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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
3
Late May and early June invite picnics with no work and all play. The guide offers cheeseburgers with piquant sauce, plus sides like tomatoes onions corn and drinks, plus optional fried egg toppers for a simple outdoor feast.
The guide advises forming patties for hamburgers with minced onion and seasoning, packing between waxed paper, and cooking when ready. It notes hash as a bun filler and ways to dress picnic tables with oilcloths and napkins, plus new two-quart vacuum bottles with a table converting leg in lunch kits.
This on location menu offers bonfire burgers with piquant sauce and roasted corn, plus slices of tomatoes and onions, raw carrots, and cup cakes. Recipes include Cole Slaw Old Fashioned Potato Salad Marshmallow-Graham Dessert Sandwich and Chocolate Ice Cream with simple steps and servings for six.
The piece lists Edward Arnold slimming after an accident and recounts casting shifts for The Devil and Daniel Webster Road to Morocco replacing Road to Moscow. It notes Ellen Drew in a mining camp tale, Ginny Simms joining RKO, Jean Arthur possible lead in Miss Susie Slagle’s, Harold Winston guiding Bette Davis, Look Who’s Talking stars, and other studio plans including Anne Rooney at Metro and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy nine-picture deal.
A magazine snippet promotes a do it yourself slip cover project for an old sofa. It promises easy pin on construction and includes diagrams in a 32 page booklet detailing cutting sewing and finishing. It also covers chair coverings and fabric color tips.
This item lists a quiz with nine questions and their solutions. It covers Great Lakes borders eight states, Old Iron Sides, France recognizing US independence first, Wall Street origin, Sanskrit sacred use in India, Chung Hua Min Kuo meaning, pigeons flying up to 600 miles, Francis Bacon as the quote source, and 1912 as the start of the republic.
A quotation pairing contrasts male independence and female influence with Wildean wit. Holmes notes that strength grows through sympathy for strength rather than weakness and honors resolve through shared understanding.
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