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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
3
Easy Entertaining columnist Eleanor Howe outlines crowd friendly picnic planning with per dish committees, shared menus, and simple meals. She advertises her cookbook Easy Entertaining offering recipes for Grandmother's Ginger Cookies chocolate desserts and loaf style meats.
Washington columnist notes the first time a congressional session authorized federal expenditures over 20 billion dollars. He contrasts past billion dollar milestones with present spending, uses railroads and wheat as measures, and discusses tax burdens, federal employment, and industry payrolls to illustrate government growth and economic impact.
Roosevelt shifts aid to Britain to aid domestic preparedness and win support for a fourth term. The article argues aid to Britain is a strategic move to buy time for US preparation, while isolationists and Willkie polls shape the president’s cautious approach. It notes 50 destroyers controversy and Cordell Hull’s Pershing photo op as political signals.
A new study from the American Federation of Investors reports that Congress approved expenditures surpassing 21 billion dollars for the first time, with total congressional outlays exceeding 1 billion dollars for the first time in 2013. The figure equals the annual gross income of American farms for over three years.
The piece discusses a bride’s color scheme for a Mexican inspired kitchen and highlights an apron curtain and tea towel set made from muslin flour and sugar bags. Instructions show gingham facings and bias trim, with directions in Book 4. Booklet 5 offers 32 pages of homemaking ideas, 10 cents each, order to New York.
A village romance ends with wit as a Scots suitor notes his progress in a notebook. Maggie coolly replies that she has counted worse points and will marry Ferguson the plumber when it reaches twenty. The quip mirrors rural humor and courting pride.
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