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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1928
Page
12
Judy dreams of Santa's workshop with shelves of toys and the busy Santa making a rag doll. The dream ends with Santa promising the doll to Judy for Christmas, a gift the Dream King has arranged. Santa’s joyful, tireless work and blue laughing eyes frame a hopeful Christmas morning.
Household hints advise using a brush to remove Cornallk stains and fresh cola water for grass or mildew stains instead of soap. Tips cover oven moisture escape, wiser parenting, garbage odor control, and care for elastic fabrics with a soft brush and drying slowly at room temperature.
A household guide from the bureau of home economics explains a scalloped smoked fish and egg bake. It uses flaked smoked fish cream sauce flour milk butter and bread crumbs, with a buttered crumb topping baked until bubbly and brown.
Mrs Devoe of Worcester demonstrates home improvement to make kitchens more efficient. She crafts a self funded plan to add shelves, an ironing board, a foldout table, drawers, and a shortcut pantry area. All work is done with simple materials and careful handiwork to save on costs.
A curious 19th century style collection offers dried mushrooms as winter staples with ideas for green pepper stuffed mushrooms, chicken with mushrooms, roast beef in a Mexican sauce, orange ice, walnut and salmon salad, watercress uses, New Orleans inspired cabbage dishes, steamed fish in cheesecloth, and an olive almond sauce. It mixes poetry with practical cooking notes and measurements, emphasizing preserved fungi and hearty fare for cold weather.
Fashion notes describe long haired furs trimming flat pelts in coats with collars and cuffs of fitch fox and caracul. Gray tones with silver fox lead, white caracul and beige tones highlighted, with new fabric like seat panels and detachable fur pieces altering the silhouette.
The OCR text presents a cooking segment with garbled instructions for layered dishes and toppings. It mentions wine, olives, lemon juice, salt, cauliflower, a white sauce, and crumbled topping. The piece is incomplete and difficult to parse into coherent steps or measurements.
A United States Department of Agriculture design for three or four year old rompers features raglan sleeves, a front opening with large flat buttons, and back side buttons to secure a dropped seat. Decorative white piping highlights colored bands, pockets, and leg bands. The Bureau of Home Economics notes no official patterns, and suggests higher side leg cuts to prevent slipping.
The article notes fox fire as a phosphorescent night glow from decayed wood and fungi, a peculiar phenomenon tied to fungal growth. It explains climate may influence its presence, though details remain fragmentary.
A Burlington Vermont advertising offer promotes Diamond Dyes claiming fast home tinting for dresses and blouses. It touts no streaking and easy transformation with a free Color Crife booklet.
A garbled clipping mentions Ute divining rod lore and a remark on ancient beliefs about rods guiding hidden powers. It then reports a dramatic incident at Berwick National Bank where a full grown deer staged a dramatic break in, frightening staff but failing to escape as the animal was halted and contained by authorities.
Reader asks about over hour cold cures and learns a tablet remedy called Pape's Cold Compound. The note claims quick relief for grippe and cold symptoms, noting the remedy is in tablet form and praises its authority.
A reader from Saugus Centre Mass reports taking ten bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and says it made her a new woman. She compares needing the remedy to needing bread in the house and notes improved satisfaction with her husband.
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