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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1940
Page
8
Puzzle lists many crossword clues across horizontal and vertical, referencing forms of words and descriptions. It notes a noted long stitch and mentions a previous puzzle answer, with various definitions for colors, animals, body parts, and roles.
Rome reports Italo Balbo, Libyan viceroy and air marshal, killed when his plane crashed during a British bombardment over Tobruk. Italian flags lowered in mourning. Mussolini orders half mast, while Balbo’s fame as a transatlantic flier and fascist leader figure in context.
The Graduate Magazine is mailed from the Alumni Office today despite the absence of alumni secretary and editor Fred Ellsworth who is returning from a convention in Indiana. Marvin Goebel assists in production and the issue features William Allen White’s speech Long Marches and Hard Bivouacs delivered at the June alumni meeting. Marriage licenses are issued to Nessly Henry, Eggleston Beck, Stutz Powell and others in the probate office.
Lawrence Flower club received two new garden books as memorial gifts for Robert C. Manley. One title is Magic Gardens by Robert E. Clarkson, placed in the club library, the other Constance Spry Garden Notebook, housed in the public library. The memorial notes Manley’s love of flowers and his pool and rock garden. The piece recounts the books’ contents and edible and decorative gardening insights and mentions the 1984 dedication of the Robert C. Manley memorial rock garden in Central Park funded by the club.
Miss May Riggs veteran clerk in the University of Education offices announces retirement after years of service. She plans to join sisters in pursuits she has not yet had time for, including singing and community activity with the Riggs family. Kate Riggs and Lucy Riggs are also noted for long careers in teaching and YWCA work. Dr. Donald C. Warren of Kansas State College receives the Borden poultry science award in Ithaca New York, including a gold medal and $1000.
A guide to preparing iced coffee and chocolate enhanced beverages for warm weather. It covers brewing, serving in tall glasses with ice, chilling methods, and options like mocha flavored coffee and chocolate syrup drinks. Includes recipes for Coffee Frappe and Chocolate Ginger Ale with specific ingredient amounts.
Melt chocolate over hot water then cool to lukewarm. Dissolve sugar in water and cool. Beat syrup into egg yolks gradually then fold in melted chocolate. Beat 1 more minute until thickened. Jar and refrigerate. Syrup lasts several days. Use 2 tbsp per cup milk yields 2 cups syrup.
Wash raspberries and drain. Sift flour with soda salt and sugar. Beat eggs with buttermilk and shortening. Combine and fold in raspberries. Drop spoonfuls on hot griddle and cook until bubbles break and golden. Serve with heated honey. Makes 10 to 12 cakes. Route 1 Lawrence.
The Kansas state board of medical registration and examination licensed 94 students, including four women: Sylvia Allen from Topeka, Helen L. Finley from Emporia, Mario L. M. Pyle from Kansas City Kansas, and Winifred A. Blam pin from Montreal, Canada.
An announcement tea in Lawrence featured edible nosegays on tea cakes arranged in paper doilies tied with pink and blue ribbons. Rolls and white to nut bread sandwiches shaped as calla lilies and heart motifs complemented gumdrop cookies and Swedish spritzes in pastel icing.
Lift flour and add to mixture with chopped nuts and gumdrops. Bake in a shallow pan at about 325 degrees F for 35 minutes. Ice with orange juice and grated orange butter sugar, set until firm, cut into squares or diamonds, dust with sugar. Fill center with whipped cream and crushed raspberries then decorate with whole raspberries. Mrs. Harry Houk, 1618 A. 1. St.
Whip 3 whole eggs and 8 extra yolks with 1 cup sugar until light. Add salt nutmeg lemon rind crushed crackers and almonds folded with 3 stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into a buttered ring mold and bake 35 minutes in a slow oven. Let cool upside down on a pan.
A 19th century kitchen note describes pressing 1 pint raspberries, cooking sugar with water to a thread, folding in raspberries, cooling, and whipping 7 egg whites with lemon juice. The foamy mixture is folded into the raspberry base then baked in a buttered dish.
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