Two Stoves for Farm Kitchen
A USDA prepared caption describes a New Jersey farm kitchen with two stoves. The large coal range heats the room in winter and shoulder seasons, while a compact electric range handles summer cooking or quick meals. The setup uses local power, or a household electric plant, to illuminate and run farm equipment, with a neat white cabinet, sunny window, linoleum and dining table to enhance practicality and appeal.
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United States Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
Story for the Children at Bedtime by Mary Graham Bonner
Harry and Cosmo travel along the Milky Way describing star clusters and legends from many cultures. The voyage reveals vast celestial scenery, with bright stars, misty patches, and imagined stories about how the Milky Way formed. A dreamy, lyrical tale of wonder and awe.
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Mary Graham Bonner
Harry
Cosma
Hart
Cosmo
Cosme
Uber
Sleaven
Ley
Harry Tel
Western Newspeper Union
Hints for Housekeepers and Home Safety Tips
Practical advice on keeping dust out of homes and clothing care. It covers cleaning routines for windows and doors, shoe cleaning to prevent leather staining, a safe backyard play area to reduce traffic risks, proper handling of delicate fabrics, and storing summer clothes to deter moth damage.
Tomatoes on Toast and Moon Map History
Tomatoes broiled to a delicate brown on toast with brown crumbs offers a simple warm day lunch. Also bake halved tomatoes with buttered crumbs for easy serving. The Bureau of Home Economics explains broiling and baking tomatoes. The first map of the moon was made by Riccio in 1850.
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Bureau of Home Economics
Riccio
Some Foods the Family Will Enjoy By Nellie
A midwestern health column from 1930 promotes balanced eating for weight loss or gain. It urges exercise, water, fresh air, and daily baths, favors vegetables with moderate meat, and highlights citrus and lemons for liver and teeth health. It also shares citrus serving tips and simple recipes like Pepper Relish and Rolled Orange Wafers, noting pectin use and canning steps.
Small Spaces Used for Closets in Home Cleaning
A government article from the Department of Agriculture suggests using narrow kitchen wall sections for shallow closets to house cleaning tools. It advises hanging items, installing shelves for cleaners, and using wire corner baskets to improve air flow. It also notes adding a second cleaning closet on a second door in larger houses for bedroom and bathroom chores.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Teaspoontul of Tea to the Cup Brewing Guide
Tea brewing tips from C F Hutchinson a New York city tea examiner for the FDA emphasize using about a teaspoon of tea per cup Boiling water is needed for full flavor but tea should not be boiled and leaves should not steep longer than five to six minutes Use an earthenware pot and pour the liquor into a separate container or remove a tea ball after steeping Three or four minutes of drawing yields a cup to taste
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C.F. Hutchinson
New York City
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Lis
Commemorating Victories at Notre Dame in Quebec
The small Quebec church Notre Dame marks Victoires to honor the defeat of an English fleet led by Sir William Phips near the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1711. The sight commemorates a notable victory and the end of a feared British flotilla.
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Quebec
William Phipps
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Measuring the Job From Woman's Home Companion
A humorous reflection on how people judge work by what it offers from quiet routine to excitement. It contrasts motives like fame, anonymity, incentive, diversion, or forgetfulness as reasons to value a job.
Circular Lines Influence Midseason Silk Frocks
Circular lines dominate informal afternoon frocks in dark silk prints with circular movement from neckline to hem. Designers compare circular and pleated treatments, noting circular cuts in peplum, sleeves, and box pleats, with fall silks returning to circular patterns and nubbed interwoven effects.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia relieves sour stomach relief
A Victorian style ad copy claims that Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes acid, eases gas, and calms digestive discomfort for adults and children. It emphasizes genuine Phillips branding and warns against imitations while promising freedom in eating after use.
Seven mouths to feed joke cited by Chicago Daily News
A quip attributed to a Chicago Daily News item jokes that a family with fourteen mouths to feed is because all seven daughters are married, reflecting humorous wartime or domestic talk about large families.
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Vin
Chicago Daily News
Yale launches institute of human relations study
To Study Humanity Yale has established an institute of human relations funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Commonwealth Fund and Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. The first project will study the family including parent child relationships, community influences, education, industry, food, habits, climate and other aspects of a complex living whole.
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Yale
Institute of Human Relations
Rock- Teller Foundation
Commonwealth Fund
Laura Spelman Lockefeller Foundation
It's Not Always Work on Diet Boasts
A humorous exchange topics diet and strength. One speaker claims lifelong beef makes her strong as an ox, while another quips that despite a life of eating fish she cannot swim. The dialogue highlights facetious contrasts in habit and ability.
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Shet
Not Good at Figures Delayed Egg Return Dispute
A brief item from Lus tige Kolner Zeitung in Cologne reports a lighthearted dispute over eggs lent yesterday. Nis accuses Thea of miscounting, claiming two were lent while only one was returned, suggesting a counting error.
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Lustige Kolner Zeitung
Cologne
His Luck Cheese Pocket in Africa Question
The fragmentary text mentions an odd phrase about luck and a cheese pocket in Africa with a casual exchange about a pretzel twist and confirmation of not meaning one. The source is unclear and contains nonsensical ambiguities.
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Africa
Explicit Spoot I Have A Capital Tdea Fiffle
A quirky note mocks standard capitalization rules and magazine naming conventions. It playfully rejects using capitalized phrases and suggests Pathinder Magazine as an improbable outlet.
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Pathinder Magazine
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Nellie
Western Newspaper Union
Ualoa
Phillips
Ean
Mel
Hes
Hollywood
Calif
Meee
Ipports
Hiei
Parker
Belsam
Ceft
Flany
Rosilor
Draggints
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N.Y
Sears
N.N. U
Sioux City
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