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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1935
Page
7
An ad touts oatmeal as essential for children with Vitamin B to keep them fit. It claims cereals lack this nutrient, promotes oats as energy giving and muscle building, and urges starting a two week Quaker Oats meal plan at four cents per dish, available at all grocers.
George Ade outlines how women in a rural town run 35 cent dinners with floor shows and crowds, detailing the roles of Mrs A to Mrs H as cake, biscuit, trimmings, coffee, and noodle specialists. He notes rising prices for fried chicken and the appeal of home cooking to visitors, praising women as self-starters who mobilize local clubs and events.
The total factory consumption of all animal and vegetable fats and oils reached 3 354 555 000 pounds. More than a third, 1 875 416 000 pounds, went to soap manufacture. Cottonseed products, vegetable shortenings, paints and varnishes followed in order.
The record lists major commodity shipments including oil at 1,088,950,000 pounds followed by substantial edible tallow 585,596,000 pounds and coconut oil 549,515,000 pounds. Linseed oil stands at 219,746,000 pounds and palm oil at 208,547,000 pounds.
A new process at the fuel research station East Grinstead England claims nine gallons of gasoline can be produced from half a ton of coal in one hour.
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