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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
3
Household tips celebrate summer cooking with asparagus berries new potatoes and minty fruit desserts. Recipes include Minted Pineapple Gems Fresh Asparagus with Lemon Butter Sauce and Orange Ice Box Cookies plus a Hot Weather Vegetable Plate and a Fresh Fruit Salad.
Jean Arthur tours Old Tucson a film set near Tucson with 125 recreated buildings as Clarence Kelland’s Arizona shoots. The piece notes hot 126 degree days, Phoebe Titus, and also celebrates Waterloo Bridge and the rise of Vivian Leigh and Robert Taylor, plus Kit Carson crew in Flagstaff and Kayente. It mentions Johnny Green's Rhyme-O fans sending verses and the Andrews Sisters broadcasting from Hollywood.
A compact advertorial note touts Eleanor Howe recommended booklet Better Baking. It promises affordable recipes for apricot rolls blueberry muffins honey drop biscuit crusty peanut butter bread date and nut bread plus cookies cakes and pastries and instructs sending 10 cents to 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois via Western Newspaper Union.
Ted Steele improvised a four bar melody for Columbia's Society Girl and fans have been asking for the tune and where to buy it. Lloyd Nolan earns lead in Johnny Apollo and takes over as Richard Greene exits I Married a Nazi due to illness in Fox remake.
The pattern No 8716 offers a cotton dress with two neckline choices and a bow, featuring braid accents and ric rac trim. Sizes 12 to 20 available. size 14 requires 4.5 yards of 36 inch fabric, 8 yards ric rac, and 0.5 yard ribbon. Send order to the listed address.
A Collier’s excerpt notes tribal Baigas mending ground with nails after quakes. It cites harsh winds on hot plains driving criminals free from punishment. It mentions Molone island near Brittany now populated only by women and children, as men serve in the French army. It adds Sao Paulo phone listings with five Red Book classifications.
A concise remark on neighbors described as ridiculous yet magnificent who appear so close they seem to touch, reflecting a humorous or philosophical observation.
An advertisement from Coppples Company of St. Louis Missouri promotes Swedish chrome shaving blades. The offer highlights single edge C7 blades and double edge mines under an outstanding blade value theme. The wording emphasizes affordability and value.
A brief quotation asserts death is natural and necessary, not designed as evil for humankind, arguing against viewing mortality as malevolent. The line emphasizes death's inevitability and universality in human life.
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