Kitchen tips and cooking guidance from a home column
A kitchen focused guide offers space saving dishwashing ideas and multitask cooking tips. It covers sink layouts, shortening substitutes, selecting ripe fruit for cooking, rolling dough with flour, making reflect-dough cookies, pineapple desserts with marshmallows, potato dough balls, measuring fat with water for shortening, carving steak from the bone, beating egg whites, convenient switches for stairs, and casserole meals that streamline morning prep and evening heating.
Slats Diary of Oliver N Warren Week Fragment
Sunday reading at the chapel brings cheer from a sermon the diarist finds inspiring. The week covers school, family, odd newspaper notices, tax jokes, and plans for religious duties amid cold weather and small town life.
Lone Prairie western shines at Dentonia Theatre
Russell Hayden stars in The Lone Prairie at the Dentonia Theatre on Saturday December 5. Dub Taylor provides comic relief and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys supply Western tunes with several popular ballads.
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Russell Hayden
Dentonia Theatre
Hayden
Dub Taylor
Bob Wills
Jap Spies Exposed In Adventure Film At Dentonia
A new exciting film about Jap spy and sabotage activities in the California oil fields is shown at the Dentonia Theatre next Wednesday December 9 with Warner Bros Busses Roar starring Richard Travis and Julie Bishop. Desperate Journey follows December 10 showing Erroll Flynn and Ronald Reagan in a wartime tale of five members of a British Hudson bomber shot down over Germany.
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California
Dentonia Theatre
Warner Bros
Richard Travis
Julie Bishop
Erroll Flynn
Ronald Reagan
Germany
Global telephones and old linchpins in wartime notes
Washington officials joined in a record telephonic conference led by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox to cut red tape across eleven U S Naval Districts the Naval Academy and Washington Navy Yard. Australian divers recovered 9600000 in gold from the Niagara a mine sunk liner near New Zealand. Quong Lee the first Chinese telephone subscriber is listed in 1878 San Francisco directory and still appears with his grandson. Bell System reports over 100000 workers on duty overnight from 6 p m to 7 a m. Singapore governor’s last message before fall notes telephone girls remain at their posts.
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Washington
U. S. Naval Districts
Naval Academy
Washington Navy Yard
Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
Sydney
New Zealand
San Francisco
Quong Lee
Singapore
Home Made Fruit Cakes And Jellies For Christmas Gifts
Home made fruit cakes and jellies are ideal gifts this Christmas. The article provides two tested recipes: a dense leaf pan fruit cake with flour, baking powder, citrus and nuts, and a red raspberry currant jelly using currants raspberries and pectin. It notes gifting to service members and offers practical steps from mixing to baking and canning.
Rationing Board Report on Tires and Tubes
The rationing board released the weekly distribution of tires tubes and recaps for November 23. Entries list passenger cars and new trucks with names towns and counts including Denton Fedburg Ridgely Hillsboro Henderson Goldsboro Preston and Preston Trucking Co. notable tallies include John Cook 3 2 Edward Neal 2 2 and J W Dukes 2 2 confirming allocations across multiple dealers and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tir
Charlie C. Collins
Preston
George N. Breeding
Denton
Junie G. Miller
Hillsboro
Otis Towers
Ridgelyw
W. L. Wheatley
Fed’burg
Howard L. Clark
Earl Breeding
Ridgely
John E. Cook
Edward Neal
W. Clinton Wheeler
Charles
Recapped list of truck recappers and names across towns
Recapped list includes Samuel M. Wright Henderson EB Lenhnan Pedbury A W Spiering Greensboro George Kilmer Denton Elmer B Blades Preston Starvey B Lord Denton Henry T Spiering Greensboro William Melvin Henderson C Gooden Marydel Richard W Roden Henderson Alex Seiler Greensboro Clarence E Nichols Fedburg L E Tribbitt Fedburg Houston Carroll Denton Recapps for Trucks Phil Wright Pieston Carl Reagan Federalsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel M. Wright
Henderson
EB. F. Lenhnan
Ped'bury
A. W. Spiering
Greensboro
George Kilmer
Denton
Elmer B. Blades
Preston Starvey B. Lord
Henry T. Spieering
William Melvin
Henderson C. Gooden
Marydel
Richard W. Roden
Alex Seiler
Clarence E. Nichols
Fed’burg
L. E. Tribbitt
Houston Carroll
Phil Wright
Pieston
Carl Reagan
Federalsburg
Delmarva Peninsula Declared Critical Fire Area
The entire Delmarva Peninsula is designated a critical area by the U S Army. Federal funds and equipment are provided to suppress forest fires from the Pocomoke River to the Atlantic coast and near defense works. Brush burning and marsh fires are banned, outdoor fires at night prohibited, with about 20 000 dollars in federal funds allocated to Wicomico and Worcester counties for prevention and suppression and four more men hired including Robert A Dennis Powellsville Cal.
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Delmarva Peninsula
U. S. Army
Pocomoke River
Atlaantic Coast
Wicomico
Worcester Counties
Maryland
Robert A. Dennis
Powellsville
Cal
Joseph Rothrock
Rothrock
W. E. Seeders
We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich travelogue
Maine forest life in exile is sketched through Mr and Mrs Rich nine years off grid. They describe hardships and pleasures gathering monthly groceries a misdirected deer hunt and a humorous wilderness telephone system with lumber camp extensions. The excerpt ends with a comic scene about a lover borrowing a flat iron and phone calls.
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Ralph Rich
Maine
Louise Dickinson Rich
Rumford
Mrs. Rich
Babylon
Grand Central Station
Frank
Forest fire defense plan boosts equipment and manpower
Maryland forestry officials report three powered pumps and two trucks supplied for forest fire fighting. The Army offers more gear and soldiers with portable radios, while area maps identify fire breaks at roads and streams. Farmers are urged to plough fire lines. District Forester Joseph Rothrock warns manpower is strained and outlines penalties for dangerous burns.
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Maryland Department of Forestry
Army
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Susan Snow
Slats Diary
Oliver N. Warren
Crismus
Nashenel Det
Jake
Congress
Jane’s & Elsy
Noboddie
Bilding
S. S. & Church
Lone Prairie
THE
New York
Bell System
By Sidney Snow
Pawties
Marshall's
the Kern Sisters
Denton, MD
Twin Leave
Kolin Moon
Mars, Ralph Rich
Connie
Christas
Sinclair Refining Company ( Inc
Sinclair Refining Company (Inc
G. D. Crouse Denton
Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co
Tangerines
Eligie
ILE
Asco Coffee
Florida
Les
Peck Bag
Pillsbury’s
Pillsbury's
Kellogg’s
Victor Bread
Kraft’s Cheese
Clapp
Bala Club
Vin Hall
Berting Frank Jones
Public Landing
E. T. Wilkerson
Pocomoke
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