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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1940
Page
7
A dated feature outlines a family dining plan for five with daily menus and milk quotas. It covers balanced calories protein minerals and sample meals for a Saturday including beans beef creamed sauce and potatoes. The text also lists cookie and crabmeat recipes and notes about cost per day roughly 1.45 dollars.
The article notes the welcome return of entertaining as spring arrives and suggests staying out of the kitchen. It highlights escalloped crabmeat as a festive dish that is surprisingly easy to prepare, likening it to the season’s first apple blossoms. The reference includes a date style 26'5-07 and mentions tins crabmeat.
New York dispatch reports funeral plans under way for Thomas Beer, 50, famed biographer, novelist and short story writer who died Thursday from a heart attack. Beer was best known for Mauve Decade, his influential portrait of American manners before 1900.
The obituary notes a man born in Council Bluffs Iowa who moved with his family to Yonkers New York as a child and lived there until 1938. He had suffered since 1937 from nervous exhaustion and is survived by his mother, a sister, and a brother.
Omaha attorney Harry O Palmer follows a strict daily routine to manage high blood pressure. He explains he naps or sleeps at 3 15 while worrying, a habit he adopted to avoid nighttime worry. At 55 he jokes he is a youth, recalling being an old man at 40.
In Minneapolis a woman called police about a peeping Tom. Three officers pursued a man through backyards until the suspect tripped and was tackled. Returning to the homeowner, they learned the culprit was her husband, and the trio headed back to headquarters for new clues.
Huntsville Texas inmates news reports Robert Ballard Walker of Dallas has been sentenced to death for a 1038 murder case. Details indicate the verdict followed a trial. Prosecutors argued the crime was brutal and planned, while defense contended mitigating factors. The ruling sets an automatic appeal path per state law.
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