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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1940
Page
4
Marian Martin Pattern 9501 offers a two piece bias skirt and a front panel blouse with Peter Pan or heart shaped collar. The set includes short or long sleeves, fabric yardage details for size 16, and Sew Chart guidance. Order by sending fifteen cents for the pattern and twenty-five cents for book plus pattern.
An Ohio WPA graphic art collection showcases etching engraving aquatint lithography and wood engraving with explanatory labels. The exhibit highlights intaglio methods used by modern printmakers and features W LeRoy Flint's Lady with Dogs. It runs at Roswell Museum through September 10 with daily hours 1 to 5 and 7 to 8 on weekdays and 1 to 5 Sundays. Local residents Mr and Mrs James B Daughtry and family visited Corpus Christi after staying with relatives and then returned from a two week motor trip to Grand Canyon Boulder Dam Los Angeles and San Diego.
Mrs Leslie Stitt Jr of Amarillo Texas was toasted at a surprise party hosted by Misses Ann Askren Nancy Elizey Edith French and Ruth Gaines Wilson at the O O Askren home 607 North Kentucky Avenue The gathering featured late summer flowers and a bridal themed ice and cake service with gifts for the honoree Several friends attended including Marion Roney Frances Schultz Ruth Iankes Genevieve Cooney and others from the local social circle
Ursula Sloop and Ernest Richards wed on Saturday at the Church of Christ Parish Hall in Carrizozo New Mexico. After a wedding trip to Albuquerque they returned home north of Roswell and are living at their country place.
A vintage dessert feature describes a Cherry gelatin mold served with glazed apricots prunes and pineapple. It explains dissolving gelatin in hot water molding chilling unmolding and garnishing with fruit and whipped cream. It also covers making a thick syrup for glaze and preparing canned pineapple with dried fruit soaking to glaze.
A vintage recipe outlines a light foamy sauce made by beating brown sugar with an egg yolk, then foaming the egg white with salt, folding in whipped cream and vanilla, and gradually adding the remaining sugar. The method yields about one and one third cups of sauce.
John D. Hickerson of the State Department European affairs division will head the American section of the board. Board member appointments followed a rapid agreement between Roosevelt and the Canadian prime minister on common defense measures reached during a conference in upstate New York.
The puzzle lists multiple crossword clues covering baseball terms, actions, objects, and states, with a long string of entries including beasts of burden tavern and theater attendant. The down clue mentions police surgeons citing Trot sky's brain weight of three and a half pounds as a record in Mexican medical history.
Kansas City's first old fashioned town hall event featured Mayor John T. Gage and city manager L. P. Cookingham outlining aims while citizens asked questions. Nine of ten asked why the city had not provided them jobs, exposing concerns over employment. In Puyallup Washington, Fire Chief Chester Brakefield faced a 2:30 appointment with the dentist after a 12 minute alarm.
The home guard would be officered by ex service members or reservists, with up to 500 New Mexico guardsmen from the 120th engineers and 158th field artillery to be called to active duty in the western hemisphere under a mobilization bill nearing approval in Congress. Plans avoid immediate mobilization of the 260th coast artillery anti aircraft unit. Governor Miles proposes state police augmented by federal funds as a nucleus for a home guard. Phone your classified to No. 11.
Slavi Leon Trotsky lies in state under guard as authorities seek an international mastermind behind his assassination. Suspect Frank Jackson and Sylvia Ageloff are questioned. Ageloff connected to New York welfare work. Burial plans hint at a New York funeral with cremation and ash return to Mexico, amid immigration concerns for non citizens.
A Chicago date line notes the 1940 Accident Facts report from the National Safety Council. It states that four diseases kill more people overall than accidents, but accidents claim more male lives ages 3 to 38 and more youths aged 3 to 21 than any single disease. Also referenced are Hawaii defense visibility notes from Honolulu reports.
Experts note the mainland coast can spot air planes 18 000 feet away, while here searchlights reach 36 000 feet six miles distant or more. They credit clear skies free of fog and rain for better visibility, highlighting the impressive range of lighting equipment.
State news from Carlsbad New Mexico reports the first annual Carlsbad invitational water meet at municipal beach with participants from New Mexico and West Texas. Texas champions from El Paso join titlists from Clovis Portales and Roswell along with other southwest swimmers. Winners from the El Paso Southwestern swimming and diving meet ten days earlier are set to compete. Judge James B. McGhee sits in Las Vegas today for Judge Moise and is expected home tomorrow.
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