Household questions and kitchen tips
Candied fruits and raisins for puddings and cakes should be softened by soaking overnight in fruit juice. Part of pot and pan washing can be eliminated by storing frying fat in paper cups discarded when empty. A little vinegar and water scalded in the frying pan removes fish or onion odors, then wash as usual.
Old car seat repurposed into decorative backless bench
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes transforming an old car seat into a padded back and wings with a varnished frame, a cretonne slip cover, and a box pleated ruffle. The note promotes Sewing Book 1 to 4 with directions and a free quilt block pattern set if all four are ordered.
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Ruth Wyeth Spears
Spears
Trigger on Lazy Bowels and Pepsin Laxative Claim
An advertisement promotes a laxative product claiming to stimulate bowel movement and aid digestion with added Pepsin. The copy touts a pleasant taste and suitability for children, urging purchase from a drugstore.
Wisdom Is Sought Wealth May Seek Us But Wisdom Must Be Sought
A short quotation attributed to Young contrasts wealth chasing with the need to actively pursue wisdom, noting that money may come to us while wisdom requires effort. The adage emphasizes personal initiative in attaining insight.
Scandinavia Allies With Nazis On Russo Finnish Conflict
The column reports Scandinavia seeks peace by leaning on Nazi Germany to end the Russo Finnish war. It notes Soviet advances in Finland and Finnish defense around Viipuri, plus peace overtures involving Per Svinhufvud and Ryti. Also covered are von Ribbentrop’s Rome trip and Mussolini Pope interactions amid Italian coal tensions with Britain.
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Scandinavia
Moscow
Risto Ryti
Kremlin
Germany
Naziland
Russia
Reich
Sweden
Norway
France
Britain
Finland
Rome
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Il Duce
von Ribbentrop
London
Herr von Ribbentrop
Mussolini
King Victor Emmanuel
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius
Poland
Ickes Attacks Dewey While Smith Ends Life in Illinois
Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes dispatched sharp remarks about the GOP hopeful Thomas Dewey in Look magazine calling him photogenic and a clamor boy. In Illinois F Lynden Smith, once state fund collector and defector from Horner critics, killed himself in a Springfield hospital.
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Harold L. Ickes
Interior
Look Magazine
Tom Dewey
Ickes
Dewey
F. Lynden Smith
Illinois Public Works
Democratic Fund
Henry Horner
Springfield
Ill
Answering five quick geography and civics questions
The palm date tree bears fruit seasonally for years, with significant production for decades in favorable climates. A level water surface is flat at rest, gravity ensures level top. The longest siege in history spanned many years in the medieval era, often cited as the siege of Caffa or Metz depending on criteria. Cribbing for exams is an old practice, not unique to modern times. The science of earth and life combines geology, geography, and biology, with geodesy focusing on measurement. U S citizenship does not guarantee the right to vote. voting is granted by law and varies by state and federal rules.
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Franklin Roosevelt
AAA
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
House
Pat Harrison
Senate
RFC
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congressional
Congress
Mary Norton
Dem
N. J
House Labor Committee
United States
UICE of VOTES OPPORTUNITY Quote by Carter Glass
A quoted line from U S Senator Carter Glass asserts the proper role of government in preventing barriers to equality of opportunity while avoiding interference with normal trade and industry once equality is assured.
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U. S
Carter Glass
Quote on justice and friendship by O S Marden
A reflective maxim emphasizes justice and truth as core to true friendship. It notes that respect grows when a friend tells hard truths that wound pride yet remain fair and honest.
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O. S. Marden
Ancient facts and dates in a compact list
A date palm yields fruit for two centuries or more. A bucket of water shows slight concavity. Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Tyre lasted 13 years ending in 572 BC. Chinese cribbing evidence from 1562 found. Geography noted. No states grant voting rights.
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Tyre
Nebuchadnezzar
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Western Newspaper Union
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Arctic Sea
Viipuri
Mannerheim Lines
Berlin
Per Evind Svinhufvud
Per Svinhufvud
Baltics
Farmers’ Congress
Welles Junket
Sumner Welles
Paris
Welles
Albert Lebrun
Edouard Daladier
Welles and
Lebrun
UICE
Luden
Luden’s
Salina
Kent Blades
Schimmel
Lincoln
Nebraska
Schima
Cornhusker