Practical bridal showers for wartime brides and gifts
Wartime brides favor simple, portable showers with practical gifts. Personal, Kitchen Gadget, Sewing, and Recipe showers suit short leaves and spaces. decorations use delicate linens and pastel tones. Recipes include a cottage cheese salad, asparagus cheese loaf, and ice cream with green gage plums, plus expert home tips from Miss Lynn Chambers.
War era brief notes on sabotage and supply shortages
Belgian saboteurs blow up a major synthetic fertilizer plant, hindering Nazi food production. Sofia market lacks cereals, horses starve due to Nazi commandeering. Buffalo shops convert to armament work, and Quisling’s call sees little Norwegian enlistment. Congress faces tire and gasoline ration quirks amid wartime scrutiny. JAP OIL unit tracks oil from captured equipment for regional origin analysis. Egg production targets rise, Norris remains diligent at eight each morning.
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Germany
Sofia
Tombstone
Lynn Says The Score Card On War Time Food Supplies
The Score Card notes egg production up 15 to 20 percent to meet national and allied needs, tea rationed 50 percent to ensure summer supplies, and eight months of stock remain. War Production board allocates tin to the pineapple industry and Hawaii production is maximized, with about 26 percent of the pack reserved for government purchase.
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India
Ceylon
War Production Board
Hawaii
This Week's Menu Bride's Shower
A compact list presents recipes and dishes for a bridal shower menu. Items include a salad luncheon plate or asparagus loaf, tiny hot rolls, preserves, and ice cream with green gage plums.
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Gage
The Worried Letter on Love and Courage
Kathleen Norris presents Caroline, a 29 year old East St. Louis woman with a hard, heroic life. After hardship including a false accusation against her father, poverty, and her mother's illness, she seeks love and a home. A columnist advises patient friendship and personal outreach rather than public dating signals.
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East St. Louis
Caroline
Mother
III
Be Patient and Seek Companionship in Love
The excerpt counsels young women to cultivate friendships and focus on others rather than self pity if they face thirty without the home or partner they envisioned. It praises Kathleen Norris’s tale of a girl who must take the initiative to win her man and ends with the girl as the wife of a California college professor.
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Washington
Congress
OPA
Capitol Hill
Caroline
California
Kathleen Norris
Dean
Red Cross News Messages Bring Word From War Areas
The Red Cross serves as the main link for thousands seeking news of relatives in Poland, Holland, Belgium and occupied nations. Since the war began, only the Red Cross inquiry service and Geneva can forward 25 word English messages, with strict censorship prohibiting politics, military topics, and certain details.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
Poland
Holland
Belgium
America
United States Office of Censorship
Red Cross Inquiry Service
International Red Cross Committee
Geneva
Switzerland
Kellogg’s All-Bran offers gentle relief for digestion
A simple dietary option for regularity is Kellogg's All-Bran cereal. It works mainly on the colon contents, aiding easy elimination when eaten with adequate water. Made by Kellogg's in Battle Creek, it advises medical advice if not effective.
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Kellogg's
Battle Creek
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Chicago
Miinais
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Been
Washington, D. C
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Selective Service
Registree
Alexandria
JAP Oil Navy
Dutch East Indies
Burma
Engineering Experimental Station
Annapolis
Netherlands Indies
Navy
Senate
George Norris
TVA
Lynn
Bell Syndicate
WIN Features
By Kathleen Norris
United States
International Red Cross
WNU
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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