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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
7
Article outlines daily menus for a family of five two adults and three children aiming for a balanced, nutritious diet at about $12 weekly. Includes raspberry ice cream recipe using seasonal raspberries and marshmallows, plus a sample Saturday menu with items like sliced bananas and raisin toast.
A vintage ad touts Quaker Spaghetti enriched with milk for richer flavor and quicker cooking. It emphasizes plump firm strands and economy, urging families to look for the blue and yellow box and buy multiple packages.
A day plan lists items for adults and children including coffee, milk, macaroni salad with cheese peas celery and mayonnaise, raisin bread with butter, stewed prunes tea beef and vegetable stew buttered noodles bread, and raspberry ice cream. Estimated total cost is about $1.84.
A simple method to create checkerboard sandwiches using butter brushed white and whole wheat bread. Layer two white slices with two whole wheat slices, chill, trim crusts, and cut into thin checkerboard slices for an elegant tea time presentation.
A simple recipe for bread and butter sandwiches alternating white and whole wheat slices. Butter can be flavored or replaced with cream cheese for a variant.
FRENCH LICK Ind UP American women will soon resemble walking arsenals according to Philip Meyers of Cincinnati national association of direct selling companies Meyers said at the convention that Paris fashion will feature ultramilitary dresses with epaulets pockets and buttons that resemble bombers and accessories modeled on tanks machine guns and hand grenades.
Rufus Anderson resigns as Seward Nebraska police chief and sole officer citing fatigue from inactivity. City officials indicate favorable consideration of the resignation and anticipate action in the near future.
Temperatures reached 97 degrees in Cincinnati and 95 in Washington while Echo Lake west of Denver recorded 10 inches of snow. Northern Colorado saw heavy hail damaging 2000 acres of crops and flooding wrecked at least four bridges isolating Briggsdale in Weld County.
C E Wilson became acting president of General Motors in Detroit following William S Knudsen’s indefinite leave to join the civilian defense commission. Wilson, executive vice president, has supervised operations and will lead GM until Knudsen returns to private business.
A resolution by the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana synod of North America records support for conscientious objectors to military service except in invasion cases. The narrow vote was 117 to 114. In a separate note, researchers describe living sponges as flesh covered skeletons resembling a liver.
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