Wasteful eating costs four billion in American food
The War Food Administration warns Americans waste four billion dollars in annual home food purchases. Wasted food from restaurants and homes amounts to large deficits, with butter and bread losses cited. Conservation efforts should start now across farms, stores, and homes to avert shortages for war needs.
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United Nations
War Food Administration
WFA
Bureau of Home Economics
U. S. Department of
Churches Plan Recreation Room For Youth Programs
A Midwest minister asks how to furnish a church basement meeting room and balance religious and educational aims. The National Recreation Association advises youth involvement, small durable tables, movable screens, a partitioned platform, and student-made curtains and rugs, plus joint goals and coordinated music and drama activities.
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National Recreation Association
Midwest
Association
Minute Make-Uns By Gabrielle Beauty Mask
A Ledger Syndicate beauty tip recommends a home facial using fullers earth egg and oil. Mix beat until smooth, apply to throat and face, bathe, and remove for smooth skin. Published as a world famous salon secret mask.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
City Hall Becomes War Factory in Slater Missouri
Slater city officials lease City Hall to an aircraft accessories firm for manufacturing aircraft parts. This marks the fourth local building in Slater, a town of about 3,000, taken over by the corporation for production supporting United Nations fighting forces.
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An Aircraft Accessories Corporation
Slater
Missouri
United Nations
Christmas carols and creche scenes stir church holiday plans
A Western Newspaper Union release notes groups preparing dramatizations of Christmas carols, a creche scene with handcrafts, traveling carolers, and a community Christmas tree with caroling. It suggests church groups use these practices to foster giving and socializing.
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Western Newspaper Union
Quartermaster Corps Keeps Soldiers Well Fed During War
The quartermaster corps trains cooks and bakers in over 90 schools nationwide and tightens food handling to ensure nutritious meals for soldiers. It trims waste, revises coffee and tea brewing, plans menus by actual presence, and reduces civilian impact by rationing scarce items like butter and sugar, while emphasizing nutrition and economy.
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Uncle Sam
Quartermaster Corps
Western Newspaper Union
Jelly and Pickle Recipes for Wartime Kitchen
Wartime home canning guidance highlights easy jelly and jam methods using cherries plums and blackberries. Includes Ripe Sweet Cherry Jam Ripe Plum Jelly Blackberry and Sour Cherry Jam and cucumber pickles with sugar reduced options. Also describes peach nectar and apple cider vinegar use and invites readers to write to Miss Lynn Chambers for canning help.
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont on hosting sports trips
If a man invites a crowd to go to a ball game in another city he is the host and pays the bills. If he merely suggests forming a party then each man should pay his own expenses.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Matto Grosso's Vast Wealth Draws Brazilian Expedition
The Brazilian government sponsors a new expedition to explore northern Matto Grosso the state famed as wild west and home to vast untapped resources. The goal is to open colonization area and boost rubber and mineral outputs while linking to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro markets.
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Matto Grosso
Brazil
Colonel Fawcett
National Geographic Society
Theodore Roosevelt
General Rondon
Fawcett
Sao Paulo
Ipecac
Rio
United States
Jelly Forum Guidance On Pectin And Preserving Jams
Lynn Says explains pectin as the natural jellying substance in fruits and berries and when to add liquid or powdered pectin. It covers keeping jams up to a year, melting paraffin for jelly, and avoiding smoking hot paraffin, plus methods for juicing and canning with a boiling water bath for 20 minutes.
Beggar Woman Provokes Mr Mean With Quick Comeback
A town’s notorious misanthrope faces a sharp scene when a new beggar asks for charity. He masks rudeness by blowing his nose with a handkerchief, prompting the beggar to retort that Heaven’s blessing will never reach him.
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Mr. Mean
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