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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1939
Page
2
The illustration shows a bride’s mirror and piano stool repurposed with two grocery boxes, pine shelf, a back frame, and a curtain rod. White paint finishes the piece, with rose and blue green chintz and a dressed table skirt. Also notes free sewing book patterns from Mrs. Spears.
A humorous tale shows a fat man attempting golf with six clubs and a caddie. After a dramatic swing, the ball stays on the tee and all clubs break. The caddie suggests continuing by striking the ball with the empty golf bag.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Caldwell's Laxative with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach discomfort. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested food in the stomach while laxative action wakes bowels, promising quicker relief and a pleasant taste for children.
Washington reports the national pantry is well stocked with beef, pork, canned fruit, coffee, sugar, and bread. The piece notes a yearly per person food intake around 1,440 pounds, meat supplies around 20 billion pounds, and eggs near 44 billion, with sugar largely sourced from home beets and cane.
Terry Pin offers clever tips on spaghetti with playful comparisons to macaroni and alphabet soup. He jokes that broken letter factories produce illiterate soup and notes spaghetti’s appeal to housewives who dislike hauling potatoes.
University of Texas geologists will study central Texas mining to locate war materials. Dr. W. E. Barnes will survey the Llano area across Gillespie Llano Barnet Mason and Blanco counties. Known deposits include granite and marble with traces of chromium nickel copper lead graphite gypsum and gold. A $5 000 legislative appropriation addresses a key handicap as Colorado River power expansion could enable industrial use of any mineral finds.
A Columbus license clerk reassured a worried caller that marriage licenses will continue to be issued despite wartime. The inquiry asked if licenses would stop due to the war, and the clerk answered that the concern was unfounded.
Peter Rabbit observes Reddy Fox fleeing a strange no head creature and joins Prickly Porky Jim my Skunk and Unc Billy Possum in a mischief filled hill gathering. The group laughs at Reddy and plans more scares as curiosity drives Peter into the Wood.
A tame doe deer raised by the A H Kellogg family near Nile Washington enters the Kellogg house at milking time. Babe, found as a fawn three years ago and nourished by the children, roams the hills yet returns regularly for milk.
Gen Li Chaisum outlined new regulations to centralize party political and military affairs in war and guerrilla areas. Four branch committees are set up with more planned to coordinate central and local authorities and among guerrilla zones. Guerrilla units behind Japanese lines target enemy economics and recruit Japanese-aligned troops, while expanding civilian armaments and the non-co operation movement under Chiang Kai-shek guidance.
Practical home hints cover hot-water bottle care with glycerine addition, electric cord handling, plant care for philodendron, odor removal, glass cleanup, leather binding freshening, drawer maintenance, stuffing poultry, celery tops as flavoring, and storage tips. The tone resembles a domestic advice column from a past era.
The author argues humor should arise instinctively, not be cultivated or forced. It exists as a ready overflow, not a conscious craft.
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