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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1937
Page
2
A home economics leader urges using long evenings for worthwhile projects and reading. She suggests visiting libraries for book ideas and proposes alternatives like rug or quilt making, drawing, or other crafts to fill hours productively.
Mix cottage cheese with diced carrot onion salt pepper and dill pickle if used. Shape into a mound in a ring of shoestring carrots and serve with the salad dressing.
The text provides recipe fragments for liver with minced meat mixtures and a traditional mince meat preparation. It lists ingredients such as liver ground with rice or bread crumbs, milk or water, egg, salt, pepper, and spices, plus detailed steps. It also includes a beef mince with suet, apples, currants, raisins, citrus, and spices, with cooking and canning directions.
A dated recipe and household hints describe pumpkin pie with spices and optional nuts or powdered sugar. It adds kitchen tips such as parsley garnish, fixing frosting, chopper tips for fruit, dressing variations with chestnuts oysters and giblets, sage flavor, paraffin reuse, and linoleum repairs.
Divine services at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11. English services held on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Pastor M C Phillipp invites all. Also a curious remark on ocean salt and a quote from Sec Wallace.
Miss Marian Dixon of Michigan State College urges families to stick with familiar standbys for Thanksgiving meals. She offers four menus starting with grapefruit juice and roast capon, turkey, roast beef, or baked ham, each paired with side dishes, salads, desserts, and a beverage.
A compact collage of historic quotes on merit and virtue from Lord Chesterfield La Bouchefoucauld Mary Baker Eddy Pope Proverbs and Plautus. The text links merit to eminence and success through integrity and timely action.
The church announces Walter Laxman as minister and lists services including 10 00 morning worship Thanksgiving 1937 evening devotional 7 30 mid week 7 50 8 30 and Friday 5 30 Ladies Aid penny supper A class party at the home of Mr and Mrs Ray Davis at 8 00.
Sunday schedule includes 10 oclock worship in the auditorium 11 15 Sunday school on Training the Laity for Service 630 Christian Endeavor and 730 evening worship with the sermon The Testimony of Our Conscience
St James Evangelical Church in Breitenbach notes Memorial Sunday on November 21 26th after Trinity with 10 am service in German and English. Sermon titled Will We Meet Again After Death special anthems by the church choir. The day honors the late former pastor who served 30 years and died May 14.
A comic note on famous people forgetting tasks from Dwight W. Morrow to Henry A. Wallace and J David Stern. A waiter corrects Stern for finishing lunch minutes earlier. The piece ends with an Observer ad pitch and a four year subscription offer for $5.00.
Michigan dairy experts report new testing and cow tagging boost profits as buyers from Pennsylvania California Kansas and Tennessee seek proven cows. Beating out poorer producers remains possible with beef prices aiding culling, while feeding advice emphasizes home-grown cereals and protein supplements for higher milk yields.
Poultry expert C G Card of Michigan State College recommends providing winter flocks with maximum sun exposure and vitamin supplements. He notes better hatchability with outdoor winter sun and green seeds or cod liver oil, plus alfalfa hay and milk products to fortify rations.
Recent guests included Mr and Mrs Ernie Moore of Detroit. Mrs Ronald Pilbeam broke her arm Sunday afternoon. Visits to the Gallaway and Vealey households noted. Gleason P T A met in November with 40 in attendance and a potluck supper. The program featured readings and music. Lincoln quote closes the item.
Lansing officials blame rising payroll costs for 2.8 million more for nine months of 1937 than a year earlier. State leaders urge consolidation of local governments and civil service reforms to curb inefficiency and prevent pay to non existent or discharged workers.
State Treasurer Fry reports Michigan has a $72 million outstanding bonded debt with a $50 million sinking fund on hand earning about 4 percent annually. If bonds could be called early the debt could drop to about $22 million and annual interest costs would fall to roughly $1 million. The state holds about 10 percent of all state bonds, effectively earning interest on its own borrowings. This fiscal policy is cited as keeping Michigan among the nation’s smallest debts.
Michigan announces a new marriage license requirement pending a physician certifying no venereal disease. On December 1 free drugs for syphilis control will be distributed by health departments in Detroit Grand Rapids Flint Saginaw Pontiac Lansing Jackson Kalamazoo Battle Creek and Marquette with a 60000 expenditure for arsenicals and bismuth and lab expansion. Turkeys will cost at least five cents a pound more this Thanksgiving due to a 10 percent smaller national crop while prices for other staples ease amid falling product costs. Potato yields will reduce grower income.
Dun and Bradstreet reports October sales up 5 to 18 percent from a year earlier while the Michigan Board of Tax Administration cites a 19.4 percent gain. Industrial payrolls rose 30 percent in the first nine months of 1937 adding about 150 million dollars to workers' income.
The piece notes optimism among Michigan automobile leaders for 1938 amid a federal recession and ongoing economic slowdown. It cites 2,060,000 employed residents in the state from a 5,000,000 population and quotes experts predicting the recession to be short with a rebound after next spring. Dr. Raymond Moley characterizes the downturn as a minor low mood and anticipates a boom in the near future.
In Ithaca New York cows are described as just as clever as horses. Bossy’s timid disposition hides her mental ability, with temperament differences noted alongside intelligence similarities of domestic animals.
Dr I Pearl Gardner reports cows and horses learning the same average across 850 cow trials and 1 234 horse trials in a test of finding a hidden breakfast box. Cows proved more cautious and retained learning better over a year, with the best milking breed excelling in both learning speed and memory.
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