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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1937
Page
6
A Western Newspaper Union feature urges women to plan a spring sewing program at home to dodge the rush. It highlights affordable wash fabrics, guaranteed shrinkage resistance, and ready-to-make patterns for classroom prints, house coats, and a two-piece pajama set, promoting self-reliant dressmaking on a budget.
Hugh Bradley hosts Jack Curley who recalls storied bouts and stars from boxing history. Names include Eddie Santry, Terry McGovern, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Abe Attell, Frankie Neil, Jem Bowker, and George Hackenschmidt. Vivid memories span venues like Tom O Rourke s club and the Garden.
A mosaic of sports figures across boxing, soccer, wrestling, and college athletics is sketched. Notable mentions include trainer nicknames for Freddy Breele, goalkeeper Finn Carlstadt wearing spectacles, University of Oklahoma wrestlers with terms like Muscle head and pinky, famous trainers Hirsch Jacobs and Bert Mitchell, and multifaceted figures like Johnny Kilbane managing Jimmy Vaughn. The piece links athletes to teams such as the New York Americans, Brooklyn Visitation, and the Atlantic City Sea Gulls, with references to Sideline personalities, wrestling arenas, and a string of colorful anecdotes about performers, managers, and promoters.
The narrator recounts freeing a 140 pound Great Dane named Blue Boy to an Armenian buyer, then adopting a Pekinese called Scoobs. Scoobs wins the affection of the family with morning paw-waves, while the narrator questions show dog pretensions at a Royal Kennel Club event, noting humorous contrasts with humans and dogs.
A recipe for Golden Gate salad combining marshmallows oranges bananas pineapple tart apple maraschino cherries French marrons celery and pecans with mayonnaise and cream. Dress with lemon juice and paprika then chill and serve on crisp lettuce leaves. The author notes enjoying it quickly in California and serving as a dessert substitute with extra whipped cream.
A creative, personal gift idea features a detachable nightgown bib made of lace, easily worn for breakfast or reading in bed. The design can be circular or varied in shape, with satin ribbons at the neck, allowing custom use of lace edgings or all-over lace to suit the giver’s style.
A damaged OCR fragment describes a small skull cup made of black material with a wreathlike arrangement of white laundered wings across the Groot. Vins posen well aff we Sure bo that tre turds une geien belle Meu Wet ad he ten.
The longest cable railway in the world will soon start service in Italy. It will span about four and a half miles from San Remo to Mount Bignone with three stations including a station a mile high, supported by 18 steel towers. Cable railways also move ores lumber grain and other materials in industry.
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