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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1939
Page
5
The menus in these columns target a family of five two adults and three young children for about $12 weekly. Each day’s plan aims to deliver a balanced diet with sufficient calories protein minerals and vitamins to fuel heat and energy and rebuild tissues.
The excerpt lists breakfast lunch and dinner items with quantities for prunes eggs toast bacon coffee milk and children milk, luncheon includes Sunshine salad muffins bananas and iced tea, dinner features frankfurters onion sauce coleslaw and jam custard with a coffee note. It also notes daily costs and rationed dairy butter milk quantities and a jam custard recipe including eggs sugar vanilla and fruit.
Detailed instructions for a custard dessert and Sunshine Salad gelatine mold. Includes ingredients like lemon flavored gelatine pineapple juice raw carrot and vinegar with steps to dissolve gelatine chill mold unmold and serve with custard sauce. Also mentions cake recipes and a note on cancer as a curable disease with delayed treatment.
The fourth annual Coe college geology expedition, traveling from Craters of the Moon to Cedar Rapids, climbed Grand Teton Peak with six participants led by Dr L R Wilson. Members on the ascent were Miss Mary Bell Ruth Webster Robert Kosanke Agnes Johnston and Arnold Broka.
Richard K. Mellon, famed multi millionaire, announced the adoption of a two months old boy in Pittsburgh. The child could become heir to the Mellon industrial and financial empire as speculation grows about his future role in guiding the family fortunes.
Dick Mellon, adopted and named Richard Prosser Mellon, is the 40 year old son of the late Richard Beatty Mellon. He heads Mellon National Bank and holds over 35 official posts including directorships at Aluminum Company Gulf Oil and Pennsylvania Railroad. He is Princeton educated and expanding family control of the fortune.
Springfield reports Hunter and Humphrey Moody, two young pilots, still circling above the Springfield airport three days after setting a new world endurance record for light planes. They aim to surpass sustained flying records across all aircraft types.
Carson L. Taylor former Cedar Rapids attorney and assistant general solicitor for the Milwaukee railroad has been named commerce counsel. He will replace M N Davis who becomes general attorney in Seattle. Taylor, Iowa native and Iowa University alumnus, was Cedar Rapids superior court judge from Aug 1 1916 to Feb 7 1917, the nation’s youngest judge then. He has served with Milwaukee lines since 1929. the appointment takes effect Sept 1.
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