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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1928
Page
6
Prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics US Department of Agriculture explains shoulder fitting rules for dresses and blouses. It covers shoulder seam placement, sleeve types, fabric grain, and tailoring steps to ensure smooth drape over chest and shoulder blades, with adjustments for different body types and fabric shrinkage.
Bureau of Agriculture guidance advises shoes should match natural foot shape with broad round toes and straight inner edges. Ill fitting pointed shoes cause crowding, bunions, and foot deformities. proper army style footwear illustrates correct alignment and space for all toes.
A historical note extols milk as a healing food and hot milk as a sleep aid, citing cures for nausea and insomnia. It then describes meat handling for winter storage, packing meat in snow, avoiding freezing, and preserving sausages and chops with salt, sugar, molasses, and lard for use in warm weather.
A damaged 1848 Western Newspaper Union fragment discusses bright color used as a preservative and a glass of hor milk to nourish and calm tired nerves. It mentions a panel of salt and a drop of thavaring to improve palatability.
In a whimsical dialogue, the Wild Cat and a neighbor discuss family trees and how ancestry can elevate or define people. The neighbor explains grandmothers and grandfathers in terms of social standing, while the Wild Cat questions how everyone could have a family tree and what it means for identity. A second neighbor boasts about a grand name that supposedly means nothing and everything.
Fresh beef tongue makes a delicate dish and is unusual enough to feel like discovery. Directions from the bureau of flame economics call for one tongue, onion, water, pepper, salt, parsley, bay leaves, and corns, simmered two and a half to three hours, then served sliced or chilled in the liquor. A stew can be made from the meat, liquor, and vegetables, or spinach or kale cooked in the liquor. The playful dialogue between Serval and Wild Cat adds a humorous aside as the narrator muses on the distant home of the Serval and the imagined flavors of distant lands.
Lace returns as the standout feature for spring and summer wardrobes. Velvet, satin, and cloth dresses gain lace collars and cuffs, with elaborate geometric lace motifs and all over lace ensembles trending for debutantes and social hours. Actress Marion Nixon popularizes lace dressed afternoon wear as fashion spreads cast their spell across Hollywood and the South.
A guide from the United States Department of Agriculture advises arranging room cleaning by a definite plan to save labor. Clean all rooms in the same order to avoid repeating steps, then tidy up, with sweeping and dusting kept dustless to remove rust and avoid dispersal.
Promotion touts Castoria as safe for babies with colic constipation and diarrhea, claiming it soothes distress and aids natural sleep. It emphasizes that only Fletcher's Castoria is recommended by physicians and notes a book on baby care included with purchase.
A new vivarium in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes opens an indoor insect zoo. Exhibits place insects in glass cages mimicking their natural climates, from African deserts to cool habitats, with scorpions hiding under glass plates and mimicry displays featuring giant phasmas.
A brief Thought for Today links kindness to kindness. A quirky ad lists Alfalfa and Sweet chives at 4.80 with Mulhall and Sionz City noted. An old proverb adds that the best way to keep an umbrella is never to lend it.
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