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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1938
Page
3
The article explains how fruits and vegetables supply minerals and vitamins including iron calcium vitamin A and C. It highlights green vegetables as iron sources and leafy greens and carrots as vitamin A sources. It defends canned foods as nutritive and urges using them to ensure minerals and vitamins in the family diet.
A brief column notes there is no reason a normal person should not drink coffee after middle age unless doctor forbidden it. It adds that many people find coffee and tea comforting in later years.
Household suggestions cover breaking in new shoes with talcum powder, proper children’s garment weight, uniform fruit sizing for canning, flour measurement by spoonfuls after sifting, anchored shoulder straps to prevent slips, and laying out breakfast prep the night before for faster mornings.
A collage of brief jokes and gags includes a boss quipping about life after death and an office boy burying his grandfather, a manager discovering a cigarette end, and workers debating cinema habits and musical progress.
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