Tasty and inexpensive foreign dishes for everyday meals
The article discusses affordable European style dishes prepared by Italian chefs and common American practices. It describes codfish preparations with tomato sauce, baked haddock with cheese, using leftovers creatively, and adds notes on canned salmon, cauliflower with cheese, corn oysters, rice with tomatoes and cheese, cucumber and carrot uses, and flavored cakes. It also mentions using bacon fat in white sauce and saving celery rinds for flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roest
Waly
Italian Chef Cula
Hallan
Homemade dustless duster and kitchen tips from scraps
A fragmented recipe notes making a dustless duster from old underwear soaked in a mix of linseed oil and kerosene, then wrung and hung to dry. It also mentions storing with milk in water to keep sweet, adding oil and salt to counter acidity, parboiling baked goods, and using leftover meal bits to make good broths.
Butter storage tip in old jar method
A fragment explains butter preservation by filling a chipped earthware jar with cold lightly salted water to submerge the butter. It notes turning or restocking steps but ends abruptly, leaving detailed directions unreadable.
Household Advice From a Past Era
A homemaker guide suggests using a vacuum cleaner to dry hair, drying a dish drain with soil and soap, and wiping the sink. It notes a plant in a sunny window as winter decor and offers thrifty menu tips featuring dried beans and vegetables for nourishing meals.
Ballet aids front line troops through Swinborne benefit
Lady Louaizoxoven and Lady Loughborough, wives of wounded Dardanelles heroes, appear in the Swiborne ballet organized by Miss Lena Ashwell to raise funds for morale at the trenches. The performance aims to brighten life for soldiers at the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Louaizoxoven
Loughborough
Lena Ashwell
Repairs for worn tablecloths and handy napkins
Patch worn edges of tablecloths to extend life and improve appearance. Cut worn end, hem edge, and use offcut for ringed napkins or bread doilies. If cloth is too worn, repurpose into wrap pieces or bandage materials. Also a testimonial praising Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe cough remedy for children from Chas. Baker of Brownsville, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Baker
Drownaville
Tex
American War Report Issued on European Operations
Washington reports Secretary Baker issued a weekly war activity statement. It notes Allied ascendancy on the western front, German offensives held in check, and Allied artillery dominated offensives near Ypres while American forces in France are not the focus of the release. The summary covers weather, bombardment, infantry advances, and counterattacks along No Man's Land and surrounding sectors.
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Washington
Atirtican Guvernorht
Europe
Baker
Red States
Maken Fteelt
Alex Daker
France
Secretary of War
Lngic
Anzac Ridge
Yonnebeke
Nena Wood
Ypres Men
No Man's
Flanders
Nancy
Craonce
Ivry
Irene Bordoni Hat Style Described
A description of Irene Bordoni wearing a small close-fit ter toque with white feathers on a white twill silk foundation. The hat sits tight with feathers arranged upward and toward the brow, worn low so the front droops over the eyebrows, suitable with many street costumes and as a bead covering for motoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rams
Ike & Small
Everyday Etiquette and Etiquette Questions Column
Etiquette guidance from Alicia Hoyt answers readers questions on manners with a note about personal queries. Hostess prizes at bridge parties should be tasteful and affordable, with glass refreshing drinks served after play. Birth announcements use a larger card with parents' names and full child name on a small card beneath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alicia Hoyt
Miles Hoyt
Helena
Jules
Air warfare reports heavy raids and infantry harassment
The article notes intense air activity with French bombers dropping 33,000 pounds on Stuttgart barracks and Calmer aviation camp along with bases south of Metz. A British report highlights an airplane dispersing a battalion of enemy infantry by firing on them from the air while they moved along a rear highway in Italy.
Pimples Relief Report From Idaho Woman in 1917
Miss Stella Steen of Payette Idaho reports skin trouble with pimples spreading over face head and chin causing soreness redness and sleep loss. She credits Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with healing after using the products and notes prices and free sample offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Steen
Payette
Idaho
Avoid Indigestion With Disurated Magnesia
Gas and wind after meals signal excess stomach acid and possible gastritis or ulcers. Use Disurated Magnesia, a few ounces with water after eating, to drive out gas neutralize acid and ease distress. Powder or tablet form works best, never liquid or milk, a cheap remedy used by many.
Forces halt as Hallas armies regroup after victories
Week of operations shows temporary stop as Hallas forces consolidate gains on Monte Sag Gabriele front. Austrians launch several repulsed attacks on Tatasizza plateau while German offensives threaten Dvinsk and Jacobstadt. Romanian Delta front reports limited actions and artillery duels with occasional territory gains. Fronts on Stilesia and other sectors show no major changes. overall Russian resistance steady and supply lines stressed.
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Hallas
Monte Sag Gabriele
Tatasizza
Havd
Hallan
Carao Front
Russia
Secor
Dvinsk
Avina
Jacobstadt
Stlesia
Suehitza
Mises
Loss of ships being reduced reported in weekly tally
London dispatch reports twelve merchantmen totaling 1,600 tons and two vessels under 1,600 tons sunk by mines or submarines last week. The statement from the British admiralty notes this is the smallest number of vessels sunk in any one week since Germany began the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
London
Ikr
Intensified submarine warfare reported by British admiralty
The Admiralty releases figures amid intensified undersea campaign. Arrivals and sailings are listed along with British merchantmen sunk by mine or submarine, including vessels over 1,600 tons and those under that tonnage. Two fishing vessels sunk, and British merchantmen attacked unsuccessfully, with several previously reported losses. The data cover the week ended August 12, noting the sharpest weekly losses since February.
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Admiralty
Unclear Combat Losses Reported With Packed Figures
A fragment notes ships sunk near a busy route and mentions figures like twenty and thirty more units. The text lacks clear dates, names, or locations, leaving the scope of the event ambiguous while indicating maritime losses and limited teenage involvement.
The Worries of a Housewife
A fragment on gender temperaments notes women as more organized and nervously developed than men. It mocks a housewife’s constant worry about aging, a shabby home, and worsening conditions, ending with a complaint about a broken mop stick amid climate trouble.
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