Time for Summer Meals and Breakfast Ideas
A 1910s style guide outlines summer meals with hot breakfast options and quick cold dishes. It covers tea coffee salads and light lunches, with suggestions for desserts and frozen treats to suit a leisurely season. It emphasizes simple preparations like cereals fruit desserts and light meat dishes to please a crowd.
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Fraboen
Tedas
A Resourceful Girl Learns Needlework At Summer Resort
A story about a girl skilled with a needle who spends leisure time at a summer resort aiming to count toward helpful gifts. She tries embroidery for bridal gifts and learns hand care and manicure tips to keep her hands looking presentable for future leisure work.
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Nogeria
Sven
Wash Blanket Care From A Gentle Household Guide
A homemaker shares practical wool washing methods for blankets using a lukewarm soap solution, careful squeezing, and multiple rinses. It covers water temperature limits to prevent shrinking, the need to dry quickly in sun and wind, and hints on avoiding uneven drying by spacing blankets apart.
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Veriain
Abe
Eithier
Theo
Waree
Milady Beauty Hair Care and Facial Massage Tips
Practical advice on avoiding hollow cheeks and maintaining a full look. Recommends brushing, brilliantine, and olive oil for hair. Suggests nightly facial massage with vegetable cream, using upward motions and gentle pressure to keep skin firm.
Wallpaper Cleaning Problems and Patching Tips from Past Guide
A 19th century style guide discusses keeping wallpaper clean and intact. It explains how to position the bed and avoid wallpaper damage, how to prevent dust and stains, and offers techniques like chalk rubs and pressing with blotting paper, plus saving extra paper for future patches.
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Charitg
Family Values and Hard Times Told in a Worker’s Tale
A worker recounts life in the city during hard times. He describes leaving rural Nova Scotia with companions to seek fortune, becoming a janitor, supporting his wife and three children, and cherishing family despite hardship. He recalls his father visiting briefly before returning to the farm and facing a city of temptations.
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Nest
Pak
Gusbert
Pale Rd
Nova Scotia
Pet
Christendom
M Mat
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