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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1927
Page
6
A jumble of modern and historical reflections cites President Coolidge brief messages, a Panama Canal monument for Theodore Roosevelt, and notes on marriage as a lasting institution. It also touches on Australian unrest, a Lady Godiva spectacle in Chicago, and scientific notes on absolute zero and superconductivity.
A reader receives an extensive proposed daily menu emphasizing nourishing foods for wellness. It advocates breakfast of buttered toast coffee eggs bacon or steak, cereal with cream, fruit, and cake in cool mornings. Lunch stresses vegetables, brown bread, roast, greens, potatoes, buttermilk or water, and apple pie or custard for dessert. Supper includes milk, brown bread, corn meal mush, and milk.
The article notes President Coolidge meeting AFL head William Green on soft coal disputes in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio with railroads charged to depress coal prices. It cites wartime wheat price fixing costs and references Germany joining the League of Nations protecting women workers. It also mentions tax values for Washington buildings, a vanished family fund case, a judge on slips and citizenship, publicity deals for Ruth Elder, Schenck radium claims, and a Northwestern University student poll naming Lindbergh Ford Marie and others as top figures of the year.
The piece warns that fatigue dictates smaller meals and richer foods should be avoided when healthy. It notes grain cereal with cream as a light option and suggests ripe fruits to accompany breakfast while rejecting rich cakes, mince pies, chocolate, and other indulgences.
The piece warns that spicy sauces and condiments do not nourish the body but irritate the stomach and accelerate overfeeding. It notes many abuse condiments as badly as tobacco or alcohol, urges moderation, and compares home use to medicine, arguing for reduced food and condiment intake.
The piece decries the punishment of Mitchell Magruder and Summerall for criticizing defense leadership. It condemns the suppressive methods as Mussolini like and harmful to national defense, urging open internal criticism to improve services. It names Brigadier General Mitchell Assistant Chief Army Air Service Maj General Summerall and Admiral Magruder.
The Rev Dr Straton of New York argues that modern miracles exceed ancient ones. He cites surviving a near death, submarines, flying machines, inoculation, and wireless communication as making vaccines and science more impactful than religious cures.
A man rails at the sound of car horns after a thief took his wife in a vehicle. The line “some guy ran away with my wife” frames his fear that every horn heralds her return. The quip reveals lingering trauma masking humor.
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