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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1940
Page
3
Aunt Martha offers a home craft pattern 79063 at 15 cents featuring life size bird outlines and painting tips. The set includes a rustic bird house and projects for red headed woodpecker scarlet tanager indigo bunting towhee oriole bobolink and blue jay. Send orders to Box 166 W Kansas City Missouri.
Weekly Sunday notices publish pet obituaries written by grieving owners. Readable entries honor dogs, cats, and other companions with personal tributes and phrases expressing loss and affection.
An advertisement from Dr C M Coe of 503 Pine Street St Louis Missouri promotes a free valuable book for sufferers of piles or fistula promising payment or return. The notice urges readers to write for the publication.
Reflects on self-perception and identity quoting Montaigne about the paradox of being both monstrous and miraculous. The text explores inner judgment, humbling self-awareness, and the complexity of selfhood.
A historical guide explains how good ingredients and skill create soups that impress. It lists corn soup, vegetable broth, tomato cream, fish chowder, onion soup au gratin, parsley dumplings, and peanut butter soup with simple, practical steps and garnishes.
In a column blending history and lit, the piece covers Marshal Budenny as a romantic Russian cavalry figure and his quests in the Civil War era, interwoven with anecdotes of his wife and a broader portrait of Russian cavalry myth. It also shifts to profiles of Willard Wright and philosopher novelists at the New York World’s Fair, noting Dr. Rudolf Kager’s dual life as philosopher and detective writer and Kurt Steel alias.
This column notes the challenge of cooking large scale meals and teases Eleanor Howe’s next installment with economical recipes for church suppers or PTA events serving fifty or more.
A booklet titled Household Hints by Eleanor Howe offers 300 practical shortcuts for cooking substitutions, jelly leftovers, toaster crumbs, and other kitchen and home tasks. The 10 cent book is sold by Western Newspaper Union and mailed from Chicago addresses.
Do not discard empty flour and salt bags. Wash them in hot water and they will make excellent refrigerator containers for lettuce parsley and other raw vegetables that are best kept chilled.
For cleaner cups to remove coffee tea or chocolate stains rub well with a non gritty cleansing powder applied with a soft cloth. Rinse in plenty of warm and cold water to remove all traces of the powder.
A sewing article describes sea motif decorations for a recreation room or boy's room. It details a ship model, a desert island map with legend, a salvaged boat wheel, a sailor figure lamp, and a navy couch cover with red anchor trims. Instructions show how to craft anchor shapes and use bias tape. It advertises Mrs Spears Sewing Book No 2 with contents and ordering details.
In an experiment seven professors from Chicago Police Crime Detection differentiate four signature samples including genuine, expert forgery, tracing, and handwritten imitations. Only one man correctly identified his own signature as genuine and marked the others as nongenuine. A New York group now provides young women as proxy parents for outings and supervision of children. More than 60 percent of life insurance payouts go to living policyholders, not beneficiaries.
A scientist reports French leads at about 350 syllables per minute followed by Japanese 310 and German 250. English averages 220 syllables a minute while Polynesian languages in the South Seas slowest at around 50 syllables per minute.
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