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Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 12, 1930

Page

7

About Our Gas Mileage by M. K. Thomson

The piece compares car ownership to marriage, noting how owners become identified with their autos and defend its virtues and vices. It highlights risks like enormous repair bills and public tow humiliations that might push a owner toward considering divorce from the car.

M. K. Thomson Ph. D

The Mud Turpin And The Loyal Car Folklore

An amusing essay by Hugh Hutton blends comic notes on the mud turpin creature with a meditation on affection for a beloved car. It contrasts whimsical zoological notions with everyday loyalty to a vehicle, noting how owners fib about mileage to praise their autos.

McClure

Water power could lift continents of wealth to Asia Africa South America

If reliance on water power grows, the richest continents would be Asia Africa and South America, reflecting a shifting balance of global wealth tied to hydropower potential and resource distribution.

Asia Africa South America

No Woman Wants to Dominate Yet She Does

A reader argues against dominating wives, asserting domination is learned from early responsibility and not natural. The piece contends most wives desire a supportive partner, while dominant husbands often enable the behavior by shirking shared duties and failing to engage in partnership.

Ufe Caven By the Bell Syndicate, Inc

Children’s vegetable friends plan a garden photo day

In a playful verse a carrot, lettuce, peas and beans discuss posing for photographs. Miss Lettuce and Mrs Tomato admire their colors while Bessie Bean boasts a stylish green outfit. Mr Radish and his son Roddy join the fun planning a family portrait.

K. Carrot

A Picture Puzzle Demands Colorful Delusions From Garden Folk

A playful verse unfolds a line of garden characters led by Peter Potato and Mrs Green Pea as they confront a camera man. They demand vibrant costumes and lament black and white photography, urging editors to let children paint their own lively hues for a page in a picture book.

Bediapa Lake

Family Favorite Recipes From 1930s Western Paper

A collage of home cooking ideas and advice from 1930. Recipes include Scalloped Apples With Peanut Brittle Spanish Delight and Challenge Lemon Pie. Also notes on Honey as a wholesome child-sweetener and a Rhubarb Punch recipe. Ends with a quip about women speaking for themselves.

Senior women in Oklahoma home economics program

One third of the senior women enrolled in the University of Oklahoma school of home economics are either engaged or married. Some of the married students do their laboratory work at home, which may or may not be good for their husbands.

University of Oklahoma School of Home Economics

Old Doctor Caldwell Healing Laxative Named

In 1885 Dr Caldwell found a harmless effective laxative to avoid gripe or habit. His syrup pepsin suited bilious headachy patients and was gentle for women children and the elderly. It remains a popular laxative obtainable at any drugstore.

Caldwell

Airplanes Fast Transport for Wau Town Work

Airplanes carry all materials for building the town of Wau in the Edie Creek goldfields New Guinea. From the coast to the site planes need only thirty minutes, while ground travel takes nine days through jungles and over mountains.

Wau Edie Creek New Guinea

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