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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1937
Page
7
The author urges awareness of the stark contrast between sheltered life and widespread hardship. It calls favored classes to actions that alleviate hunger, insecurity, and discouragement, stressing shared humanity and the aim of social progress through mutual understanding.
A reader asks for color and fabric guidance for a kitchen and living room. The columnist suggests washable white voile curtains with blue oilcloth valances, patchwork oilcloth accents, and bright floor and wall palettes, plus French gray for living room draperies and varied rug schemes.
In Willows California farmers adopt the streamline method of air seed sowing for rice. Airplanes with ground crews plant 60 to 75 cents an acre, covering eight 100-pound sacks per flight. With 130,000 acres under cultivation potential earnings approach $100,000, as pilots work from 20 to 30 feet in flooded fields using a measured, flag-guided course.
A mixed page offers home advice on pest control for cabbage worms using cayenne pepper and flour, pruning dead blossoms, protecting garden color in heat, and kitchen hacks to prevent cake frosting and dough sticking. It also notes dipping cookie cutters in flour to bake more cookies.
Rediscovered passage reflects on Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives, its portrait of urban poverty, and Theodore Roosevelt's reaction. Roosevelt read the work, left a card noting he read it and would help, signaling a plea for mutual understanding between social classes.
A devotional lesson on national character and moral choice citing Deuteronomy and Joshua. It argues individuals shape a nation, calls for revival in the church, and stresses that right choices bring blessing while sin brings reproach, urging readers to live by God's law.
A reader asks if a fourteen year old boy should keep giving up his seat to girls on a crowded school bus. The answer notes that since the bus is not a true public conveyance, seated boys should yield to girls when necessary, emphasizing social training and courtesy.
A roundup of etiquette Q and A covers mixing salad dressing, keeping dust covers on books, rising for teachers, honoring an approving politician, dress at small weddings, handling finger bowls and lace doilies, and proper dining etiquette in social settings.
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