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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
6
A assorted household hints cover ice cream topping with apple butter, window repair with buttons and hair pins, airing closets to prevent odors, lattice topped pies needing less bake time, orange fritters with lamb, washing curtains with salt, and shaving soap with a wood plane. WNU Service.
A dated advertisement promotes Kruschen Salts as a simple plan to lose fat, reduce double chins, and boost energy. It urges daily intake and light exercise, claiming gradual weight loss and improved health with a money back guarantee, urging readers to buy at any drugstore.
A column mix of anecdotes on radio replacing newspapers, then a satirical note on the League of Nations with Aga Khan as president and a Geneva banquet. It critiques media dominance, cites Ethiopia and Spain delegate absences, plus humorous vignettes about an Irish cop, French bank raids, and Irvin S. Cobb’s WNY Service commentary.
A Pennsylvania writer catalogs scattered college football ties, noting multiple institutions share names across states, alumni coaching across leagues, and schedules mixing teams from many states. Names like Princeton, Yale, and Penn State appear with unusual geographic pairings and coach origins, reflecting a quirky prewar collage of programs.
The piece blends trivia on US cabinet history with weight conversions for rainfall, war counts since 1918, Chinese naming order, and noted composers. It includes a famous line attribution about mountains, speech on club meeting order, a Idaho farm sink cause, and language word counts totaling about 700k terms in English dictionaries.
A brief Windsor Star excerpt shows Little Joan struggling to thread a needle. She mutters that the eye isn’t looking for the cotton as she attempts sewing, reflecting a small domestic moment with quaint humor.
A humorous brief notes a husband who promised a circular tour yet took his wife on a merry-go-round. The dialogue plays on infidelity fears and social sharp wit.
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