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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1940
Page
3
A Hobby Show prize piece inspires a shelf set made from tin can lids and spools. Three corner shelves use lids from a candy box cracker can and coffee can, with wire spools and beads. Painted cherry red, they hold kitchen items, salt, pepper, and cruets. Directions are included.
Household News Glamor outlines an eight point plan to manage community suppers for 200 people with a $25 profit. It idealizes a general chair, delegated food leads, a practical kitchen layout, advance prep, ready utensils, a hostess, uniform serving, and pre planned menus. Recipes include Ham Loaf de Luxe Beef Stew With Biscuits and Meat Balls With Rice with serving tips and a sample fall menu.
Recipe fragments describe a cider raisin sauce for ham, a cabbage and celery salad with peas and pimiento, lemon cream scones with lemon glaze, and a cabbage and carrot salad with peanuts. Includes ingredient lists and brief preparation steps for each dish.
Finely cut mint leaves added to orange juice and chili. Just before serving 1 percent cups pale dry ginger ale to two cups orange juice. For variety sprinkle grated cheese over raisin apple or mince pie and heat five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve at once.
A lesson on Luke 9 emphasizes cooperation with other believers, humility, patience, and costly sacrifice as essential to true discipleship. It warns against lukewarm faith and urges unwavering devotion, stating no one who looks back after starting the plough is fit for the kingdom.
The item outlines a chic set including a weskit calot and mittens, designed with a back-fastened waistline and stitched trim. It notes easy home sewing in felt, flannel, or suede and suggests variations in color for personal use and campus fashion.
Oddities from Collier's include a ship tale about the Liberty Glo mine strike 1919 and its salvage, plus customs on fat wives and bride auctions in Europe. It notes married women are kissed on the hands, now some wear an OK glove, and peasant death rites involve a water tub for Grim Reaper.
An advertisement invites readers suffering from piles or fistula to write for a free valuable book promising payment. It lists Dr C M Coe at 503 Pine Street in St Louis Missouri and an advt note. The piece shifts to a quotation about humanity’s next great task being deliverance from the sword rather than by it.
A devotional phrase from II Samuel highlights deliverance and delight in a vast, renewed path. The excerpt references divine guidance and personal restoration amid flaws, urging faith in a spacious future beyond troubles.
A brief devotional quotation urging that the heart be kept with utmost diligence as the wellspring of life. The verse from Proverbs 4 23 emphasizes inner guarding influencing outward actions.
A terse aphorism credits struggle with sharpening skill as the antagonist becomes a hidden helper. The line frames adversity as a source of nerve strengthening and prowess, echoing Burkean themes of conflict shaping character.
A reflective adage notes certainty begins with doubt, attributed to Stan Islaus, urging cautious inquiry before belief.
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