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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
7
A lively guide to refreshing beverages for hot days featuring fruit juices tea and milk with ice. Recipes include Ice Tea double strength brew and Orange Mint Julep with mint orange rind and crushed ice. It promotes quick mixes with fruit juice powders and suggests garnishes and vitamins to lift spirits.
A frosted glass enhances summer drinks. Dip rims in beaten egg white and sugar for a frosted edge. The granits are half frozen drinks kept just liquid, then frosted by chilling. For a strawberry granit, mash berries with sugar to form a syrup, strain, add extract and water, then freeze until snow frosted.
A nostalgic cooking page offers fruit based drinks and desserts. Recipes include Fruit Float Fruit Swizzle Currant Syrup With Raspberries Cinnamon Almond Float and Coconut Flake Cookies with advice from a Western Newspaper Union release.
Hollywood notes report Joan Crawford and Greer Garson paired for When Ladies Meet while Katharine Hepburn heads toward The Woman of the Year. Miriam Hopkins exits Bad Lands amid concerns about Robert Stack. Frank Capra seeks Maude Adams for Meet Jane Doe, Mother of John Doe. Ed Lowe and Victor McLaglen revive Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg on radio to boost enlistment. Jack Smart dodges a second speeding ticket. Cleo Manning debuts kissing Clark Gable in Honky Tonk. Metro presses Down in San Diego with amateur detectives. Lili Damita and Sean Leslie Flynn return home. Ann Sothern signs Metro deal. Richard Arlen set for three Paramount melodramas.
Sewing Circle offers Pattern No. 8962 a sailor collar top with matching slacks or skirt in faded blue denim. Sizes 12 to 20 use 2 3/4 yards plus 7 1/4 yards braid for trim. pattern includes a blouse top 2 3/4 yards 36 inch fabric and 2 3/4 yards for slacks and skirt. Send 15 cents to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Room 1324 311 W Wacker Dr with name and address.
A rainy bus ride ends with a passenger named Brown meeting a buxom woman who sits on his knee. She reveals she is his new cook and mentions going to his house, creating a humorous domestic misunderstanding during the journey.
Vintage ad for parrot motif tea towels and matching panholders. Claims designs show an industrious parrot guiding household routine. Mentions transfer method and price of 15 cents, with order to be sent to a listed address.
A listing from Aunt Martha in Kansas City Missouri calling for 15 cents per pattern with pattern numbers names and addresses to be enclosed for purchase. Pattern No. Name Address appears as a reader request form from a newspaper page.
A recent philologists census shows about 6 760 languages exist with 2 796 still spoken. English leads among white races followed by Russian German Spanish French Portuguese and Italian with Chinese spoken more than any other among the rest.
A short aphorism declares that true wisdom lies within and urges self-knowledge. The quoted line emphasizes inner insight as the core of wisdom, attributed to a source urging personal reflection.
A reflective piece argues silence as a potent expression in communication, exploring how restraint conveys meaning more clearly than spoken language and shaping perception in relationships and public life.
A quote emphasizes that early impressions shape lifelong development. It asserts that the deepest-rooted principles form in infancy, childhood, and youth, guiding personality and intellect throughout life as proposed by Logan.
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