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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1949
Page
15
An article warns that excess calorie intake from improper foods is a major malnutrition risk in the United States. It explains how overeating starches sugars and fats leads to overweight despite craving protective nutrients found in milk vegetables fruits and lean meats. It urges choosing nutrient dense foods and ending training of appetite toward unhealthy carbohydrates.
Roberta Lee presents household guidance on upholstery cleaning using soap and water or commercial fluids with a dry lather, along with a method to avoid over-wetting cushions. She also covers rust prevention for iron cookware by applying a thin fat coating after washing and provides a lavender sachet recipe with lavender flowers gum benzoin and lavender oil.
Advertisement for pattern 4546 by Anne Adams offering sizes 12 through 42. Describes a casual dress with a neckline designed to flatter curves and notes yardage for size 16. Requests 25 cents and mailing details to The Canton Repository Pattern Dept New York.
An explosion wrecked several buildings in University of Virginia veterans housing. The laundry building was leveled, a nearby trailer destroyed, and 15 trailers plus autos damaged. A student and his wife were burned in the fire that destroyed their trailer. The blast propelled a 300-gallon tank and damaged a power pole and roof. Cause appears to be a failed automatic safety valve.
Boy Scout Troop 24 of Fairmount Park United Presbyterian Church will sponsor a scout fair in the church Wednesday from 5 to 10 pm. A county fair menu country store and fancy work sale will be offered. Entertainment includes the McKinley High School swing band and a barber shop quartet. Profits will fund camping equipment for the troop.
The essay recalls Sidney Lenz in New York at the Vanderbilt Cup tourney. Born in Chicago, he began bridge in India in 1902 and rose as a leader of the American-Whist League. He served as president and won multiple whist championships, also contributing as a lumber magnate and Judge Magazine editor.
The note profiles Sidney Lenz a 45 year past national champion now honorary vice president of the US Table Tennis Association. It presents a bridge hand puzzle: do not ruff diamonds. East discards the king of spades. to win, lead a small spade from dummy at trick two to establish the fifth spade and later ruff a diamond.
The menu features Tomato Juice Cocktail Egg Casseroles Celery Sticks Spring Salad and Melba Toast with Chocolate Fudge Squares. Ingredients include potatoes eggs onion pimento grated cheese hot white sauce butter or margarine and cracker crumbs. Bake casseroles at 350F about 20 minutes until hot and browned.
Young farmers from Jewett High School cultivate on a 121 acre farm gifted by Fay Coal Co. The property includes 25 acres of pasture and 12 acres of seed crops for the Future Farmers of America club planning independent farming ventures.
An old style diet tip advertises Rennel as a non diet weight loss aid. It claims the product aids reducing ugly fat by mixing four ounces with twelve ounces of juice and taking two tablespoons twice daily. The ad promises a money back guarantee if no results are seen after the first bottle.
Pattern 919 invites readers to embroider a peaceful farm scene for family enjoyment. Instructions describe single and outline stitches suitable for framing, with options to frame or display. Send 20 cents to The Canton Repository Needlecraft Dept for the pattern and include name address and zone.
A tractor trailer loaded with wine collided with a car near Chester West Virginia sending scores of spectators into a nearby area for large drinks. The truck driver Maurice Freeman Jones 35 Cedar Rapids Iowa and car driver James Lombardo 30 Hookstown Pennsylvania were injured.
Adam Frick of Portsmouth proposes a 51 percent threshold in Ohio primaries to nominate candidates. If no nominee emerges, parties would select a candidate, allowing independents to run. He argues the plan expands voter access and preserves the two party system.
Stark County winners in the American Legion Essay Contest have been announced. A meeting in their honor is planned for Wednesday at 8 p m at the Greentown post. Attending will be winners their parents principals and teachers.
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