Cold Cuts Platter and Dishes for Entertaining
A summer favorite cold cuts platter features salami liver sausage boiled ham corned beef and cheese with watercress and pickles. Recipes include Luncheon Slices Ham and Cheese Pinwheels Rarebit Filling Ham and Cabbage Slaw Corned Beef de Luxe Salami Salad plus a pitch for a cookbook Easy Entertaining by Eleanor Howe with a 10 cent offer via Western Newspaper Union.
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Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Union
Vacuum Cleaner With Clean Dust Bag Study
Purdue university experiment station findings show a clean dust bag yields best cleaning. Empty the bag after each daily use and never wash it to preserve dustproof finish. Dust pickup varies with pushing speed, best at one to two feet per second. Avoid pins tacks or glass to prevent bag holes or blade damage. Keep the machine in a clean, dust free area.
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Purdue University Experiment Station
Important to plan kitchen outlets for lamps and appliances
When wiring a new kitchen the placement and number of outlets matters greatly. The kitchen uses electricity for both lighting and powering appliances, so consider the load each outlet will carry and avoid underestimating demand.
Just Sterilize Containers To Prevent Ropy Bread
Ropiness in bread is caused by a bacillus and it makes the bread unfit for use. All containers in which the bread was mixed, baked, and stored should be sterilized by boiling. Ropiness does not develop immediately after baking but announces itself by a disagreeable odor.
How to remove jar covers safely
To remove covers from preserve jars, place the jar top downward in a dipper of hot water for five to ten minutes. Remove the jar and insert a steel kitchen knife at different points under the rubber to let in air. The cover can then be removed easily.
Washing Curtains With Dye In Washing Machine
When washing curtains add dye or tint to the washing machine with the soap flakes to color the fabric more evenly. The suggestion emphasizes uniform tinting by combining dye with the wash cycle for better results.
Heifetz Signs Film Deal Cited by Goldwyn Signals
A feature on Jascha Heifetz agreeing to appear in a motion picture under Samuel Goldwyn. The piece notes Heifetz’s long aversion to screen acting and sound track concerns, while suggesting factors like his wife Florence Victor’s influence and past stage humor appearances. It also references Robeson’s rise and a coaching encounter touching on vocation and finance.
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York
Jascha Heifetz
Samuel Way
Goldwyn
Sam
Heifetz
Florence Victor
Danny Boy
Sam Goldwyn
Vilna
Heaves
Redding
Conn
Maxine Elliot
Geraldine Farrar
Peter Pond and Other Far North Pioneers
A compact portrait of Peter Pond, an 18th century fur trader, and several frontier figures. Pond’s restless life carried him from Milford to Detroit and Prairie du Chien, shaping the Northwest trade and guiding Mackenzie’s Pacific expedition. Also sketched are Irish-born Thomas Phelan, famed for duels and Fenian ties, and Thirty-Thirty Jack Pratt, a rafting, mining, and policing frontier character in Alaska.
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Peter Pond
Milford
Lord Howe
Sir William Johnson
General Amherst
Canada
America
West Indies
Detroit
Peter
Michillimackinac
West
Prairie du Chien
Green Bay
Wis
Mississippi Valley
Peace River
North West Company
Hudson’s Bay Company
Alexander Mackenzie
Pacific
Pond
Thomas Phelan
Bremerton
Wash
Dumas
Phelan
Kansas
John Brown
Osawatomie
Jackson County
Quantrill
Alfred Dreyfus
Devil’s Island
Count Esterhazy
Dreyfus
Jack Recs
Jack Pratt
Alaska
Wrangell
Jack
Nome
Pex Rickard
Rex Beach
Robert W. Service
Texas Guinan
Jack London
Chicago
Wrangelland
Derby
Western Newspaper Union
President Attends Pohick Church Sparks Public Turnout
In summer 1917 the President suggested a quiet drive to Pohick Church in Virginia, George Washington's worship site. The small edifice filled as the President and Mrs. Wilson arrived with Randolph and a Secret Service escort. A minister, unaware at first, urged a large turnout as word spread that the President would attend services.
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Virginia
Pohick Church
George Washington
Mr. Wilson
Randolph
Washington Pen
Mr. Jervis
Secret Service
Meridiem Definition from Naval Observatory
The article explains that 12 00 M denotes noon using M for Meridiem from Latin meridies meaning middle of the day. It clarifies that M is almost universally used to designate noon in time notation.
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United States Naval Observatory
Wise garden witticisms and seaside labor jests
A quirky collection of aphorisms and quips on garden schemes gender roles and honesty. A seaside laborer earns $2.50 a day for litter pickup while Hank jokes his wife’s diet has quite taken her breadth away.
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Hank
Bell Rung By Sexton In Odd Church Scene
Edith Bolling Wilson recalls a moment where a young man rushes to a church to order the sexton to ring the bell. At the door the sexton pauses, says the bell is outside in a tree, then hurries to shave.
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Sexton
Jervis
Edith Bolling Wilson
Saturday Evening Post
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Robeson
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Sanford
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Voice
Consolidated Features
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