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Item [1] promotes the Albany Journal published in various editions in Albany, N.Y., and D.H. Fonda's Broncholine, a proprietary medication for asthma. Includes "a compilation of about 250 of the best recipes for the family"; household hints; hints for health; testimonials for Broncholine; encouragement to subscribe to one of the Albany Journal editions (subscribers are awarded a choice of prizes of which one is this cook book); back cover advertisements for Broncholine; and product packaging illustration. Sample recipes: green corn cakes, ginger pears, and baked shad. Damaged: cover torn and taped together.

Item [2], no. 38 of the quarterly Red Cover Series, promotes the daily and Sunday editions of the New York Press and other publications of J.S. Ogilvie. Includes a collection of 164 recipes (for bread, cakes, pastry, puddings, eggs, fish, meats, soups, and vegetables) submitted by Press readers competing for five prizes of one dozen solid silver spoons; advertisements for Ogilvie publications "One hundred prize dinners," "Palliser's American architecture," "Ogilvie's pocket manual and universal assistant," "Ogilvie's fireside reading," and "The science of a new life" by John Cowan; and index. Sample recipes: veal pate, potato croquettes, and orange cream sponge cake.

Item [3] promotes the Boston Daily Globe. Includes recipes for breads, soups, fish, meat, salads, cakes, cookies, puddings, pies, sauces, preserves, invalids, and children, most of which are signed but many only with initials, and cover illustration of cook in period dress. Sample recipes: ginger doughnuts, beefsteak pie, and white rose cake. Cover hand inscribed in 1922 when given as a gift.

Item [4] is facsimile of a 1911 cook book promoting the Sunday American. Includes recipes collected by the opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini from chefs around the world; on inside front cover explanatory note by Louis Szathmary, chef laureate of Johnson & Wales University, explaining that he bought a copy of the original 30 years earlier hoping to find the origin of chicken Tetrazzini and Szathmary recipe for chicken Tetrazzini; advertisements for Boston Consolidated Gas Company, "Onward" flour, Rumford Baking powder, Tudor tea, Howard dustless-duster, and Harvard Brewing Company; and cover illustration of cook in period dress. Sample recipes: fried eels, green tomato mincemeat, and Grover Cleveland's tomatoes.

Item [5] promotes the Chicago Evening American. Includes biography and portrait of Mary Martensen, director of the Home economics dept. at the newspaper; recipes by Mary Martensen reprinted from the newspaper; household hints; menus; 29 blank pages at end for users to paste in other recipes; and illustrations of soup tureen on cover and cooking class. Sample recipes: anchovy and egg squares, pickled fish, and eggplant farci.

Item [6] promotes the New York Sunday American. Includes recipes submitted to Sunday American in response to offer to give $500 in prizes for the best cooking ideas; what to do with left-overs; ways to cook rice; how to cook prunes and raisins; delicious desserts; hints on buying meats; shredded codfish recipes; period dress illustration; and advertisements for White Rose Ceylon Tea, J.F. Beardsley's "Shredded" Codfish, "Acme" Peanut Butter, and Star Brand Boneless Herring and Borden's condensed and evaporated milk. Sample recipes: imitation rabbit stew, rice omelet, and prune meringue.

Item [7] promotes the Burlington Free Press. Includes Thursday's Cooking School program on household management with nine recipes and advice on making good tea. Sample recipes: French fried onions and hearty fruit salad.

Item [8] promotes Better Homes and Gardens. Includes recipes, with attributions, chosen from those submitted in the Better Homes and Gardens recipe contest for men; foreword by Better Homes and Gardens editor, Elmer J. Peterson, pointing out that the recipes show that men are excellent cooks; recipes for meat, fish seafood, salads, desserts, and miscellaneous specialties; list of some of the Better Homes and Gardens booklets with details of how to order; cartoons of men in the kitchen; and index. Sample recipes: roast pheasant, chili con caso, and de luxe lemon pie. Damaged: p. 23-26 loose.