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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
3
A readable home article catalogs economical cooking ideas and DIY fixes. It describes vegetables from a home garden, fish preparations with Spanish sauce, buttermilk biscuits, prune crumb pudding, sweet potato custard pie, and meat souffle. Helpful hints cover silk storage, lamp shade coloring, fabric repainting, glass cleaning, and ironing safety.
Practical guidance for building a small back-yard chicken house using existing sheds. Details cover floor space per bird, dry and ventilated conditions, board or dirt floors, roosts and dropping boards, nest placement, and cheap materials like packing boxes. Includes yard maintenance, fencing, and rotating green crops for healthier flocks.
A simple hen house can be made from two piano boxes placed back to back eight feet apart with roofs floors and sides framed from the boxes. The structure uses roofing paper for cover and costs about $12 for twelve hens, with light ventilation through an open door or muslin panel and optional rear windows.
Advice favors dry cold poultry houses with ventilation via cloth curtains. Place yards on the south side to use dry ground and sun warmth in spring and winter reflections from the house. The flock causes little neighbor disturbance as hens lay well without a male bird present.
In rustic dialogue two men haggle over breakfast with a pullet taken as a meal and feathers repurposed as fuel. The rough banter shows hunger and humor as they bargain while awaiting respite.
A collection of light satirical quips and exchanges. A barefoot boy grown into a weary politician considers retirement amid a demand for new talent. A domestic jab links marriage to better manners as a man offers a chair.
Quoted quips play on appetite and character with a sharp exchange about gains and meals. A husband’s temper and the joke about hasty pudding reveal social humor in brisk dialogue.
Dialogic snippet shows a man reluctant to marry due to feeling unable to support a wife. A companion teases that concern, suggesting she would leave him if he proves unable to provide. The exchange captures social expectations and personal hesitation in courtship.
A humorous note describes John mistakenly obtaining a dog license instead of a marriage license and reflects on the daily realities of married life. The exchange frames the lapse as a lighthearted misunderstanding in a domestic context.
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