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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1941
Page
9
A plan outlines menus to feed a family of five for about 12 dollars weekly. It emphasizes balanced nutrition with adequate calories and protein. A luncheon example features a hearty Boston clam chowder using canned clams, evaporated milk, potatoes, onion, flour, butter, and seasonings.
A vintage breakfast and luncheon menu lists quantities for orange juice cereal muffins jam coffee and more. It details items such as clam chowder crackers banana salad chipped beef and noodle casserole buttered turnips and a raw carrot salad with mayo and chili sauce. Cost for the day is about 1.70 dollars.
International News Service quotes William C. Bullitt and Dr. Hu Shih on postwar order. Bullitt envisions organized peace if Britain wins, while Shih predicts powerful democratic navies becoming the natural international police force for a new world order. Dorothy Kenyon is noted as 1940 chairwoman of the Women’s
The Council of the Greater New York Fund echoes the proverb that democracy starts locally, stressing community fundraising and civic participation as the foundation of broader democratic practice.
New York AP report outlines Rex Stout's theory in Saturday Review of Literature that Dr Watson was a woman named Irene Watson, Holmes's partner in a troubled marriage. An acrostic of Holmes titles supposedly spells Irene Watson, with a playful tie to Lord Peter Wimsey in Dorothy Sayers novels.
Father Edward J. Flanagan founder of Boys Town in Minneapolis praised Britain for its war effort and warned that a Hitler victory would threaten United States democracy.
A retrospective roundup notes events from 10, 20, and 30 years past. Topics include Prof Sarka Hrbkova speaking on Czechoslovakia at Voorhees Hall Coe College, a local caretaker’s birthday walk, record high temperatures, fluctuating market prices for wheat corn oats and livestock, school construction bids awarded to Theodore Stark and company, and local incidents such as injuries from a wagon accident and a horse hoof injury.
Leo F. Nowadsky of Cedar Rapids enlisted in June 1920 and is among the missing after the destroyer Woolsey was rammed by the steamer Steel Inventor north of Panama. The incident left several crewmen unaccounted for as rescue efforts continued.
Wyoming game wardens arrested 710 individuals during 1939 and 1940 across the state. The report highlights enforcement efforts in wildlife protection, citing patrols, citations, and apprehensions as part of a broader conservation campaign.
Radine Carlson testifies in a Duluth divorce action that her husband Anton treated her like a horse. She says she carried in wood and chopped it milked cows raised cattle did all farm and housework and then performed day labor whenever possible.
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