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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1939
Page
7
A portable sales pitch sequence features a salesman touting a three car garage with built in living rooms. A comic exchange jokes about soot versus dandruff and a fast applicant quips about drinking water from a sieve. A gag on love and public declarations caps the piece with a racialized punchline.
Marion expresses strong interest in adopting a pet after Dinocan asks. The pair discusses the idea briefly and shows enthusiasm for a new animal companion.
A grandmother dazzles guests with five rag rug ovals in black blue and rust stitched into a decorative cover for a stair foot. The piece signals a revival of home crafts as women embrace slipcovers curtains embroidery and handwork. Mrs Spears provides sewing guides and rag book leaflets for 25 cents each from Chicago Illinois.
A vintage recipe for waffles uses 1 cup sifted flour teaspoon soda teaspoon salt Grape Nuts Flakes 2 egg yolks 114 cups buttermilk or sour milk 4 tablespoons melted butter or shortening 2 egg whites. Sift flour re twice then fold in blueberries. Bake in a hot waffle iron and serve with maple syrup. Makes four servings.
Fire walkers defend their barefoot crossing of hot stones as protection from injury, while skeptics dispute the feat. They argue fast steps, insulative fuel, or induced anesthesia may conceal burns and debunk the spectacle cited by Collier's.
Hobbies feature Albert Rich from La Salle Illinois collecting soil samples from every state for a relief map. Billy Kerr age seven from Fredonia New York owns a 70 piece glass hat collection, some over a century old. Thomas Whitlock Jr of Macon Georgia built a complete model farm from two boxes of burned matches. Dr Charles Berger of Atlantic Massachusetts owns over 500 antique spectacles.
A set of short aphorisms on behavior and attitude. It suggests respect from children reduces need for exhortation, praises self discipline, and notes stubborn people rarely hold firm opinions. The tone mixes humor with reflective maxims about life and ambition.
The text asserts that prosperity in the United States depends on curing unemployment by speeding private agriculture and commerce, expanding existing industries, and encouraging individuals to invest time and money in new enterprises and products. Quote from U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft.
A set of trivia prompts asks about the speed of light, royal brothers, origins of Wall Street, U S river access, sources of a quoted line, Job's tears plant name, pourparier term, etiquette origin, archer fish, and steam sales to New York buildings.
A set of compact phrases notes various facts and trivia from different topics including etiquette at Fontainebleau, an archer fish behavior, New York Steam Company sales, a lightning speed claim, Danish and Norwegian royal kinship, Manhattan palisade history, Guaymas port reporting, Boswell's Life of Johnson, material used in jewelry, and a description of an informal preliminary conference of representatives.
Absence makes friends seem nearer or farther as affliction sharpens perception. The line suggests that absence deepens understanding and tests bonds, implying true friendship is shown in distance and hardship.
Advice column notes changes women face in their forties and offers tips to maintain appeal. Recommends fresh air sleep and Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a general tonic to ease life symptoms.
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