Vegetable Canning Tips From a Home Kitchen Column
Practical guidance on safe canning of vegetables and fruits, stressing cleanliness, proper processing, and seal checks. Instructions cover pressure canning times, cooling, jar preparation, and packing. Tomatoes are treated separately as a fruit with acid canning steps. Miss Lynn Chambers invites readers to write with questions to Western Newspaper Union in Chicago.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Illinois
Tamar the clever dog find home against odds
In a collected reminiscence, Andy Small recalls Tamar a smart hound owned by Dave Cram near North Falls. Tamar disappears after a kennel escape while Dave makes a long search with ads, finally reappearing in a barn with three pups revealing Tamar’s beeline home was true.
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Zra Powers
Groveton
Andy Small
Ady
Andy
Ezra Powers
Tamar
Dave Cram
Dave
North Falls
Dakins’ Camp
Boston
Portland
Gilford
Painesville
Ezra
How Many Jars From Home Canned Goods
Lynn offers quick yields for common canning items to help determine jar counts. Tomatoes 3 pounds per quart. string beans one bushel yields 17 to 20 quarts. greens one bushel spinach yields 13 pints, two bushels dandelions yield 15 pints. corn 100 ears yields about 14 pints. beets 12 pounds yields 6 pints in stalk and 2 pints if cut. peas one bushel pods yields 14 pints.
Greeting Cards Through History Reach Centenary
The piece traces the social urge behind greetings from ancient Egypt to modern times, noting the 100th anniversary of the first known Christmas greeting card in England. It cites Louis Prang, the Boston lithographer who popularized American greeting cards, and describes the card’s evolution into a staple of American life used beyond Christmas to recall friends and family year round.
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Europe
England
United States
Boston
Louis Prang
America
Big wheels on pampas mud slow wagons through rain
During heavy rains in the Paraguayan and Argentine pampas only two massive wheels eight feet tall can traverse the slushy terrain. A main road becomes a muddy river bed, and oxen are needed to drag wagons. Axle height keeps wheels off the ground, but the deep ruts force cars to stall.
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Pampas
Paraguay
Argentine Pampas
Two Sons and a Vagabond in Genesis Four
An analysis of Genesis four detailing the birth of Abel and Cain, their differing offerings and worship, the first murder born from jealousy, and God’s mercy as Cain becomes a fugitive. The lesson emphasizes sin’s growth, the need for redemption, and the peril of envy leading to violence.
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Adam
Abel
Cain
God
Earth
Home makers Upholstery repair guide from Mrs Spears
Home makers note that upholstery repair is costly labor but can be done in stages. It advises clearing a workspace, using a table, removing outer covering as a pattern, documenting padding springs and webbing, rewebbing the seat with new webbing, and using No 4 tacks with a tack hammer. It mentions Books 7 and 8 in the Mrs Spears series for methods and to order copies.
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Pholstery
Household Tips From an Old Manual
Practical, era style guidance on garment care and cleaning. It covers zippers, gravy thickening by shaking flour and water in a wide mouthed jar, prewashing cleaning steps, ironing without wrinkles, lemon storage in sand, removing fresh rug grease with blotting paper and magnesia, and linoleum floor maintenance with soap wash and wax finish.
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Victory Garden
Lynn
Harold L. Lundquist
D. D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
International Council of Religious Education
Cain and Abel
By Ruth Wrets Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Oneer
Sunkist
California
Eee
Vere
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