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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
5
A lazy burro named Sleepy with a green yarn mane and red halter is used in a simple craft guide. The item lists three redeeming features: personality ease of making and washable fingerprints with a damp cloth. Includes ordering code 29033, 15c, and sending address.
A solitary reflection on the burden an honest man bears when facing self judgment at the bar of conscience. He conceives harsher verdicts than any external enemy could imagine, weighing guilt and integrity in a personal tribunal.
A 1941 era warning urges safe holiday practices to prevent auto and fire hazards. It lists dangers from sharp toys and electric lights to drying trees and icy sidewalks, advising supervision and prudent placement plus a forest service method for fire resistance. It stresses avoiding risky decorations and careful driving during the festive period.
The city celebrates a fireworks filled Christmas season with fireworks starting weeks before Christmas. Creole families join in the loud displays as sky rockets and firecrackers light up the streets day and night. Even the poor join in, while the wealthy show off brighter rockets. By the second day after Christmas the streets lie littered with spent firework pieces, but the air returns to a cleaner scent of Christmas roses.
An old home tip explains how to slow needle shedding. Saw off part of the tree base to expose fresh wood, place the trunk in a shallow water-filled pan, and add a teaspoon of sugar to the water. The solution provides moisture and sugar nourishes needles to help them stay on longer.
A collection of traditional beliefs about Christmas weather and its alleged links to next year outcomes. Predictions link sunshine, snow, wind, and frost to crops, harvests, and luck, with sayings like a green Christmas signaling a harsh year and a warm Christmas presaging a cold Easter.
Armine von Tempski writes of Christmas in Hawaii as a tropical celebration with horse back arrivals, paniolo spurs, guitars and ukuleles. She recalls Christmases on Haleakala ranch on Maui where diverse races join under one roof sharing in the Birthday of all birthdays with Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese flavors.
Instructions show testing Christmas tree bulbs by removing a lamp from a five cell flashlight and screwing in bulbs one by one. A functioning bulb will glow with the low current, while burned out lamps will not glow at all.
Persistent asthma sufferers are urged to try Serre Remedy, claimed to ease asthma and bronchial symptoms since 1895. An 16-ounce bottle is offered for 2.00 postpaid, with ordering details directing to Barco Remedy Company in Sidney.
A collage notes penguin molting ballast pebbles needed to dive, Tunisian and Libyan women wedding eyebrow unions, 100000 toy train enthusiasts with 10 million dollars in gear and clubs, a Wall Street miniature railroad, and a controversial Lohengrin Wedding March usage in weddings as described by Collier's.
A holiday guide offers easy to prepare party desserts and no bake treats. Recipes include Peach Refrigerator Cake Refrigerator Fruit Cake Gingerbread Waffles Refr igerator Fruit Pudding Left Over Cake Dessert and Graham Cracker Dessert with step by step ingredients and chilling or baking instructions.
Former cookbook promises simple recipes for beginners and confident results. Readers can order Miss Howe's cookbook by mail with a small coin to Chicago Illinois.
A quiz item list including Bryant's poem reference about a Lincoln related bird. It asks what the Gadsden Purchase added to the U.S. and names the youngest inaugurated president. It inquires about a historical document at Runnymede and the source of quinine. It asks which bird is an emblem of immortality and the maximum recorded underwater depth for divers.
The list reveals the bobolink, a geographic hint about a region south of the Gila river in Arizona and New Mexico, and notes Theodore Roosevelt at age 42. It references Magna Charta, Java, the mythic phoenix, and records Dr. William Beebe descending 3,028 feet in a bathysphere on August 15, 1934.
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