19 Oct 1939
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
1
Ruth Wyeth Spears suggests a compact folding camp stool with a tray top to serve as a small table beside a game area or chair. Dress it with fabric trim and upholstery braid, stain or wax the base, and fold for storage. An editor notes Spears offers a 32 item home beautification booklet for 10 cents.
A simple pie recipe using flour maple syrup and fresh cranberries. Line an eight inch crust, dust with flour, add maple syrup, top with cranberries, seal with pastry and brush with milk. Bake at 400 degrees for about 40 minutes.
The flower clock in Interlaken Switzerland is a unique timepiece rebuilt yearly with thousands of tiny plants. Its mechanism lies underground in a sealed case to protect it from soil dampness and it keeps excellent time all summer, showcasing its design and blossoms.
The piece surveys Europe's post Rhineland rise of tensions, noting Hitler's ambiguous peace hints and Allied responses. It covers Russia’s Baltic moves, Finland and Sweden fears, and Turkish balancing acts as nations weigh disarmament and mutual aid in a volatile European chessboard. It also touches U.S. domestic reactions with labor and anti communism debates fueling public rhetoric.
The article surveys congressional mood on repealing the arms embargo and shifting toward cash and carry, noting isolationist speeches by Borah, Vandenberg, and Overton, Tobey’s push for separating embargo provisions, and the need for a stronger two ocean navy amid looming European wars. It also recounts the life of Johann von Bernstorff, German ambassador and critic of war policies, who died in Switzerland in October.
Lieutenant Pierre Varges of Queens relates a harrowing experience with the French Foreign Legion during a punitive Sahara expedition in 1923. A ricocheted shot left him buried beneath dead comrades, his face bloodied and eyes sealed, until a doctor and captain explained how close he came to suffocation and death.
The rose badge figures in the Wars of the Roses with red for Lancaster and white for York. Somerset and Warwick are linked to rose symbolism in the Temple garden and York supporters. Roses also appear in the Seven Years War, with British regiments at Minden wearing roses and Lancashire Fusiliers performing a silent toast and a peculiar post toast ritual involving a subordinate standing on a chair to eat a rose.
Allan Ramsay Wurtele, ex Navy commander and Rambley plantation owner, demonstrated a white sugar derived rubber. Observers saw a black spongy mass weighing about two pounds that bounced on a hard floor. Ernest Lee Jahncke noted a Swiss method may yield rubber from sugar, potentially aiding Louisiana’s sugar industry. Wurtele described a simple process involving ash elements and turpentine with chloric acid while stirring the mass. He noted beet sugar and refinery wastes as suitable inputs. Wurtele, inventor of the S sugarcane harvester, is Annapolis 1918 graduate and former federal barge line engineer.
The article outlines how days of the week derive from sun worship and various mythological figures. Sunday honors the sun, Monday Moonday, Tuesday from Tiu or Tuesco, Odin's day marks Wednesday, Mercury’s day is Thursday, Freya or Friga gives Friday, and Saturn names Saturday in Saxon tradition.
A London firm builds a business buying discarded uniforms and shipping them to interior Africa where natives prize items like monocles. The article highlights the monocle as a coveted artifact and notes natives’ strong demand for usable uniform parts.
The National Wildlife Federation reports a constant demand for live carp shipped in tank cars. Giant goldfish descended from aquarium stock released in Lake Michigan after the 1893 World's Fair are now plentiful in Lake Erie. Commercial fishermen net them in large quantities and they closely resemble the common carp.
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