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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
6
A feature urges planning a time efficient spring clean campaign with easy home meals. It outlines a ready to serve help yourself menu including round steak with noodles, Busy Day Cake, Lamb Chops en Casserole, All in One Dinner, and practical tips to keep family fed while cleaning. The recipes emphasize simple prep, bake times, and serving on paper plates.
Next week Eleanor Howe will share her favorite tested recipes for simple salads fruit salads vegetable salads and molded salads. Read the column next week for delicious spring salad ideas without sulphur or molasses.
Pa s Lima Beans and Sausage describes two simple dishes. First an apple crumb bake with peeled sliced apples brown sugar cinnamon flour sugar and butter baked until tender. Second a sausage onion lima bean and tomato skillet simmered to finish with chili powder.
A promotional note touts Elea nor Howe's Household Hints as a practical guide for cleaning painted walls and oil paintings, removing old paint and varnish, and window washing tips. It claims 350 simple, easy to use housekeeping helps and invites readers to obtain a copy.
A survey of over a million farm, village and city families shows farmers save more than urban households despite risks from disasters. Farm incomes rise with small low cost tractors, using pneumatic tires cuts costs to 34 cents an hour versus 15.4 cents for draft animals, and faster work adds about 33 acres per year boosting income up to 600 dollars.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s war mandate shifts Canada from military front to economic battle. Thousands of American volunteers, vast grain reserves, and rapid aviation and naval production position Canada as Britain’s industrial core. Canada financing independence grows as securities move home and American holdings are sold back.
Middletown Ohio craftsman John Farkas uses spare hours to craft cimbalons for the American music world. The robust cabinet maker applies woodworking skills to a craft project with broader cultural reach.
New transatlantic flights to the Azores shorten distance to 2000 miles and prompt military officials to consider a potential bomber route. The Azores, Portuguese islands since 1444, gain strategic importance as access to the Atlantic tightens, though the U S trusts enduring ties with Portugal for now.
Practical guide notes a method to create honeycomb smocking in points using baste stitches from the top of the second tuck. It emphasizes starting at the center front, working outward, and using colored thread. The note promotes Mrs Spears Book 2 with 42 stitches and five mending/doll making processes, priced at 10 cents with four booklets and a free quilt block pattern set.
New York Bedford bills customer for ten cents per book or forty cents for four books and a set of quilt block patterns. Name and address appear in the record.
Collier's notes that about 1,700 of 3,100 county and local jails permit inmates to hold kangaroo courts. These mock trials, presided by tougher prisoners, claim to enforce discipline but mainly delegate unpleasant tasks and enable extortion through small fines.
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