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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1934
Page
2
A discussion on balancing nutrition and appetite in meal planning notes that soups offer different benefits. Cream soups provide fullness and comfort. stock soups stimulate digestion. Leftover meats and bones can yield flavorful stock for budget meals and varied luncheon options.
A bank teller informs Mrs. Jones she cannot honor a check due to an overdrawn husband’s account. Mrs. Jones retorts that 24 checks remain unused in the book.
A table of useful home hints includes adding a tablespoon of vinegar per pint of water to keep beet color, tying wood with canvas for easier carrying, a sandwich filling of dates figs and raisins with cream, buttered graham bread for lunch, and adding common salt to blue water to distribute color evenly and avoid streaks.
Mr and Mrs Farrar Burn claim their family of four on San Juan Island has lived two years on 200 dollars. He is a musician and she a writer. they work little each year, with a cow garden and fish-rich sea sustenance.
This recipe outlines making a thin white sauce with fat milk flour salt and pepper, then combines it with tomatoes bay leaf cloves paprika onion sugar salt and soda to create a Tomato Bisque served hot. The method notes simmer five minutes strain and add soda before mixing with hot white sauce and serving immediately.
The Inquirer explores the Chesterfield name explaining that the coat is an overcoat with long skirts named for Philip Dormer Stanhope the fourth Earl of Chesterfield who lived 1694 to 1733. The sofa likely named for an Earl of Chesterfield though exact tracing is uncertain possibly from the seventh or eighth Earl.
In Newton Massachusetts Mary F McGlone driving for only her second time sped past a driveway and into the Mansfield home front lawn then crashed through the front door into the reception hall. A stair landing halted her further movement.
In Groton Connecticut lightning struck Ernest Blackington's home causing a chain of damage. A struck tree created a ditch to the porch moved a cart 15 feet split linoleum smashed a door casing followed a water pipe to the sink twisted a pipe near a faucet tore moulding from a screen door knocked plaster from the ceiling and exited via the roof leaving two large holes.
Reports from the Lions Gate bridge scene note players using rocking chairs and initials carved in handles such as P Hal Sims while a pug dog in a spectator's arms reacts to bids and slams. The piece also mentions coffeehouse pulling tactics, toy trends inspired by headlines, and a baby’s crib incident handled by the police emergency squad.
Rome reports a new nationwide push to combat tuberculosis with more hospital beds. The plan aims to raise beds in special hospitals to about twenty thousand and expands compulsory insurance for workers to fund treatment. Fascist authorities tout the program as a bold international effort.
A comic exchange opens with Bird One teasing about an older man’s bloated look and Bird Two quipping that the fellow always seems puffed up. The light banter implies a humorous mood from a page featuring casual street dialogue.
Seattle launches a 200 acre municipal arboretum in what officials call one of the world’s largest projects. The site will feature nearly every tree and plant suitable for the Puget Sound region as construction proceeds.
When many onions must be peeled, cover them with hot water, let stand a minute or two, and the thin skin comes off readily as if by magic.
Pattern 9929 creates a universally flattering frock with a sliming fever and V neck details. It comes in sizes 34 to 46, requires 35 yards of 36 inch fabric for size 36, and includes a sew chart. Send fifteen cents and address with style number and size to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept New York.
Mr Dustin Stax jokes about the need to reduce as a business doctor, not his weight, telling the other person that his doctor advises reducing dividends. The quip plays on the double meaning of reduce in personal health and corporate finance.
A dialogue notes a buyer reconsidering buying two pairs of trousers with a new suit. The exchange reveals practical fashion caution about warmth versus style. A closing quip from Pathfinder Magazine jokes about editors overwhelmed with submissions and waste baskets.
Waller calls his Brooklyn farm the "Crazy Quilt" with an onion patch watermelon patch and potato and cabbage beds. The remark appears in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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