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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1934
Page
2
The Weathercock leads a lonely life without a friend or wife and not a grain of chicken feed. But then it’s not so bad he should be glad because he can’t be fricasseed.
Home cooks share spring tonics using rhubarb dandelion greens and tomato juice. Dandelion greens are prepared as a salad or cooked, rhubarb appears in rolls and with orange salad, and tomato juice cocktail with herbs is suggested alongside a caramel pudding and stuffed tomato salads.
Visitors glimpse a near replica of Eugene Field’s famed Purple Cow at the Smithsonian Institution. The fragmentary Delft ware item draws attention as an iconic artifact amid museum displays and historical curios.
A quip shows money buying a fortune telling for fifty cents. The fortune teller claims the speaker has a lovely disposition and a handsome man is crazy about them, humorously implying money’s influence on outcomes.
A Cincinnati jury awarded Helen Zlatin, fourteen, three thousand dollars in damages after an accident left her nose deflected to the right. The case was heard in John H. Druffel's common pleas court.
Delft chinaware popular in early America will be shown among a curio collection of old wares. The purple ornate pieces appear to switch their tails as a milker looks on. The exhibit, lent by Mrs. Francis T. Renwood of Baltimore, includes Staffordshire Spode Bow Worcester Lowestoft Dresden Royal Sevres. It will be in the ceramics division of the arts and industries building.
The column traces the term bimbo from 1887 descriptions calling it a devilish invention and a brandy lemon blend to an Italian baby meaning and possible Barbados rum link. It notes modern college slang uses the term for a girl with a telephone number.
Istanbul reports that since polygamy was banned in 1926, many clandestine unions produced unregistered children. Parents are being asked to declare hidden offspring to grant citizenship. tens of thousands are being registered under last year’s amnesty, expanding the census from 14 to about 18 million.
Harwich Massachusetts resident Mrs Ermina Pena Barboza aged 105 perhaps the oldest woman in New England still helps with the family washing. She was born in the Cape Verde islands reads the daily papers and credits longevity to regular sleep and meals and abstinence from liquor and tobacco.
A floating flea circus plans a spring voyage from Boston. Fleas including 500 males will be sent from Benson animal farm in Nashua New Hampshire to Copenhagen Denmark for experimental purposes when weather allows.
In Yorkville Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky ruled that Dominick Cassello may not play certain older tunes on a hand organ near a hospital, prompting debate over whether modern audiences or nostalgic pieces belong in street music. The piece also touches on tenement life and urban reform themes in New York.
Quick household fixes include washing ceilings with cloths wrung in water with dissolved washing soda, using a coarse meat grinder blade for cabbage slaw, balancing salt in soup with brown sugar, and sealing china edges with carriage oil varnish to hide cracks while withstanding heat and water.
A brief humorous exchange depicts a husband admitting he gets his way by feigning the opposite. He claims his wife is unaware, as he simulates opposition to secure consent for his plans. The dialog highlights playful power dynamics in marriage.
Attractive house frock patterns offer two uses in one design. Morning versions use checked or striped cottons while afternoon options call for sheer cotton or silk. pattern 9937 fits sizes 14 through 44 and requires 8 1/2 yards 86 inch fabric for size 16. Include name address style number and size with 15 cents. Send to The Sewing Circle Pattern Department New York.
A Vancouver Province exchange converts a child’s misunderstanding of atoms into a playful joke about a place called Atoms. The father clarifies there is no such location and redirects to Athens, while the caption hints at a local ad for Ferry's Pure Bred Vegetable Seeds at five cents per package.
Senator Sorghum jokes about reading economics versus eating its ideas. The exchange notes that high society ladies once sponsored cookbooks while the senator quips about the practicality of theories.
A newspaper-style line notes a dialog in which one man admits a marital disagreement that his wife remains unaware of. The quip highlights a private marital dynamic with a humorous edge.
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