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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
7
Nostalgic column honors mothers with recipes from 1941 including Sour Cream Devil's Food Cake Felicity Frosting and Fig Oaties. It recalls pantry staples, old cracker making, and a note on Orson Welles Citizen Kane and cast talks. Recipes for crackers Made With Yeast and cookies prevail.
Lynn shares an 1879 household advice page offering tips for homemakers. It suggests using clam shells with wood ashes to scour iron pots, sweeping snow for carpet brightness, saving tea leaves to darken carpets, dusting woodwork with a turkey feather, pounding laundry in sal soda, using a wringer, grinding fresh coffee beans, and mastering dishes like Jenny Lind Cake and Parsnip Pie.
Hollywood bridal trends surface as Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland wed in Yuma with minimal witnesses. Deanna Durbin’s grand church ceremony contrasts with the small Hollywood nuptial, while Rudy Vallee considers shifting careers as he boosts Time Out for Rhythm. A Latin American goodwill tour looms for Spencer Tracy, Eleanor Powell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Marsha Hunt after Blossoms in the Dust.
The week's menu lists a not-too-large gathering's meal options. Courses include Strawberry and Pineapple Cup, Roast Chicken with Giblet Gravy, Bread Filling, Fresh Asparagus, Fruit Salad, Ice Cream, Coffee, Cookies, and Milk.
Gardeners report shifts in practice to improve quality and flavor. Planting more often, every two to three weeks, yields a steady stream of proper sized vegetables. Avoid letting crops grow too large for tastier tomatoes carrots cucumbers beets and squash. Flower seeds are scarce as cross pollination can degrade home grown blooms.
Charming note describes a colorful octagon rug crocheted from old silk stockings and a 32 page booklet with detailed instructions for rug making, hooking, weaving, and tufted styles. Include order form for the booklet.
Reader service ad from a New York paper offering a guide titled How to Make Your Own Rugs for ten cents plus mailing, with address at 635 Sixth Ave New York City.
The passage contrasts distrust of sentiments distant from nature with ridicule in sublimity, noting how extreme wisdom and folly sit close together in perception. It reflects on how refined thought can verge on scornful detachment, blurring lines between insight and ridicule.
Andy Hardy's actor Mickey Rooney learns a RAF squadron nicknamed for him after a pilot wrote they all think he is an ok lad. Stirling Hayward aims to win Madeleine Carroll in Virginia but faces delay in Dildo Cay while Dorothy Lamour may miss Alaska of the South Seas due to her schedule.
ODPS and Ends mutal news analyst Wythe Williams leads with 100 stations. Robert Donat leaves the British army for Pitt the Younger. Warner Bros buys Coffin for Dmitrios. Columbia develops Obituary with a new title. Abbott and Costello shift from In the Navy to Ride em Cowboy. Shirley Temple returns with a darker brown hair-do as she reappears on screen.
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