Sandman Story for the Children by Mary Graham Bonner
Freddy Cole, skilled with boat and car, faces dangers and learns true courage. His friend Harold sees Freddy’s missteps and guides him to understand that bravery involves protecting the vulnerable and facing fear without cruelty. The tale teaches character through Freddy’s growth and friendship.
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Sandman
Mary Graham Bonner
Barold
Harold
Freddy
Heter
Harald
Western Newspaper Union
Chocolate Custard Dessert From Home Economcs
Soft custard favored with chocolate is richer than chocolate cornstarch pudding. Milk, sugar, chocolate, and salt heat in a double boiler, temper eggs, cook until thick, then add vanilla and chill. Serve plain or with whipped cream, overnight chilling thickens the custard.
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Koreau of Home Economics
Hints for Housewives and Kitchen Storage Helpers
Tips urge housewives to wear cheap cotton gloves when dusting to keep hands soft and white and to clean regularly. Advice notes that frequent cleaning prevents heavy upkeep and keeps homes immaculate. It also highlights wire racks as useful fruit and vegetable storage to ventilate, spot spoilage, and remove decayed items.
Convenience in the Kitchen by USDA guidance
The article describes a kitchen layout with a pass between dining room and kitchen, placing the sink and drainboards at right angles to the pass and the stove on the connecting wall. It emphasizes light ventilation, fewer steps, and arranging major equipment for logical, centralized work with minimal changes to structure.
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United States Department of Ayculture
Food for the Family Table by Nellie Maxwell
A vintage home cookbook excerpt with fish and seafood recipes. It covers Scalloped Fish, Fish Mousse, Creamed Smoked Fish, Fish Portugaise, Smoked Fish Patties, and Chicken a la Italy, plus Sea Food Salad and Tripe a la Creole with step by step methods, ingredients, and serving ideas. Names and places are not specified beyond general dish contexts.
Black and White in Fashion Trends of 1929
The piece outlines a black and white fashion trend with chic contrasts. It notes black garments relieved by white furs and accessories, including bows, hats, and fur details, plus white blouses and ornamental white motifs inspired by Paris designs.
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Milady
Paris
Western Newspaper Union
Palatable Entree Ideas From Leftover Dishes
A palatable entree combines mixed meats with cald tomato or tomato soup, seasoned with cheese and bread crumbs then baked until brown. It can thicken soups and stews, be used in curries, added to ice cream, and incorporated into eraAuettes and drop cakes.
Tripe Dish From Old Recipe Draws Water From Pan
A 1929 Western newspaper fragment describes placing a cut wide pan in the oven to draw out water. It instructs cooking onions in butter with mushrooms and green pepper, adding flour stock and tomato, boiling, then simmering tripe for five minutes before serving.
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Italy
Tripe
Planning the Christmas Fund
The article urges households to fund Christmas via regular saving and frugal living. It promotes starting now, using small weekly contributions, trimming excess spending, and using self help measures such as conserving energy, mending clothes, sewing, and cutting unnecessary indulgences to build a minimum holiday budget.
Girl at the Top in Health Test
A health testimonial touts California Fig Syrup as a gentle, effective laxative for children. It claims longstanding physician endorsement, improves stomach and bowel function, and boosts appetite and vitality. A Topeka mother cites her child Bonnie B. as thriving, attributing health to the syrup since infancy.
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Bere
West
California
Kansas
Daza Ampire
Monroe St
Topeka
Bonnie B
Californis
Tigers Rampage Endangers Swatow Villages In China
Reports from Swatow areas describe multiple man-eating tigers roaming northern coastal districts. Ten people killed or mauled, a girl injured, with daytime attacks noted. Authorities consider village-led patrols and other measures as the crisis grows.
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Swatow
Shangkhling
Circus Disaster Sparks Crowd as Tent Collapses
A chaotic scene unfolds in a crowded tent with a prostrate figure on the ground. Witnesses report a loud report and groans suggesting a possible tent collapse or gunfire, while the India rubber man sustains a blow.
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India
Humanity and Dogs in War Time Reflections
A short, cautionary reflection on dogs and humans during war. It notes that the phrase lead a dog’s life can imply cruel or rough treatment of animals, contrasting this with the broader human impact of conflict and how people value their animal companions during wartime.
Police watch for counterfeit carpenters, says warning
A dubious caution warns authorities to monitor carpenters as potential counterfeiters, noting that age may mislead and a man seen as sixty could claim to be fifty or misstate his age. The fragment hints at distrust and the need for vigilance in trades.
Doctor Caldwell’s Syrup of Laxative Made Popular
In 1875 a young physician found harsh purgatives harmed delicate bowels and created a gentle laxative. Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pep sin became a trusted remedy used by many to relieve constipation and related symptoms. All drugstores carry it.
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Hadreddy
Burt
Harold Grant
United States Department of Agriculture
Nellie Maxwell
Margaret Frescott Montague
By Julia Bottomley
Bureau of Home Economics
Dak Lars
Hanford
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