Swedish exchange student recounts trip amid wartime Europe
Ingrid Frestadius details her 20 day voyage from New York to Stockholm via Lisbon Madrid and Berlin. She notes cheap meals in Germany, travel hardships due to rail floods in Spain, and sees devastation in France. She plans to publish American articles for charity with Mrs. James V. Blue and hopes to send a Christmas message by cable.
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Stockholm
New York
Misa Ingrid
Excalibur
Miss Frestadius
Dapaengers
Lisbon
Madrid
Geneva
Buts
Spain
Euo
Germany
Iosbon
Berlin
Sassnitz
Poland
France
Saumitz
United States
Sweden
Garmany
Ingrid
Aving
America
Frestading
Czecho-Slovakia
Italy
Russia
Christmas Cookies From Mrs Browning’s Recipe
Cream butter or margarine then add sugar and eggs beaten light. Add sifted flour baking powder and salt then vanilla. Chill and shape into a long roll slice, bake eight minutes in a hot oven. Decorations include candied fruit poinsettias holly or violets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Browning
N.Y. St
P. F. Johnson
Route 2
Greek Christmas Cookies Melt and Shape for Festive Treats
Melt 1 lb butter and cool, blend with sugar soda and almond extract. Stir in cake flour to form dough. Shape into crescents rings bells Santa Clauses Christmas trees. Bake until browned. Decorate trees with red hot eyes and pale green frosting. Cover bells and Santas with red and white frosting.
Evening Wear Described With White Wool Lined Pattern
A description notes evening attire featuring white wool lining in a bright royal pattern matching an Ascot. The piece highlights color coordination for day and sports wear, emphasizing fabric and style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ascot
Christmas Cookie Craft From Mrs Edson and Mrs Johnson
Instructions describe making two holiday cookies with gumdrops and nut decorations. One recipe uses gumdrops, shortening, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and milk, shaped as stars and baked. the other uses honey, citrus rind, nuts, citron, and almonds baked into rounds resembling daisies.
Fashion Yule Trimmings From Articles at Hand
Readers learn simple home decorations for Yuletide using fir and cedar branches. Wreaths, evergreen sprays with pine cones, red bows, bells, mantels filled with greenery, red candles, poinsettias, and small Christ child prints create festive spaces. Subscribing to the Journal-World is likened to receiving a long daily letter from home as a Christmas gift.
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The
Journal-World
BEAUTIFUL QUEEN Answer to Previous Puzzle
A crossword style puzzle fragment lists clues for horizontal and vertical entries. The page notes a queen of ancient times, Egyptian reference, and various labeled clues with numbers, suggesting a past puzzle solution. The text includes themes of rulers, animals, tools, and objects with scattered enumerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Adam
B P W Club Publishes 1940 41 Year Book
The Business and Professional Women's club issued its 1940 41 year book carrying blue covers and gold club seal. It lists president Hazel A. Anderson and officers Irma Evans Kathleen Wise Esther Leigh Cora Sams with patronesses Talmadge D. Funk William L. Burdick and Raymond A. Schwegler as the group begins its twenty first year with the theme Making Democracy Work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Hazel A. Anderson
Raonnel
Miss Anderson
Irma Evans
Kathleen Wise
Esther Leigh
Cora. Sams
Fay H. Brown
Talmadge D. Funk
William L. Burdick
Raymond A. Schwegler
Friends Fund Liverpool Relief Through Local Aid
Letters from Miss Catherine Werner reveal dire conditions among Liverpool women and children needing warm clothing. Friends of the Werner family have raised over 100 to aid relief and plan to ship funds to Miss Werner via clipper plane from New York next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Henry Werner
Werner
Catherine Werner
Liverpool
Werners
A. J. Mix
T. D. Prentice
Bambury Tarts from Old English Recipe Found in Kansas
A traditional Christmas sweet, Bambury tarts, is described with an old English recipe contributed by Mrs. T. E. Griesa of Topeka who brought it from Boston. The method lists ground raisins, sugar, lemon juice, grated peel, and egg mixed, then rolled in pie crust and cut with a cookie cutter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Griesa
Topeka
Kansas
Boston
Eudora Christmas Socials and Civic Meetings Report
Local notes detail holiday gatherings, club meetings, and community events across Eudora. Residents visit relatives, attend luncheons, and participate in church service projects, with reports on the C P A meeting, Keota club, J L L club, and Womans Society of Christian Service activities.
How to Shape and Bake a Pastry Pocket
The instructions describe rolling the dough to an oblong shape and cutting slits at one end or making a small round opening. Place a teaspoon of filling at one end, dampen the edges, fold the cut end over, and bake until brown.
Baldwin News Highlights Local Travels and Club Activities
Mrs. James W Counts returns home from a three month trip visiting relatives in Los Angeles and Hoquiam. Lawrence events include a Christmas party by the Lawrence Music club and a Garden club program on Christmas decorations. Tom Hill undergoes a second minor operation at Memorial Hospital. Sears Roebuck scholarship awarded to Robert Jardon for study at Kansas State College.
