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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1939
Page
8
The piece presents a dialog on moral questions and international conflict. It discusses why shoppers shoplift, the seductive power of words in provoking wars, and the feasibility of disappearing, citing Daniel Eisenberg of Skip-Tracer and his world sightings.
A reflective fragment explores a figure attempting to dodge fate and the cosmos, expressing doubt and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. The tone hints at existential struggle and the lure of the impossible.
Town Hall audience views Jungles Calling a one night Iowa showing with Osa Johnson giving a travel talk about husband Martin Johnson and their travels. The film includes familiar jungle scenes and pygmies lighting a cigar, but critics note it lacks the thrill of Dark Rapture.
The menus appearing daily in these columns are planned to serve a family of five two adults and three young children for about $1 a week. Each day’s menus and recipes aim to provide a well balanced diet with adequate calories, heat and energy, protein, minerals and vitamins to regulate bodily functions.
A dated menu lists Tomato Juice French Toast Coffee Milk Luncheon items including Navy Bean Soup Cornmeal Muffins Jelly Canned Peaches Cocoa and more. It notes Frankfurters Sauerkraut Boiled Potatoes Bread Butter Raw Carrots Rhubarb Pie with a total daily cost about 1.55 and caloric value around 13 500 calories.
Homemakers are invited to request a Special Cakes leaflet featuring recipes such as chocolate chiffon cake coffee ice box cake orange sponge and strawberry cream roll by sending a self addressed three cent stamped envelope to the department Requests for Meta Given booklets should be sent to her via The Cedar Rapids Gazette Community Nutrition Service can be reached at dial 5515 for help in marketing food budgeting and diets.
United States Gypsum and subsidiaries report consolidated net profit for the first quarter of 1939 totaling 990,696 dollars, or 71 cents per share, with gains attributed to increased demand and cost controls across main operations in Chicago AP dispatch.
The firm reports earnings for the period showing cents a common share against 46 cents in the 1938 period, with total earnings of $688,348. The company specializes in building materials.
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