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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1933
Page
6
A 1933 Bell Syndicate piece profiles Jim Dixon, a husky organ grinder from Dallas selling homemade wooden snakes for luck or misfortune in New York. He performs across the city including Harlem, detailing a colorful backstory while hinting the tale is a sales tactic.
Sunday supper offers a flexible weekly meal, ranging from tea and toast by the fire to cocoa and marmalade. Griddle cakes and waffles gain appeal with the electric grill and waffle iron enabling sociability, with tips on greasing and heating to prevent sticking.
Waffles need careful heat to avoid burning batter and heavy scraping. Preheat five to seven minutes. For fluffy cakes add extra baking powder after mixing. Leftover batter should get another small boost of baking powder. Waffle batter is pourable like thin cake batter, while flannel cakes use thicker batter. Also notes on cornbread spooning and batter texture.
The text provides a recipe style guide for Griddle Cakes with measurements for flour baking powder salt sugar eggs milk and shortening. It describes mixing dry ingredients, beating eggs with shortening, adding milk, and cooking on a hot griddle until bubbles form then flipping. It notes proportions and cooking times for different batter variations.
A nostalgic look at the phrase down in the dumps and its musical roots. The piece recalls a sequence of odd incidents including a man who kept snakes and elephants in jokes, a Bronx incident with an elephant trunk, and a busy Broadway morning with an organ grinder and a parrot.
A playful poem describes a bobcat with soft paws and a bobbed tail moving stealthily. It notes long whiskers and kinship to northern cats, and mentions preferred meals of rabbit and fish with occasional catches of wild turkey.
In St Gallen Switzerland a man arrested for theft underwent surgery revealing a tiny junk shop inside his stomach. Doctors removed two broken spoons a safety pin a wood screw sash fastenings nails and iron fragments. An X ray after surgery showed more metal objects remaining in his stomach.
Practical guidance on preserving via souring lemon salts for iron mold removal, keeping meringue light with water or baking powder, jar prep with rubbers, quick canning setup, and peppermint oil to deter mice from 1933 Associated Press material.
British war veteran and former German prisoner of war Locomotive No. 2717, famed for 1,220,000 travel miles and serving as a machine gun post in No Man's Land, has been withdrawn and broken up after wartime service from Cambrai 1917 to recapture in 1918.
A brief dialogue contrasts a belief that young men think of love and poetry in spring with a counterview based on personal observation that they never stop to think. The exchange highlights behavioral stereotypes about youth and seasonality.
Final lesson plan outlines senior and adult group methods focusing on military leaders prophets and royalty. It lists Joshua Caleb Gideon Deborah Ruth Hannah Isaiah Samuel Saul David Jonathan Solomon and highlights obedience faith courage and leadership through historic biblical figures.
A compact collection of devotional lines featuring James Hannington on faith and sacrifice. It includes a call to begin with small deeds, a note about purchasing the road to Uganda with life, and John Williams praising loyal service to the masters.
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