Fairy Tale Slush Party Celebrates Everyday Joy
In a children's tale from 1930, Peter Gnome explains the Every-Day-Is-Nice club rules. Brownies and gnomes join, wear rubber outfits, and host a sunlit slush party making a castle from wet snow. The new members pledge to enjoy all weather and daily adventures.
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Peter Gnome
Gnomes’ Club of
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Billie Brownie
Brownies
Thej
Mr. Sun
Western Newspaper Union
Healthy dental care and home hygiene tips from household hints
The article promotes healthy teeth through proper diet and iron rich foods like molasses for children. It advises sipping rubber hose over faucet to reduce broken china hazards, introducing one new food at a time, breathable porous garments for warmth, and placing white paper between silk and iron to avoid flatiron marks.
Scotch Shortbread for Dessert
Famed Scotch shortbread pairs with tea or fruit and remains economical as butter prices are low. The method from USDA home economics includes flour sugar salt and butter, mixing to a smooth dough, rolling to three quarters of an inch, baking at 275 degrees F for 35 minutes, cooling before serving.
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Areau of
Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
It's the Rule Here Top One Lemon Squeeze Ends Poorly
A terse Chicago Nets note hints at a failed play where a top option is forced, leaving a girl frustrated as the action unfolds. The line reads like a witty sports quip on a tense moment.
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Chicago Nets
Simple chic street frock highlights bordered crepe and scarf
A 1930 fashion note praises a one piece princess silhouette in beige printed crepe. It details a subtly fuller skirt, a back-dropping hem, dark brown pumps and hat, and a scarf matching the dress in color and texture. Bordered fabrics and novelty worsteds drive ensemble sets.
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Western Newspaper Union
Cold Box Is Convenient for Winter Food Storage
The article explains using an outdoor cold box for winter storage when climates permit, stressing air circulation and dust protection while avoiding freezing sensitive foods. It notes alternatives like cellars or pantries in extreme cold and recommends a refrigerator for variable winter temperatures, citing a Virginia farm setup with outside shelves, clapboard finishing, screen protection, and a glass door connecting to the kitchen.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Good Things for the Table Egg Cookery Rules and Garnishing
The article explains low temperature cooking for eggs in shells and poached eggs, and outlines meringue and garnishing techniques. It emphasizes careful heat control, thoughtful garnishes to enhance flavor and appearance, and suggests pairings like pineapple, mint jelly, and various meat accompaniments.
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Wastarn Newananar Union
Cleaning ball proves versatile household aid
A housewife reports the ordinary fine wire cleaning ball used for pots and pans works well to clean bird perches. Another woman says it is the best cleaner for tubs and bowls, noting that a little cleaning powder or soap makes tub rings disappear and dirt rinse off easily from the wire ball.
Living Dredge The Hippo as Nature's River Dredge
A hippopotamus tears up and eats plants and weeds along rivers, functioning as one of nature's own dredges.
Curried Fowl With Shredded Carrots From India
A U S Department of Agriculture tested recipe adapts curried fowl with carrots and rice, using whole chicken simmered in broth, thickened with flour and fat, flavored with curry, and served over flaky boiled rice. The method includes skinning the fowl, cooking carrots in the broth fat, and careful stirring to keep meat intact.
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India
Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
How to Prepare Pineapple Salad
Prepare a pineapple by cutting across and removing the core or use canned pine apple already cut. Chill bleached lettuce on each plate, lay a pineapple slice on a leaf, and fill the cavity with thick mayonnaise. Garnish the edge with six English walnut halves per plate.
Lankin Woman Endorses Vegetable Compound
A Lankin North Dakota resident writes that after four years of poor health and outdoor work she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with substantial improvement and offers the testimonial for publication in newspapers.
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Lankin
North Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tiuim Trenpa
Light Reveals Gas Detector Adopted by British Mines
A new gas detector that signals deadly fumes with a red lamp was adopted for British mines after trials in Parliament with officials present. The device, developed about two years ago, gained acceptance following these demonstrations in the House of Commons.
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House of Commons
Don't Be Disfigured Keep Coles Carbon Salve at Home
An old advertisement promotes Coles Carbon salve to relieve pain from burns or cuts and aid healing without scars. It lists prices 80c and 60c and credits J. W. Cole Co. of Rockford Illinois as the supplier for sale at druggists.
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Cole
J. W. Cole Co
Rockford, Il
Company Hostess Why William I Never Saw You Eat This Way
Little Son declares the hostess meal extraordinary while William replies that he has never before eaten so much. The intimate domestic scene centers on indulgence and surprise.
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William
Seed prices in Mulhall and Sioux City Iowa ad
An advertisement lists alfalfa at 8 dollars, red clover 8 dollars, sweet clover and timothy at 3.50 dollars per bushel with Mulhall and Sioux City Iowa shown. The note adds a slogan about preferring a burning kiss to an unburned love letter.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Relief for Overeating
The text promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a quick cure for sour stomach from overeating or excess smoking. It claims the product alkalinizes acid and sweetens the system, endorses physicians’ approval, and warns against using other remedies.
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