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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
6
Practical guidance on preparing multiple outfits using a factory approach and drying out chores. Advice covers refrigerator spacing for air circulation, choosing flexible pot holders, storing them near the stove, washable materials, and using a vacuum on draperies before washing to reduce wear.
Wright A Patterson discusses the tire rationing impact on fast driving and warns speed enthusiasts may face walking as rubber is prioritized for war. He urges community scrap drives to aid steel, tanks, and ships, and cites scrap collection as a tangible war effort. He laments leaders exempting high earners from the draft and notes volunteers in Kansas grow two million acres of volunteer wheat unavailable for harvest.
Banker's guide to enduring agricultural co operatives stresses an active farmer base including women and children, full initial investment, and 100 percent stock in supplies. Success hinges on regular meetings, elected boards, capable management, annual budgets, independent audits, farmer control, prudent credit, sound pricing, minimal fixed assets, no inventory speculation, and strict business principles. Co operatives endure when built on honest materials and diligent workers, likened to sturdy New England barns.
New Yorkers discuss Columbia University professor allied with Japanazi groups who has risen to Lt Col in the Military Intelligence Reserve Corps. Also noted is the puzzling disappearance of Caroline Lee Gilbert, daughter of a newspaper man, whose mother suffers immense heartache. The piece also reviews Damon Runyon's new film Butch Minds the Baby with a jab at a Broadway character.
The article notes a shift to domestic cigarette paper made from flax fiber. It highlights Florida California Minnesota South Carolina flax crops, decortication, and new chemurgy methods. It cites the move from imported linen rag paper to a homegrown supply, with straw byproduct still underutilized.
Rural Briefs report that British lend-lease commodities delivered totaled over 3.311 billion pounds by January 1, 1942. Garden soil guidance highlights fertility drainage moisture retention and spring warming. Tin packaging use is sharply cut across many products. California scientists create synthetic starch from glucose, not yet ready for industry. About 150000 pounds of aluminum used last year for poultry wing and leg bands in the United States.
Government warns a clock costumer who published comforting items to Goebbels. Two broadcasts a week carried palatable offerings that appeared as reliable American sources from Berlin and Rome. The official response cites espionage laws and threatens twenty years in prison on a future offense.
Ed Foley of the U S Treasury praises the removal of Nazi sympathizers from German Aniline amid a safer postwar effort. Morgenthau and agents receive credit for the crackdown. Joan Fontaine rebukes a femme columnist after an Oscar win, with a sharp street rebuke. Eve Singleton displays a protective portrait of Captain Colin Kelly to boost workers at a defense plant. Broadway press agents warned for spreading military rumors, a wise caution hard to ignore. Tom Dewey denies ever being offered Biddle’s job and says he could not have declined it.
Congress members from both parties are named as potential financial interests in a government pensions plan, while Daladier tells the Riom courtroom petty bickering among French leaders aided Nazi takeover and Laval is described as a chief administration foe who was dealt with after the conquest.
Paula Crystal recounts an air raid warden incident about a rooster in a city apartment. The piece then summarizes an Easter lesson from Mark and Corinthians on victory over death through Christ with references to Abraham Isaac Jacob and Pauls teaching.
A lurid tale warns that a dodger seeking drugs and private hospital care risks pneumonia and pernicious anemia from sulfa therapy. The piece claims continued use damages red blood cells and brain cells, ending with the dodger supposedly going insane once harmed.
In door games like Charades gain traction in midtown venues. A humorous exchange features a valet preparing dress clothes and a jokey reference to a Washington office named O U C H.
The notice lists the lesson topic for April 5 with subjects and scripture texts selected by the International Council of Religious Education and used with permission. It reflects a church educational program's approved content and copyright acknowledgment.
Brooklyn district attorney candidate Bill O Dwyer relied on notes during speeches then discarded a paper found to be an old laundry bill showing he spoke from the heart.
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