4 H Club Camps Offer Rewarding Summer Experiences
4 H extension workers describe camp programs for boys and girls in the pantry and beyond. Camps provide a week to ten days of recreation and learning in farm practice homemaking and crafts, with demonstrations, physical training, nature study, and group companionship. Photographs from Florida and Maryland show girls at lake side and outdoors craft demos.
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United One Department
Tpo
Atmost
Atg
Hations
United States Department of Agriculture
Florida
Iake
Maryland
Different Ways 10 Flavor Salad From Potatoes
A 1920s style agricultural guide outlines potato salad methods with variations on dressing and ingredients. It notes boiling potatoes until tender, slicing thin, and using dressings of oil and vinegar with herbs and parsley, plus minced onion and chopped parsley to suit taste.
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Priburog
Taltea
Rintes Department of Agriay
Potato Salad Flavor Pairings And Variations
Culture suggests good flavor combinations for potato salad. Proportions depend on personal taste. Possible ingredients with cooked potatoes include pickled beets onion crisped bacon chopped pickle din pickle shredded cabbage olives green peppers fried bacon cubes minced onion canned peas horseradish in french dressing celery root minced onion celery cabbage minced parsley finely chopped pickle.
Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam Recipe
A bureau of home economics guidance for rhubarb and strawberry jam. Use 4 quarts rhubarb and 2 quarts strawberries with sugar. macerate rhubarb first then mix crushed strawberries, then cook about 80 minutes until thick. Pour into hot sterilized jars, seal with paraffin, and store cool.
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Bureau of Home Economics
Wildly miscast roles and a field of poverty tales
An assortment of anecdotes from early Hollywood and frontier life. A Black performer endures a dangerous leopard scene while a Texas native speaks of stubborn poverty and attachment to a harsh homeland, contrasting showbiz danger with rural toil.
Continental Sabbath shaping elections in Mexico
In Mexico the Continental Sabbath marks a change from normal work to political activity. The day, seen as less a rest than a shift in routine, often hosts elections and public duties due to widespread unemployment.
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Mexico
Journey Cake Origin and Evolving Name
A note on colonial cuisine charts journey cake or cakes as a traveler’s bread later evolving into the term Johnny as the original meaning faded.
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Cory Wrend
Zimbabwe ruins and Queen of Sheba gold source question
An English expedition studies the Zimbabwe ruins in Mashonaland to seek scientific insights into the source of the 120 talents of gold given by the Queen of Sheba to Solomon. The article links Rhodesian mines to ancient rulers and notes Zimbabwe as a legendary setting in Haggard novels, highlighting mystery and speculation.
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Zimbabwe
Mashon Dand
Thaidesia
Sheba
Solomon
Rhodesia
Sir Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain
Solomon’s
Hawk and gull battle over Atlantic liner in dramatic midair
Passengers aboard a transatlantic liner witnessed a life and death midair confrontation as a hawk pursued a seagull above the ship. The hawk caught the gull on a second dive and settled on the mainmast to feed, scattering feathers and bones over the astonished crowd.
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Hawk
Sesgul
Washington Star
Sardinia May Grow Cotton
Italy may expand cotton farming as the Italian ministry of national economy reports encouraging experimental results in Sardinia. An arid land plot yielded about three quintals per acre, prompting further work to reduce imports as Italy seeks to produce more domestically for a heavy cotton import footprint.
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Sardinia
Ministry of National Economy
Italy
Cotton and Linen Prices Double Amid War Strain
War drives up cloth costs as cotton and linen rate hikes are noted. A laundry tip suggests extending fabric life using Red Crags Ball Blue, advertised for home use. Advertisement mentions grocers as suppliers and closes with a Seneca quote about companionship.
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