Foundation Pattern Guide for Individual Culture and Garment Fitting
A detailed guide from the United States Department on creating a foundation pattern for each family member. It covers selecting fabric like unbleached muslin or gingham, cutting patterns, and refining fittings at shoulders bust and hips. The method emphasizes reversible markings and precise seam widths for versatile dress and blouse design.
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United States Department
Apple
Bureau of Me
Virginia 4 H room improvement contest project description
Ruth Ierson, a Virginia girl, leads a 4 H room makeover under cooperative extension guidance. She renovates a girls' room with cretonne decor, papered walls, new paint, and updated furniture costing 5.50 for materials, funded by selling berries and crafts.
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Co-Operative Extension Ine
Glenn
Tle
Nihan
Cretonnes
Ruth
Lamb Cooking Emphasized In USDA Leaflet No 28 L
The United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Home Economics highlights lamb as a staple in American diets and outlines cooking methods for leg saddle and stuffed cuts. It explains meat thermometer use, broiling times, mint or watercress stuffing, and ideas for cold cuts and stews with diagrams and timing details.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Bureau
Washington, C
Curried Eggs and Rice Dish From Home Economics
The bureau of home economics shares a recipe for a curried eggs with rice lunch or supper. It features hard-boiled eggs served on a bed of rice with a spiced sauce of curry milk and vegetables. Butter onion pepper celery curry tabasco and parsley finish the dish.
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Bureau of Home Economics
Prune and Fig Cake Filling Method
A cake filling recipe selects one dozen large prunes processed to remove seeds and juice, combined with an equal number of steamed or canned figs, ground to a paste with confectioners sugar. The mixture creates a chocolate cake filling with a white topping glaze.
Chicken Classifications by Breed and Variety
Chickens are grouped into four main classes American Mediterranean Asiatic and English with several breeds per class. American includes Plymouth Rock Wyandotte Java Dominique Rhode Island Red Rhode Island White Buckeye Jersey Black Giants and Chanticleer. Mediterranean holds Leghorn Minorca Spanish Andalusian and Ancona. Asiatic includes Brahmas Coching and Langshans. English lists Orpingtons Dorkings Red Caps Sussex and Cornish.
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Plymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Java
Dominique
Rhode Island
Jersey
Minorca
Orpingtons
Dorkings
Sussex
Cornish
Selling Squab Broilers In Winter Months
The article notes squab broilers sell best January and February. Born in November and December, they reach 0.75 to 1 pound in eight to ten weeks without outdoor exercise. Quality, plump, clean birds fetch good prices. poor, scraggy birds bring poor returns.
Moving Pullet Flock to Laying Houses at Dawn
When many pullets must be moved, keep them in crates overnight and transfer crates to laying houses in the morning. This yields a smoother move and better culling and treatment by the poultryman. Inspect each pullet for weight health vigor and prospective laying ability to isolate poor prospects for winter profits.
Improving Egg Quality Through Careful Egg Selection
Careful selection of eggs for incubation can raise hatchery quality. Remove undersized, misshapen, off color, and defective shelled eggs from the incubator. Over several years this practice should materially improve a flock’s egg quality, with egg dealers paying a premium for high quality. It is advisable to assort eggs by size and color.
Feed Strategies for Pullets on Free Range
The text advises liberal feeding of grain and mash with 20 percent high grade tankage or milk as a substitute. Benefits include faster growth and earlier egg production while reducing exercise, though free range pullets may search for food and experience slower overall growth and delayed production.
Milks Emulsion Aids Longtime Constipation Recovery
A 65 year old man writes from Denver about deep bowel problems and severe weight loss before trying Milks Emulsion in 1920. After two years of decline he reports restored regularity, weight gain, appetite return, and improved health and plans to resume work as a mechanical engineer. He endorses the product and cites a money back guarantee offered by The Milks Emulsion Co.
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C. B. Rus
Broadway
Denver
Cole
Milks Emulsion Co
Terre Haxte
Ind
Arctic Animals Brought Into Italy For Economic Use
Italy imports ten reindeer from Norway to Mont Blanc to exploit unused Alpine land for venison milk leather and antlers. Six couples of silver foxes from Canada were also relocated to Mont Blanc to supply furs for the Italian market.
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Italy
Norway
Mont Blanc
Alps
Italian Alps
Canada
Compound Interest Keeps Her Figure Doubled
A clipped notice notes a humorous quote about weight and wealth from the Boston Transcript. It hints at social commentary on aging, money, and identity in a light, satirical tone.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Transform Wardrobe with Diamond Dyes for Fashion Refresh
Fashionable women learn to reuse last season garments by home tinting with Diamond Dyes. The ad promises streak-free results and new tints that revive faded colors. Free 64 page Color Craft book available by writing Diamond Dyes, Burlington Vermont.
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Mac Marlin
Diamond Dyes
Burlington
Vermont
Speed Maniac Mary and the Squirrels at the Park
Four year old Mary sits on a park bench intently watching many squirrels. A sudden fast squirrel descends the trunk and Mary exclaims to the animal to slow down with the phrase Put on your brakes. The text ends noting a pawnshop feature about tickets.
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Mary
Kitty
Perambulating Album Quip Stirs Mild Wry Wit
Alfred asks about the auto graph album and Eloise replies it is now worn as a slicker in a playful exchange showing domestic humor and wordplay.
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Alfred
Eloise
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Bo Independent
Chautaniun
Staen Eitertisner
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Rulney
California
Little Parma
Diamond Pen Company
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Gtralia
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Feibles
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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Carn Belt Land Co
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France
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Good Commissions Woods Manufacturing Co
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