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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
3
Household tips for summer picnics include easy sandwiches baked beans and stews. Recipes feature Broiled Baked Bean Sandwiches Ginger Creams Deviled Eggs and One-Dish Picnic Meals with sausage onions Lima beans tomatoes and macaroni Creole style.
Virginia Vale previews Madeleine Carroll returning to work on Virginia after a perilous France trip. the column blends film industry notes with home baking recipes and kitchen tips. It highlights radio and film figures like Rowena Cook, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Ralph Edwards, The Merry Macs, and Eleanor Howe while offering recipes for macaroni sausage bake, raisin drop cookies, and Crazy Cake.
Reader questions answered on wallpaper staining from hot air, soot removal powders for boilers, loosening glass stoppers with glycerine, removing oil marks with powders and wallpaper cleaner, fixing noisy pipes, soundproofing ceilings, removing poplar stumps, beach cottage wall insulation, and keeping cats from yards. Practical remedies include cleaning radiators, soot remover powders from oil burner dealers, glycerine or heat to loosen bottle stoppers, paste and chalk for oil marks, replacing washers, adding tight soundproofing boards, kerosene-soak and burning stumps, aluminum paint finish, and nicotine sulfate repellent for cats.
A quiz item listing six questions about geography science and culture. Questions cover the Holy Land, water boiling and freezing points, the world’s best known whirlpool, the tactile sense, Hottentot homeland, and the Aurora Australis.
The statements note Palestine as Holy Land revered by Jews Christians and Mohammedans. They compare temperatures as zero and a hundred degrees. They place a location off Norway's coast. They identify touch as the sense. They state a South African context and the southern hemisphere's northern lights as a phenomenon.
A concise Mencius quotation on choosing what not to do to unleash vigor in action. The line emphasizes disciplined choice as the foundation for effective conduct and purpose. The message centers on moral resolve guiding practical deeds.
In a prior week Marty helped persuade Grandmother to repurpose an old buffet into a combined guest and sewing room. The mirror, legs, spools, muslin, rags, and a butter tub inspire a rug and spool tables. Directions for the rug and spool tables appear in Sewing Book 5.
The text argues achievement comes from accepting duty and responsibility. It states some rise faster because they invite responsibility and take on agreeable and disagreeable tasks cheerfully and promptly.
A quotation attributed to Rollins reflects on liberty as the power to choose freely yet the sadness of using it to do wrong. The line emphasizes moral responsibility and the weight of personal choices.
A meditation on duty and accountability urging gratitude for duties that test character. It argues responsibilities distinguish capable individuals from those who might fail, saying heavier loads cultivate resilience and growth.
Chicken fat may replace butter in cakes cookies creaming or browning foods. Beef drippings can season sauces meats or fowl stuffings or meat loaves.
A loose collection notes a fifty dollar reward for locating heirs in a missing heirs program. Ray Milland secures a two thousand pound insurance policy on two rubber trees imported from Java for his garden. Preston Foster applies for a swordfish club button after seven years and a 275 pound fish earns him the coveted award.
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