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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
8
Capricious and charming summer wraps shine in the 1923 style scene by Julia Bottomley. Georgette and velvet coats accompany sleeveless frocks, with circular tunic effects and ruffles highlighting the year’s airy ensembles. Georgette’s practicality and elegance are praised as essential to summer dressing.
A home economics bureau guide explains making peanut butter biscuits with a light touch and quick oven. Mix dry ingredients rub in peanut butter and fat, add milk to form soft dough, roll to 4% inch thickness, cut rounds, and bake 12 to 15 minutes in a hot oven until light brown. Serve promptly.
Practical kitchen notes describe preparing cabbage for salads by shredding, avoiding high heat when cooking eggs to prevent tough whites, and finishing walls with light yellow paint. It also covers cooking orange marmalade, keeping its peel evenly distributed, and handling leftover egg yolks by cold-water storage or hard boiling.
Sun bathing guidance for well and sick children urges outdoor time when weather allows. Describes two example sun suits for little girls using cretonne and print fabrics, patterns adaptable from romper styles, with practical sewing notes and design details including shoulder fastenings, crotch shaping, and easy buttoning.
A nostalgic kitchen register offers home relish with canning notes for Apple Chutney and Cucumber Sauce, plus a sequence of chicken sandwich variants like chicken a la King and chicken with grapes. Also includes Cocoa Bread and general guidance for preserving and preparing farm style foods. The tone resembles a mid-century family page with practical hints and step by step instructions for preserving and flavorful sandwiches.
Instructions for a scaled flank steak stuffed and rolled with celery onion bread crumb filling. Roll from side, brown, bake 1.5 hours at 350F, drain fat, make gravy with fat flour and liquid, season and serve with browned potatoes.
The article describes a chili pepper and bean based dish with olive oil or butter and tomatoes. It instructs soaking kidney beans overnight, then boiling and draining. It suggests using green peppers, cayenne, and cumin to flavor, with chopped beets added and simmered until tender.
The text describes preparing dough with half a teaspoon of salt and a light knead, letting it rise, and filling pans with imp leaves. It mentions a second kneading using five and a half cupfuls of fear, cool for sand wieles, and outlines a chicken sandwich with white meat, ham, smoked tongue, bound with mayonnaise, spread on lettuce leaves, and topped with a bread slice. The line ends with a parenthetical year 1829 and a Western Newspaper Union attribution.
In a sunlit afternoon scene the Fairy Queen invites elves, gnomes, brownies, goblins, and the Witty Witch to a grand party. Mr Giant spreads invitations while robins and birds provide music and attire glitters with moss green, orange velvet, and wild rose garlands as guests arrive and dance.
Many people misread indigestion as a lasting condition when it is an acid problem. Phillips Milk of Magnesia offers quick relief by neutralizing stomach acid and restoring normal digestion within minutes after meals. It provides lasting comfort unlike temporary soda remedies.
Mrs Irving T Clark of Rochester arrived Perry New York by motor with her husband Mr Clark. They searched East Aurora hotel for a $1500 diamond ring said heirloom. The ring was later found near the curb in front of the hotel after hours unnoticed.
An ad touts Won't Hi Zivestock and K R O as a deadly rat exterminator made of Squill under the Connable process. It claims 578 rats killed at Arkansas State Farm and promotes a Money-Hack Guarantee with a Springfield Ohio company contact. Fijian descendants are praised as surgeons in the islands by medical officials.
In Gretna Louisiana a 82 year old housekeeper named EF Vistar reports severe weakness preventing walking after childbirth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength and enabling daily work, alongside Herb Medicine Pills and Sanative Wash use.
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