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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1948
Page
3
Practical guidance on choosing vegetables for canning. Highlights include picking asparagus five inches tall, ensuring green beans are freshly cut, selecting almost mature ripe lima beans, using golf ball sized beets, and confirming corn by milk sweetness. Emphasizes immediate prep from garden to can and having equipment ready.
Instructional guide on preparing jars, washing produce, blanching vegetables, and processing in a pressure cooker. Details cover jar readiness, water levels, salt use, lid adjustments, rack placement, steam venting, processing timing, and handling tips. Emphasizes cleanliness, even cutting, and avoiding color loss in beets and corn.
Practical at home tips for women's summer wear include tinting white gloves with fabric scraps, adding eyelet or lace trims, sewing camisoles or slips beneath sheer blouses, and lengthening or decorating half slips. Colored buttons and stoles with bold prints or stripes are suggested to update dresses.
The article outlines methods to finish hats at both ends and drape them around the shoulders. It suggests capelets, boleros, and jackets in colors like black, blue, pink, red, and green to complement dresses, with adaptable trims such as belts, cuffs, ribbons, and veiling. It also covers cleaning, refreshing flowers, and interchangeable flower sets for straw hats.
Whmans Frock offers a dainty youthful style with puffed sleeves and a drawstring waist. Pattern 8181 covers sizes 11 to 20 using 2 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric. The Spring and Summer FA SHION book provides free instructions and a second pattern 8315 in multiple sizes with 4 yards of fabric for size 34.
The article explains that vegetables contain enzymes that alter color flavor and texture in canning. It notes darkening on top of jars as a sign of enzymatic activity and advises selecting deep red beets and keeping skin taproot and stems unbroken before precooking.
Be smart pretty and very new slip on gloves become dress up accessories edged with eyelet embroidery organdie lace and tiny ruffles. Offered in doeskin suede fabrics or you can add trimmings to match organdie lace froth on hat jabot or fichu.
The National Safety Council urges caution as electric fences claim yearly lives and harm animals. Do not use homemade controllers. Use approved controllers with proper grounding and lightning protection. Keep children away from fences and post clear warning signs.
Librarians report strong demand for travel books especially about South America. War fiction is sparse while historical fiction remains widely read. Books addressing race and social issues are popular. Film adaptations drive requests for titles that have been made into movies.
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