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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1945
Page
2
A Western Newspaper Union release offers postwar fruit based dessert ideas avoiding excess sugar. Recipes include Peach Crunch Cake, Peach Puff Pudding, Lime-Pear Pie, Apple Crisp, and Toasted Pears, with method notes and serving suggestions amid rationing and time-saving tips.
Virginia Vale reports on rising stars like Jeanne Crain Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine in State Fair and other Technicolor films. She notes June Haver with Fred MacMurray and hints at Alec Templeton returning to New York for radio and film work, plus updates on Kay Kyser Artur Rubinstein and the cast of Mr Cooper's Left Hand and No Leave No Love.
Kathleen Norris advises how wives should handle wartime divorce threats from husbands. She suggests calm, affectionate responses, then direct questions to uncover reasons, and frames support to stabilize families whether husbands return or desert. The piece also contrasts Violet's case with a husband abroad, noting war’s strain and the value of steady, cheerful home life.
Lynn advises saving every part of cooked meat and cereals. Use fat as shortening, bones for soup stock, gravy as stock, and mustard butter for sandwiches. Leftover cereals can become dessert or meat loaves, with dabs of butter for seasoning and creamed leftovers with waffles or noodles.
A wartime column warns that long separations drive some service members to doubt their marriages. Lonely soldiers compare wives at home to younger foreign partners, then consider divorce to wed new loves. Wives are urged to ignore such letters and stay resolute.
The article explains how table silver determined social rank in the past. Wealthy households prized rare utensils and guests were seated according to the quality of their flatware with pewter placing someone below the salt, signaling lower status.
Advertisement notes crochet lamp shade covers using jiffy chenille or straw yarn in sizes 7 inches. Pattern 734 provides directions for two lamp shades. Due to high demand some orders are delayed. send orders to fulfill popular pattern numbers.
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