course He Didn't Harangues Postman Joke
A rural minister annoyed by a postman reading letters wrote a postcard to a doctor friend at the village’s far end. He warned the postman would read it. The postman seized the card at the office and declared, He’s a Har I don’t read em.
Naming Babies Law Bans Ridiculous Names in Norway
A new law in Norway prohibits ridiculous baby names and bars French children from names not on an official list of 13 000 items. The measure aims to standardize naming and avoid unsuitable monikers.
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Norway
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