Remember Dad The home front needs him honored now
Kathleen Norris urges families to support the father burdened by inflation labor shortages and war duties. Mothers should shield him from bad news maintain a orderly home and share small daily positives. A proactive wife on a farm shows how raising provisions and sharing chores eases his load and restores family harmony.
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Dad
Mollie
Jane
Junior
All Home
All World News
Mary
Tom
Tris Speaker Reflects on Lou Boudreau and War Era Baseball
The piece honors Tris Speaker known as the Gray Eagle, recalling his Cleveland pennant era and praise for Lou Boudreau as a young manager. It notes Boudreau’s promise, Speaker’s wartime perspective, and mentions Bob Feller’s absence shaping Cleveland’s 1940s season. Speaker, now in his fifties, remains active in war work and on a Cleveland draft board.
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Gray Eagle
Cleveland
Tris
Speaker
Flying Hawk
Ty Cobb
Boudreau
Lou
Bob Feller
Feller
Bob
Hubbard City
Texas
How to Cook for Two in Wartime Meals and Budget
Practical guide for brides on budget cooking for two during wartime. Details a weekly 5thing budget split for fruits vegetables dairy meat bread and fats, plus meal planning to avoid waste. Includes specific shopping lists for beef pork lamb and poultry, a Swedish meat loaf recipe for two, side dishes, a fruit plate idea, Bride's Biscuits recipe, and instructions to seek expert advice from Miss Lynn Chambers.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Illinois
Substituting Honey and Corn Syrup for Sugar
This guide explains replacement ratios for honey and corn syrup in place of granulated sugar. Use 34 cups of honey per 1 cup sugar and reduce liquids accordingly. For corn syrup, use 2 cups per 1 cup sugar and cut liquid by 25 percent. Partial corn syrup substitution uses 1 to 1 with a 12.5 percent liquid reduction. Flavor may shift. honey enhances ripe flavor in cakes and cookies.
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Bride’s Biscuits
Bride's First Dinner Menu Featured Pineapple Apricot Juice
A wedding menu item lists a bride’s first dinner including pineapple apricot juice Swedish meat loaf asparagus parsleyed potatoes whole wheat bread and butter fruit plate cookies and a beverage.
Gems and quotes from historic figures
A compact collection of biblical verses and antique aphorisms recalls Hosea 6 1 praising healing, plus sentiments on independence life and the soul, and miscellaneous maxims from Thomson Ambrose Bierce and Robert G Ingersoll celebrating generosity and memory.
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Thomson
Robert G. Ingersoll
Tramp Seeks George in English Tavern Tale
A wanderer on a country road in England pauses before a sign reading George and the Dragon and enters the tavern. He asks the landlady for a meal and old clothes for a tired hungry man, is refused, and then asks to speak to George amid a tense rejection.
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England
George and the Dragon
George
Gift for service men tobacco the favored choice
surveys among soldiers sailors marines and Coast Guardsmen show tobacco tops their gift list. Local dealers feature Prince Albert in the pound can as the world’s leading smoking tobacco and a popular choice for servicemen.
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Uncle Sam
Prince Albert
Adv
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Bell Syndicate
WIN
By Kathleen Norris
Mother
South Seas
Alva Bradley
Alva
Mr. Bradley
Bradley
Lou Boudreau
Yankees
Joe Gordon
Bill Dickey
Joe DiMaggio
Charlie Keller
Bonham
Ruffing
Russo
Chandler
Breuer
Donald
Indians
Yankee
Little Rock
Jimmy McAleer
Fred Clarke
Jimmy Sheckard
Ring Lardner
Babe Ruth
Joe Jackson
Lynn
Bride
Ambrose Bierce
Tramp
Ag Bees Horlentes
MUCK
United States
Haemic Rat & Roach
Dagte
Corneille
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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