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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
6
Kathleen Norris presents a moral appeal from a letter by Maria Pendleton Smith urging global empathy and Christian charity. She urges universal sharing, simplification of life, and hospitality to the hungry, promoting Christ's law and a peaceful, cooperative world order as the path to save a tortured world.
A reader argues that Americans, enriched by wartime employment and prices, should share clothes food fuel and medicine with the suffering in Europe and Asia. She urges trimming living standards to donate surplus, motivated by faith and long term statecraft to end war and its causes.
Beverly Hills branch of the American Women’s Voluntary Service in Southern California organizes a Button Brigade. The group twice weekly visits nearby camps with four sewing machines and supplies to sew buttons, service stripes, and perform full alterations for soldiers.
A summary of Argentina's demographic and political evolution highlights a population over 13 million with about 53 thousand Indigenous people. Between 1858 and 1907 the country received six million immigrants. Spaniards settled the land in the 16th century, ruling as a Spanish colony until 1816 when the viceroy was deposed, followed by civil strife and dictatorships before a U.S. inspired constitution was adopted after 1853.
Music and film news from Hollywood. Frances Langford and Joan Edwards receive screen and radio opportunities with RKO and 20th Century Fox while new roles and contracts surface for actors like Alan Carney Gracie Allen Burns Vos and Connee Boswell. Includes recipe and lifestyle snippets from the era.
Tips include smoothing chipped glass with an emery board, adding orange rind to tea for fragrance and sugar savings, warming lemons to yield more juice, covering lemons with hot water before juicing, flouring meat in a bag for even coating, removing garlic bits with a toothpick, adding leftover meat to potatoes for flavor, and turning broccoli into a creamy soup or baked casserole with cheese sauce for leftovers.
Lynn Chambers presents a concise menu featuring fried chicken with tomatoes and cucumber, corn pudding, tossed green salad, buttermilk biscuits with strawberry jam, sliced cantaloupe with berry sauce, and iced coffee.
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