Radio Industry Birthday and Anniversary Celebrations Note
VAvale reports a rash of radio birthday and anniversary events in New York and beyond. NBC hosts a Plaza luncheon for Kay Kyser. Bob Hope headlines top CBS and NBC programs, with Gale Storm and Jean Arthur co starring in upcoming films. Castings include Lurene Tuttle, Howard Duff, Cathy Lewis, Elliott Lewis, and Agnes Moorhead on Suspense and related series. The piece notes scarce camels due to hoof and mouth disease in North Africa and mentions Vaughn Monroe in Carnegie Hall and TV screen tests at 20th Century Fox.
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New York
Plaza
NBC
Kay Kyser
College of Musical Knowledge
Vaughn Monroe
Carnegie Hall
Vaughn
20Th Century- Fox
Interesting Vegetables Recipes for Fresh Flavor
A diet feature promotes care of vegetables from market to table. The article offers baked vegetable croquettes, snap beans with bacon, creamed corn with green peppers, scalloped spinach with cheese, Calico salad, tossed spring salad, apple and lettuce salad, and cranberry celery salad with gelatin, released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Taste Test Ideas for Morale Boosts and Desserts
Simple kitchen tips offer morale boosts. A rich filling for lager cake uses heavy cream light brown sugar and vanilla. Gingerbread pairs with lemon icing. Broiled pears filled with peanut butter accompany ham.
Lynn Chambers Menu Highlights Meats and Desserts
Menu listing features Meat Balls with Onion Gravy Baked Vegetable Croquettes Calico Salad Hot Biscuits with Honey and Caramel Coconut Custard. Beverages accompany the dining selection, showcasing a household cookbook style from Lynn Chambers.
Unusual Cream Cheese Stuffed Apples and Egg Based Dishes
Mix cream cheese with bits of ginger and stuff the mixture into the centers of apples about to be baked. When you want on a la king dish and find yourself without chicken or ham, try hard cooked eggs as a base. Mighty good when mushrooms and pimiento and green peas are added. A pretty salad can be made from whole cooked cauliflower molded in seasoned tomato aspic. Use this for your next buffet.
Squiddyhunk Creek Notes Revealing Small-Town News
Local items report arrest of Elph Button after a traffic crossing fight. Chad Bennett reenlists in the army as his wife’s family plans visit to their Quonset hut. Sparrows Munce inherits skid chains and a storage battery. Chet Bozzle and family involved in a violent incident after listening to juvenile radio. Mrs Hattie Skoggins appears on a problem show. Opera house scare over a non revival. A double crime features sacked churches and schools. Zeb Hawkins's mother marks 99th birthday with a fall from an airplane. Dimmick's Drug Store advertises spring goods including plows paints and fish dinners.
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Elph Button
Drive For Better Understanding
Chad Bennett
Bennett
Sparrow” Munce
Chet Bozzle
Chet
Bozzile
Hattie Skoggins
Bunnell
Opera House
Plymouth
Acme
Zeb
Hawkins
Dimmick
Charge Account on the Katy Rail Line
A historic note describes the Katy railroad planning to sell transportation on charge accounts delivering tickets to homes and billing later including meals. The playful verse envisions riding without cash, enjoying travel on credit, and awaiting payment by and by with promises of on time service and no immediate bills.
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Katy” Railroad
Sleigh Ride Gone Funny Near Milford Church Auction
A tale from Cherry street describes a humorous mishap during a annual sleigh ride. The cutter bought at the Milford church auction collided with a dry spot sending Queenie the horse off between the shafts and prompting Tex Neven to reinforce the harness. Onlookers laughed as the mare was recaptured and reharnessed for the trip home.
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Pickwick
Milford Church
Queenie
Tex Neven
Cherry Street
Tex
Quirky prices and stage talk from a LOuIe the Lug excerpt
A collage of prices from a past era includes horse-car fare five cents, haircut and shave twenty five cents, regular dinner thirty five cents, beer five cents, two bits for two cocktails, shoeshine five cents, and a movie price listed as Tem Cents. The piece also notes a midget car selling for a thousand dollars, plus jokes about glass breaking when a singer performs and a remark about U N meetings and Pee Senenier.
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Louie
Pansy Pocket Apron and Cross and Crown Doily Ad
Simple lavender and purple pansy apron pattern No. 5387 offers one piece cut with a large pocket. Send 20 cents plus name and address for pattern and instructions. Also rocheted doily in white or ecru, 22 inches, titled Cross and Crown with center crosses and border crowns.
Nine Questions Quiz Show
A general knowledge quiz asks nine items covering geography language stamps caves aviation and politics. Topics include air mail routes diminutive postage stamps the Carlsbad Caverns sea drums presidential eligibility Rhodes scholarships lemurs and India tea exports.
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United States
Carlsbad Caverns
U. S
India
Glossary Quiz Answers Snapshot
A concise list of ten items answering quiz prompts. Items include Route No 2001 distance six miles from Camden to Philadelphia, mendacity defined as lying, circa meaning about, 1863 Varieties notes from Var Varoli var Varoli now in Colombia, coin size one fifth square inch, 60 million years estimated, a fish that drums, age thirty five and up, a record high forty eight surpassing 32, a lemur description, and Ceylon as Sri Lanka.
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Camden
Philadelphia
Bolivar
Colombia
Ceylon
Lemon and water wake-up drink for health
An ad promotes lemon and water as a morning laxative aid and vitamin C booster. It claims the juice of one lemon in water stimulates bowel action, fights fatigue, resists colds, and alkalinizes the body, recommending California Sunkist Lemons for a fresh tang.
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Sunkist
California Sunkist
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