Planning the Family Budget
Government guidance from the USDA on a practical household budget ledger. It describes a loose leaf account book with pages for estimated yearly expenses, month end summaries, and additional farm oriented pages for inventories, products, and insurance records. The Ohio home demonstration agent appears in the accompanying caption.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Government Printing Office
Dainty Meals From Simple Pantry Staples
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union cooking feature offers quick wholesome luncheon ideas using modest vegetables and small meat portions. Recipes include Hot Vegetable Timbales with beer and gelatin, Green Pea Timbales with eggs and cream, Mexican Tomato Canape with chili oil sauce, Coffee Spanish Cream with gelatin, Squaw Dish with bacon and corn, Prune Cottage Pudding with lemon or prune sauce, and storage tips plus winter treats like Quince Paste and Oyster Stew.
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Western Newspaper Union
Embroidered Footstool Gift Idea From Colonial Style
A simple needlepoint footstool project offers a ready to embroider top and affordable materials. The image sketch shows a canvas pattern, braided skeins, and background yarn to complete a tapestry style stool. Available ready to upholster in department fancy work sections for quick holiday gifts.
Ground Beef on Toast A Tasty Lunch Dish
A simple affordable lunch idea uses ground beef on toast. Broil short time for beef flavor, or sear quickly in a hot skillet then top buttered toast. Season with salt pepper and parsley garnish. omit pickles for children.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Fruit Salad Styling From A Garden Menu
A fragmented recipe style note describes arranging grapefruit and orange segments on lettuce with sweet dressing. It mentions peeling sections, layering fruit with bananas and walnuts, and topping with green pepper stripes. Includes references to dates prunes and cheese stuffed fruit.
Hints for Housekeepers and Household Tips
The passage offers practical advice on kitchen tasks and home care. It covers using a paper bag over a meat chopper to prevent crumbs, maintaining conga mattresses with washable pads for durability and better sleep, varying foods for appealing meals, choosing properly fitting stockings, and selecting linoleum patterns that hide soil.
Blind inventor unveils rapid camera with ultraviolet lens
In London a blind inventor presents a camera that takes pictures and prints near instantly. It uses two lenses one for regular sight and one admitting ultraviolet rays. Films and paper are loaded together and a gas from a cylinder develops fixes and prints as the shutter opens. When the spool is removed photographs unwind simultaneously.
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London
Santa Claus Finds a Way in City Apartments
Nick and Nancy learn from Daddy how Santa visits children in tall city buildings without chimneys. He arrives via roof fire escapes, leaves reindeer on the roof, and slides down into homes through unlocked fire-escape windows after families tuck in for the night. Santa can always reach children on Christmas Eve.
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Nick
Nancy
Daddy
Santa Claus
Gome
Western Newspaper Union
Vegetables Should Be Canned Quickly After Harvest
Vegetables should be canned as soon as possible after harvest to prevent flat sour from developing. Delays in processing can lead to spoilage and reduced quality.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia For Quick Acid Relief
A propone text states Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes acid and relieves sour stomach. It claims quick relief, gentle effect on children, and warns to get the genuine Phillips product as imitations fail to act as the base.
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Phillips
Musterole promises quick relief for colds and coughs
An old advertisement touts Musterole as fast relief for head cold throat and chest symptoms. It claims instant easing, hourly repetition for five hours, and features mustard oil menthol camphor and other ingredients. Also offered for children with a milder form and pediatric variations.
Make More Money This Easy Way By Dandelion Butter Color
Promote butter colorant Dandelion Butter Color as a simple method to produce uniform golden butter year round. Claims tasteless and compliant with state and national laws. Available in large bottles for 85 cents from Wells and Stichardson Co. Inc in Burlington Vermont.
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Wells and Stichardson Co., Inc
Burlington
Vermont
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Ohio
By Julia Bottomley
Mary Graham Bonner
Illips Pa
Magnesia
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Arkansastate Farm
K-R-O
K-R-O Co
Springfield
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