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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1920
Page
3
A miscellany for women covers gingham and organdy frocks with voile blends preferred this year. It offers kitchen tips on salt to enhance flavor, bread and butter pudding, and cautions on sheet laundering. Also includes child feeding tips and a playful wedding table custom.
Recipes describe layered banana toast and corn toast dishes baked with milk and onion, plus tips on making potatoes mealy and cleaning greasy stoves. It offers household hints on tablecloth care, doorknob hygiene, glassware brushing, and teaching children to properly unlace and fasten shoes.
Daisy flower bracelets styled at the wrists for a young girl’s party dress. Made of ribbon in colors matching the dress with a two stone effect in robin’s egg and pink tones. They attach to the endle.
Instructions describe cleaning lamp chimneys with peeling potatoes nearby. Paring and washing, coat with water, simmer for three hours. They will be bright and clean when removed and dried. The read text includes steps and cautions for preparing and finishing the items.
The article notes a difficult task of cooking old potatoes as they spoil quickly. It advises peeling and soaking in cold water for two hours until fork tender, then draining and air drying to improve texture and prevent sogginess.
A fragment describes turning chenille curtains from years ago into usable rags or rugs. It suggests pairing them with room decor and using worn Brusgele carpet as a foundation, cutting material to fit and smoothing it onto the carpet base.
A fragmented kitchen instruction describes scrambling sweetbreads with four eggs. It mentions adding half a teaspoon of something, half the amount of pepper, a Nile cupful, and parboiled diced sweetbread, then melting butter in a hot pan and cooking the mixture.
The advice suggests covering all bed springs with ticking to prevent rust and keep out paint. It recommends printing over mattress covers and washing the mattress less, and covering pillows with the same print. The covers can be removed and washed easily when soiled.
A collage of household hints on butter making and varnish, plus stray dialogue about cooking and a trench wartime quip. It describes preparing butter from greens, polishing mahogany with linseed oil, greasing a pan, rinsing butter, and cleaning tools, followed by a World War II style exchange about muffins and a soldier named Private Snow.
Fragmentary OCR text mixes product pitches and a kitchen recipe, mentioning revolvers, fashions, economy butter, and a published measurement method. It references 966Steagen and a Chicago address, with instructions to cream butter, dissolve gelatin, and fold in milk and egg, suggesting a dubious home remedy or ad copy from an old era.
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