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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1932
Page
7
A winter root, salsify, is praised as a tasty inexpensive substitute for oysters. The piece covers selection, preparation to avoid discoloration, and multiple recipes including cream of salsify soup with salt cod, a layered white sauce bake, and mock fried oysters. It also offers a sample daily menu featuring these dishes.
A man’s torso, head and one arm missing, was found in a package at the Los Angeles city dump incinerator. An African American worker, Edward Davis, believed the package held food for his dog and opened it. Police suspect skilled surgical work with three incisions and stitches. The incident follows no identifying marks.
New York reports that the food and kindred products sector kept employment at 87.1 percent of the 1926 base in the first nine months of 1932, while overall manufacturing fell to 59.9 percent. The industry cut expenses and remains adaptable as prices drop and inventories stay low, with millions returning to farming and home gardening amid temporary depressions.
Amarillo ranch camp manager Lloyd Liston painted tame geese black with a white throat splash and tied their bills with string to serve as decoys. Wild geese were frightened away, but he then killed two in the renewed flight.
Monroe Rotary Club met yesterday replacing its Hotel Virginia session with a luncheon at the Louisiana Training Institute dining room. Forty five members attended with former Judge Charles Schulze and S T I officials present to discuss support for underprivileged boys and the L T I Boy Scouts troop.
In Camden, 500 police court actions involved spouses and penalties. Wives faced 20 day jail or talks for their mates while some women chose home remedy, including Mrs Elwood Potts and Mi Henry Schnittzius deciding for their partners.
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