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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
3
Colorful Mexican motifs for kitchen decor featured on NUMO hot iron transfers. Designs include Pablo and Conchita in fiesta and sombrero pan holder. three motifs per sheet, 15 cents each for Hidalgo Tepaxcal or Oaxaca Sonora regions. Order details follow.
Dame Nellie Melba proclaims happiness is near in daily joy from summer nights to dawns. She links happiness to virtue, friendship, beauty, music, and the pursuit of ideals, urging readers to find joy in ordinary moments.
British and French air force commander Air Marshal Arthur S. Barratt faces press friction as correspondents accuse Britain’s air service of poor cooperation. Barratt, 49, leads the unified air force created by Neville Chamberlain in January and has a distinguished World War I record including service in India and command at the R A F staff college.
Dr Alfred Vidder, a Harvard trained delver into the past, cautions that the cultural machine of living techs is out of hand and a threat to the social order. He foresees a grim future despite his five children and past prestige. Schwab’s absence noted amid concerns.
Dorothy Stickney, praised for Life With Father, overcame near blindness at twenty to forge a stage career. Reared on a North Dakota prairie, she formed The Southern Belles in St Paul before breaking into Broadway as Molly Malloy in The Front Page and later marrying Howard Lindsay in Skowhegan. The London Times critiques A P Herbert’s General Cargo for humor amid seriousness, noting his parlor humor and parliamentary sallies.
A May 26 lesson notes selections and copying by permission. The entry mentions auction and council involvement but details are unclear.
Jeremiah contrasts the old covenant with Moses to the new covenant of grace. The old covenant was national conditional and broken by Israel. The new covenant is personal universal and ensured by God’s I will, fulfilled in the Church and promised in Hebrews.
Instructions offer quick fixes like using a blackboard eraser as a shoe polisher and skim milk to lift ink from carpets. It also suggests ammonia to remove long–stained paint and moist herbs to season gravy, plus thrift tips on keeping old pillowcases for patches.
A fragment notes that books gain value from age and esteem, invoking Sir William Temple to emphasize the enduring worth of literature through generations. The snippet presents a quotation styled reflection on the value of books.
An old advertisement urges readers to take Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach distress. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach and the laxative moves the bowels. The copy emphasizes pleasant taste and benefits for both stomach and bowels.
A fragment quotes Aristotle via Laertius stating that hope is a waking dream. It presents a concise philosophical view linking hope to perception and consciousness during wakefulness. The line emphasizes hope as an active, imagined state guiding present thought.
R and Mrs Newhouse built a blue pipe frame shelter in their yard using second hand pipe, green and white striped awning cloth, and blue bias binding. The article notes the method to fasten the awning and markets Mrs Spears Sewing Book No 1 offering cost saving plans for slip covers curtains and more.
A fragment from Robert Burton notes hares attempt to drown themselves in misery. They retreat when they see frogs more fearful than they are, then take courage and comfort. A didactic warning to compare one’s estate with others for consolation.
A reflection on performing favors anonymously to bring personal satisfaction, urging discretion in helping neighbors so the act remains a hidden virtue rather than boastful. The guidance emphasizes decency and inner reward as the true measure of benevolence.
A reflective note on living deeply framed as a call to simplicity full of inward growth. The quote suggests that a more meaningful inner life leads to a calmer external existence.
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