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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
8
A homemaker era piece explains precise measurements and oven care to improve cake outcomes. It lists practical tips on measuring, sifting, creaming, and oven preheating, then provides several cake recipes from Lemon Cake to Chocolate Gingerbread. It promotes Eleanor Howe's Batter Baking book with a 20 cent request.
Mrs Spears advises analyzing rug colors to plan living room schemes. She shows a color chart from a rug, suggests pale wall tones or stronger accent colors, and offers Book 1 Sewing for the Home Decorator and No 2 Gifts and Embroideries at 15 cents each with a combined offer. Orders to Mrs Spears, 210 S Desplaines St, Chicago.
This reflection on life asserts that the significance of duty lies not in its size or form but in the certainty of finding it and performing it faithfully. True strength happiness and usefulness come from doing one’s duty wherever it is found.
The British Astronomical Society issued Who's Who in Moon listing 00 men and nine women as astronomers explorers scientists and philanthropists who mapped the lunar surface begun in 1045. It notes Copernicus Plato Kepler and other names alongside Smith and Williams and states eleven people living today have achieved moon immortality.
A mixed set of ten trivia prompts with answers. Topics include days in a fortnight, national emblems, weights of dairy liquids, definitions like counterpane, bulb behavior, turtle versus tortoise, Mona Lisa name meaning, Shetland islands count, passports for foreign flights, and a Bible verse query about women's whistling with notes on related proverb origins.
A collection of aphorisms on crime costs, ambition, skepticism, and life choices. Notable lines urge greatness over goodness, warn against gullibility, and note the value of wit in ridicule.
A Tennessee salesman drives through a stream after a passerby assures him it is passable. The water floods the engine as the driver complains the man misled him about the depth, noting the ducks in the water and the other man’s quip.
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