Making a Permanent Pattern for Custom Dress Fitting
The USDA guidance explains creating a foundation or permanent pattern from gingham to adapt garments to individual figures. It covers choosing a standard pattern, adjusting the pattern through careful fitting of bust, waist, hips, sleeves, and neckline, marking key lengths, and transferring alterations to a permanent guide for future garments.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Evening Fairy Tale About a Dog Show Debate
A toy spaniel critques a St Bernard on fashion and virtue at a dog show. The St Bernard argues that noble lineage means little without personal effort and that true happiness comes from striving to be worthy rather than relying on ancestry. The exchange ends with the spaniel reflecting on the idea.
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St. Bernard
Simething
St. Berard
Spenier
Hitt
Dernar
Laugh and the world laugh with you good table ideas
A collection of early 20th century home dining tips and recipes focusing on appealing meals for convalescents. It includes grapefruit based salads, a grapefruit dressing, custard guidance, and general advice on making meals eye appealing and easy to digest for invalids, with broad culinary anecdotes.
Hints for Housekeepers From Thrifty Recipe Files
A compact guide on improving meals with milk in cereals and using leftovers. It notes warming notes on sour milk before cooking and suggests shredding lettuce outer leaves for salad foundations. It contrasts modern thorough cleaning with old spring upheavals and emphasizes practical thrift in home care.
Apple and Rhubarb Pie Fine Combination
A USDA home economics suggestion blends apple and rhubarb for a novelty pie. Prepare pastry and bake until browned, then layer sliced apples with sugar and salt, add rhubarb, finish with remaining sugar and butter, and bake until tender.
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Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Ways of Renovating Bedding for Agriculture Pillows
The article outlines pillow renovation methods from the US Department of Agriculture. It explains two washing options: washing without removing feathers and transferring feathers to a muslin bag, both followed by thorough drying in a warm sunlit area. A stiff starch treatment is added to stop feathers from working through the ticking.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economies
Soy Beans as Food Faces Cultural Barriers
In North America soy beans have attracted interest as food but were not widely used. Manufacturers now create soy sauce soy bean flour breakfast foods and edible oil from soy beans. Two obstacles to wider acceptance are prejudice and custom hindering new foods.
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North America
Junket Serving Tip From 1930s Western Newspaper Union
A fragment notes pouring into a cup or sherbet glass to stiffen junket with cream added and a spoonful used for topping. Advises chilling fonds and garnishing for serving.
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Western Newspaper Union
Sheer White Frocks Parade for the Girl Graduate
The article sketches fresh white graduation frocks for 1930 graduates emphasizing simple ingenue lines with luxurious fabrics. Designers favor delicate chiffons georgettes and organdie with subtle details like accordion pleating net borders and self fabric boutonnières. An ensemble in white georgette and an organdie over white lace offer practical, launderable options for the season.
Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promoted Nationally
A physician from Beanvania, Pierce, gained fame for treating diseases before relocating to Buffalo New York. He advertised his Golden Medical Discovery as a ready-to-use tonic for the blood aiding digestion and complexion. Marketed as tablets or liquid, it claimed to enrich the blood and clear complexion via a potent formula.
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Pierce
Buffalo
N.Y
Cocoa vs Chocolate in Baking Differences Noted
The text explains Fram Cocoa Bean Chocolate and gotoa as bet mute from the cocoa bean with fat removal, making cocoa denser and tastier in nutrition. It notes cocoa blends more easily into beverages and that substituting cocoa for chocolate in recipes may require extra butter or fat.
Abyssinia’s Potentials and Isolation Highlighted
Abyssinia possesses vast mineral and soil riches and a fertile landscape with high mountains. Addis Ababa sits about 8 400 feet above sea level and the country’s sole external link is the French built railway from Djibouti in French Somaliland to the capital.
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Abyssinia
Dliteau
Addis Ababa
Tinsenpoort
Yjibouti
Somaliland
Boroughs Defined Across States and New York Extension
The article explains that in Connecticut New Jersey Minnesota and Pennsylvania incorporated villages can be called boroughs, and notes that New York extended the term in 1897 to describe Greater New York with five boroughs Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Bronx and Richmond.
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Connecticut
New Jersey
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
New York
Greater
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx
Richmond
Sing Sing and Americus Embrace Electric Life
A magazine extols modern life run largely by electricity with many noting daily reliance and even occasional fatal electric accidents in the era, illustrating society’s push toward universal power and its dangers.
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Americus
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
An advertisement proclaims Kruschen Salts as a fat loss aid. It claims rapid fat reduction, clearer skin, brighter eyes, and increased energy after taking one half teaspoon in hot water daily for three weeks, with a money back guarantee and an 85 cent bottle offered by druggists nationwide.
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America
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