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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
14
Patriotic kitten Tom the tea towel cat is featured in six captions from Monday to Saturday with a Sunday victory cap. The pattern also includes trio of panholders Hip Hip Hooray. Order pattern 29476 for 18 cents to make tea towels and panholders as gifts or for yourself.
A historical note on American pricing shows merchants once set prices by what “the traffic would bear” before advertising promoted fixed prices. The piece explains how advertising helped establish the standardized prices consumers pay today.
Pattern No 8181 .5 crafted for sizes 12 to 20 and 40 to 42. Size 14 with short sleeves uses 4% yards of 35 inch material. Send your order to Name AdArCES asepectnscearneet.
A two piece frock that appears like a suit offers dress options with a blouse or dickey. Suitable for summer wardrobes, it is made in washable seersucker gingham or chambray, providing versatile wear as a suit or separates.
Questions cover a range of topics from poetry to nobility and science. Answers include a line after The night has a thousand eyes, the wife of an earl as Countess, Lily as the botanical family, the world population at nineteen hundred million, Maeterlinck as the Belgian Shakespeare, Australia once called New Holland, the American Legion convention in November 1919, and water weight eight thousand three hundred fifty five pounds per gallon.
The army air force unveils a $2.5 million wind tunnel at Wright Field near Dayton. It uses a 40,000 horsepower AC induction motor to produce a 400 mile per hour wind. The motor is the largest of its kind and can only run after notice to the electric company, matching the load of one of its biggest generators.
Fine grained sandpaper removes surface spots from white felt hats and raises nap on rain-damaged hats. Use spinach stock in vegetable soup for its nutritional value. Renew lawn mower wheel corrugations with a rattail file for better traction. Red raspberry leaves can substitute tea when scarce. For deep fat frying use a heavy aluminum kettle and a wire basket. Lemon juice enhances alli gator pear salad. Serve salads cold and dry. Spread marmalade on pancakes and roll, then dust with sugar. Top with pineapple syrup.
A collection of humorous lines and quips about daily life and social quirks. A piano of jokes plays on family roles, purchases, honesty, and thrift with mock dialogue among characters and a dealer. The jokes pivot on misunderstandings and light satire of modern living.
Wool clips gathered by 3,700 Red Cross chapters and processed under a joint War Production Board plan aim to alleviate a wool shortage. Cuts in consumption and rapid reprocessing turn trousers and other wool scraps into cloth for uniforms or civilian wear. Proceeds stay with local chapters supporting war relief and civil defense training.
A wartime feature extols USO Camp Shows as the era's largest theatrical enterprise. It details 264 weekly performances nightly serving about 50,000 service members, coordinating stars, bands, and tours to boost morale and urging readers to donate to USO, Empire State Building, New York.
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