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Newspaper
Woodbridge Leader
Location
Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1926
Page
3
Bits of this and that for women highlight accessible styles. Models illustrate simple frocks in brown velvet and beige satin back crepe with a flower cornake. Striped sports attire and resort wear showcase box pleated skirts and practical long scarves. A velvet semi poke hat features a narrow gold ribbon for color.
Mrs Lucia Ames Mead of Brookline scheduled to lecture at a fashionable Atlanta school on international peace was canceled amid Legion fears of radical associations. The Legion said they opposed certain of her policies and people she runs with, though not to Mead personally.
A collage of quotations and captions from various papers notes fashion blurbs, royalty sightings, gossip lines, marriage notices, and humorous exchanges. It includes references to hotel branding, Princess Ileana, a Bankers Club lunch, Punch magazine quips, and a New York Times line about church work, with short jokes and social captions mixed in.
A fashion report notes calfskin inspired velvet garments with black and white designs and a kid belt. It highlights plpided taffeta trims, pleated skirts, and bathing suits in bright prints. Early spring millinery mixes felt with straw. A humorous public note and a mining inspector anecdote appear in local gossip.
A collage of fashion notes describes a new veat ensemble with a coat cut and box pleated skirt, plus ragged humour and sea-sonal captions. Interleaved are brief quips on sports injures, police rounds, radio broadcasts, and a Pittsburgh Post item about Rickard returning to his desk after his honeymoon with plans for major battles.
A kitchen column offers breakfast dish ideas and home remedies. Tips include orange juice with grapefruit, whole wheat cereal with ham toast, inexpensive books for sickrooms to burn after use, and cleaning suggestions like removing rust with a rubbing flatiron and paraffin. A chocolate fruit pudding recipe uses milk, sugar, cornstarch and walnuts, baked then served cold with cream.
A brief culinary fragment describes scraping ham from pans after cooking, mixing with ham liquor or hot water to form a paste, seasoning with pepper, and spreading thinly on buttered rye toast. It mentions a small amount of prepared neanpard as a spread.
A garbled list of do it yourself tips advises pouring gasoline down sinks after cleaning, boiling water afterward, and cautions about washing with improvised methods. It mentions keeping a scrap basket and clock in the kitchen, using a candle as a cork, and a molasses flour paste for oven burns along with lemon juice for stains.
The text recalls wrapping leftovers in greased brown paper to heat them slowly in the oven. It claims the meat won’t dry out as it often does when uncovered, describing a method tied to an old technique.
A collage of jokes and quips from multiple papers highlights a nurse in jokes, a doctor patient exchange, a lounge lizard remark, and sideshow barbs. Light banter on tobacco, babies, ink, and change shows era humor and newspaper wit.
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