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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1940
Page
6
A market basket prize features Mrs Wilson's ginger bread recipe. It lists ingredients including boiling water, shortening, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, baking powder, soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and flour with directions to pour boiling water over shortening and sugar, beat in eggs, then bake in two shallow pans at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Forty three Kansas artists were invited to submit oil paintings for an exhibition and prize competition at the Topeka Community Art Center next week. The winning work will be bought for 300 dollars and the runner up for 225 dollars by Thomas J. Watson of New York for inclusion in two national collections shown at the New York and San Francisco fairs. The pieces may win national prizes from 1000 to 100. Judges include John Helm Jr of Kansas State College Manhatten Maude Schollenberger Wichita Art Association and Wallace Baldinger Washburn College Topeka. The decision will be announced February 3 at a joint Kansas Federation of Art and Kansas Art Teachers Association dinner. A separate item notes a British plane downed by a German fighter over Duisburg near Essen.
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