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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
7
Fresh Peach Pie and various berry pies highlighted with easy chiffon options. Includes lemon and lime chiffon pies, custard basics, cornflake crusts, and pastry tips. Ends with baking guidance and a note offering canned fruit requests to Miss Lynn Chambers in Chicago.
A compact home cooking note offers thrift advice on using leftover biscuits. It suggests crumbling them into crumbs for meals and serving toasted with peanut butter or citrus fruit sauces. It also proposes a chilled fruit cup mix of prunes peaches orange segments syrup honey and lemon ice.
A wartime letter describes sailors and soldiers merging roles with comic frustration. The writer laments constant wetness, longs for dry land and a Hudson River ferry ride, and jokes about navy life versus army life while hoping for a return home to normalcy. He chides uniforms and cargo of gear, noting the surreal mix of afloat and ashore duties.
Teresa Wright discusses her Hollywood comeback after illness and a hiatus, now starring with Gary Cooper in Casanova Brown and slated for two more films. The piece highlights Lucy Tarr as a bold actress, Ted Donaldson’s rising star, and a dog story film Rusty. It also covers radio leaders appearing in Screen Snapshots Show Business at War, NBC’s new series Twelve Men Joe, and the National Barn Dance at state fairs, plus war department broadcasts The Air School of the Air and more industry notes.
Instructions offer complete crocheting guidance for Pattern No. 5785. Send 15 cents plus 1 cent postage, along with name, address, and the pattern number to obtain the crochet pattern.
A peculiar stained glass window in Craney England features a painted face resembling Winston Churchill. The glass piece is noted as likely the only church window in the world portraying the former prime minister.
In a playful turn the article mocks a changing bar scene with a “Uncle Sockeroo” figure as the new younger face and leader. It contrasts old and new styles while noting a bold rumor about a famous man adopting a fresh tag as a brand figure.
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