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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
8
An expert farm advisor promotes combination barns to lower costs while keeping horse and cow stables separate with ample light and ventilation. He stresses sanitary cow housing, rapid waste removal, sunlit air cleaning, and symmetric layout to ease installation of modern equipment and ensure health and higher sale value.
Government and local bodies organize harvest crews for the 1917 apple crop. Volunteers, led by state councils of defense and chambers of commerce, will pick and then cold-store fruit to prevent spoilage. Growers must train workers and ensure proper handling to protect quality and prices.
Practical household advice on saving fats like bacon pork and chicken fat for cooking and soap. Includes fat storage methods, proper rendering, uses in cakes dressings beans greens and frying, plus drying berries and a vegetable soup recipe emphasizing vegetables for child nutrition and health. The piece blends domestic economy with food preparation tips and ends with a mixed vegetable soup recipe.
A kindly old man recounts the tale of Samson to a group of lads in a swimming flow. He notes Samson’s strength waned and returned to enable him to defeat enemies. A boy jokes that if faced with an enemy one should “get a bottle of hair restorer.”
A collection of kitchen notes detailing watermelon servings with French dressing and orange salad on lettuce, watermelon sherbet ideas, and a Sunday night supper with cold sliced meat in wine sauce. It also includes Jeliled Veal with onions and spices, Cream Slaw scaled for small families, and Famous Welsh Rabbit with cheese, butter, milk, and egg.
A collection of winter friendly recipes including uncooked chili sauce using tomatoes onions celery and vinegar, ripe grape pie a hot Dutch salad with potatoes and eggs, Victoria green peppers in olive oil with garlic, celery and peas, simmered to a thick sauce served with Parmesan.
A brief fragment breathes a romance plea for a single rosebud pink or red over many after death, attributed to H. H. Meard. The line hints at intimate sentiment rather than news content.
Perkins urges living each day fully and ignoring the clock to achieve success. He stresses ultra proficiency, standing out in a chosen skill, and earning what one deserves by merit, not wage demands, while balancing work with personal interests.
A boy named Johnny returns home bruised after several fights at school. After his mother warns him, he lies that he fell on a stone. His brother asks who was hurt more. Johnny confesses the other boy left with two black eyes.
First Girl asks Second Girl about meeting the famous writer Mr Blank. Second Girl replies his clothes seem old fashioned and notes he was celebrated for his style.
A bold mindreader faces a room full of skeptical friends as volunteers consent to reveal inner thoughts on stage. The display tests nerve and curiosity, drawing attention to the art of thought reading and the limits of hidden beliefs.
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