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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1934
Page
14
Table Talks reviews how American Sunday dinners can rival French cookery, citing Victorian author Theodore Child. It contrasts abundant American foods with simpler, healthier prep, sharing menus and dishes like creamed carrots, croquettes, devilled eggs, salads, butterscotch pudding, and coffee, highlighting family meals with music and church services.
A dated menu fragment presents onion based dishes and color themed tables. It lists Tomato Juice Cocktail Fried Broiler Peas Mashed Potatoes Baked Squash Stuffed Cherry Salad with Cheese and several egg and asparagus recipes along with cream sauces and a green color scheme. The text includes Mrs Ernest Thomas and Mrs Stone menus with detailed dishes such as Eggs a la Creole Endive Salad and Ambrosia.
The April transition brings spring hints and hopeful blooms. Snowdrops and winter aconite emerge, with catkins and dogwoods brightening landscapes. Gardeners are urged to clean up shrubberies, mulch with shredded leaves, burn rubbish, and loosen soil to welcome the season’s growth.
The article advises planting trees shrubs and vines and seeds for vegetable and flower gardens. It covers transplanting perennials trueing the herbaceous border and warns against delaying work until active growth begins. It also discusses lawn fertilizer top dressing reseeding and avoiding lawn lime while noting manure use and rhubarb forcing for early yields.
A speaker rails against numerous looming crises from strikes and Air Mail to currency policy and silver coinage. He argues public turmoil stems from government meddling and warns of potential war, criticizing Roosevelt and NRA programs while extolling resilience.
The speaker notes a person who deflects crises by passing quickly and smiling, creating new acronyms to dodge problems. They speculate he may resurface with the P. E. O. C. The Perma- as a future tactic.
A brief note claims Quebec surpasses Alaska in total area both on land and water. The statement appears as a general assertion without named figures or sources.
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