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Delbert
Adams
William Miller
Oscar Lothholz
Ray Miller
Toneka
Ellis Eisel Music
del Norte
Colo
Jake Milburn
Albert Rupf
Gon John
Ottawa
Edith Wilkerson
Wishibe
Wolfe
Verna Terral
Anna Blechel
Lillian Fuller
Kansas City
Frans
Lawrence
Minnie Edlebrook
Mae Adams
Hazel Harris
Carrie Forsythe
Herbert Knipp
Anna Betts King
Anna Strickan
Robert Reush
Harold Reush
John Reush
Donna Mae
Gus Bohnsack
Ae Harry Schmidt
Kaw Val
Herbert. Hornbereer
Worden
Alfred Eisele
Robert Gabriel
Katherine Brock
Woodville
Tex
Gabriel
Texas
Brock
Gottlieb Nieder
Esther Miskimens
John Newman
Baldwin
Ray Morriss
Dolph French
Don Claire
DeSoto
Jolly Stitchers Club
Robert Wilson
Valley Chapel
M. F.cole
Clyde Traynor
Lecompton
City Hall
F. G. Hughes
William Zimmerman
Harold Daugherty
L. M. Walters
Ray Ogden
J. D. Adams
Allen Westerhouse
John Miller
Arthur Bernitz
Fred Bartz
Ed Bohnsack
William Mercier
Keith Starr
George Bartz
Herman Bohnsack
Keota Club
Curtis Diedrich
Minerva Rebekah Lodge 146
Manhattan
Katherine Walker
Topeka
Ruth Rapier
Esther Finley
George Warmer
San Benito
Ray Warmker
J. L. L. Club
Clem Zillner
Clara Grosdidier
Gerald Grosdidier
Mary Neustifter
George Jennings
George Schehrer
Anita Stadler
Anna Sommer
Christine Sommer
Adelia Zimmerman
Womans Society of Christian Service
Hhad
J. O. Scott
Don Westheffer
Edwin Ott
J.D. Adams
Jesus
James W. Counts
Los Angeles
Calif
Hoiaquam
Wash
Hugh Counts
Mary Counts Morgan
Morgan
Edward C. Allderdice
E. V. Boardman
H. K. Ebright
Lawrence Music Club
Colonial Tea Room
Vincent Burton
Burton Hargett
Washington, D.C
Soi Conservation Department
Civil Service
Baldwin Garden Club
First Methodist Church
Thomas A. Evans
Alvin F. Baker
Emil S. Liston
George L. Davis
Paul Sutton
Stephen Thorne
Tom Hill
Memorial Hospital
Dexter Arthur
Virgil Mapes
Victor Schott
Donald
Robert
Rachel Wilson
Horton
Maude Wilson
Nathan W. O’byrne
Charles Kirker
Phyllis Flickinger
Robert Jardon
Sears’ Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Kansas State College
Kansas
Farm Bureaus Approve Recommendations For Community Activity
Recommendations from the Farm Bureaus were approved by L. E. Call dean of agriculture at the state college. Dr James S Chubb pastor of First Methodist plans to attend the Peace Commission meeting in Chicago returning Thursday morning.
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L. E. Call
Department of Agriculture
The
State College
James S. Chubb
First Methodist Church
Chicago
Peace Commission of the Methodist Church
Chubb
South Central Area
Bethel Community News Highlights Sunday Visits and Funeral
Bethel area residents hosted and visited relatives this Sunday with callers from Emporia Overbrook and Worden. Jimmie Fishburn funeral services were held at Overbrook Methodist church after a week long illness at Stormont hospital. The Women’s Society of Christian Service met at Bethel church for an all day gathering with a two course dinner and a program including readings.
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Steen
L. E. Job
Emporia
Rob Brown
George
Smith,Garber
AL. H. Featherston
Lloyd
Fred Walker
George Snyder
Alvin Fisher
Joy
Jack
Jo Ann
Overbrook
Saut. Owens
Ben Baker
Emnér
John
Cecil Brecheisen
William Lee
Lloyd Hoffman
Shirley
Donna Mae
Henry Fleer
Worden
Little
Jimmie Fishburn
Overbrook Methodist Church
Jimmie
Stormont Hospital
Topeka
Charley
Charley Jones
Clark Coursen
Overbrooks
Women’s Society
Christian Service
the Bethel Church
Pruitt
Raymond Cehrle
Otto Garber
Mae Vance
John Dodder
Charles Butterfield
al Rundle
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B. O. Edson
Locust St
Gumdrop
Ainnamon
Pep
Caesar
Bone
FLN
Santas
B. P. W. Club
Bambury
Eudora
McAllen
Methodist Hearch
Wayne Daugherty
Frank Roe
Main Street
Vermont
Baldwin News
Bethel
Rugby
Catalina
E. W. Young
Leaner Merchante
ED Young
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