Picnic recipes and menu ideas from 1930s Cedar Rapids Gazette
A Cedar Rapids Gazette reader shares picnic cooking tips and dozens of recipes. The piece lists suggested dishes such as fried chicken, macaroni salad, prune diamonds cookies, huckleberry bread, sour cream cucumbers, tuna fish salad, goulash, beef loaf, cottage cheese sandwiches, potato and chicken-tuna casseroles, and dessert ideas. It emphasizes easy to make, easy to carry foods and includes detailed ingredient lists and preparation steps.
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J. B
Sunday Cross Word Puzzle Clue List and Answers
Puzzle clues span Across and Down with partial and garbled OCR text. It lists many entries including old, prehistoric chisel, knob, plant yielding drug, and other terms. The item appears as a compiled crossword page with misreads and a notes section promising answers at bottom.
Will Roge Recalls Hollywood Get Together With Governors
Will Roge reflects on recent weeks, recalling Virginia governor’s private marriage in Canada, a Hollywood studio visit with Metro Goldwyn Mayer stars, and praise for Ed Wynn Marie Dressler Harold Lloyd Hal Roach Polly Moran and the Stooge era parallels to Congress. The piece weaves reminiscence of show business figures with political gossip and light anecdote about a lavish studio meal.
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Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia
Canada
Hollywood
Metro Goldwyns Studio
Jack Pearl
Baron Munchausen
Ed Wynn
Wynn
Marie Dressler
Harold Lloyd
Hal Roach
Harold
Stagy Studio Stars and Political Satire Run Riot
A lively fragment recalls Ted Healy and his stooges at a studio event with guests like Wally Beery Clark Gable Greta Garbo and Louie B Mayer. The piece mocks studios politicians and the New Deal era, with humor about Garbo Meyers and dining tables.
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Ted Healy
Quorum of
Stooges
Wally Beery
Clark Gable
Wiven
Greta Garbo
Minneapolis
Marelene Deitrick
Garbo
Louie B. Mayer
Annie
Louie
Mane
The Last Passenger Pigeon and Vintage Picnic Recipes
A reminiscence ties a 1914 Cincinnati Zoological Park death of the last passenger pigeon to a collection of vintage recipes. The recipes describe cabbage salad cucumber nut bread sandwiches deviled ham and marshmallow treats, with notes on preparation and serving for picnics and gatherings. The text also recalls 18th century pigeon flocks once darkening skies and breaking trees with their weight.
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Cincinnati Zoological Park
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Messinger & Sons
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Pilicer Petroleum Company
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Susan
Kruppateel Works
India
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Will Roge
Polly Moran
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Hays
Will Hayes
Bill
Carol
Hedges Company
Second Avenue
Akron
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Tories
Vaiants Bank
Russ Fitters
Limback Lumber: Co
Magic Chef Sanitary
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
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