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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
6
Weekly analysis by Joseph W LaBine notes persistent peace talks amid rising hostilities. It highlights Venlo Munich debates, anti Hitler dissent, and a growing European confederation concept while urging trade treaty renewal and possible defense tax changes as the 1940 election looms.
The article notes Chiang Kai-shek’s concern as Japanese forces seize Nanning disrupting supply routes from French Indochina and British Burma, while a parallel shift in Soviet relations and Western film industry labor tensions unfold. It also covers Romania’s King Carol balancing neutrality and alliance pressures, and other 1940 events in broadcasting and San Francisco expo bids.
A holiday cooking feature outlines fruit cake making with aged cakes and storage tips, plus recipes for white fruit cake plum pudding and old spice wonder fruit cake. It includes rolled orange cookies lemon icing and a note promoting a mimeographed Holiday Recipes leaflet available for 10 cents from Eleanor Howe in Chicago.
Chugai Shogyo demands immediate action to secure a new agreement before the current abrogated treaty lapses January 26 as business anger at Tokyo's anti US stance grows. A Gallup poll shows 70 percent of Americans favor the food stamp plan to distribute surplus to needy families and expand surplus commodities funding next session. Private utility leaders in Washington discuss a private public eastern super network including a Chicago to New York 220000 volt line. Russia presses Finland over border clashes with claims Finnish artillery killed three Russian soldiers and wounded seven others.
Martin Dies defends the un Americanism committee demanding administration cooperation or acceptance of its dismissal. He laments the probe as a headache. Harry Woodring boasts of Kansas governorship and cabinet appointment while joking about a fourth child. Harry Hopkins launches a campaign to remove interstate trade barriers seen as a threat to the economy.
A cheerful nursery features walls and woodwork painted in warm cream and a bright azure blue floor, creating a sunny, inviting atmosphere.
Ruth Wyeth Spears shares spool based toy crafts for Christmas and spool doll models. Instructions describe arm and leg construction with wire, bonnet spool use, and magazine face depictions, plus notes on Sewing Book No 4 mailings and quilt block patterns offered with book orders from Bedford Hills New York.
A brief quotation from U. S. Senator Styles Bridges emphasizes unity across creeds races and languages and argues democracy remains humanity's last hope. The note underscores democracy's endurance and belief it already works without forcing reform.
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