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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1944
Page
7
The American Chemical Society hears that cane sugar sweet potatoes corn stalks and other farm products could supply future gasoline. The piece uses humor to critique the idea and imagines farmers becoming fuel producers while noting the impracticalities of deriving gas from vegetables like tomatoes.
A nostalgic column laments rising restaurant costs and declining service after Pearl Harbor era. It praises home cooks, noting meals at home grow more valued as dining out becomes expensive and impersonal, with emphasis on skilled kitchen work and budget care.
Ernie Pyle reports on the Fifth Army beachhead at Anzio where British and American forces organize wreckage into functioning port operations. Quartermasters improvise fuel caches, a large laundry, salvage depots, and a cemetery while shells rain, dogs patrol, and soldiers persevere in a disciplined, papered war room environment.
The speaker notes how enemy nicknames evolve with conflicts. In past wars Germans were often called Hans, while in the rear the term weed appeared, a misread here. In the present war, Jerry dominated early labeling, but Kraut has emerged recently and is widely used at the front.
Engineers in Martinique on the approach to the Panama Canal rapidly cut and set telephone poles along a new mountain highway. The poles took root in the fertile soil and began sprouting branches up the trunk, delighting island natives with the rapid, unusual growth.
An advertisement touts St. Joseph Aspirin as faster and purer than any rival, claiming it is the no. 1 choice and urging consumers not to pay more or accept less. It emphasizes reliability and value.
A collection of trivia prompts asking about U S history French monarchy bathtubs 1845 city gasoline usage in wars sleep duration the Great Pyramid acres and Cleopatra phrase. Includes a question about a European dictator and a newspaper mare reference.
The list presents trivia style answers: 1) two years 1912 and 1924 2) Napoleon III 3) Boston 4) eighty to one 5) after one percent hours of sleep 6) thirteen acres 7) Helen of Troy and Mussolini.
Commercial fruit and vegetable provers may use surplus second-hand bomber planes after the war. Carrying a 5-ton load, these planes can maintain 28 000 feet altitude where temperatures reach 45 degrees below zero. Bomber delivery could bring perishables anywhere in the United States, farm-fresh or strato-frosted within hours.
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