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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
8
The piece offers Easter craft ideas including decorated eggs with hair and bonnets, edible treats like Boston cream pie and baked ham, and a complete seasonal menu. It provides step by step recipes for Boston cream pie filling, broiled grapefruit, lamb roast with mint sauce, asparagus with lemon butter, and magic Easter eggs, plus a detailed baked ham glaze and serving suggestions.
A cheerful ad promotes the cook book Easy Entertaining by Eleanor Howe. It highlights menus and recipes for holiday parties, children's parties, picnics, and a wedding reception and offers a mail order request for 10 cents sent to 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois.
Next week Eleanor Howe will share cake recipes and hints on measuring and mixing to ensure satisfactory results for feeding a family. This column excerpt from the Western Newspaper Union introduces practical cooking secrets for home cooks.
A reflective Easter sermon centers on Matthew 27 57 28 6 and 1 Corinthians 15 20, emphasizing resurrection power over death. It highlights Joseph of Arimathea Nicodemus and the Marys, contrasting loving devotion with hostile unbelief, and proclaims Christ triumphant with the angel at the tomb.
The census bureau outlines the vital population phase of the 1940 census with about 126000 enumerators collecting data at every home. Core questions identify individuals by residence, sex, race, age, and birth origin while new queries cover income up to 5000 dollars and residence five years prior. The article discusses how these questions inform purchasing power, migration, and economic conditions.
A large Genoa fountain dedicated in May 1936 sparked rumors of miraculous powers, drawing visitors from across the country to toss coins and make wishes. The monthly task remains shoveling out the accumulated coins and debris.
A quotation emphasizes that no free government can endure without justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and a frequent return to fundamental principles. It underscores the need for steadfast civic virtues to sustain liberty.
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