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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
5
Seasonal guidance covers pantry prep buffet hosting and table decor. It details glazing options for ham a fruit plate and a green salad with a tomato rose, carrot curls and crostini style servings. It also outlines flexible defrosting and safe cooking practices for poultry.
Homemakers are advised on thawing and roasting fowl for holiday meals. Quick frozen birds save prep time but require defrosting in the refrigerator, a process that can take overnight to 1 ½ days depending on bird size and fridge temperature.
The author questions the Pacific Coast conference’s move to hand Rose Bowl duties to the Big Nine, arguing the decision centralizes power, shifts revenue away from the South, and transforms future bowl selections to favor the Big Nine over the West. Army and Notre Dame as possible leaders are noted amid a changing, commercialized landscape.
A recall of 1940s sporting highs highlights Assaults Derby stretch, Mauriello versus Louis quick punch, Zale-Graziano middleweight clash, and the dramatic World Series finish with the Cardinals and Red Sox. It notes Pennsylvania-Cornell and Army-Navy games where underdogs rallied from big deficits to win.
Virginia Vale Moorehead profiles star fans and careers from radio to film. Judy Garland signs long MGM deal. Laurence Olivier and Elsa Lanchester perform accents. Jane WithersAnn Doran Bette Davis Bing Crosby Alan Ladd Eddie Foy Jr. and others noted for collections and projects. Juvenile Jury gains traction with Mutual debut and Universal short subjects.
A compact chronicle traces New Year's Day milestones from 452 B C to 1947 including the birth of Paul Revere Betsy Ross and the Union flag unfurled by Washington. It notes Lincoln emancipation and European milestones while Hollywood figures Benedict Bogdanus David O Selznick and Garbo intermittently appear in the discussion of 1947 productions.
The article explains Earth's orbit takes 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds and discusses Leap Years. It notes Gregorian calendar reform by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 and rules that years divisible by four have 366 days except centuries not divisible by 400.
In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a proclamation replacing the Julian with the Gregorian calendar setting January 1 as New Year's Day. The Gregorian calendar reduces the solar drift to one day in 3,323 years. Protestant states adopted it in the 18th century, with Russia and Balkan states accepting it in the 20th century.
The Monday after New Year's is the big day for Scotch boys and girls a day of gift giving feasting and gaiety Families gather to drink a cup of kindness yet for Auld Lang Syne.
New Year arrives on Hanson Island in the Chathams as the first place to greet 1947. The British colony lies just east of the international date line where time is reckoned.
June Morrison, unknown Metro actress, earns her big break in the Hollywood Players air show with Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten John Garfield and Gene Kelly in supporting roles. The world premiere of The Egg snd 1 is set to air on CBS soon after January 1 with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray in their original film parts. Attendants at Anita Colby hospital health check report her X rays are beautiful. Harold Huber stars in Mystery of the Week and reads a page of the telephone directory daily.
The article explains a superstition of early Scots who used a Bible to glimpse fortunes. A finger was placed on a random page after opening the book on a table and reading the entire chapter to infer happiness or misery for the individual involved.
Collier's notes the 1944 motion picture Wilson cost over 6 million dollars for production and advertising. The lavish budget funded many spectacular scenes including a 1912 Democratic convention sequence that required lighting enough to power a city the size of Lansing Michigan.
A wild-eyed patient pleads for relief as ghosts of departed relatives perch on fence posts around his orchard.The doctor advises a simple fix sharpening the tops of the posts, then drives away.
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