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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1945
Page
7
A vintage advertisement promotes Vicks VapoRub as a home remedy for colds. It claims rubbing the chest throat and back at bedtime provides a warming soothing vapors that reduce misery and invite restful sleep with effects lasting for hours.
A Nashville reader says Faultless Starch halved her ironing time by keeping irons from sticking. The letter touts the ready mixed ironing aids and urges readers to try the product for easier, faster results.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warns a postwar crime surge depends on national conversion to peacetime norms. He flags teen criminals, returning veterans and gang revival as risks, urges broad citizen action, and says unemployment worsens crime. He notes veterans could lead youth toward good citizenship and stresses economic factors in crime trends.
A recipe feature suggests budget friendly noon meals with stuffed tomato plates using cottage cheese and mayonnaise, plus lettuce rolls. It also offers crisp rice cakes with apricot jam and spinach in a simple cream sauce for quick nourishing lunches.
A collection of Lynn Chambers recipes including Country Omelet Swiss Spinach with rye bread and prune cake, Egg and celery salad with dressing, potato bacon egg mold, mushrooms de luxe with mayonnaise sauce, and a tomato avocado dressing. Contains steps, ingredients, and serving tips released by Western Newspaper Union.
The piece urges timely mailing for soldiers with secure packaging. It cites demographic shifts from 1940 to 1970 and mentions German and Dutch wartime stock handling, noting 75 pounds per German soldier and minimal looting by civilians. An insert about canned sandwiches appears as the latest update.
Sugar bags make good dishcloths when cut hemmed and laundered. An oil cloth dishwashing apron is easy to make by cutting binding edges for a water resistant result. Old pillow cases protect clothing tops in closets while out of season. Linoleum scraps cover kitchen or laundry tables or shelves. Old socks wax furniture clean silver. A blanket bin across a hall stores clothes and saves space with tissue paper to prevent wrinkles.
Selection of maxims by Charles Reade Leigh Hunt Benjamin Disraeli and Horace stressing habits character destiny openness and humility across life circumstances and prosperity in concise proverbs duties and reflections.
A rural letter carrier reports stopping daily laxatives after using Kellogg's All-Bran for 15 years and finding lasting relief. The ad promotes All-Bran as a bulk-forming, non-purgative food from wheat bran, urging daily use with water and offering a refund with an empty carton.
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