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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
3
A playful 12 inch oilcloth burro named Sleepy rests while children play. It features a green yarn mane and red halter and offers three redeeming points: personality ease of making and the ability to wipe fingerprints away with a damp cloth. Include outlines and directions for ordering at 29033 15c.
A reflection on the hardest test for integrity. An honest man faces his own conscience at trial, knowing truths sharper than any external accuser. He recognizes inner judgment as a harsher verdict than any external prosecutor could seek.
A 1941 holiday safety advisory urges caution during Christmas season. It lists clear don ts on avoiding dangerous toys, supervising electric toys, not using lighted candles near trees, keeping trees away from stoves, guarding lit trees, using a fire resistant treatment, and watching for icy steps. It also advises safe decorating practices and careful driving to prevent tragedies.
The city bursts with fireworks and rockets as Christmas celebrations begin early on Canal Street. Children and families fill the nights with noise and color, trading firecrackers at low prices while streets glow with rockets and the air carries the scent of Christmas roses.
Advice on keeping Christmas trees fresh explains cutting the base to expose new wood and placing the tree in water with a teaspoon of sugar. The sugar nourishes needles while moisture from the water slows needle drop.
A collection of old folk beliefs about Christmas weather and its supposed effects on crops and the coming year. Proverbial tests link sun, ice, wind, snow, and moisture to harvests, frost, and Easter conditions.
Armine von Tempski writes in Cosmopolitan about Christmas in Hawaii. On outer islands, holidays come on horseback with paniolos, spurs and cowboy songs. The author recalls Maui’s Haleakala ranch and a mixed, multiethnic gathering on Christmas Eve with Americans Hawaiians Japanese Chinese Portuguese and more sharing in the celebration.
If you doubt certain lamps in your Christmas tree string, remove the regular lamp from a five cell flashlight. Screw in the lights one at a time. They will glow faintly with low current if good, while burned out lamps do not glow at all.
An advertisement touts Minton's Remedy as a long standing treatment for asthma and bronchial issues. It offers a one ounce bottle for $2.00 postpaid and directs readers to Barco Remedy Company in Sidney, Ohio.
Penguins molt and weaken to a point they swallow pebbles to dive for food and later shed them. Tunisian and Libyan women reportedly seal marriage by brows growing together. Toy-train hobby gathers 100000 enthusiasts with millions spent, clubs and magazines, and a Wall Street trainer. Lohengrin March is not the bridal walk music in opera. it is debated for church weddings.
A holiday hosts guide offering quick party desserts and menu ideas. Recipes include Peach Refrigerator Cake and Refrigerator Fruit Cake with fruit layers and wafers, Gingerbread Waffles, Refrigérator Fruit Pudding, Left-Over Cake Dessert, Graham Cracker Dessert, and related serving tips.
Miss Howe presents Better Baking a cookbook with simple clear recipes for pies cakes and breads. The text notes that even timid beginners can follow directions and achieve good results. Readers may obtain the book by writing to Better Baking care of Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois and enclosing one dollar.
Answers: 1 The bittern. 2 The Gadsden Purchase added southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. 3 Theodore Roosevelt. 4 The Magna Carta. 5 Cinchona trees in Peru and surrounding regions. 6 The phoenix or swan is sometimes cited. commonly the dove is linked to immortality. 7 About 2,500 feet by deep-sea divers with modern technology.
Part of Arizona and New Mexico south of the Gila river. Theodore Roosevelt at 42. Magna Charta. Java. The phoenix myth. Dr William Beebe descended 3028 feet in his bathysphere on August 15 1934.
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