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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 24, 1939

Page

18

How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On $12 a Week

Columns offer menus and recipes for a family of five two adults and three children to eat well on about $12 weekly. Each member would receive a balanced diet with adequate calories protein minerals and vitamins to support growth and daily needs.

Mis Fam

Pantry tips and meals from a 1939 homemaker guide

Daily menu ideas include grapefruit halves breakfast cereal and milk, macaroni and cheese for lunch, cabbage and sausage rolls with mashed potatoes for dinner, plus desserts and bread crumb tips. Practical cooking notes cover rhubarb, using stale bread for pie crust, and requesting a breadcrumb leaflet. Copyright 1939.

Special Cakes leaflet available and help for recipes

Mrs and family offer chocolate chiffon cake coffee ice box cake orange sponge and strawberry cream roll for request. Send self addressed stamped envelope to department for the leaflet. For Meta Given booklets and nutrition help contact Cedar Rapids Gazette care and Community Nutrition Service dial 5515.

Cedar Rapids Gazette Community Nutrition Service Dial

Radio Shop Robbery Hits Small Cash and Two Microphones

Jim Reeder reported a break in at 125 First street SW. An estimated $5 in cash and two microphones valued at $35 and $32 were stolen. Entry gained through an unlocked rear window between 6 15 and 11 55 p.m.

Jim Reeder First Street Reeder

The Fellowship Prayer Reflections on Vanity and Service

A meditation on Ecclesiastes contrasts self centered living with self giving devotion. It contrasts I and me with loving God and serving others, urging freedom from bondage to desires and a life found in Christ and His cause. The prayer ends in a plea for soul liberation and peace through devotion to Thy kingdom.

Eccles Ecclesiastes

Woman Burned As Gasoline Used On Brushes Is Ignited

Mrs. William Wadden of 118 E avenue NW suffered burns to her left arm when gasoline used to clean brushes flared up. Fumes near the kitchen stove’s pilot light are blamed for the flash. Firemen confined the blaze to the kitchen.

William Wadden E Avenue NW

Hotel Lobby Fight Leads To Slaying Suspect's Capture

Chicago detectives captured Vernon E. Oldaker, 43, of Mineola New York five hours after arriving with a Chicago postmarked letter as the only clue. A minor lobby fist fight at a YMCA hotel drew Oldaker to be tracked by Mineola and Chicago police until his capture. He was returned to Mineola to face forgery charges while not yet questioned about the slaying of Anna Louise McKee.

Chicago Vernon E. Oldaker Mineola N. Y New York Anna Louise McKee Oldaker

Hotel Lobby Disturbance Draws Spectator Oldaker

Accompanying officers were assigned to quell the hotel lobby disturbance with Oldaker among those observing from the gallery.

Oldaker

Watch and Jewelry Repair Services Seek Advertisers

Men who repair watches and jewelry advertise their services under classification 5 in the Want Ads.

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