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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
5
Read can labels for slices and content clues. Decay in grapefruit at stem end spoils flavor even in small spots. Use leftover pickle liquid to mix with chopped meat or fish for sandwiches. A wooden salad bowl filled with appetizers makes a holiday centerpiece. Lemons with fine textured skin and heavy for size yield better juice.
Many children are overwhelmed by Christmas gifts and jump from one toy to another. Experts advise parents to reserve some toys out of sight for indoor days to ensure quiet and focused play. Limiting options helps with age appropriateness and reduces overstimulation.
A list of traditional sayings about Christmas day weather and its supposed effects. Proverbial rules connect sun, wind, rain, snow, and crops with future yields, fruit, and seasons.
The Salvation Army’s Christmas charity traces to Catherine and William Booth who founded the movement in 1861 and to Gen Evangeline Booth who succeeded Bramwell Booth in 1934. The article notes kettles and caroling, the early London reformers, and the Army’s expansion in the United States with banks, factories, farms, hospitals and cadet schools from the 1890 expedition led by George Scott Railton.
Honey in cookies and cakes needs about two weeks to ripen and improve with age when stored in covered jars in a cool place. Apples stuffed with mincemeat and baked make a winter dessert. wash peel core and bake. Lemon sauce pairs well. Popovers should be baked in very hot greased pans that bloom when touched with cold water.
In 1812 Franz Gruber, organist at a small Arnsdorf church, found the instrument broken on a stormy night. Parish priest Joseph Mohr urged a simple song so Christmas service could proceed, and Mohr wrote the words while Gruber composed the tune that night.
Star Dust reports Marlene Dietrich rejoining Paramount for Cecil B. DeMille's North West Mounted Police with a role once considered for Dorothy Lamour. Destry Rides Again is praised as a super western with Stewart and Dietrich delivering fine performances under director George Marshall. Allan Jones renews a Paramount contract for three films while Greta Garbo and Jane Withers get noted career moments and television and radio highlights are summarized.
Ruth Wyeth Spears offers a red and blue bordered pieced border using small cotton prints on unbleached muslin bags. The pattern explains cutting triangles and strips, assembling blue red and print sections, and adding a 4 inch seam. Readers can order Sewing Book No. 4 and 10 cent editions, with free quilt block patterns on book orders.
A Q and A recap covers topics from cov entry meaning to patent rules. It explains language facts like Brazil’s Portuguese, distinctions between flavor and flavor, and trade balances. It also defines terms for legal roles and road naming origins, with notes on macadam roads and carousel etymology.
The quote from Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, argues that the chief problem of democracy is the moral education and guidance of the individual rather than suppressing individuals for the supposed benefit of a mass or group.
The text presents a quotation attributed to Hazlitt: hypocrisy cannot be forgiven and the repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. No additional context or events are provided.
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