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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
7
This 1940s era home recipe shows tenderloin pork with grapefruit baste, simmering fruit glaze, and a separate grapefruit based conserve. It also includes a bran waffle recipe featuring honey and baking powder, yielding about seven small waffles.
A fragmented etiquette quiz asks if a woman should sign as Miss or Mrs and how a divorced or widowed woman realigns her name. Sample answers indicate Miss Dorothy Smith, Mrs Keating Taylor, and Mrs Taylor as possibilities, with a focus on hotel register conventions.
In Miami Beach editor Harry Grayson reports on Gerald Nugent stepping back from day to day control of the Phillies. Nugent seeks no sale of star players, hopes to keep top talent like Levy and Mulcahy, and notes attendance rise after moving from Baker Bowl to Shibe Park while he trims losses and plans for a stable Phillies future.
The Defense Bureau asks every gardener to grow vegetables to support home defense efforts. Officials say home gardens boost food supply, morale, and national readiness during wartime.
A 1917 to 1928 comparison shows fresh vegetables moved by rail rose from 93,189 carloads to 272,726, with 248,062 in 1838, yet home gardens declined as Americans shifted to market produce. The National War Garden Bureau urges spring planting of home gardens to ease future wartime transport costs, train growers, and provide neighbors with guidance and fresh foods.
Mrs. Gaynor Maddox provides home economics guidance on preparing pork roasts. She covers rind on or off, bone handling, searing vs moderate roasting at 325 to 350 degrees F, and timing rules per pound for various cuts. Also notes on turning stuffed shoulders and variety with chops and loin fillets.
The article describes browning pork chops then finishing in a moderate oven and suggests variations. It notes 20 minutes as a baseline time after browning, mentions thicker cuts needing more time, and offers options such as browning on top of lard then baking, using milk and canned mushrooms for gravy, or adding tomatoes for a sauce to vary flavor.
A vivid portrayal of Shanghai under Japanese occupation appears in an excerpt from Shanghai City for Sale by Ernest Hauser. The piece highlights foreign tensions, colonial infractions, and street clashes as fires sweep the French Concession during a cemetery road dispute and rising Chinese anger.
The readable fragments describe crowd reactions to authority and a promised restraint on theft, referencing a wall, a wave of force, and safety of spirits. Mentions of Mormon and Utah tie to Lake City cultural context, plus a cryptic note about a magician and a Messia chosen, with year glimpses of 1939 and 1947 anomalies.
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