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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1921
Page
6
A Washington club paper adapts Good Housekeeping ideas on transforming bread dough into sweet breads and cakes. It outlines loaf method with mixed fillings like figs walnuts marmalade and coco nut and also top spread and filled rolls with fruit nut fillings and ring shapes.
A Washington County women’s page shares practical bake ideas for almond orange and carmel rolls. It suggests shaping into circles, sealing edges, topping with almonds or coconut, and notes slightly stale slices toast well with tea. Also provides caramel and cinnamon roll variations with dough prep and rising guidance.
Mrs D L Carbaugh hosted a May second birthday dinner at North Marion Avenue Mesdames Brewer McCormick and Kephart attended with May baskets and decorations. John H Stewart entertained his son Richard's twelfth birthday with Sabbath school classmates and friends including Ethel McCreedy and Robert Godfrey. Richard received gifts, candy, books puzzles and cash plus boxing and outdoor games. Fortnightly Bible study met at Mrs Frank L Wilsons with a talk by Mrs Speidel on a Tokio Sunday school convention.
The Queen Esther society of the Methodist church held an open meeting with senior anxieties members present. The mite boxes yielded twelve dollars and thirty cents, with more expected as others contribute. Evelyn Cald Wool and Josephine Cald Wool read, and county missionary Mr. Evans spoke on missions. A social hour with homemade candy followed and a Sunday school conference was held after.
A sequence of social gatherings and entertainments is listed for this week. Mrs. J B Crail hosts a ladies' afternoon, DAR officer elections occur at Mrs W R Mount's home, and multiple clubs meet, including Navajo, Just Us, Pleasant Plains Missionary Society, Harmony, Second United Presbyterian Young Women, Prairie Flower Missionary Society, Ladies Social of the Presbyterian Church, Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Junior Worth While Girls, Women's Relief Corps, Fortnightly club, and the afternoon literature department led by Miss Clara Huber.
The article urges parents to create a cooperative community play yard with tools and building materials for children to design huts lakes and rafts. It suggests a designated supervising caretaker and vine fenced boundaries and calls for petitions to establish kindergartens in towns.
James Walton expresses gratitude to friends for their kindness during his wife’s illness and death and for the floral offerings.
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