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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1935
Page
7
Prunes, if properly prepared, are healthful and delicious and need no added sugar. Wash the prunes the night before, then place them in a saucepan and cover with water. The next morning bring to a boil, cool, and serve.
Municipal Judge Cyrus of Charleston West Virginia ordered a truck driver to continue. A letter from the driver, posted at Clifton Forge Virginia, reports the truck burned up this morning and asks what to do next.
Rita Gage meets Eliot Blaine at a Kenyon house party and is drawn to his grave, romantic pursuit. After a tangled sequence of reunions and rival suitors, she finds herself atop the Grand Canyon with Eliot where she finally discovers she is in love.
Pathfinder Magazine reports a new AP glossary of farm terms created in Topeka Kansas to explain language such as gang plow sod buster wild hay tame hay listing and lister. The guide clarifies terms for urban readers and farm relatives.
Naturalist H. B. Mills notes scorpion flies on snow feign death by pulling legs inward and may kick spasmodically to move up to six inches. Snow fleas crane flies and snow flies are among the common snowbound fauna.
Cross-stitch is simple handwork for little girls and grandmothers. Six inch blocks are stamped on white muslin for making doilies pillow tops scarves and bedspreads. Outfit No. 464 includes six blocks mailed for 10 cents from Home Craft Co Dept A Nineteenth and St Louis Ave St Louis Mo. Enclose stamped addressed envelope for reply.
Vienna unveils a bronze bust of Peter Mitterhoffer as inventor of the modern typewriter. Records show at least two earlier machines, including 1714 London patent by Henry Mill for a writing machine that impresses or transcribes letters with printlike neatness, and 1850 Manchester inventor G A Hughes who perfected a typewriter.
A Broadway dealer predicts a revival of the photo album in a new form. A man recalls his attic find of a family album reviving memories of relatives and old outings. Today informal amateur family snap shots replace formal portraits in homes.
An editorial asserts progress toward universal access to bathtubs, noting a ratio of one tub per ten people in the United States as evidence civilization must continue advancing until every bedroom receives its own tub.
Accounts show the 1772 contractor paid masons 46 cents carpenters 45 cents and laborers 26 cents a day for the western highway span over the Seine at Neuilly Sur Seine. The new bridge will likely cost more though living was cheaper then.
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