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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1928
Page
6
A housekeeping article advises planning ahead to save time in summer kitchens. It suggests cooking in larger quantities, reheating roasts, using scraps for croquettes or hash, and preparing vegetables and pastry components in advance. Tips cover potatoes, leftovers, crumbles, and pie crust prep to speed daily meals.
The two big parties have held conventions and chosen candidates. Republicans push a clean pro prohibition plank while Democrats echo enforcement but fault the administration. Governor Smith shows variance with the eighteenth amendment and hints at state or local option. A nationwide shift toward modification could empower bootleggers and threaten law enforcement.
A pair of women at the station drew gaze this week as one, stout and dressed in black, faced the hot day with pity for not dressing cooler. Soon a Lawrence woman with auburn hair arrived in a green voile and wide brimmed hat, appearing cool and stylish. Meanwhile Belleville fairgrounds workers race to finish a new grandstand and a large cattle barn for the fall fair.
Local groups join the World Friendship Among Children project, sending gift bags to Mexican children ages 6 to 14. Plymouth Congregational Sunday School filled bags, bought from the Boston national headquarters, with school supplies and cards showing parallels between the United States and Mexico. Bags cost 1.25 each and will be distributed on September 16, Independence Day in Mexico, with English and Spanish inscriptions and an American youth letter in each bag.
A vintage cooking note provides a fruit punch for 2 to 2.5 gallons using lemon juice orange juice grape juice pineapple tea and a sugar syrup plus optional maraschino cherries. Also included is a baked ham with raisin sauce recipe detailing soaking simmering and basting steps with vinegar brown sugar cider cloves and cornstarch, served with spiced peaches or apples.
Raspberry pudding recipe yields two cups of berries with sugar cinnamon and flour. method layers berry mix with batter, then bakes in a moderate oven for about thirty minutes. Mrs. F H Kieffer of 1300 New York Street provides the kitchen note.
Paris AP reports a gown in georgette crepe with fullness and clinging lines, a snug bolero blouse, and a skirt made of four tiers of petals. The long back line extends in Mr and Mrs D A Marshall’s autumn collection as they travel from Shreveport to the Ozarks for a visit.
Hedwig Courths Mahler, Germanys prolific writer, reports over a hundred novels sold more than twenty million copies. She writes simple stories of suspense for the tired reader, with happy endings in fairy tale fashion. Her works have translations, film adaptations, and global fan mail. she marks six decades with widespread acclaim.
New York AP summary of Dr Ruth Wadsworth's claims on normal weight. She explains a height based formula, notes fat tends to rise after age 30 due to appetite, and outlines thyroid and pituitary causes for obesity. Her rule: 100 pounds per five feet plus six pounds per inch over five feet.
The article discusses dieting methods focusing on fat loss and maintaining essential body tissues, with quotes from Dr. Wadsworth. It lists local families, engagements, and community happenings including Kanwaka 4-H Club events, social visits, and a July 25 Santa Fe Lime Special in Lawrence featuring nutrition talks and a farm bureau program led by Miss Foote and Miss Thurthwaite.
Phlox Lingard stands out among garden varieties with glossy rigid foliage and bold trusses. Miss Lingard, in the Suffruticosa class, blooms early and long if cut for bouquets, praised by C L Thayer and Cornell for its vigor and hardiness alongside other notable phloxes like Elizabeth Campbell and Baron von Dedem.
Mrs. Etta Richardson Browning arrived back in Broadwater Nebraska Wednesday after a brief stop in Gilman City Missouri for her father George A Richardson's illness. She traveled with cousins Harley Armstrong and family from Gardens Grove Iowa where they attended their uncle’s funeral in Gilman City. In Kansas she met many relatives including Theodore and Dorothy Armstrong, Harry Carr and family, Osgood Armstrong, Guy Bigsby and Flora Nell.
Local residents including Miss Lydia Johannine Mrs. Henry J ohanning and others traveled to Paola and Ottawa to visit relatives. Frequent calls to the L. W. Haas and Harry Flory homes marked a busy week as families, friends, and wedding guests gathered, with several outings to see kin in Camden Indiana and Juby Day’s wedding at Siby Jey.
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