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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1943
Page
7
Instructions describe removing worn springs and adding new webbing to chair seats. The process covers replacing springs, sewing the bottoms to webbing, and tying springs with cord from back to front and across rows. It notes amounts of sewing and tying twine and offers homemaking booklets for further chair remodeling guidance.
Scientists proposed in Collier's that a rifle bullet fired upward at seven miles per second could pass beyond the atmosphere and never return. They note such speed is not inconceivable since a nitroglycerin explosion wave travels about five miles per second.
A 1943 New Year food guidance piece blends poems from Alfred Tennyson with practical meals. It promotes frugal menus using leftovers and vitamin rich dishes. Recipes include chicken casserole with spinach timbales beet and horseradish salad and Victory Bread, plus a Pineapple Cranberry drink.
War era notes describe a militant Miami Beach with Army and Navy control of hotels and rooms, readers adapt to a draft reality as resorts become military spaces. The piece contrasts seaside life with wartime discipline, then recalls editors and staff roles from a Georgia paper, and ends with a humorous wartime verse about shirt tails.
Millions across the United States make New Year resolutions to quit smoking curb drinking and control temper. The piece notes skepticism toward reform yet urges sincere effort to improve and keep promises for better habits.
In remote Hebrides Orkney Shetland areas New Year’s Day is observed on January 12 as a relic of the Julian calendar. Some districts keep January 11 and 12 as holidays while others align with the modern calendar. The overall trend favors standardization.
Foods exempt from March ceilings under new limits include poultry mutton butter eggs cheese canned milk onions white potatoes dry beans corn meal citrus fruits and juices. Meat allowance covers pets and guests, but excludes certain organ meats. beef lamb veal mutton pork allowed, poultry eggs fish excluded. Use meat extenders and coffee stretcher to stretch supplies this winter.
The article notes ancient libations blessing ships and cites records from 1418 in England and 1797 in the United States when the first navy ship Constitution was christened by breaking a wine bottle on the prow. It mentions St Denys monks and bishops blessing voyages for safe journeys.
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