Cold storage room for farm house addition
A detailed description of building a farm cold storage area with a summer kitchen milk room and connected porch. Includes double walls packed with dry sawdust, a ground level floor with cement surround, removable bins for cleaning, a milk tank with a water pipe drain system, and careful drainage and venting to maintain warmth and sanitation in severe weather.
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J. Marlon Shull
Clark County
Orange’ Inda
The Real Value of Milk and Fat Testing
The piece argues for buying and selling milk by fat content, citing New York examples where high fat testing improved pay per 100 pounds despite similar milk yields. It insists on individual testing to discard low-fat cows, claims fat-tested milk prices distribute fairly, and warns against selling all milk at one price, citing a loss from a 1965 case where fat-unaware pricing ruined dividends.
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New York
Reily
Auction Tales and a Bargain Lamp from the Auction Room
An experienced youth recounts buying furniture at auction with persistent bidding. He details chasing a table, lamp, and other items over weeks, finally securing a table for six dollars, a brass lamp for one dollar, and discovering the auctioneer’s fairness after initial missteps. The tale highlights persistent bidding and savvy prices.
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Aucent
The Children’s Teeth Care Advice
A Boston Budget excerpt urges meticulous dental care for children. It stresses early attention to first teeth, daily cleaning morning and night, and gentle methods using soft linen and warm water rather than a toothbrush. It notes second teeth can be good if first set is cared for.
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Boston Budget
Beason
Waffles and Cocoanut Pie: Early dessert recipe notes
A cooking excerpt details waffles using milk eggs flour and butter, with milk warmed to melt butter then cooled to beat eggs into milk. It describes frying batter in greased tins, and a cocoanut pie with milk cocoanut eggs sugar butter and a browned meringue baked to finish.
Cake Recipe Promises Finer Texture With Simple Mix
A vintage recipe describes a plain cake using no flour and ingredients including one cup of sugar two tablespoons of butter one cup of sweet milk and ten spoonfuls of baking powder. It notes beating the batter well yields a finer firmer texture with flavor added to taste.
Spineter Aunt Seeks Four Men Hidden in Puzzle
A fragment from Stray Stories recounts an aunt claiming decades of effort to identify four men in a picture puzzle. The text hints at a personal quest and mysterious clues without further details.
Would be actor Tommy Harper seeks dramatic breakthrough
A columnist chronicles Tommy Harper's ultra ambitious but flawed quest to star in major roles. He imagines himself as Richard III and targets figures like Herbert Kelcey and Mrs Leslie Carter, while mockingly detailing his failed stage persona and connections, including plans to recruit Dave Belasco.
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Tommy Harper
Tommy
Richard
Jean de Rosalie
Herbert Kelcey
Ainish
Francis Wilson
Jett D'Angelin
Shell Road
Leslie Carter
Col
Jack Carter
Ike
Janice Meredith
Frank McKee
Washington
Delaware
David Harum
Tanf Crane
Mark Dressler
Pete Dalley
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Baye
John Henry
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George Y. Hobart
Lye
Sardon
Hansom
West
Gwen Somenoey
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Edwin Booth
Earliner
G. W. Dulinstin Gay
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