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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1939
Page
5
The menus aim to feed a family of five two adults and three children for about 12 dollars weekly. Each day’s recipes provide balanced calories, protein for tissue repair, and minerals and vitamins to regulate bodily functions.
A 1939 kitchen feature outlines daily meals with breakfast lunch and dinner items including grapefruit halves cereal coffee and milk. It notes a daily cost around 1.65 and a 13500 calorie plan plus household tips on stewing rhubarb making light pie crusts breadcrumbs and a cookery leaflet offer.
The department offers a Special Cakes leaflet featuring a chocolate chiffon cake, a coffee ice box cake, an orange sponge, and a strawberry cream roll. Send a self addressed stamped envelope for the leaflet and address Meta Given booklets to The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Call Community Nutrition Service at 5515 for marketing budgeting or low cost recipes.
Jim Reeder reported to police at midnight Thursday that his radio shop at 125 First Street SW was entered. $5 in cash and two microphones valued at $35 and $32 were stolen. Entrance gained through a rear window left unlocked. Breakin occurred between 6 15 and 11 55 p.m.
A devotional reflection cites Ecclesiastes to warn against self-centered faith. It contrasts life defined by I and me with a call to loving service to God. The text urges deliverance from bondage to personal desires and prayers for freedom of devotion.
Mrs. William Wadden of 118 E avenue NW suffered burns to her left arm when gasoline used to clean brushes flared up at 1 26 p m Thursday. Fumes from the gasoline likely ignited by a pilot light on the kitchen stove. Firemen confined the fire to the kitchen.
Four Mineola detectives tracked Vernon E. Oldaker to Chicago after intercepting a Chicago postmarked letter to his wife. A minor lobby scuffle at a YMCA hotel led to his capture by Chicago police and Mineola investigators. Oldaker, 43, is a suspect in the robbery slaying of Anna Louise McKee. He faces forgery charges in Mineola and agreed to return there.
Accompanying officers were assigned to quell a hotel lobby disturbance while Oldaker watched as a spectator, marking a tense moment in the scene.
Local want ads list men who repair watches and jewelry under classification 5. The advertisement promotes their services to readers seeking watch or jewelry repairs.
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