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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
7
A cartoonish reflection on changing motherhood as Grannie laments the younger generation. She jokes that today’s mothers only enforce rules when the traffic light turns green, capturing a lighthearted, period-voice social quip.
Recipes and quick fixes include adding jam in centers of rolls to color them, rinsing a pan before heating milk to prevent scorching, using castor oil on leather suitcases for durability, repairing tears with egg and linen, and reusing embroidery transfers by ironing off and reapplying.
Practical hints cover transferring designs with water and a brush, polishing silver with old stocking tops boiled in milk, keeping a sink white with soap jelly and kerosene, a orange cup cake recipe using orange rind, sour cream and clover egg beater, and cheese cooking tips to avoid toughness.
A list of humorous mislabels and faults in a clock shop display includes clocks with incorrect labels such as clock on wall, jewelry misspelt, a bipartite shoe, a baby sized ring, a clock running condition tag missing parts, a cuckoo bird sawn from a clock, a weight hovering mid air, a wristwatch strap too long, coal in a showcase, a clerk offering a burglar a better watch, an electric clock misadvertised, lamp shade under bulbs, an oversized cigar lighter, an animal clock titled For your watch pocket, reversed window lettering, and a counts chair with one leg.
A playful list of general knowledge misstatements and jokes. items include period costumes, Shakespeare genres, Indian caste references, capitalization errors for Oslo and Sri Lanka, and a mock definition of a republic and sheep. The tone is humorous and corrective.
The article traces football origins from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval England and beyond. It notes harpastum as Roman soldierly training, Britons adopting the game during invasions, English rules limiting kicks, monarchs banning and later allowing play, and James I’s era restarting the sport that evolved into modern soccer with kicking and header play.
Responses cover voting age, Cleopatra’s needles, per pupil public instruction cost, toss as a term, Great Salt Lake salinity, England’s name origin from the Angles, the Cheshire Cat, and average church membership figures nationwide and by urban rural areas with denominations varying.
A vintage advertisement extols Pepsodent with Irium promising a dazzling natural smile. It claims no grit, no pumice, no bleach and rapid whitening benefits with twice daily use. It asserts safety and superiority over other dentifrices on the market.
At the century’s start only the wealthy could buy silk hosiery. Advertising created demand, spurring efficient production and many new jobs, driving prices down so that nearly everyone can wear silk hosiery if they wish.
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