Feeding Father Busy Day Salad and other his favorites
A homemaker columnist urges new ways to coax men and boys to eat vegetables. It offers simple tested recipes such as Onions Baked in Tomatoes Lima Beans en Casserole and French Fried Asparagus Tips, and promotes the booklet Feeding Father with more meat dish and dessert ideas.
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Jundot
Dad
Junior
Rome
Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Ilinois
Moonshiners Trap Hunters In Wild Forest Fire
George Quartin and Martin Ross, hunting near Kingston New York in January 1929, are trapped inside a windowless weathered frame house as a backwoods moonshine operation detonates. Locked in by moonshiners they survive after troopers rescue them when the building explodes and burns.
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George S. Quartin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Kingston
George Quartin
Martin Ross
Accord
George
Rtm
Dames
Martin
House of Mystery
Western
Union
Pills evolve with automatic tablet making progress
The article traces changes from hand impaling pills on pins for gelatin coating to automated systems using suction bars for hemispherical coating. It notes pill productionlines resemble bakery mixers and candy kettles, and highlights new presses and belts that shape dough like masses into pipes and slugs. It cites high speed tablet stamping and cross industry use in plastics.
Child’s chair plans and sewing book pitch in 1940 ad
A 1940 style newspaper snippet shows a speaker debating saving money and self-improvement. It shifts to Ruth Wyeth Spears promoting a sewing book and a child sized chair design with blue and red cotton print, plus quilt block patterns and a mail order offer from Mrs. Spears in Bedford Hills New York.
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Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Pope Gregory and New Year’s Day in History
The Gregorian calendar was instituted by Pope Gregory in 1582 placing New Year on January 1 The medieval observation varied with March 25 and the British adoption occurred in 1752 when Parliament established January 1 as New Year Ancient Persians and Egyptians marked the year starting September 22
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Gregory
Pope Gregory
Europe
Homemaking tips from a bygone era show kitchen and home care advice
The passage blends culinary notes and household how tos from an older era. It suggests flavor pairings like chocolate with orange, methods to tighten sagging cane chairs using soapy salt solutions, potato storage effects on frying, sugar in rinsing water for silk, meal planning for energy savings, drying fruits, roast fat side up for self basting, and mice bait tips including cheese and chocolate.
Means of Utterance Beyond Words in Human Expression
A quotation from Turnbull on how utterance includes not only words but looks tones and gestures. It argues the soul communicates in many subtle ways beyond spoken language.
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Turnbull
Prosecutor Objects Over Run Of Questions In Courtroom Bluff
In a staged exchange a defense counsel cross examined a witness described as a lovely blonde, asking where she was on Monday and Tuesday night. The prosecutor objected to a seemingly leading question, arguing procedural grounds. The joke ends with the prosecutor claiming he asked first.
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Pipune Ps
Adventurers’ Club
Ruth Wyeth
Marines
California
Des Moines
San Diego
Marine Corps Recruiting Office
Old
Federal Building
Iowa
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