Household tips and recipes sought by readers
Readers are urged to share ideas for easier home tasks and better vegetable cooking methods. Submissions should include names if desired, with a call to act now and improve daily life. Anonymous tips also welcomed for consideration.
Biscuit Dough With Sausage Fillings From Mrs 5S R C
Instructional note outlines making biscuits. Roll dough to half inch, cut extra large rounds, place a spoonful of sausage on each, pinch closed, and bake carefully.
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R. C
Traditional molasses muffins from Mrs A G L
A recipe fragment describes mixing sugar molasses shortening and pastry flour with spices and soda. Add hot water and bake in deep iron muffin tins. Serve with whipped cream. Attributed to Mrs A G L.
Fragmentary Recipe Measures
Readable text shows scattered ingredient amounts for a recipe with incomplete measurements and unclear steps. No clear title, method, or full list of ingredients can be derived.
Rice pudding sherbet style dessert
A recipe fragment describes cooking rice with raisins and sugar then folding in cream and vanilla. Chill the mixture and serve as sherbet tablets.
Household hints from a bygone era on food, stains and decor
A compilation of kitchen and house care tips including lemon juice uses for cleaning brass and stains, serving etiquette, cake icing methods, lighting with camphor gum, screen door upkeep, removing white marks from furniture, jelly boiling tips, frosting stability, and fruit pie techniques with eggs and flour.
Gems for Your Scrapbook on Manners and Thought
A collage of quotations on manners from Emerson Machiavelli Baker Eddy Twain and others. The text highlights that good manners preserve laws and influence society through example. It pairs reflections on training, thought, and considerate behavior with stylistic aphorisms.
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Machiavelli
Mary Baker Eddy
Bears and Brains A Pioneer Era Bear Story
In early Lansing country near Eaton Rapids settlers faced a bear raiding hogs. Edgar and Brain Potter lured a bear with a plan, shot it, and hauled the 450 pound animal home for meat. Neighbors later traded tokens of courage for slices of bear meat, while reflecting on pioneer grit and modern frauds.
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Lansing
Eaton Rapids
Potter
Mrs. Jones
Brain
Pridge
Potter Place
Community Fair Showcases Old and Modern Displays
The fair featured exhibits from the library and community groups. Max Foskik loaned a Michigan resources exhibit with modern lighting validating the state's towns, rivers, and cities. Old-fashioned items, quilts, and needlework framed the stage display, while livestock, garden projects, and Future Farmers showcased local youth efforts.
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Philco
Observer Booth
Max Fosdick
Michigan
Ireland
Allison
Michigan Grasshoppers Cause Million Dollar Headache in 1937
A survey across over 40 counties shows grasshoppers cost Michigan farmers about one million dollars in 1937. Protective, federally aided measures saved roughly $650000 in crops, while total campaign costs stayed under $25000. Plans to repeat control efforts and expand surveys in 1938 aim to reduce crop damage.
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Michigan
C. B.dibble
Michigan State College
Dibble
Anany
Federated Church Notes Harvest Festival Plans
Federated Church notes Rev. Roy J. Miller as minister. Harvest Festival Day on Sunday October 24 features 10 o'clock service with food gifts for the Baptist Children's Home, 11:15 Sunday school on Christian Renewal, 6:30 Christian Endeavor, 7:30 Methodist union. Teacher training sessions October 26 at Tecumseh. Help Lift circle meets with Mrs. Hugh Reveling. October 31 Roll Call and Achievement Sunday. Ladies Aid drying racks arrive ready for distribution.
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Christian Endeavor
Tecumseh
Help Lift Circle
Hugh Reveling
Aid
St Johns Lutheran Church services and Sunday school notice
Divine services at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 am. English services held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everyone is cordially invited.
New Winter Courses At Michigan State College Promote Farm Careers
Michigan State College announces winter short courses in general agriculture and specialty subjects for 16 week and eight week sessions starting October 25 and January 3. Programs aim to train managers and employees for farms as business investment grows, with focus on irrigation, herd and flock management, and new farming methods.
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Michigan
Michigan State College
Ralph W. Tenny
Tenny
Methodist Church Notes Walter Laxman Minister
Morning worship at 10 oclock with topic Christian Responsibilities. Church school at 11 15 led by Ray Davis. 6 30 p m junior and intermediate leagues. 7 30 union service at the Federated church. Wednesday 7 30 p m mid week service. Friday 7 30 p m choir practice.
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Ray Davis
Federated Church
Eet
Pracce
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