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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
3
Prof W H E Reid from the Dairy Department at Missouri College of Agriculture stresses farm cleanliness and proper milking practice to ensure quality cream and butter. He covers dust prevention, clean pails, proper straining, safe separators, thorough washing, and rapid cooling.
Wild onions garlic and other weeds taint milk and dairy products causing customers to reject cream and butter. Early spring pastures with abundant onion growth worsen taint. keep cows off weedy pastures or graze until grasses establish. If manure unavailable use chemical fertilizers at warned rates to restore soil fertility.
Home care tips address damp basements and mold by using chimney heat or a small lamp to keep closets around the chimney dry. Other questions cover septic grease traps, refinishing wood, wall colors, copper stain removal, asbestos removal, oak chair finishing, burned kettle cleanup, cast iron skillet care, and furnace flue temperatures.
The article outlines home canning using sugar and fruit jams with multiple recipes for Raspberry Blackberry and Strawberry jams, plus a Spiced Peach and Cherry Relish. It notes a five pound sugar allotment per person for canning, details preparation steps, quantities, and pectin use, and advises sugar substitutes using corn syrup with specific ratios. It ends with a request for readers to send questions to Miss Lynn Chambers at Western Newspaper Union.
Maud and her Aunt Margaret travel to New York where a mislaid hotel name sparks a chance encounter. A courteous stranger assists, guiding them to a hotel and tea with the Dawkins family. The man reveals he is linked to Hazel, but has fallen for another woman and faces a complication with engagements.
The Big Four vegetables peas tomatoes string beans corn plus asparagus pears peaches evaporated milk and fish will be allowed unlimited tin for canning. Secondary items such as spinach beets cherries berries applesauce grapefruit sausage luncheon meats beef and others stay at 1940 tin allowances with some exceptions. Fools packed last year will last until fall and this year's goods will appear before last year’s stock runs out. There is no need to hoard.
The article explains how bedspreads use coordinated color schemes and a balanced setting to enhance quilts. It notes that lowering a high footboard improves display, and adds that dotted Swiss frills give a crisper finish. It also promotes Mrs Spears Book 3 sketches, offering eight 32 page booklets and a 10 cent price, with a three-booklet order yielding quilt block patterns including Whirl Wind.
Aunt enrollment teaches John to say everyone is not going. John replies no plans to attend. The exchange ends with both agreeing no one is going to the picnic.
A cheeky exchange about a parrot that swears and a humor about rationing. The dealer notes the bird curses, while a remark about Beduff treating rationing seriously leads to a punning line about his wife’s nickname.
In a math class a student asks how to measure a building height with a protractor. The response suggests lowering the protractor on a string to gauge the height. The exchange highlights simple measurement strategies and classroom problem solving.
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