Christmas Quilt Returns to Grandmother’s Memory
Nancy Atwell, lonely at Christmas in Connecticut, recalls her grandmother through the old Happiness Quilt. She debates holiday invitations, then decides to visit Peggy North and wire she will join her sister for Christmas, while feeling gratitude for family memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Atwell
Connecticut
Peggy North
Nancy
Grandmother Atwell
Grandmother
Ancy
Peggy
Oweatarn Newspaper Union
Christmas Time Reflections in a Fragment
Fragmentary text hints at Christmas time themes and reverence. It references tingle of home, Veneration, longing, and the idea of good time and pleasant memories around the holiday season. Names and full context are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Christmas Eve in the Market Place
Christmas Eve in the Market Place by Louise Abney recounts a bustling market scene with tinsel, trees, and vendors shouting wares. Shoppers jostle beneath falling snow as memories of a gift from the sky echo through the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smilar
Christmas Dinner Hint Shapes Manly’s Holiday Plans
Manly Manly debates joining sister Julia and Horace for a Judge Thompson dinner amid a Parsons City blizzard. He contemplates meeting Paris City’s prominent folk, including Graham the washing machine inventor, hoping a future in engineering or his office might connect him with the big man’s family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Manly
Julia
Judge
Willis Graham
Graham
Horace Linn
Horace
Palas City
Manly Impostor Plays Husband at Family Christmas
Manly, posing as his sister’s husband, attends a Christmas party at the Graham family estate. Julia’s matchmaking scheme backfires as Patricia, drawn to Manly, spreads the ruse while Julia plans to reveal the truth to her father. Manly contemplates future days post college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manly
Judge Thompson
Julia
Patricia
Graham
Willis Graham
Horace Linn
Mr. Graham
Easier to Care for Small Herd
A New Jersey study shows small herds perform better per cow due to individual feeding needs. Nine cows averaged 8,445 pounds yearly with 36.2 cents per butterfat pound in feed, while 18 cows averaged 8,174 pounds at 38.2 cents and 27 cows 7,423 pounds at 41 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Perry
Extension Dairyman
New Jersey College of Agriculture
WNU
New Jersey Herd Improvement Associations
Grasshoppers Inspire Tales From Rural America
A humorous roundup from readers across Iowa Kansas and Utah recounts grasshopper plagues. Farmers adapt with laughter while meting out odd feats from chickens eating second joints to guarding laundry. A Cedar City tale notes a sale of hoppers to a fish bait firm and a film set using dead insects.
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Country Home Magazine
Iowa
Kansas
South Dakota
Great Salt Lake
Cedar City
Utah
California
Hollywood
Trees tested for shelterbelt value in Mandan tests
Twenty years of experimentation reveal tree types for shelterbelt planting in drought areas. Mandan, North Dakota, began tests in 1914 with eighteen species. seven survived extreme temperatures and drought, notably the Chinese elm, ash, and box elder as most effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mandan
N. Dak
Woodchuck Aids Farmer By Turning Subsoil To Surface
Farmers have long faced inconclusive losses from unseen enemies while a woodchuck quietly benefits fields. The rodent brings about 100 pounds of subsoil to the surface each year, aiding soil fertility and improving rainwater entry to deep root zones.
Pumpkins For Cows Worth Less Than Hay and Silage
The Missouri Experiment Station reports pumpkins including seed are about one-fifth the value of good mixed hay and about two-fifths the value of good corn silage per pound for dairy cows. Pumpkins are high in water and low in dry matter, with 20 to 30 pounds per day as a typical allowance. Cutting pumpkins into small chunks is the common preparation method.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Princess lines ride crest of fashion for home sewers
The Sewing Circle promotes three top notch princess line patterns for morning wear and children. Pattern 1976 offers a versatile shirtwaister in multiple sizes with a notched collar and roomy yoke. Pattern 1828 is a simple front-buttoned dress for girls in 4 through 10 years. Pattern 1983 provides a daytime princess frock in sizes 36 through 50 with long or short sleeves. Includes fabric yardage and a sewing chart. send 15 cents for Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. 367 W Adams St Chicago Ill. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Adams St
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Food prep tips and pantry fixes from a vintage guide
A series of kitchen hints covers marinating chicken in french dressing before serving, draining dressing before mayo, refreshing stale bread cubes, dipping fish in milk before breading, removing ink stains with ammonia and hydrogen peroxide, washing Esiderdown in tepid soapflake solution, and adding flavor to ham with spiced pickle.
Helping the Helpless Voices on Life’s Field
A reflective note urges kinder speech to those fallen in life’s contest. It emphasizes lifting them up and avoiding scorn, acknowledging that we did not witness the conflict or its hidden scars.
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Sss Resco
Mm Wee
Louise Abney
Christian Advocate
Gertrude,h Walton
Woodchuck
Houwchom
Hamlins
Cive
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