Festive Fruit Cakes and Puddings Shared in Holiday Guide
A holiday cooking feature outlines rich fruit cakes and plum puddings with aging for best flavor. It suggests gifting small cakes in decorated dishes, shares recipes for Dark Fruit Cake Light Fruit Cake and Pisum Pudding, plus suet puddings and a Christmas sauce.
Stages Screenradio and Hollywood Notes From the Era
A collage of film scenes and gossip notes: a Sioux City ledge scene from Stage Screenradio, RKO bomber films, stars like Arlen, Parker, Phillips, Carey, and Mary Carlisle, and industry tidbits on Goldwyn, Krupa, Hutton, Vallee, and war drives. It surveys wartime cinema trends, star moves, and promotional stunts.
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R. Broadway
Broadway
Jean Phillips
Macdonald Carey
Miss Phillips
Mr. Carey
Sioux City
Iowa
Christmas fruit cake and plum pudding tips
Christmas baking advice suggests starting early to avoid fatigue. Prepare fruits and nuts days ahead, fill batter corners evenly, and store the cake or pudding in a cool dry place in a tightly closed tin. Use sound apples in the container to maintain moisture, replacing them if decayed.
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Western Newspaper Union
This Week's Menu Dinner Menu Highlights
This week's menu features clear vegetable broth, lamb shanks, lima beans, mashed potatoes, grated carrot pineapple salad, muffins, beverage, and queen's bread pudding. The plate offers a hearty luncheon and dessert options.
Barnum’s Early Debt Then a Sieve That Held Water
Danbury Connecticut, a young P. T. Barnum faced unpaid bills and a creditor mockingly asked when he would pay. Barnum later wrote that he had fixed that sieve, signaling his rise to wealth and repayment.
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P. T. Barnum
Danbury
Conn
Ideals as Stars and Guides in Destiny
A reflective quote from Carl Schurz compares ideals to stars and navigational guides. It frames ideals as distant but guiding forces that lead toward a destined path, likening pursuit to a seafaring traveler on a desert of waters.
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Carl Schurz
Victorian conversation chairs fit modern rooms
Instructions describe making Victorian style conversation chairs using simple pine boards for the frame and ready made spring cushions. The diagrams show comfortable back and seat angles and a pattern for a hooked rug to match. Enclose 10 cents for Pattern No 201 to obtain further details.
Questioning the ruling principle within the self
A reflective meditation on the soul guiding actions. The speaker asks which inner soul governs behavior in each moment, whether of a child, youth, feeble woman, tyrant, domestic animal, or wild beast, and who possesses that authority.
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Claire Trevor
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