Quips on Modern Life and Public Manners in 20th Century
A collage of wry observations from an American newspaper noting women’s rights in streetcars, the 24 hour clock, aviation feats by a woman crossing the Channel, endurance records for a Connecticut youth, and social ironies from Chicago to New York. It riffs on dieting gas meters, horseplay in public, courts, and the oddities of technology and fashion. It also pokes at changes in fashion and morality, lampoons a judge’s gown selection, and ends with a New York court ruling on affluence and dining etiquette.
Woman wins verdict after insult by ungallant suitor
A New Jersey woman secured a verdict from a sympathetic jury after an ungallant man called her an old maid. The case highlights how such terms now meet with firm public disapproval in modern times.
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New Jersey
Molasses Candy Birthplace in Louisiana
Louisiana’s role as the birthplace of molasses candy is recalled with the Creole term candie tire. Instructions for making the candy include molasses, butter, sugar, vinegar, lemon, and baking soda, boiled to thick stage then pulled until white, with hands moistened by ice water.
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Louisiana
United States
Making Fruit Filled Cake Instructions for a rich layered dessert
Instructions describe making a fruit filled cake with butter and sugar cream, eggs, flour, milk and baking powder. Prepare a four layer or round jelly cake, bake firm. For the filling boil sugar and water to threads, fold into stiff egg whites, then mix citron, raisins, almonds into icing. Spread between layers and on top and sides. Serve in small slices with fruit punch.
Folding Table Makes Tiny Rooms Liveable In Style
For small apartments space is saved with a folding table that lies almost flat when closed and opens to a baize surface. A hidden center hinge reveals a shallow sewing kit on one side and a full writing desk on the other, complete with a blotter, pen wells, and ink and glue wells.
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Morocco
Tomato and Cheese with Buttered Croutons
A recipe describes croutons fried to a golden brown in butter and spread with anchovy paste. Another spread is a thick tomato paste topped with grated cheese, rich and highly seasoned. Hot chocolate at tea time benefits from vanilla or brandy.
Poke Weed Salad Recipe Publication Tip
Early spring poke weed is ready for a simple salad. Use tender tips, cook like greens, drain, mold into cups, cool, and serve with French dressing or mayonnaise on lettuce. Also tasty prepared like spinach and sold for 3 dollars.
How to open stubborn fruit can tops
To remove can tops use two strips of coarse sandpaper one inch wide and eight inches long. Place a strip around the top of the can and twist. The lid will loosen immediately.
Faded Shades Renewed With Mn Seed Oil Rag
A description notes that green shades faded over time can be renewed by rubbing with a rag dipped in Mn seed oil, restoring color.
Corn on a Dry Farm and the Case for Corn Culture
An agricultural guide stresses conserving rainfall in dry farming regions. It argues for summer crop cultivation, justified by yields similar to summer fallowed land, and outlines corn as essential for winter feed, soil protection, and cash conversion. It highlights necessary livestock, seed selection, and timely planting from May 10 to 15 in prepared seed beds.
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North Dakota
Montana
Squaw
Gebu
Mercer
King Philip
Triumph
Golden Dent
Northwestern Dent
Corn Cultivation and Soil Water Preservation Advice
The guidance stresses rapid water use for corn on dry farms, cultivation after each rain, and soil moisture preservation. After harvesting, disk the land lightly but do not plow, reharrow after heavy fall rains, and in spring sow wheat early while avoiding pre-seeding corn land plowing.
Methods for regenerating alfalfa fields by disking in spring
Northwest farmers use spring disking to thicken alfalfa stands. Proper disk depth and clean equipment reduce crown injury and disease risk. Disking can improve stands against bluegrass and dandelions, with added seed and occasional clover to suppress weeds, favoring three to four more years of productive crops.
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Patterson
Northwest States
Egg Colors of the Breeds
The text notes proper egg coloring by breed with dark brown for Asiatics a Hehe brown for Americans and pure white for the Mediterranean.
Diversified garden practices and crop care guidance
Advice for home gardeners covers soil fertility using rotted stable manure and nitrate of soda, seed quality, early sowing of onion seed, plant handling to prevent wilting, full-length rows, creep early vegetables, pulverized soil, double row bean drilling, and targeted fertilizer for melons and tomatoes. It emphasizes fresh seed, good order, and practicable cultivation tips.
Dry farming methods push during provincial exposition
Farmers are urged to focus on dry-farming techniques as a drought worsens soil moisture concerns. The sparse snow last season increases the likelihood that moisture in the soil must sustain crops, with the Dry-Farming exposition in the province providing additional incentive to adopt such methods.
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Indiana
Belinda
New York
English Channel
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Ohio
Mane
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Philadelphia
Nebraska
Bigeen Gaalight Co
Taft
Maui
Halhang Price Arnam Street
Peter Oor
Ate
Ali Peo
Doctors
Mach & Mace
Dentists
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Scott Teat & Awning Co
Omaha
Net
Wyre
Guarantes Bailey
Kew Agiens
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