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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1939
Page
8
The article lists cereal foods like mushroom and rice along with cheese fish nuts and more as Lent dishes. It includes a recipe for marrow dumplings using marrow from soup bone egg cream salt and parsley, simmered in stock for about 15 minutes yielding about 40 dumplings.
The piece explains synovitis and acute articular rheumatism arising from inflamed synovial membranes. It notes knee and ankle joints are common targets, describes early signs such as sharp joint pain and swelling, and links episodes to cold damp work environments. It highlights risk groups like laborers, drivers, and young people up to age 35.
The article argues weather influences articular rheumatism with more cases in winter and occasional spikes after hot dry seasons. It notes infections like tonsillitis may herald rheumatic episodes and stresses early treatment to prevent permanent joint damage. Local care includes hot compresses, iodine, diathermy, and a lanolin ointment mixture.
Gloria Laura Morgan Van derbilt, a fifteen year old heiress with a fortune reported at five million dollars and annual income of twenty five thousand seven hundred fifty, boards at Miss Porter’s School Farmington Connecticut. Her life mixes wealth with a custodial battle between her mother widow of Reginald C Van derbilt and aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Payne Whitney. She avoids cameras while living under strict supervision, with guarded visits and limited pocket money amid a high profile upbringing.
A vintage pre Lent feature pairs a handkerchief lawn frock description with practical recipes. The piece highlights a multicolor floral dress with blue tones and outlines three recipes including Rice Mushroom Casserole, Noodle Ring, and Spinach and Macaroni, detailing ingredients and steps for each dish and serving ideas.
The piece urges a physical check up and proper health measures to improve looks and prevent spring colds. It lists beauty items such as lotion, emery boards, orange sticks, cuticle remover, and nail brushes, plus methods to shape nails and soften cuticles with warm oil and cotton wraps.
Detailed steps for manicure routines including soaking, filing, cuticle care, polishing, and finishing. Advises careful handling to avoid hangnails, use of buffers and orange sticks, two thin coats, and polish color choices matching spring fashion tones like violet, fuchsia, cyclamen, and pansy.
Practical notes on using paper towels to drain fried foods, mending raincoats with adhesive tape, repurposing spinach into a lunch omelet, frying spinach in butter, and prolonging cut flowers with aspirin dissolved in water.
A weekday Lenten meal list includes Noodle Ring with Creamed Mushrooms and Haddock with Artichokes, Butter Sauce, Mixed Green Salad, Ginger Cup Cakes, Tea, Consomme, Marrow Dumplings, Rice and Mushroom Casseroles, Jellied Fry Salad Ring with Cottage Cheese Dressing, Cookies and Coffee.
The passage describes how pearl color preferences vary by nation. Brunette nations favor cream pearls, blonde races prefer white. Yellowish and golden pearls sell better in China and India, while American buyers seek the Persian Gulf’s perfect pink variety.
A reader asks about inviting a steady beau to a home dinner to meet the family and discern intentions. The answer says if the relationship warrants it, a home dinner is appropriate and the gentleman would be flattered. It also notes handshake etiquette: men shake with men, women greet with a woman's handshake or a bow, and one says How do you do with the new name.
The article advises widows on spring dressing emphasizing dressmaker style suits with feminine details, bold accessories, and new hats. It highlights belts and jeweled ornaments, including antique replicas, as ways to freshen coats and outfits, plus colored gloves as final touches for a spring reception look.
A reader asks how to handle a separated marriage and custody while caring for three children. Advice urges proving stability, pursuing reconciliation if possible, and ensuring access to children. considers legal rights and safer arrangements. The column also offers pet care guidance highlighting child safety and humane treatment of animals.
Entomologists report very high birthrates among common household pests with moths and roaches active in warmer months and even winter. They warn neglecting extermination leads to damaged properties and infestations. A new inexpensive liquid insecticide is marketed as rapidly killing vermin and larvae, non poisonous for homes with children and pets, odorless, and safe for woodwork and fabrics.
An egg beater runs smoother when its gears are oiled occasionally with a drop of mineral oil. The tip emphasizes simple maintenance to improve operation.
Instructions describe choosing fabric and lengths for glass curtains and how to fit them to window width and baseboard. It mentions suitable materials for informal rooms and formal rooms, listing scrim and cotton crashes and sheer voile options.
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