Auctioneer and Ego Duel Over Gramophone Bid
A buyer and auctioneer spar over a costly gramophone as he bids against himself. A family joke fuels the bid while a bee question and other quips echo a rural humor scene.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1938
Page
7
A buyer and auctioneer spar over a costly gramophone as he bids against himself. A family joke fuels the bid while a bee question and other quips echo a rural humor scene.
Houston Goudiss discusses dangers of unscientific reducing methods and reliance on pills or fasting. He promotes a calorie controlled balanced diet with monitored intake, warns against dangerous drugs and extreme purging, and offers a reducing bulletin with menus and caloric values.
A compact page offers quick homemaking tips on breaded meats using baking powder for lighter coatings, improving custard with stale cake crumbs for browning and flavor, and salting prunes to heighten taste. It also includes safety advice to investigate any smoke smell and a note that overly hot irons can weaken cotton sheets even with unseen scorch.
An article promotes counting calories as a fun easy method to improve health and appearance. It claims ideal weight aligns with height at age thirty and urges adults over thirty who are overweight to start now with a Calorie Chart and Reducing Bulletin to regain normal weight.
Mrs G B Jr asserts aluminum cooking utensils pose no health risk after numerous experiments. Miss A G notes cod liver oil has about 100 calories per tablespoon, equating to a slice of bread or a potato. Houston Goudiss 19338.
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