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Los Angeles: Commercial Printing House, 1904. First Edition. 9 x 6", maroon wrappers lettered in gold with maroon cloth spine, 192 pp plus several blank pages for notes at the end, local advertisements. In excellent condition with hint of toning to pages, bit of wear and fading to covers, ink mark to lower text block edge, tiny tear to front endpaper. A rare fundraising cookbook compiled by a women's missionary society in the diverse Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to newspaper records, the society raised funds for the relief of local families, and to support ministers in frontier regions of the Methodist church, including those tending to Native American communities in the Southwest. The group was attached to the Boyle Heights Methodist Episcopal Church, which, according to a 1917 Methodist church report, held a weekly sunday school that included fifty "foreign" students, including Armenian, Mexican, Chinese, and Japanese children. The cookbook begins with a section of household… Read More