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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1940
Page
7
A historical booklet offers Lincoln and Washington themed party menus with fruit pies ice cream and iced confections. Recipes include Apricot Pie Magic Chocolate Logs Cherry Tarts and Crispy potato fries plus decorative touches like chocolate fence rails and red white blue ribbons.
Virginia Vale reports on studio gossip and star trivia. Joan Crawford visits New York with two dachshunds and buys hats for fans. David Niven’s Dawn Patrol cap inspires Louis Hayward in My Son My Son. Vivian Leigh faces divorce suit while Waterloo Bridge looms. Kate Smith’s horn rings in traffic jams. Buck Benny Rides Again title changes hands three times before sale to Paramount.
Oliver Stanley replaces Hore Belisha as war secretary amid Conservative shifts. The 54 year old former minister and World War I veteran faces a tense political backdrop with rumors of appeasement critics and cabinet realignments.
Readers can obtain Eleanor Howe’s Easy Entertaining booklet by sending 10 cents to 919 North Michigan Ave Chicago Illinois. The guide features tips for the modern hostess menus and tested party foods with recipes.
A home tip suggests reviving a dying fern or house plant by pouring a tablespoon of oyster oil around the roots. The method aims to restore green vitality quickly with a simple root soak.
The lineup features Re and Andere Don Wilson Barbara Jen and Vera Vague with The Kidoodlers. Jean Darling from Our Gang studies opera while William L White, son of Emporia editor William Allen White, broadcasts from Finland.
Saudi ruler Ibn Saud, leader of a growing Arab state with 250 wives and a palace of 200 rooms, expands his air force and economic alliances. As British interests near Suez and Palestine unsettles him, he courts influence across Islam while maintaining uneasy ties with Britain.
The oldest quilt style is the crazy patch with modern angular lines. Embroidery stitches join patches of plain and figured silks, using several silk colors. Mrs Spears offers Patterns and directions for three favorite Ear American Quilt Blocks by mail for 10 cents, plus her Sewing Booklet No 2 with 42 stitches and framed wall embroidery patterns.
A new sea plow deep-furrows and covers submarine cables at 2400 feet to curb half a million dollar annual losses from fishing trawlers off Ireland. Also mentions a bell ringing record in England, mirror image photo preference, and deaf workers in British munitions shot-blasting plants as related curios.
A new special constable on his first night beat follows a sergeant’s guidance to the limit of his area. He fails to report at 3:00 AM and returns exhausted at 4:30 AM claiming the red light in the distance was a long distance moving van 43 miles away after a flat tire.
A Houston road-sign painter proposes cautious railroad crossing phrases urging motorists to stop, look, and think before crossing. The suggested slogans warn that taking risks can lead to deadly consequences near trains and emphasize single, irreversible outcomes.
A reflective adage urges living upright by keeping God and neighbor in view, linking moral conduct to personal happiness and steady life. The saying emphasizes alignment with spiritual and social duties as the path to joy.
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