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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
8
Easier Essentials outlines ration point friendly dishes for Easter including Fricassee of Chicken with Rice Lamb Shoulder Barbecued with a tangy glaze Orange and Greens Salad and Corn Bread recipe. It suggests using chicken or lamb based on points and markets, and offers Rhubarb Upside Down Cake as a dessert option.
A fragmented domestic scene shows a family in a postwar mood doubting where children and relatives are, while casual mentions of travels to Moscow Brazil Dakar and Asia hint at global uncertainty. Interwoven are stray recipes and home hints from a kitchen column, ending with an abrupt blackout and a wartime satire on consumer ads.
Ration saving tips suggest substituting brown gravy for tomato products and using fresh fruits in place of canned and dried fruits. Store excess vegetable water, use seasonal produce, and adjust recipes by omitting dried fruits. reserve condiments like chili sauce and catsup for seasoning only.
A top designer presents a deceptive yet smart frock with crisp white vestee, bodice handling, slimming skirt, and belt. Pattern No. 334 offers sizes 36 to 52 with yardage notes and a matching bonnet and panties. Also described is Spring Beauty ensemble for a child, Pattern No. B357 in sizes 2 to 6 years with yardage details. Due to high demand amid war conditions, slightly more material may be required for popular patterns. Send your order to:
Silver’s chemical symbol is Ag. Grant defeated Horace Greeley in 1872. A gallon of water weighs eight pounds. A person with hyperopia is far-sighted. The science of matter and motion is physics. The Strait of Gibraltar’s narrowest width is about eight and a half miles. A solar day is 24 hours at the equator. The army’s Medal of Honor originated by George Washington. The first appearance of famous men on U.S. coins occurred in the late 18th to early 19th century. The average American soldier consumes about 4 pounds of food daily.
A compact quiz provides information across topics. It lists items including a date reference of twenty five days and honors such as the Order of the Purple Heart. It notes Washington’s 1909 stance on honors and Roosevelt’s role in Lincoln’s penny placement.
The ancients measured hours by tying a rope in knots and burning it. As the rope burned and reached each knot, it indicated the hour from one to twelve. This simple timing device linked knot count to clock hours.
Fragmentary humor and dialogue snippets from a 1900s style column. Bits include a court joke about heart balm and love, a teenage memory at the gate, a pun on a dog and leg, a parent disciplining a dull lad, and a child asking for bread without noise, all in a nostalgic domestic vignette tone.
An irascible manager declares he would fire any man who could fill the job. A weary bookkeeper responds she would quit if she finished her welding course. The exchange captures tension between authority and ambition in a workplace.
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