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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1942
Page
7
Cedar Rapids homemakers follow a 24 hour menu plan for night shift workers in war jobs. Stephens College home economics staff advise a light pre sleep dinner and a more substantial breakfast and dinner with liver and onions, spinach, and peach butterscotch crisp dessert.
The Back Fence Cooking Page calls on Cedar Rapids readers to swap favorite tested recipes and suggest new ones. Submit your culinary ideas to the Cooking Page Editor at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A collection of home kitchen directions including how to make baking powder biscuits with flour shortening and milk, shortcake variant, a veal and ham loaf with oats and milk, and a decorative meat loaf bake with brown sugar pineapple and fruit. Anonymous and Velda Olson credited.
A cake like sponge tops a custard base recipe details from Mrs. Vollie Fox of Horton Bay Michigan. It instructs blending sugar and butter, adding egg yolks milk flour lemon juice and rind, then folding in stiff egg whites and baking in a slow oven.
A replica pledge form will be shown by workers during the war savings bond drive in Cedar Rapids from April 15 to 22. Voters may invest any amount by week month or any period and decide how to invest now to speed up the campaign for bond purchases.
The market lists cauliflower as scarce and expensive with good quality noted. Cucumbers command luxury prices while spinach and watercress remain cheap and plentiful. Tomatoes are pricey, turnips reasonable, and green beans scarce with high prices eased by frozen and canned demand.
A columnist advises women to couple femininity with firm handshake technique to create a strong first impression. Emphasizes eye contact, genuine warmth, and purposeful greeting whether in uniform or civilian settings, noting a firm handshake signals capability and poise.
A 320 seated crowd attended the YMCA all sports banquet where Dr. Eddie Anderson and other speakers underscored athletics as essential to wartime morale. Awards honored state champions across volleyball, handball, badminton, basketball, and swimming with notes on Town football prospects and enlistment.
The report lists multiple competitions across the Allied Industrial League and local clubs with winners in basketball tennis table golf and more. A large fire scorches downtown facilities causing extensive damage and injuring Beloit and Janesville firefighters while a passerby is hurled into the Rock River.
A historic eight-hour blaze in Janesville Wisconsin destroyed an entire block of business buildings. Six fire departments fought the flames, causing about 1 million dollars in damage before it was brought under control early Tuesday. Three businesses were heavily damaged or destroyed.
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